Thursday, January 4, 2018

Thursday, Jan. 4 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: End of book discussion with small group
*Share from yesterday
*End of Book Questions
*Foreshadowing, Figurative Language, Symbolism, and Tragic Hero (talk about these things)
*Work on questions, post in at least two literary terms notes (foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, symbols, personification), answer tragic hero question, add to big idea notes
*Make sure for American Dream and one of your other two big ideas that you have a theme connected to that idea and two pieces of textual evidence that show each one perfectly (WITH PAGE NUMBER)
*Big Idea Notes Sheet:
*I’m going to check your big idea notes while you are working on the perspective journals/working on your final analysis paper
*To be prepared for the assessment on Friday you need:
*A theme (message) about the American Dream shown in the book and a theme (message about one of the other two ideas you traced
*Two pieces of evidence for each theme that you can analyze to develop your theme. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PAGE NUMBERS AND TEXTUAL EVIDENCE WRITTEN DOWN ON A SHEET (CAN BE THE BIG IDEA SHEET OR ANOTHER)
*Writer’s Workshop: Finish looking through the story, taking notes on how each shows themes, what literary ideas come up, how each shows its era (LOOK AT YOUR NOTES, I WILL NOT TELL YOU THE ERAS’ CHARACTERISTICS) –DEPTH OF THEME
*You should be done taking notes (re-reading, highlighting, actual notes) by middle of class today (at latest)
*Share a document (ON GOOGLE DOCS, if you haven’t/are making your outline on a different document) with me that is or will be your outline (Thesis through body paragraph section is what is due tomorrow).

*Outline: if it isn’t done, it becomes EXTREMELY IMPORTANT homework that must be completed by Friday end of block at ABSOLUTE LATEST

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