Agenda

• last minute questions regarding the podcast project?
• movin’ on to Bradbury – materials in the Short Story tab of the blog:
  • questions # 1-4 for the Veldt are due on Monday

Agenda for the next two weeks

Thursday, October 24:

• work on your script and get it perfect for Monday and Tuesday classes with the MICS
• IF your group is 100% completed the script today, maybe four groups can go to the four quiet rooms in the library – with a signed out MIC but be back in time to sign in the MICs.

Agenda

• finish discussion of the Sea Devil
  • write your theme statement and the two inquiry questions you chose on a Padlet post
  • password = seadevil
• Introduction to the Podcast project – all materials are in the HCE COL tab

Agenda

• Homework check for the remaining questions – Free Rice or Read – explore some of the links on the Red Tab
• finish the discussion of the story and the secondary sources

Agenda

• homework check for questions #1 – 3 and discussion
  • during the check, play Free Rice OR Silent Reading – but it should be quiet in the room
• Work on the remaining questions – they are due tomorrow – Thursday, Oct 17

Agenda

• Scales #4 – see the prompt in the Writing and Grammar tab of the blog
• New story – The Sea Devil – materials are in the Short Story of the blog
  • we will read it together
  • work on the questions:
    • due on Wednesday: questions # 1, 2 and 3 -make sure you have page #’s and evidence

Agenda

Friday

• In-class write – you have the whole class
• the composition must be turned in to TEAMS by the end of class

Thursday

• work on the graphic organizer

Wednesday

• Scales #3 – Prompt is in the Writing Tab
• discuss the ‘ordinary people’ whose actions can have far-reading effects, rippling out into places that maybe can’t yet be seen.
• Discuss the FEC composition – on Friday – in class – you have Thursday to prepare

Agenda

Tuesday

• upload the Theme statements – see the Padlet in the Short Story tab of the blog – DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO!!
  
  • Silent reading after you have made the Padlet post
• review the statements, which ones do you think work – according to rules, the way it is written, captures the big idea…?
• Text to world connections discussion – why is this story a good example of interpretive fiction?
  • Gandalf quote
  • Sylvia Plath poem
  • videos

Monday – short day today

• brain warm up: Silent Reading or Free Rice or Bean Bean Bean
  • have your symbolism homework out on your desktop
• Review and discussion of the remaining Response to Literature terms

Agenda

Friday

• Creative Writing – prompt #2 in the Writing and Grammar Tab
• discuss the homework
• continue working on the Response to Literature
  • for Monday: make a list of all the symbols in the story
  • a symbol is a concrete person, place, thing, or action that has a corresponding abstract idea
    • for instance, the softball game with the girls only allowed to play on the perimeter is symbolic of the abuse of power and privilege that the boys have due to their gender

Thursday

• Paper copy – please hand in
• homework check for setting clues – Silent Reading
• discuss and work on more of the Response to Literature Document

Agenda:

• begin with silent reading
• a reminder that the assignment: One-Pager and CC reflection on a post (published link) is due to TEAMS tonight
• Today we well begin a short story unit – all materials are in the short story tab of the blog