--Please find your index card and sit in the corresponding desk. This is your new assigned seat moving forward!
--Underneath your index card, you will find...
- an overdue book halfsheet (maybe)
- a copy of your scored and commented-upon "End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)" group response completed at the close of the Animal Farm Unit
- a copy of the "Lord of the Flies Unit--Conventions of Literature Written Response" assignment, which is due at the beginning of class NEXT TIME.
Spend the first few minutes of today's class block processing your performance/my commentary on your last literary analysis written response and wrapping your mind around the next literary analysis assignment. Capture any questions that you have for me while doing so.
S. the C.
--?????
--Q & A about "Jump Off"
--agenda/HW
S. the C.
--?????
--Q & A about "Jump Off"
--agenda/HW
Application Activity/Writing Workshop -- Applying the Conventions of Literature to Animated Film
--Reminder: Following a purposeful viewing of Pete Docter's Inside Out, you will write a two-three paragraph response in which you...
- show that one of the conventions of literature is being implemented within the film
- explain how the director used the convention to develop an emergent theme of the story.
--Finish purposefully viewing the film by jotting down notes:
- Which conventions of literature are being used? How so?
- 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 argument of the course
--Complete another 45 minutes of Membean training as directed before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 3/8. 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
--Complete the "Lord of the Flies Unit--Conventions of Literature Written Response" assignment as directed to turn in at the beginning of class NEXT TIME (Wednesday, 3/7/2018 [ACE] or Thursday, 3/8/2018 [BDF]). This assignment parallels one of the tasks on your "midterm" exam, which takes place beginning next class block!
--Consider doing the following if you have not already done so:
Writing
--Complete the "Lord of the Flies Unit--Conventions of Literature Written Response" assignment as directed to turn in at the beginning of class NEXT TIME (Wednesday, 3/7/2018 [ACE] or Thursday, 3/8/2018 [BDF]). This assignment parallels one of the tasks on your "midterm" exam, which takes place beginning next class block!
--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.
--NEXT CLASS (Wednesday, 3/7/2018 [ACE] or Thursday, 3/8/2018 [BDF]), you will be taking Part 1 of a two-part 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 should be finished by the beginning of next week. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
- "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" (Rene Descartes).
On the Backburner
- memoir of choice (could be An Ordinary Man!) as last free reading
