Monday 9/15 and Tuesday 9/16
Homework:
Catch up on any missing/late assignments. We've been reviewing the skills we need to be successful at a slow and steady pace these first few weeks . We will speed up over the course of this week so make sure you are all caught up!
Class Work:
We began class with baby pictures and one word check in. Next, we brainstormed a list of approximately 30 thematic topics. Students then copied down a template that will help them organize their evidence for each of the three major plot points and decipher thematic topics that are related to each plot point. Students then identified thematic topics that are consistently address in each of the plot points. Students chose the two thematic topics the felt are most significant to the story and wrote a sentence that explains what the author's message is about the relationship of those two thematic topics. We did this activity for the Pixar short film Partly Cloudy and Gary Soto's short story Broken Chain. Here is an example of the template completed for Partly Cloudy.
Homework:
Catch up on any missing/late assignments. We've been reviewing the skills we need to be successful at a slow and steady pace these first few weeks . We will speed up over the course of this week so make sure you are all caught up!
Class Work:
We began class with baby pictures and one word check in. Next, we brainstormed a list of approximately 30 thematic topics. Students then copied down a template that will help them organize their evidence for each of the three major plot points and decipher thematic topics that are related to each plot point. Students then identified thematic topics that are consistently address in each of the plot points. Students chose the two thematic topics the felt are most significant to the story and wrote a sentence that explains what the author's message is about the relationship of those two thematic topics. We did this activity for the Pixar short film Partly Cloudy and Gary Soto's short story Broken Chain. Here is an example of the template completed for Partly Cloudy.
uncovering_theme_partly_cloudy_example.docx |