--Please take out your materials for the three passages that you selected, contextualized, and analyzed. Today, we will engage in an activity using these materials.
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Discussion Activity--Preparation -- Significant Passage "Speed Dating"
--Reminders:
- Three of our standards for reading literature read/can be paraphrased as follows:
- English 10 Honors students...
- "cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly/implicitly and make logical inferences, including determining where the text is ambiguous."
- analyze how authorial decisions (regarding word choice, structure, point of view, perspective, purpose, etc.) create meaning, impact elements such as tone and mode, and affect the reader on the whole.
- "determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development, including how they emerge and are shaped and refined by specific details over the course of the text."
- The following is a list of the conventions of literature that authors often choose to implement that you should both know and be able to apply:
- literary communion
- literary vampire
- Christ(ological) figure
- geography
- marked for greatness
- literary blindness
- irony
- Part 3 of the NYS Regents in ELA (Common Core) asks you to "identify a central idea in the text [provided] and analyze how the author's use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea."
--let's familiarize ourselves with speed dating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IW6PQnZIg
--Transition
- move desks into pairs
- the student with his/her back facing east stays stationary throughout the activity
- the student with his/her back facing east starts each "date" by reading his/her selected passage aloud
- You can use your best passage, or can "mix it up" for each date.
- the student with his/her back facing west aims to complete tasks A, B, C, and D (explaining how the selected passage could be used in a discussion of his/her claim)
- the student with his/her back facing east validates/corrects before sharing how the passage fits with his/her claim
- roles reverse
- "dates" end after 6 minutes
- students with backs facing west rotate by heading south
- lather...rinse...repeat!
HW Time
- DURING THIS TIME, I WILL BE MEETING WITH STUDENTS ALPHABETICALLY AGAIN (BEGINNING WITH SHAWN M.) IN ORDER TO CONTINUE SCORING LITERARY ANALYSIS WRITTEN RESPONSES.
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 5/9 (see the "Membean Routine" document).
HW (Class Preparation)
--Review your materials pertaining to LotF in preparation for an upcoming assessment.
--Actively/purposefully read CHAPTER EIGHT of Lord of the Flies prior to next class as preparation for analysis/discussion/(an assessment?).
--Read at least 10 pages of your memoir between now and next class. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS! These final two marking periods, I will randomly check for books and include your level of preparation in my reporting via Schooltool.
