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Contemporary Literature

Contemporary Literature. Week 6 September 24-28, 2012. Due Today: Synthesis Paragraph. Monday, September 24, 2012.

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Contemporary Literature

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  1. Contemporary Literature Week 6 September 24-28, 2012

  2. Due Today: Synthesis Paragraph Monday, September 24, 2012 Walk-IN: Turn in your critical lens synthesis paragraph and sit in your book club group that you formed on Friday, and turn to a new sheet of paper and title it Discussion Art in Life and Book Club. Learning Objective: • Students will form purposeful generalizations and draw sound conclusions about an artists message and intentions based on the overall composition and the specific details in a piece of art. Agenda: • Discussing and Interpreting Art Homework: Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response: Week 4 due Blockday Bring your Book Club Book to class on Monday

  3. Discussing Art in Life and in Book Club • First Viewing: list what you observe and notice • Start with the big picture • Focus in on the details • Connect back to the big picture/whole composition • Focus in on the details • Write down what you notice (specific details) on their chart—column one • Share and discuss the specific details and how this connects with the overall composition (format, style….) of the work of art. • Second viewing: write down questions related to what they wonder about in the artwork • Share your questions with the group and discuss possible answers based on the specific details in the artwork • Third viewing: write down general topics the artwork seems to be dealing with. • Share and discuss your topics with the group. Based on the overall composition and details in the piece of art what might be the artists message? • Reflection: write a paragraph • Assert a theme statement in the topic sentence (what is the author saying about the topic?) • Provide additional sentences that support the theme statement with evidence • …analysis (how does the detail prove the theme statement) • End with concluding sentence that reasserts the theme statement without merely repeating.

  4. A Big Family by Zhang Xiaogang

  5. Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Due Today: Walk-IN: Pick up a white binder, sit in your Book Club Group and create a What Makes or Breaks a Family section in your notebook. Learning Objective: • Students will understand that note-taking is a scaffold for summarizing and synthesizing information; readers must work to determine important information, connect & clarify ideas, and gather textual evidence to form purposeful generalizations and draw sound conclusions. Agenda: • What Makes or Breaks a Family? Homework: Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response: Week 4 due Blockday Book Club Book in class on Friday

  6. Literature Study: Developing a Lens • In your reader’s notebook, write freely about the following questions. Spend about 5-10 minutes. Consider blending styles of writing: lists, stories, anecdotes, pop-culture references, questions… • What does a successful family look like? • What things do they need to do in order to be successful? • What does an unsuccessful or broken family look like? • What are the different things that can break a family apart? • How does a family protect themselves against the things that can threaten to break them apart?

  7. Non-fiction articles: What makes or breaks a family? While reading the non-fiction articles dealing with family and marriage, locate and record main ideas related to What Makes a Family and What Breaks a Family. • IN THIS COLUMN list any vocabulary words that you do not know, or any vocabulary words that you feel are strong and others should know. • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5. • 6. What makes a family a family successful? • Answer • Pg # and quote • Repeat this 3- 4 times What makes a family unsuccessful or what things break a family apart? • Answer • Pg # and quote • Repeat this 3- 4 times

  8. Summary • Summarize in a well detailed paragraph what you learned from the article on What Makes or Breaks a Family.

  9. Vocabulary Job: Option 1 Vocab. Word 1: _________________ • Page number and sentence in novel where the word appears:___________________________________________  ___________________________________________________________________________________________(Author’s Last Name pg) . Dictionary definition: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: You MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 5 WORDS

  10. Vocabulary Job: Option 2 Vocabulary Job Procedures:Fold your paper in half. Direct your group to where the word appears in your book, and read the relevant sentence(s) out loud.Show your visual representation to your group.Record each person’s guess for the vocabulary word (YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 3 WORDS)

  11. Due Today: Week 4 Reading Responses Wednesday/Thursday, Sept 26-27, 2012 Walk-IN:Please put your reading responses for week 4 in the box on the chair and wait for instructions Learning Objective: Agenda: • ICAP—N-105 Homework: Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response: Book Club Book in hand on Oct. 1st

  12. Due Today: Nothing Friday, September 28, 2012 Walk-IN: Pick up a white binder, sit in your book club group, and open up to your notes from Tuesday. Learning Objective: • Students will understand that note-taking is a scaffold for summarizing and synthesizing information; readers must work to determine important information, connect & clarify ideas, and gather textual evidence to form purposeful generalizations and draw sound conclusions. Agenda: • Finish Tuesday’s Notes • Is There Hope for the American Marriage • Vocabulary Job • Homework: • Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response • Write a structured paragraph that answers the family question based on examples from both non-fiction and fiction texts. • Book Club Book in hand on Monday

  13. Non-fiction articles: What makes or breaks a family? While reading the non-fiction articles dealing with family and marriage, locate and record main ideas related to What Makes a Family and What Breaks a Family. • IN THIS COLUMN list any vocabulary words that you do not know, or any vocabulary words that you feel are strong and others should know. • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5. • 6. What makes a family successful? • Answer • Pg # and quote • Repeat this 3- 4 times What makes a family unsuccessful or what things break a family apart? • Answer • Pg # and quote • Repeat this 3- 4 times

  14. Vocabulary Job: Option 1 Vocab. Word 1: _________________ • Page number and sentence in novel where the word appears:___________________________________________  ___________________________________________________________________________________________(Author’s Last Name pg) . Dictionary definition: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: • Name: Guess: You MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 5 WORDS

  15. Vocabulary Job: Option 2 Vocabulary Job Procedures:Fold your paper in half. Direct your group to where the word appears in your book, and read the relevant sentence(s) out loud.Show your visual representation to your group.Record each person’s guess for the vocabulary word (YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 3 WORDS)

  16. Summary • Summarize in a well detailed paragraph what you learned from the articles on What Makes or Breaks a Family. Include references to both articles.

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