Wednesday, Jan. 13 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Calendar check (where you should be at this point)

*Things to remember/think about during Writer’s Workshop time

*Today you should be finishing your outline (if you haven’t yet) and then starting the rough draft of your body paragraphs

*Each body paragraph point on the outline should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations. 

*Your goal is to fully prove your complete thesis with in-depth analysis for BOTH stories: you should be proving a similar theme, potentially other similarities, specific era characteristics, and contrasting the stories

*Most of the papers will have the comparing be the theme and the contrasting be the era specifics, but the strongest papers will go more in-depth on both the theme and the era (potentially similarities and differences for both)

*Work on Body paragraphs

*Remember to follow TIQA while writing, or at least remember to analyze each quote –explain why/how it proves your point

*Each body paragraph should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations.

*BwF work time (if/when you have some body paragraphs written)

Tuesday, Jan. 12 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Perspective journal turn in

*Outline Review

*OMM Big Ideas Assessment

*Writer’s Workshop

*Finish looking through the story, taking notes on what themes are present, how it shows themes, what literary ideas come up, how it shows its era (LOOK AT YOUR NOTES, I WILL NOT TELL YOU THE ERA’S CHARACTERISTICS) –

*You should be done taking notes (re-reading, highlighting, actual notes) by middle of class today (at latest)

*Share a document (ON GOOGLE DOCS) with me that is or will be your outline (Thesis through body paragraph section is what is due today). Outline due at end of work time: if it isn’t done, it becomes EXTREMELY IMPORTANT homework.

Monday, Jan. 11 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: BwF Project time (30-45 min)

*Thesis and Note-taking for the final paper

*Work on figuring out theme/thesis, taking notes, and starting the outline

*Thesis check: your rough draft thesis must be checked by the end of the end of the hour at the latest (rough draft thesis most likely will change)

***REMINDER: Big Idea Notes Sheet: 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): you will be analyzing these quotes tomorrow!!!

Perspective Journals collected at beginning of the hour tomorrow

Friday, Jan. 8 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Collect BwF Journals

*Book Pitch work with partner

*Perspective Journals due Tuesday: should have 1-16, 17-29, 30-52, 53-65, 66-83, 84-end {full page} (or 84-98 and 99-end)

*Share best points with large group (from yesterday)

*End of book discussion with small group

*End of Book Questions

*Foreshadowing, Figurative Language, Symbolism, and Tragic Hero (talk about these things)

*Work on questions, literary terms notes (foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, symbols), big idea notes –all need to be done by Monday

*Big Idea Notes Sheet: 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):

*Introduce Final Paper

*you should know of what stories you are analyzing and have copies of them by Monday (after 20 minutes max)

*Rough Draft Thesis due by end of block on Monday

*Add your name to the list with the titles of the stories you are writing about (if you need a copy, talk to me)

Thursday, Jan. 7

*Bell Ringer: 10 minutes to start/write Perspective Journal #5 (66-83)

*If you finish your perspective journals before we move on, work on your Book Pitch for BwF (continue planning from yesterday, or start to create)

*First step with group, pass your perspective journal to another group member. Read through your peer’s entry, checking that they have done it correctly: labeled which pages for section and which character, written in the voice of the character, covered the thoughts and feelings of character of all of the main things that happened in that chapter

*With small group, go through the big idea sheet and discuss where the different ideas have been seen (start with Am. Dream, be specific, page numbers/textual evidence always helpful).

*Assessment on OMM coming soon (best guess=Monday/Tuesday)

*This will focus on the Big Ideas tied to THEMES and Textual Evidence

*With the same small group, work on discussing and then jotting down answers to questions (1-8), especially questions 5 and 7 on sheet then add your opinions on these questions: Why doesn’t Curley’s wife get a name? What could Steinbeck be saying by not giving Curley’s wife a name but giving the cathouse runners names? Or is it just trying to make something out of nothing that she has no name and they do? Explain why you think what you do.

*Add this to the ‘power’ question (8) on sheet: Why does Curley’s wife verbally attack Crooks the way she does at the end of section 4?

*Read Section 5 and 6: finish book for tomorrow

*Perspective journal: either half page for 5 and half for 6 (switching perspectives), or full page for both together (one person’s perspective)

Wednesday, Jan. 6 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Sit by your Books with Friends partner for the beginning of class

*More time for Book Pitch work/planning

*After 20-30 minutes today, I need to see a plan from you and your partner as to what you are thinking of doing for the presentation (mode of presenting, different ideas of what to include, potential big ideas/themes that you are looking at)

*Read 53-65

*Grab Section 3 quiz from stool when done, turn in to first folder in crate

*Journal Entry on 53-65

*Homework: Read Section 4 (66-83)

*Perspective journal on all of 4 (can be Lennie, Crooks, Candy –George isn’t in the section till end of 4, so don’t pick him) can be done on Thursday.  All perspective journals will be collected next Tuesday/Wednesday.

A few examples...

For your Books with Friends final book pitch, here are a few of the prezis that I have from former students.  There are other modes of presenting (creating full videos, power points, piktochart, thinglink, etc. or a combination of any of those listed), but prezis are the ones that are easiest to save...

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Tuesday, Jan. 5 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: In Writer’s Notebook: George says that guys like them, who work on ranches are “the loneliest guys in the world” (Steinbeck 13).  What is his reasoning behind the statement?  Do you agree? Why/why not? How does the idea of “belonging” relate to this statement and Lennie and George’s relationship and their position in life so far? –bring to me when done

*Write perspective journal on 30-52, when done with WN entry

*Finish up small group discussion from yesterday: what you still had from the sheet, then talking about conflicts and posting on Schoology –also discuss things from the reading last night (43-52)

*Share your best point from your 3rd perspective journal as you are talking about details from the homework reading (43-53)

*Big Idea Discussion: talk about what you have traced for big ideas so far and then as a group, post a specific detail or piece of textual evidence (with page number) to three of the big idea boards on Schoology

*Conflict Types and examples with your group, then post to the boards on Schoology (not just char. Name vs. char. Name, but names with how that specific conflict is playing out)

*Book Pitch Introduction

Monday, Jan. 4 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Before you grab the quiz, work on the bullet points on the white board –grab the quiz when you’ve finished (all quizzes need to be started by: 8:30)

*When you finish the quiz, turn it in and work on big idea examples, perspective journals if not done, BwF

*Pgs 1-29 Quiz: Discussion after all are finished

*Similes, Metaphors, Foreshadowing, Symbols –notes for these will be online, so maybe mark (annotate) where you see them and then add to online notes during small group discussions

*Start reading OMM again (whole class) –stop on page 43 (ain’t doin’ no harm)

*Discussion on pages 1-43

*Harlem Renaissance Poetry large group discussion

*Section 3 quiz tomorrow after we finish reading it

*Homework: Section 3 start on page 43 read to page 53 (“the door opened”)

*Things to pay attention to when reading: Big idea examples, any examples of symbols, similes, metaphors, personification, foreshadowing, and conflicts

*journal entry on 30-52 (can do tomorrow after the WN entry)

*Conflicts: come up with examples of how each type of conflict is seen while or after reading to prepare for discussion tomorrow

*BwF Journal due Friday!!

Perspective Journal Directions for OMM

Journal Entries from the perspective of George or Lennie on events:

o   Needs to be at least half page 

o   Both a summary of what happened in the section through the character’s eyes and the character’s opinions and thoughts on the events

o   In the character’s voice that you have chosen (can switch for each section, or stay the same)

o   Write it in your WN, but make a specific section just for perspective journals