WU: Pronouns Night vocabulary assignment.

Monday, November 26Today’s Objective: Today I will learn vocabulary and terminology from Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night by investigating terms on a padlet. I will show what I have learned by completing a yes/no page. WU: Pronouns Night vocabulary assignment. Answer the questions by using the Thing Links posted on the Night vocabulary padlet on teacher web. Continue reading Night. HW: Read to the end of ch. 2 by Wednesday; quiz Thursday.

Rewrite these sentences to avoid pronoun issues. • This semester, personal computers can be connected to the library system which will help students conduct research at home. • They say that three out of four people prefer walking on their feet. • The peasants seized power by force and quickly changed all locks on the palace doors so the nobles could not get back in. Then they had a large party and gorged themselves! When the nobles finally recaptured the palace they were forced to clean up the mess and found many stains and broken dishes.

Tuesday, November 27Today’s Objective: Today I will read to make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. • WU: Check Yes/No vocabulary • Continue reading & discussing Night. • HW: Read to the end of ch. 2 by tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 28Today’s Objective: Today I will make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. I will demonstrate this by participating in a discussion. • WU: Journal – Power Write • Discussion of ch. 1-2. • HW: Night Quiz 1 Friday.

Power Writing • Slaughtered • Anguish • madness

Thursday, November 29Today’s Objective: TEK 13A Evaluate the role of media in focusing attention on events and informing opinions on issues. 13B Interpret how visual and sound techniques influence the message and impact the audience. • SAR reminders/rubric • Quiz – ch. 1-2 of Night • When finished: Journal - Be inspired by Elie Wiesel’s use of anaphora on page 32: Never shall I forget... • HW: Read to the end of ch. 5 by Tuesday.

Not Considered Passing Considered Passing

Example Prompt: In this excerpt of The Old Man and the Sea, how does personification help to explain Santiago’s relationship to the sea? Support your answer with evidence from the selection. Example Response: Hemingway uses personification to explain that Santiago thinks “of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her” (25). He is referring to the sea as a woman and he takes her side by not blaming her for the “wild or wicked things” (47). So he is defending the sea as if she had life, just like a man would do for a woman. Score Point 3: Exemplary The idea (“he is defending the sea as if she had life”) is perceptive and reflects awareness of the complexities of the text. The evidence (a combination of paraphrase and direct quote) is specific and well chosen.

SAR Reminders • UNDERLINE book titles. • Use the ACE strategy: • A=assertion – What is your answer to the question? • C=citation/proof – You must include a direct quote from the book. • E=explanation (commentary) – How does your proof (evidence) prove that your assertion is correct? Can you connect to a universal idea? Why is this idea important? • Try to embed your evidence and correctly: “quote” (#). • Use PRESENT TENSE. cite • No “I think” or “I believe” statements • Proofread! I will deduct points for careless errors.

Citations • “quote”(#). • Notice: • No punctuation inside the quotation unless it ends in ? Or ! • Put the number only inside the parentheses – no p. or page • Period after the parentheses • UNDERLINE BOOK TITLES! • No I think or I believe statements.

Friday November 30Today I will practice my critical-thinking skills by writing and discussing two philosophical questions. I will show what I have learned by discussing with a partner. • WU: Write/Pair/Share: Is it important to speak and write so you can be understood? • Video • How do we say what we mean? A sentence with subtext.

Say this sentence aloud with a partner, emphasizing the underlined word. How does the meaning change? • We should not speak ill of our friends. • We should not speak ill of our friends. • We should not speak ill of our friends. • We should not speak ill of our friends. • We should not speak ill of our friends.

So what? • There are many ways to confuse people – or ourselves – when we are not clear about what we say and how we say it. This inexactitude can lead to logical mistakes, or fallacies.

Socrates • Classical Greek philosopher • One of the founders of Western philosophy • The first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.

Socratic Ideas

More from Socrates

Yes – I would keep talking to a person who said this.No – I would leave or change the subject. • That new student is not a very nice person. • Boys are so stupid! • The teacher graded those essay tests unfairly! • The best athletes play soccer. • Basketball is a better sport than baseball. • Math is a more useful subject than history. • Classical music is boring. • Religious people are not fun to be around. • Communism is bad; look what happened to the U.S.S.R. • I think philosophy is very interesting. Can you discern the pattern to these questions?

So What? • Lots of “yes” responses indicates interest in many things. • The point is that if you are involved in conversation about any of these topics, you would learn something about the subject as well as about yourself as you expressed your beliefs and listened to the other person.

List the top 5 things or activities you find boring beyond belief. • Why do you find them boring? • Share with a friend and explain your reasons. • Listen to your friend’s reasons. Can you detect any flaws in their thinking or reasoning?

WU: Pronouns Night vocabulary assignment.