"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.