AOW- The Poe Museum

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Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm putting a twist on your "Article of The Week" today.  Instead of reading an article I'm asking you to review a website.

1. Visit the site for the Poe Museum.
2. Navigate around the site and see what you find.
3. Write a two paragraph response in your writer's notebook.  The first paragraph should be about what you found on the site and the second paragraph will be your opinion.  I'm giving you some sentence stems below to help you out.
4. TIP: You can include LINKS to the parts of the site you are writing about IN your review!

Paragraph 1 (Possible sentence ideas)
I recently visited  (name of site) to learn more about....
The main purpose of the site seems to be...
__________ was the most interesting part because...
The organization of the site made it easy/hard to find....
Don't miss...

Paragraph 2  (More possible sentence ideas) 
This site would be useful to...
I thought the site would be better if...
Another improvement I would make...
I would use this site again if...
The material presented seemed factual/suspicious because...

Writing about a character with evidence

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Today:
A bit of writing in your Writer's Notebook:
Using the evidence you found yesterday write a paragraph about Montresor. I'm adding a frame below you can use or make up your own.

In _____________________ by _______________ one of the characters is _______________ He/She is very ___________________. As the story says "_________________".  This shows that ________________________________________________. Another important piece of evidence is "_________________________________________" This means that ________________________. The reader can also tell that the character wants to _______________________________ because it says, "______________________________________".  In other words, _____________________________. As a result of these characteristics one can conclude that __________ (character) is ________________ and _____________________. 

Update: (In case you missed a day)

Tuesday you read Cask of Amontillado with a prediction journal. 

Wednesday we looked very closely at just section one of Cask of Amontillado using these questions. 

Welcome to Second Semester

We READ,

Today we will be doing another run at a Probable Passage activity.

You will work with your numbered groups.
There are plastic pages on your desks with the word lists and markers.

You must have your GIST statement in your WRITER'S NOTEBOOK before the end of the period.

First Semester Finals

Good morning,

Today we take our first semester final.

I will be giving you the link to the final in class.

Writing about "The Possibility of Evil"

Happy Tuesday,

We read.

Last week you finished reading "The Possibility of Evil".
Today we are going to write about it.
Our goal is a paragraph in your writer's notebook about the theme of the story and how the author reveals the theme.
I have a guide that may help us and you can view it here.

Are your book reviews done?  Have you submitted them? Link to submit