Jump Off
--Please take out your notebook and open back up to the section in which you are taking notes about Sing (3B ACE) or Peter Pan (4 ACE).
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Application Activity/Writing Workshop -- Applying the Conventions of Literature to Animated Film
--Reminder: Following a purposeful viewing of Garth Jennings' Sing (3B ACE) or Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske's Peter Pan (4 ACE), you will write a two paragraph response in which you...
Closure -- "I have noticed _____ because..."
--partner share
--whole-class share-out
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses or trained for a total of 45 minutes over three different days before 11:59 PM TOMORROW (Thursday, 1/16). (See the most recent "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
On the backburner:
--Please take out your notebook and open back up to the section in which you are taking notes about Sing (3B ACE) or Peter Pan (4 ACE).
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Application Activity/Writing Workshop -- Applying the Conventions of Literature to Animated Film
--Reminder: Following a purposeful viewing of Garth Jennings' Sing (3B ACE) or Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske's Peter Pan (4 ACE), you will write a two paragraph response in which you...
- show that one of the conventions of literature is being implemented within the film
- explain how the director(s) use(s) the convention to develop an emergent theme of the story.
- Which conventions of literature are being used? How so?
- What theme(s) (theme word[s]) do you see emerging?
- What meaningful and complex theme statements "work" for the film?
- How do the conventions used "feed in" to the theme statement(s)?
- Anything that might be useful when crafting your final assignment of the course (What is your "why?"?
--partner share
--whole-class share-out
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses or trained for a total of 45 minutes over three different days before 11:59 PM TOMORROW (Thursday, 1/16). (See the most recent "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing/Class Preparation
--Continue reviewing the conventions of literature, bearing in mind that you are expected to apply your knowledge and understanding (to Lord of the Flies when we start reading it, to your free reading books, to anything, really!) moving forward and will be writing about Sing or Peter Pan soon.
--Continue reviewing the conventions of literature, bearing in mind that you are expected to apply your knowledge and understanding (to Lord of the Flies when we start reading it, to your free reading books, to anything, really!) moving forward and will be writing about Sing or Peter Pan soon.
--Be thinking about your upcoming literary analysis writing piece.
- About which convention of literature will you write?
- What is a strong theme statement for the film?
- What pieces of evidence from the film do you intend to use?
- Research Unit: What topic(s) might you write about in your argumentative research paper?
- 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. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.
- "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though" (J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye).
On the backburner:
- Adding to "Interest Inventory" (AGAIN!)--selecting an initial research topic
