English 10--2/13/2019

Jump Off
--Open your notebook to the section labeled "The Alchemist--Quick Write #4".  Draw a line under what you wrote last week.  Date this section of your notes (2/13/2019) and label it "The Alchemist--Quick Write #5".
--As those of you who were here know, last class block, each student talked about a life event from the life event graph experience for a minimum of 60 seconds.  At the start of today's class block, the following students will share:

• L. Allison
• S. Gunn

--Please SEE ME at the end of today's class block:

• S. Gwyn
• C. Kearney
• E. Smith
• P. Thousand
• T. Willis

S. the C.
--last two 60-Second Club: Sharing a Life Event speeches delivered
--J-Mac video shown in order to preview our next endeavor
--agenda/HW

Thinking, Writing, and Looking Ahead Activity -- The Alchemist--Quick Write #5 (8-10 mins.)
--write for 8 minutes in response to the prompt below:

• One of the main purposes behind reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist in English 10 is to help students continue exploring the "why?" question.  At this point in the course, where do you stand with regard to the following question: What is your "why?"?  What have you thought about, understood, realized, etc. while reading The Alchemist that has aided (or hindered!) you?

Transition
--Please pick up a copy of the sheet titled "Literary Devices Review" from the front table.

Notetaking -- Literary Devices Review
--examples shared/definitions completed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XvxDaIwCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiqCuyj6NvI

Discussion Preparation -- The Alchemist up to page 104 (2-3 mins.)
--Please take out your copy of the sheet titled "The Alchemist up to page 84--Discussion Preparation".  Next, we will engage in discussion using the protocol below and the rating scale on the back of the sheet with which you are working.  Spend the next few minutes of class making sure that you are prepared.  Other contributions that you might consider sharing:

• your quick write from before lunch
• items related to the notes that we just took

AS YOU WORK, I WILL RETURN YOUR FIRST 60/40 ASSESSMENT FOR THE NOVELLA.  (FYI: I WILL BE RECOLLECTING THESE!)

Discussion Protocol

• Indicate your readiness (or lack thereof) via your “Ready to Answer/Still Thinking” sign.
• Raise your hand (respectfully) when you wish to be called upon to contribute.
• Attentively listen to contributors.
• The next contributor is selected by the previous contributor and ideally stays on the same discussion “thread”--try to “rope in” as many contributors as possible throughout the discussion.
• There is not a limit placed on total contributions per person today, but each of you must contribute at least once (class participation grade determined via “Discussion Contribution Rating Scale”), and no one can contribute a second time until everyone has contributed once.
• I reserve the right to “jump in” to the conversation where appropriate and randomly select students to speak.
• Notes will be written on the whiteboard by a classmate--you are expected to copy these notes onto your sheet/into your notebook.

Transition

--Consider the following question:

• What ONE WORD best captures your plans for/vision of the upcoming February Break?

--form an alphabetized-by-one-word-response circle out of the desks

Discussion -- The Alchemist up to page 104 (2-3 mins.) 
--engage in discussion as per the protocol

HW Time (time permitting)

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM this Thursday, 2/14 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--Read pages 104-123 of The Alchemist.  Demonstrate your best skill level in "first-draft" reading, aiming to both basically comprehend the text and respond to the following questions:

• How does Coelho continue portraying his "Four Obstacles" philosophy through his characters? 
• Why do the characters that we encounter in the novella say what they say, do what they do, etc.?  What are human beings really like?
• What in this section of reading further develops any of the commentary from today's discussion?  How so?
• What "things" (e.g., aphorism, flashback, foil, irony, motif, symbolism, etc.) do you notice Coelho purposefully doing that help show his life philosophy (and, perhaps, help you clarify your "why?")?  (YOU CAN USE YOUR "LITERARY DEVICES REVIEW" SHEET FROM EARLIER IN CLASS TO TRACK THIS!)

Reminder: the nature of a typical “first-draft” reading of a difficult text:

• A gist reading = “survival mode” in order to understand/comprehend the text on a literal level
• Ask the “curious questions”
• Basic comprehension is essential if any deeper understanding is to occur.
• Easier with some sort of defined purpose (therefore, often a purposeful reading)
• Most effective when it is still somewhat active reading (annotate: jot down curious questions, jot down notes related to your defined purpose[s], etc.)

Expect any or all of the following to occur during our next class block: 

• a "60/40" reading assessment
• a discussion geared around your "first-draft" reading

Writing

--Continue thinking about the following questions:

• Research Unit: What might you argue with regard to your research topic?
• I would like for us to head back over to the library again sometime soon!
• End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?

HW (Class Preparation)

--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class block.  Your book must be finished by mid-March.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

• "We read to know we are not alone" (C.S. Lewis).

Miscellaneous
--Be thinking about memoirs!

--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal.  Your deadline is likely approaching!


On the backburner:

• Library
• print a promising source procured from a database
• back at the classroom, engage in active/purposeful reading as per the same 
• directions given on last Ao
• Questions back
• Discussion
• Next set of questions/section of reading