Friday and Monday

I will be absent Friday and Monday, but this is the plan.

Friday 

• The class will read “The Most Dangerous Game," stopping to do the margin questions A, B, D, G, H, K, and L as they come to them.
• The class will stop on page 69, line 516 and start the following homework: Based on the foreshadowing in the exposition and rising action of this story, predict how the conflict(s) will be resolved. Write at least one good paragraph explaining your answer.

Monday

• The class will finish the story. 
• HW: #s 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 (10 for extra credit) at the end of the story.

Thursday

Today, after getting new seats, we reviewed internal and external conflict and added the vocabulary on page 53 to the "Selection Vocabulary" section of the binder.

Writing Time

We began the period by handing in warm-ups. We then spent the rest of the period on the Compare and Contrast essay, writing the introduction and starting the body paragraphs.

Essays are due on 10/2.

Compare and Contrast Essay Prep

We began the day with a warm-up designed to help with the introduction to the compare and contrast essay, reviewed the prompt and expectations, and spent the final part of the period planning the essay which we will begin writing in class tomorrow.

Vocab. and Time Travel

We began the day by reviewing our vocabulary in the warm-up and then read the essay "The Physics of Time Travel" (p. 51 in the online text). After reading aloud, students analyzed the essay, following the prompts below.

Theme

Today we reviewed the concept of theme and added #8 from page 48 to last night's HW, which we then discussed and handed in.

More Thunder

We began the day reviewing sequence in the warm-up and then worked on and discussed some of the margin questions (see below). Students should do 4, 9, and 10 from page 48 in the textbook for homework.

A Second Reading

Today we continued our look at Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," doing a couple of comprehension questions in the warm-up (based on the passage below), and examining foreshadowing and sequence more closely. Some students got started on the margin questions as well. Finally, students' received their letters of introduction back and, after some reflection, these were collected to be kept in student portfolios.


"Unbelievable." Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. "A real Time Machine." He shook his head. "Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."
"Yes," said the man behind the desk. "We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now.

"A Sound of Thunder"

Today, after reviewing the vocab from Friday in the warm-up, we spent the day reading Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," marking foreshadowing with sticky notes. We wrapped up the period filling in some foreshadowing sentence frames.

Time Travel?

Today we started the introductory work to Ray Bradbury's story "A Sound of Thunder," considering the concept of time travel and reviewing the selection vocabulary.

In other news, the online textbook should work now, so go ahead and sign up for an account.

Back to School Night

Thursday we reviewed the concept of foreshadowing, starting with the warm-up below, practicing in groups with the second slide, and completing and handing in responses to the third slide.

HW: Finish the Unit 1 close reads. This includes "The Brothers are the Same," "Sweet Potato Pie," and "Checkouts." Due 9/14.

Conflict

After reviewing conflict, we finished the close reading questions on page 25. In period 2 we started the Sequence and Time notes on page 26.

Unit 1

Today we started with new seats and I checked binders. We spent the rest of the period reviewing the concepts of PLOT and CONFLICT and taking notes from p. 24 of the textbook.

Thursday & Friday

Thursday and Friday we finished up the notes and close reads from pages 7 through 9 in the textbook. Students added the key terms on pages 7 and 8 to their notes, and we read, answered and discussed the close read questions on 7 and 9. These, along with the close read questions for "The Old Man and the Sea" and "Los ancianos," were collected at the end of class on Friday.

HW: First Binder Check on Monday.

Tuesday & Wednesday

Tuesday and Wednesday we started working with the textbook, taking some introductory notes on pages 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the textbook and, on a seperate page, doing the close reading questions on pages 5,6, & 7.

HW:

• Typed final drafts of letters are due tomorrow.
• Organized binders and materials are due Monday, 9/10.