English 10 Honors--4/8/2016

Jump Off
--Turn in Article of the Week #9 by placing your best work in the black basket on the front table.
--While you're up there, pick up the following documents:

• "Lord of the Flies Unit/Reading Nonfiction--Reviewing the Reading Standards for Information Text (Grades 9-10)/Previewing the ACT Reading Test"
• "Reading Nonfiction Document" for "Marked for Greatness"
• "Marked for Greatness" from Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor

S. the C.
--list of students needing to revise for the Cumulative Writing Portfolio shared--Would anyone like to schedule a meeting for a time slot during my office hours?

• The due date for submission is Thursday, 4/28 (just under 3 weeks from today).

--agenda/rationale/HW

• attending to a "backburner" item (think back to mid-December!), mastering a literary concept, AND enhancing our understanding of Lord of the Flies!
• read through the first document together--YOUR MASTERY OF THESE STANDARDS WILL BE ASSESSED NEXT CLASS VIA AN ACT READING TEST CONSISTING OF A NONFICTION PASSAGE AND 10 CORRESPONDING MULTIPLE CHOICE PROMPTS

Discussion Preparation -- Nonfiction Analysis--"Marked for Greatness"
--briefly re-familiarize yourself with the "Reading Nonfiction Document"
--spend 25 minutes (timer set) completing "Step #1" and "Step #2" quietly and independently
*DURING THIS TIME, MEETINGS FOR CUMULATIVE WRITING PORTFOLIO REVISIONS CAN OCCUR.*

• consider, too, the following questions:
• What does it mean to be "marked for greatness"
• When authors mark someone or something for greatness, what are some of the underlying purposes?
• How does this literary concept apply to Lord of the Flies through the end of CHAPTER THREE?
• What is/are William Golding's potential purpose(s)?
• YOUR MASTERY OF "MARKED FOR GREATNESS" AND ABILITY TO MEANINGFULLY APPLY THE LITERARY CONCEPT TO LORD OF THE FLIES WILL BE ASSESSED NEXT CLASS VIA A PARAGRAPH WRITING TASK.

--pair up (if you want to!) and "anchor in" to the "Compact for Group Work"--continue working, moving on to "Step #3" when you are ready to do so

• when you finish, engage in free reading--when everyone is free reading, I'll know that we can move on!

Closure Discussion (time permitting)
--discuss the "Reading Nonfiction Document" question/prompt by question/prompt--I will capture notes on the front board under the appropriate headings

HW (Class Preparation)--Next class, an assessment will occur consisting of the following:

• an ACT Reading Test nonfiction passage and 10 corresponding multiple choice prompts
• 14 multiple choice questions/prompts pertaining to the first three chapters of Lord of the Flies
• a paragraph writing task about the literary concept "marked for greatness" applied to your reading of Lord of the Flies

--Review your materials from the last four class blocks pertaining to Lord of the Flies.  Also, consider scanning through and rereading sections of the first three chapters of the novel as preparation for the multiple choice questions/prompts, which aim to assess your knowledge and understanding of the novel as well as the quality of your active/purposeful reading.
--Try to find some time to read your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
Writing

--The due date for submitting a revised Intertextuality Unit--Culminating Essay Assignment for the Cumulative Writing Portfolio is Thursday, 4/28 (just under 3 weeks from today)--YOU MUST schedule a meeting with me to go over your revisions; simply handing in the revisions is unacceptable as per the protocol.  When time permits, meetings can/will occur during class time.