Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Tuesday, Dec. 18 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Final Product from Independent book: work with small group to look through standards (shared on drive) and start thinking of creative ideas
*Blogging About Lit Presentation:
*Needs to fulfill the standards on the document shared with you
*Can be done independently, with a person who also read your book, or with someone else (but then you will need to talk about both books)
*If you are working with someone, talk with them now to come up with ideas
*There is a Product Ideas sheet shared with you (it also has links that may come in handy).  If you are struggling with coming up with ideas, take a look here.
*Today you need to start planning or at least brainstorming for this. 
*American Dream Discussion
*Definition of American Dream (In OMM Folder in Schoology)
*Discuss the fourth question, focusing on your prior knowledge of the Great Depression era (as that is when the book is set)
*Go back to the American Dream Definition and take the best ideas from the definitions and what you gathered from the article, to create a revised definition –post that defn
*Begin Of Mice and Men: Basic Intro then Topic/Big idea sheet
*Of Mice and Men Section 1 I’ll read for about 10 min, then you all read independently

*Homework: Read OMM sections 1 and 2 (1-37): Annotate while reading to have a discussion on Thursday (things to annotate: big ideas (AM DREAM esp), character details, plot details, questions, details of Modern era, writer’s craft ideas)

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