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.