English 10 Honors--2/26/2018 & 2/27/2018

Jump Off
--The following student must turn in Poetry Writing Assignment #1 at the front table:

• Person from Whom I Never Received a Nickname

--The following students must turn in both Article of the Week #2 and "Article of the Week" #3 at the front table:

• Wubazz
• Person from Whom I Never Received a Nickname
• Chicken Parmesan

--Procure the following from the front table:

• your LotF CHAPTER ONE quiz
• the "Lord of the Flies Unit--Novel Reading Guide"

--Take out the following:

• any materials you need to teach your lesson about your assigned convention of literature
• your "Convention of Literature Notes" document
• your notebook--date the page (2/26/2018 [ACE] or 2/27/2018 [BDF]) and label this section of your notes "Conventions of Literature"

S. the C.
--agenda/HW

• Reminder: List of information on the righthand whiteboard
• Reminder: When engaging in today's lessons about conventions of literature, keep this overarching question in mind:
• What should we be looking for and discussing when analyzing William Golding's Lord of the Flies?
• Reminder: LotF purposeful/active reading tasks and accountability

--Anyone complete the 10-Step Challenge over break?
--LotF CHAPTER ONE quizzes returned/final lesson preparation (5 mins.)

"Gearing Up" for Lord of the Flies (Phase 4) Activity (cont.) -- Learning Conventions of Literature via Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
--teach lessons

• Literary Communion
• Christ(ological) Figure
• Geography
• Marked for Greatness
• Literary Blindness
• Irony

--Closure

• following each lesson, continue building our list of "what to look for" in Lord of the Flies--ADD TO THE LIST IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!

HW Time

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training as directed before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 3/1.  If you fail to appropriately train between now and the administration of Vocabulary Quiz #5, you will not be permitted to take the quiz until you catch up (see the "Membean Routine" document).
Writing
--Consider doing the following if you have not already done so:

• Reread your short story with "fresh eyes", taking note of any annotations included by me on your draft.
• Reread your poem with "fresh eyes", taking note of any annotations included (by you, by a peer, and/or by me) on your draft.
• Access the electronic version of your short story and/or your poem and begin revising.

HW (Class Preparation)

--Review the conventions of literature, bearing in mind that you will be expected to apply your knowledge and understanding moving forward.
--Purposefully/actively read CHAPTER TWO of Lord of the Flies as preparation for analysis/discussion/(an assessment?) next class.

• In order to engage in high-level discussions about this challenging text, our purposeful/active reading tasks are as follows:
• complete Post-its
• look for, draw potential conclusions about, and flag the items on our "What to Look for in Lord of the Flies" list
• read actively as we have done in the past (e.g., if you have a question, jot it down and flag the page; if you connect the text to personal experience, jot down notes about the connection and flag the page; etc.)
• complete the reading guide as directed

--Next week, you will be taking an examination that mirrors the New York State Regents Examination in English Language Arts (Common Core).  Please come prepared!
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  Your book must be finished by mid-March.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

• "I think of life as a good book.  The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense" (Harold Kushner).

On the Backburner

• group writing assignment back
• literary conventions writing piece with Inside Out
• memoir of choice (could be An Ordinary Man!) as last free reading