Comments: More impressive than other classes we've observed
Articulate responses. Amazing citing ability.
What we did today was difficult but when we work together, we learn. Please know that a big part of learning is struggle. If we help a butterfly out of a cocoon, it can't fly? Why? Because it needs that struggle to break free to strengthen the wings!!
Learning equals sweating.
When you offer an opinion, you must support it with evidence from the novel. You can't make things up! But, you can test out your theories.
Come up with an idea. Test it.
Ask: Where else did the character act in the way I'm suggesting?
What symbols are associated with the character? What do other characters
have to say about this character?
Creating opinions (inferences) is what we call READING.
Reading is not simply applying ideas you already know to the material.
Reading is being comfortable risking not knowing.
Tonight:
Finish reading chapter 15. Read it carefully. Be ready to discuss key quotations and back up your inferences with other events or symbols from the chapters you have read so far.
This weekend: You have three days off so I will expect you to read for an hour and a half at least which is 45 more pages.
Make time to read. If you are busy next week, read ahead.
What?
Dill's parents and why he runs away from his home in Meridian,
Mississippi (end of chapter 14)
Mr. Cunningham, the night the gang from Old Sarum arrives to
attack and possibly kill Tom Robinson says, “ ' I'll tell him you
said hey, little lady'” (154). (End of chapter 15)
At the beginning of chapter 16, Scout narrates that “ The full
meaning of the night's events hit me and I began to cry” (156).
For each of the items above, be sure to create a strong So What chart.
Next, read through chapter 16 and choose at least two quotations which you feel reveal key themes of the novel.
