Students started off class with notes on adjectives. We then went over questions for "The Veldt" and "Tell-Tale Heart". After that, students were introduced to their first writing assignment; based on the story "Thank You Ma'am", they must write a letter to the character Ms. Jones. Students were given time to fill out the planning sheet and write a rough copy. The rough copy is due Monday.
We continued the class with additional notes on elements of short stories (conflict and point of view). We then went to the library and students picked books for their Independent Novel Study Assignment.
During the second period of class, students read silently for ten minutes before we moved onto an activity on 'themes'. We watched four Pixar short videos ("Twit Twit", "Teamwork", "For the Birds", and "Partly Cloudy"), then students split up in groups of four, and wrote out the types of conflict and themes for each video on chart paper. We then went over the ideas as a class. To finish, we started to read the story "Catch" in Sightlines 8. Finish this story for homework.
Reminders:
- Thumbprint Profiles:OVERDUE
- Finish reading "Catch": Monday Feb. 23, 2015
- Finish ROUGH DRAFT of the letter to Ms. Jones: Monday, Feb. 23, 2015
