LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of today’s class you should be able to

• Explain effective strategies for giving feedback to peers on their writing
• Have multiple suggestions for improving your essay.

1. If we didn’t get to it Friday in your class:  I gave this lecture  The Beginnings of an American Culture
   1. NOTE: the purpose of this  lecture is more background for understanding the context of the Transcendentalists.  Not anything where you have to memorize details.  Some of this will pop up on your SECOND SEMESTER EXAM.
2. We read (close reading) and analyzed a selection from Emerson’s “NATURE”.

In class today:  Continue poster work.

In class tomorrow:  Qu-est: TKAM

(and Friday, Nov. 2).

LEARNING TARGETS:  

1. by the end of class, you should be able to explain COSTA’S THREE LEVELS OF THINKING).  (One thing your poster project gives you the opportunity to do is to think about your level of thinking–are your annotations at a low, medium or high level?  Why do you think that is?  What does that tell you about yourself as a reader?  How do you get to the next level?

• EITHER READ THIS
• or WATCH THIS

WHY DOES ALL THIS LEVELS OF THINKING STUFF MATTER:  because most of the jobs out there (at least the jobs that pay well) increasingly require workers to work more at the higher levels and less at the lower level.  So we want to understand different types of thinking and work to get ourselves thinking at higher levels.

2.  By the end of class, you should get started on your poster project.  There’s a Google Classroom assignment out there for you and also

• Step 1: pick the 25 annotations you want to use (this will take some thinking)
• Step 2: think about how you want to arrange them on your poster board.
• Step 3: start laying out the posters.

There is poster paper on the file cabinet to the left of the windows.  At the end of class, you can store your works in progress in the brown ….thingamabob under the Beatles posters–just to the right of the window

3rd Hour:  Upper Right Side

        5th Hour:  Lower Right Side

6th Hour: Left Side

IN CLASS TODAY:  

1. Received new vocab (Practice Quiz Nov. 7, Real thing, Nov. 9)
2. New reflection (more reading questions).
3. Read To page 332.

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of today’s class you should be able to

• Explain how the trial ends?
• Have a theory as to why Harper Lee has the trial end this way?
• Be able to explain the purpose of  Dolphus Raymond.  (Why does Harper Lee bother to include them?  What is she trying to tell us?).

HALF DAY PLAN

• Review Poetry essays

NEXT WEEK

• We’ll finish TKAM
• Work on Poster Project (Th/Fr)
• TKAM essay Tuesday Nov. 6

Read thru Chapter 18 by tomorrow.

No reflection this week.  See Google classroom for assignment that takes its place.

IN CLASS:  Took Vocab Quiz

1. Discussed Chapters 12-15
2. HOMEWORK
   1. Complete reflection
   2. Read through chapter 18 by TUESDAY (Oct. 23).

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of Today’s class you should be able to answer the following questions about chapters 12-15 of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Chapter 12

1. Describe the events and people of First Purchase Church. What new things does Scout learn about how black people live?  What’s the point of this?

Chapter 13

1. Why does Aunt Alexandra come to stay? Describe what she is like?
2. How does Aunt Alexandra represent the rules and expectations of “ADULT LIFE?

Chapter 14

1. If Aunt Alexandra represents the Adult world, what does Dill represent?
2. How is Jem changing?  How does Scout feel about this?  How do you think Harper Lee wants US to feel about this?

Chapter 15  CONTEXT: STRANGE FRUIT: Billie Holliday

1. What is the “nightmare” that now descends upon the children?
2. What was (and is) the KKK? What do you think about Atticus’s comment about it?
3. How does Jem react when Atticus tells him to go home? Why?
4. What persuades the lynching party to give up their attempt on Tom Robinson’s life? Comment on Scout’s ability to affect events without realizing it at the time.

Here we go

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of class you should be able to explain the basic principles of video composition.

BASIC VIDEO 101

Also remember final TO BE GRADED drafts of preview story due today.

READING DAY.  READING DAY.  READING DAY.

GRAB YOUR TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD AND READ LIKE THE WIND!