Getting Theme Right

Goal: Apply what you learned in your last lesson on theme to the book you are reading as a group.

Agenda:
Read
Review yesterday
Theme work with your group

Theme work with your group:

• Have ONE person in your group get a copy of your theme organizer. 
• That person needs to rename it correctly, share it with everyone in the group, and share it with Mrs. R. 
• Work as a group to complete the organizer. Divide the work evenly. 
• Remember you need evidence to go with your themes. 

Your Last Lesson on Theme

Goal: Understand and apply the concept of theme in literature through a collaborative application of multiple themes to multiple forms of media.

Agenda:
Read
Play (you'll see)

Theme Lesson: The last one you'll ever need.
I'll post these slides later for your full enjoyment and review.

Getting into diction, author's choices, and theme.

Goal: Going deeper into magical realism by looking at diction, author's choices, and theme.

Agenda: 
Read
Partner challenge

With your partner: 

• Look again at the story you read yesterday in class. 
• You can still find the text HERE. 
• Together (one form, two names) complete THIS FORM of questions about the text. 

Homework: 

Continue reading your group novels. We will get back to spending class time on them soon. 

Assessments for this unit begin next week. And we have a district assessment to do to. 

First reading of A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Goal: First read of A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Agenda:
Read
First read of a new text

Reading: 

• A new text has been assigned to you in GoFormative. 
• You can find the text HERE. 
• Read and answer the questions as you read. 
• If you are new to our class you may need the class code. It is on a chart on the whiteboard under GoFormative. 

Homework: 

Keep reading. You need to finish your group novel by 11/13. 

Fair warning: You have several assessments coming up next Thursday and Friday. 

Characters in Conflict

Goal: Developing a deeper understanding of characters and the conflicts they face.

Agenda:
Read
Quick write
Character drawing
Check your questions

Quick Write:

• Open your English Journal. Add today's date at the top. 
• Prompt: Consider a character from your group novel. What problems does that character have? Write about those problems. Try to come up with at least three things your character is worried about or dealing with. 

Character Drawing:

• Click HERE to get a copy of "Character."
• I have to give you the rest of the directions for this in class. If you are absent you're missing all the fun. 

Check your questions:

• Remember those quizzes you made last week? Lets take a closer look at your questions. 
• Open the spreadsheet with your results. 
• Select row 1 and wrap the text so that your questions are all fully displayed. 
• Use the chart below to color code the cells with your questions. Use the colors Red, Yellow, Green, and Purple, to show which of your questions were DOK1-4. 

Homework: 

Keep reading. Keep an eye on those conflicts your character is facing and how he or she deals with them. Be on the lookout for new conflicts that suddenly arise in the middle of the book.