Unit: Literary Analysis

Big Ideas: Theme, Symbolism & Literary Irony

 

In order to make these literary devices more accessible and engaging for students, we will be choosing a Disney movie to view together and analyze.

 

Please be on the lookout for a movie permission slip coming home early this week, and we will be watching it in class the following week.

Unit: Literary Analysis

Big Idea: Symbolism

 

Students will be identifying common symbols in literature and their most common meaning(s)

Unit: Literary Analysis

Big Idea: Theme

 

This week, students will be distinguishing between the main idea (summary of major events) and theme (author's deeper message) of a text.

 

Students will read several short (1 page or shorter) texts, practice applying the IVF strategy to summarize, and identify the theme along with supporting evidence.

NOV 25- 29; NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving Break

 

Pokemon cards, Bey Blades, Tech Decks, slime, putty, etc.: Need to stay at home now. They are causing problems with students not paying attention in class, not sharing appropriately, and there has been some trading. We are not responsible for toys traded at recess. It takes away from our learning time.

Unit: Mystery

 

Self-Guided Project Due Dec. 13:

Students' individual calendars and/or schedules are in OneNote under their personal "Assignments" tab.

 

Students are continuing to work at their own pace on the 4 parts of their mystery projects:

Throughout the week, we are practicing various skills to support narrative writing.

Students are continuing to work at their own pace on the mystery project.

Their personal schedules and calendars should be uploaded into OneNote under their Assignments tab.  

 

I would encourage you to remind students to work on reading responses while reading their novels.

 

Students will be working independently this quarter on an integrated mystery project.  The project involves 4 components: reading, writing, research, and art.

 

This week, will spend a most of our time digging specifically into the expectations of each component of the project.  Additionally, I will be supporting students in creating their own assignment calendars by breaking the project down into chunks.

Uglies by Scott Westerfield pages 240-323

 

Technology in uglies' society essay

Revising and editing

ARMS: Add, Remove, Move, Substitute

CUPS: Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling

Uglies by Scott Westerfield, pages 82-164

 

Essay describing technological advances in Uglies and what that tells us about the society's values.  

Current steps:

1. Brainstorm - create index (due end of class Monday)

2. Plan - choose 3-5, create a tree map (due end of class Thursday)

 

Homonyms - correcting common misuse of words that sound the same, but are spelled different and have different meanings

Mini-Posters due Thursday at the end of class