USSR: Great to see you all arrive with your books and begin reading. Thanks for being on time, too! Your job is to pick a goal for USSR--1 book per month, 2, 3, 20?? What is ideal for your reading level? How quickly do you read? Can you focus on your reading speed? Do you have great books you want to read? Based on your goal, plus the criteria on the handout, we will use personal and peer formative assessments, and summative assessments to arrive at a mark for this section of the course.
Recitations: Read and re-read the handout so you are familiar with the rules. Choose a piece to memorize by Sept. 28th. Visit SMUS tube to watch examples. Visit our library for ideas!! Visit our library website, too.
Literacy Projects: Those students planning to attend Book Club each Monday have created their project because joining Book Club counts!! We'll visit the library on Thursday to review all of the wonderful projects that our school's Book Club already to ensure that your group is not duplicating an event.
"The Fall of a City" by Alden Nowlan Reading Fiction Like A Writer
Review your notes. We focussed on the ways an author reveals character and theme indirectly. Several techniques at your disposal are direct (character descriptions--red hands, suspicious eyes) and indirect presentation (what the character does (action), what other characters say), dialogue, description of weather, a room, an object etc which symbolically represent a character or a theme, symbols, verbs or dialogue tags, diction, etc.
Homework: Finish reading the story and post-it noting key passages.
We will write a diagnostic literary paragraph on Monday. To prepare for that writing, create a what? / so what? chart (Minimum 3 pieces of evidence and 9 opinions) to answer the following question:
In a literary paragraph of 300-400 words, discuss the significance of the title to the story's theme. Remember that theme is an observation of the world, a truth or revelation, an ah-ha moment.
Keep reading. We'll meet in our classroom Thurs. and then head to the library. If you get a chance to visit Shelfari on the web, that would be great.
