Monthly Archives: April 2017

Friday #29 is posted in Classroom. It’s the Work Cited (so far) for your project.

Pds 1&4- Gallery Walk. Take 10 minutes to finish your work from Friday. Then we will begin our sharing and learning. You need to read/reread chapters 5&6 in Flies for class on Wednesday.

Pd 2- Continue reading Mango. We need to finish this book this week.

Pd 8- Continue reading Night. We will finish this book Tuesday or Wednesday.

Pds 1&4- Lenses! Continued.
Today we will be applying our study of literary lenses by working with the poem “Oranges” by Gary Soto. The assignment sheet is here and in Classroom.

Pd 2- Mango
Same as yesterday. 10-15 min of independent work, then Mango.

Pd 8- Workday. You need to use all of this time to complete some of the writing for your project.

Pds 1&4- Literary Lenses–>

Lenses- Imagine putting on blue tinted glasses. How would that change what you see? How about if you put on glasses that only have a tiny window to see out of? Think of the how things would look different. Literary lenses are a similar idea. By looking at a text through the lens, we see the meaning in a different way. Today we will be discussing the 8 lenses and applying some to Flies. Tomorrow we will be doing an activity using these lenses and a poem. Handouts are in Classroom.

Pd 2- The House on Mango Street–> Start with a few minutes to work quietly on Friday #28. Then begin reading Mango in the chapter titled “Chanclas”.

Pd 8- Night–> Pick up where we left off on Tuesday.

Pds 1&4- Lord of the Flies–> Literary term- An allegory is a story with more than one level of meaning—a literal level and one or more symbolic levels. An allegory allows a writer to tell a story about literal characters and to make a moral, religious, or political point. In the Lord of the Flies, the author makes direct comments on life and society through the use of allegory. Besides having a literal surface meaning, the events, settings or characters also stand for ideas or qualities and have a second meaning on that level. Golding reserves his allegory for certain aspects of society.

We will focus today on contrasts. There is an activity that will walk you through several contrasts in the book. You may work with a partner on this.

Pd 2- The House on Mango Street–> Today we will continue reading the chapters. Make sure you are taking excellent notes. We will be writing about this book later and good notes make it much easier.

Pd 8- Night–> Today we will continue reading the chapters. Make sure you are taking excellent notes. We will be writing about this book later and good notes make it much easier.