Day Eight
Thursday, August 28th
Howdy, peeps!
When You Come In
- Please sign in.
- Install the quizlet app on your phone now. It’s free, and it takes two seconds.
- Note-taking assignment was due at 8AM.
Papers Back / Folder Organization
- Reading tan-ish
- Archetype packet
- How to Annotate
- “How to Mark a Book” (when you get it back)
- Vocabulary orange and white
- orange vocab lists
- white vocab lists
- vocab quiz
- Journals Notebook paper
- 8/19 Whitman
- 8/20 LeGuin
- 8/22 Meaning-of-Life Quote
- 8/26 Lessing or Wiesel
Big-Picture Thinking: Archetypes!
- Let’s look at plot together, since we haven’t talked about it as a class yet:
Where would you put these plots?
- High School Musical 1
- Finding Nemo
- Holes
- Star Wars
- The Dark Knight
- Inception
- Gravity
- She’s the Man
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Shrek
Big Ideas
- What are the four wells we draw from again and again--backbone lit?
- We keep telling the same stories over and over again--why?
- If you know what to look for, you’re better able to see patterns in what you’re reading.
- The purpose of our work in trios is to familiarize ourselves with literary archetypes in more detail.
Reading Assignment--...something else to help you see the patterns!
- “How’d He Do That?”--Professor Foster
- Write annotation directions on your packet, please.
- Define words you don’t know (probably ten to fifteen)
- Wiki allusions (references), then note
- Annotate.
- I’ll start you off by reading aloud, and then you’ll take over.
Annotation Conference
- I’ll be calling you back one at a time to talk about your “How to Mark a Book” annotations. When you get the call, come meet with me, please!
Vocabulary
- Everybody Up!
- You can have your vocab list out (the new one).
Journal Revision
- Re-read each of your four journals, then select one to revise for me to read:
- 8/19 Whitman
- 8/20 LeGuin
- 8/22 Meaning-of-Life Quote
- 8/26 Lessing or Wiesel
- Which one is the most interesting to you?
- Which one shows your most creative or strongest thinking?
- Go to schoology for submission. Thanks!
Homework Assignment:
- Reading Critically--Advice to Harvard Freshmen (due 8AM Friday)
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