English 10--3/1/2019

Jump Off
--On your desk, you will find the reading assessment that you took last class block.  Take a quick look before we move on by finishing the novella together!
*I WILL RE-COLLECT THE ASSESSMENTS IN A FEW MINUTES.*

S. the C.
--Wrapping Up With the End in Mind: Following our completion of Paulo Coelho's novella The Alchemist, you will write a two paragraph literary analysis response in which you...

• show that Coelho is implementing a writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) within the novella
• explain how Coelho uses the writing strategy to develop an emergent theme of the story.

This writing assignment also serves as the "40" component of the second 60/40 reading assessment.

--agenda/HW

Activity #1 -- Purposeful Oral Reading of the Ending of The Alchemist

Transition
--Please pick up a copy of the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--End-of-Novella-Unit Literary Analysis Written Response Exemplar" document from the front table.
--Please take out your copy of the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--End-of-Novella-Unit Literary Analysis Written Response" sheet from the end of last class block.  If you do not have the sheet, pick up a copy from the front table.

Writing Workshop -- End-of-Novella-Unit Literary Analysis Written Response
--reminder/rationale
--picking apart the assignment sheet/preliminary plan of attack and brainstorming for my written response (symbolism conveying theme)
--gathering evidence, outlining, and writing of paragraph #1 (symbolism in the novella)

Closure -- Handwriting Paragraph #1
--copy down the first paragraph of the (hopefully?!) exemplary written response

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 3/7 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
Writing

--Be thinking about your upcoming literary analysis written response.

• About which writing strategy will you write?
• What is a strong theme statement for the novella?
• What pieces of evidence from the novella do you intend to use?

You can expect to continue moving forward with the exemplar next week.

--Continue thinking about the following questions:

• Research Unit: What might you argue with regard to your research topic?
• We will be heading back over to the library again next week!
• End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?

HW (Class Preparation)
--Read at least 5-10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  Your book must be finished in just over a week.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

• "A book is made from a tree.  It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called 'leaves') imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.  One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years.  Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you.  Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.  Books break the shackles of time--proof that humans can work magic" (Carl Sagan).

Miscellaneous
--Be thinking about the memoir genre.  Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?

--Work toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal?!
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)

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 AoW