Month: December 2019

12/17/19

You need:

A loose-leaf piece of lined paper

Your notebook open to page 13 where your theme thesis statement is

1. Write your theme thesis statement starting on the first line of your loose-leaf paper
2. Write your group number in the upper right-hand corner (NO NAMES)
3. Send up a group representative to staple your group’s thesis statements together
4. Give the packet to Ms. Navarro

What the heck are we doing?

1. I will give you another group’s papers. Do not concern yourself with whose they are.  I mean, who really cares anyway?
2. You will use your sentence frames, examples, and editing statements from the other day to edit the statements in your group
3. Edit ONE statement AT A TIME. That means your group should be working on the same theme thesis statement TOGETHER to write down an improved version of that thesis statement below the original statement.
4. I will give you five minutes to try to edit one, and when the timer goes off, you must turn the page to the next statement and begin editing this one.

12/16/19

English 1CP 12/16/19

You need:

Novel

Notebook

Read 225-244 Alone

Read 245-end of book together

 

12/16/19

Page 14 12/16/19 Sold Reflection

Did you like the ending?  Why or why not?  If you had to end the book in another way, how would you have ended it?

Minimum of 3-5 Sentences

12/13/19

Go over Thesis statements that worked.

Put up ones that didn’t work and edit as a class.

Read 205-225; find yet another example

CHECK for concrete details of your theme

12/12/19

Theme sentence frame:

Adapt your theme using this sentence frame (write down the sentence frame first so I can scroll down to the examples):

In TITLE, AUTHOR ______(what the writing/book/novel is about)_______ to reveal the theme that_____(my theme)___.

Examples:

In “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury presents a young boy struggling with feelings of jealousy to establish the theme that the behavior of hurting others through cruelty eventually hurts the cruel person as well.

In “Born Worker,” Gary Soto contrasts the lives of two cousins to reveal the theme that a life of hard work is better than a life of lies.

In Morely Callaghan’s “Luke Baldwin’s Vow,” the main character faces the difficult choice to follow the advice of his exceedingly practical uncle or to follow his own emotions to suggest the theme that the value of something is not always the same as its monetary worth.

Put your theme thesis statement on the Padlet.

Read 185-205; find one more example of your theme. You should have a total of SEVEN for your check in on Friday!

English 1CP 12/11/19

Theme

Defined as the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly

A theme says something/creates a point of view about a topic

What did we learn?

How did a character change throughout the story?

What life lessons can be taken away from the story?

 

Let’s identify the theme in these songs:

https://youtu.be/T3PJkPsW8_M

 

Pick a topic and write a sentence describing what the writer believes about that topic

The author believes that _______________.

Cross out “the author believes that”

Is it vague or is your theme fully described in an academic manner?

Choose a THEME.  You must find at least 8 examples of (either in past reading or from the reading we will do in the future).

Find at least 2 examples from today’s reading.

Read 165-185

English 1CP 12/10/19

Padlet Quiz

You need your PHONE…If you do not have a phone, get a computer.

Open to page 13 in your notebook

Go here and wait for directions:

bitly for each period posted in your Google Classroom

Choose 3/5 topics from yesterday

type out: topic-page number-a few words about the example

Review others’ ideas and write down anything that you like for your now CHOSEN topic

 

Read 145-165; find 2 more examples of your chosen topic (page and example)

Page 13 12/9/19 “Topics and Themes”

Topics – what is a topic?

A particular issue or idea that serves as the subject of a writing

1. Love
2. Death
3. Good vs. Evil
4. Coming of age
5. Power and corruption
6. Survival
7. Courage and heroism
8. Prejudice
9. Individual vs. Society
10. War

 

Watch the following short film and identify some of the topics explored in the film: https://youtu.be/oyjw0ZLyzpE 

Assignment

• Read pages 125-145
• Find at least FIVE topics in your reading
• Note what PAGE you find each topic is and how it is being demonstrated in the text (an example/concrete detail)

There will be a quiz tomorrow

 

12/6/19

You need:

Your novels

Your notebooks

• Read silently pages 114-124
• On the same page number of your “Reader Response,” please reflect silently on what you just read

  Questions to Guide You (if you need it)

• What are your impressions of Lakshmi after reading this section?
• Do you have a prediction as to what Lakshmi will do next?
• What do you want her to do next?
• Anything else you may want to say or reflect on regarding the reading
• When done with the reading and the Reader Response get YOUR computer
• Go to com and complete the “Verbs Assignment”

Passive voice verb:

Example: Monkeys adore bananas

The subject performs the action

Active voice verb:

Bananas are adored by monkeys

The subject is acted on by the verb

12/5/19

Students are to use the “Vocabulary Comics” instructions to complete the assignment.  I have printed enough copies of the instructions to have one instruction sheet per table group (plus some extras, in case they go missing).  Please collect the instructions at the end of class and redistribute to the next class; repeat.  

Alternatively, each student will be given their own blank comic frame and asked to write and draw directly on it.  Presentation and neatness count, as always. Please have them write their names on the back.  If they want to make their own comic frame and not use mine, they are welcome to do so. Only tell them this if they ask.  Comic frames are due at the end of class.