--Please turn in your best work for Article of the Week #5 by placing both your active/purposeful reading and paragraph response in the black basket on the front table.
--Please clear your desk of all but a pen or pencil.
"60/40" Reading Assessment -- The Alchemist Pages 47-104
--assessment handed out and completed
--When you finish, pick up a copy of the "The Alchemist up to page 104--Have you..." sheet from the front table. Then, use your notes from Simon Sinek's talks we viewed last class block, your discussion documents from last class block, this sheet, and your reading notes for The Alchemist to prepare for today's circle discussion.
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Transition
--share with a partner first (cards drawn)
--form an alphabetical-by-third-letter-in-your-last-name circle out of the desks
Discussion -- What is Your "Why?"?/Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist up to page 104 (flex time)
--engage in discussion via the protocol (all must contribute once beginning with those from whom we did not hear last class block before anyone can contribute a second time)--today's contributions will be assessed via the "Discussion Contribution Rating Scale"
Items for discussion:
--oral reading of The Alchemist
Items for discussion:
- 60/40 assessments
- Notes from talks last class block
- Your "why?"
- Active/purposeful reading notes, paying particular attention to the items on the HAVE YOU... sheet
--oral reading of The Alchemist
HW (Class Preparation)
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training as directed before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 5/17. If you fail to appropriately train between now and the administration of Vocabulary Quiz #6, you will not be permitted to take the quiz until you catch up (see the "Membean Routine" document).
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
- collection of your notes for assessment purposes
- a "60/40" reading assessment
- a discussion geared around your notes
--Remember that I reserve the right to conduct a reading assessment at any time. It would be in your best interest to continuously review your reading notes for The Alchemist and any related materials. You are expected to both understand and apply your understandings of certain terms/concepts to your reading of the novella (in addition to the typical terms/concepts such as setting, symbolism, theme, etc.): allegory, allusion, aphorism, Christ(ological) figure, Coelho's "Four Obstacles" Philosophy, dilemma, everyman, fable, foil, genre, geography, interior monologue, leitmotif, literary blindness, literary communion, literary vampire, magical realism, marked for greatness, monomyth (hero's journey), motif, myth, paradox, and quest. A sample assessment question/prompt, then, might look like the following:
- How is Paulo Coelho's novella The Alchemist a blending of several literary modes/genres? Consider using any or all of the following terms in your response: genre, allegory, fable, and magical realism. What is one likely purpose Coelho was looking to fulfill when he decided to tell such a story?
--Continue working on the End-of-Course Assignment. We are heading to the library next week!
*I AM AVAILABLE AFTER SCHOOL PRETTY MUCH DAILY FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS ONE-ON-ONE (ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE STRUGGLING--BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF AND TAKE INITIATIVE!).*
*I AM AVAILABLE AFTER SCHOOL PRETTY MUCH DAILY FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS ONE-ON-ONE (ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE STRUGGLING--BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF AND TAKE INITIATIVE!).*
