English 10 Honors--1/13/2020

Jump Off
--Please…

• touch base with your partner/groupmates for a few minutes if you have not yet taught your conventions of literature lesson.  What do you need (to do? from me?) before teaching your classmates?
• take out the materials necessary for engaging in the lessons delivered by your classmates (e.g., note-catching packet and/or your notebook).

--Reminder: Following your group's lesson, your classmates must understand the following about your convention:

• What it is
• How to identify it
• Why authors use it

S. the C.
--agenda/HW

"Gearing Up" for Lord of the Flies Activity (Phase 1) (cont.) -- Learning Conventions of Literature via Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
--remaining lessons taught/notes taken as per established order

Transition #1

--Please pick up a square of index card from the front table.  Starting TODAY, we will purposefully view a "good," full-length animated film of your choosing (majority rules!) in order to eventually craft a two-paragraph response quietly and independently in which you...

• show that one of the conventions of literature is being implemented within the film
• explain how the director uses the convention to develop an emergent theme of the story.

Quietly and independently, vote on one of the films below (those that I can easily access for us online) to analyze by writing your choice on your square of index card.

• Coco
• Frozen
• Inside Out
• Moana
• The Lego Movie
• Shrek
• A write-in (a film that you could easily access for us [e.g., via you family's Disney+ account?)

Transition #2

--Take out your notebook and date the page (1/13/2020).  Label this section of your notes "Conventions of Literature in ________."

Application Activity/Writing Workshop -- Applying the Conventions of Literature to Animated Film

--Following a purposeful viewing of ________, 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 uses the convention to develop an emergent theme of the story.

--Purposefully view the film by jotting down notes:

• 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 argument of the course

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 this 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 ________ soon.
--Continue thinking about the following questions:

• 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.

• "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" (Rene Descartes).

On the backburner:

• Adding to "Interest Inventory" (AGAIN!)--selecting an initial research topic