Friday, February 19, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   If you haven't handed in your composition book check, do that today.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will learn about a popular author -- the author whose book we are about to read. We will begin reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials 2. Respond to what you read:   In your composition book.  Write about 1/4 to 1/3 page under Reading Response Log. If you haven't handed in your composition book check, do that today. 3. Share your responses.   Appointment partners:  11 o'clock                                            Already used:  8, 1, 7, 3, 4 About the Author Begin reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret  http://www.scholastic.com/hugocabret/   to explore A Letter from Brian Selznick Dear readers, When I was a kid, two of my favorite books were by an amazing man named Remy Charlip. Fortunately and Thirteen fascinated me in part because, in both books, the very act of turning the pages plays a pivotal role in telling the story. Each turn reveals something new in a way that builds on the image on the previous page. Now that I’m an illustrator myself, I’ve often thought about this dramatic storytelling device and all of its creative possibilities. My new book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, is a 550 page novel in words and pictures. But unlike most novels, the images in my new book don't just illustrate the story; they help tell it. I've used the lessons I learned from Remy Charlip and other masters of the picture book to create something that is not a exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things. I began thinking about this book ten years ago after seeing some of the magical films of Georges Méliès, the father of science-fiction movies. But it wasn’t until I read a book called Edison's Eve: The Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Woods that my story began to come into focus. I discovered that Méliès had a collection of mechanical, wind-up figures (called automata) that were donated to a museum, but which were later destroyed and thrown away. Instantly, I imagined a boy discovering these broken, rusty machines in the garbage, stealing one and attempting to fix it. At that moment, Hugo Cabret was born. A few years ago, I had the honor of meeting Remy Charlip, and I'm proud to say that we've become friends. Last December he was asking me what I was working on, and as I was describing this book to him, I realized that Remy looks exactly like Georges Méliès. I excitedly asked him to pose as the character in my book, and fortunately, he said yes. So every time you see Méliès in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the person you are really looking at is my dear friend Remy Charlip, who continues to inspire everyone who has the great pleasure of knowing him or seeing his work. Paris in the 1930's, a thief, a broken machine, a strange girl, a mean old man, and the secrets that tie them all together... Welcome to The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Yours, Brian Selznick Amazon.com Exclusive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yq_4toc_H0  Remy Charlip How is reading pictures/drawing different from reading text/words?  Linguistic Structures and Features common to both written and visual texts:  • Point of view  • Sequence in plot and sub-plot  • Narrative structures       Expository structures Notice whether it is a photo, a drawing, a painting. Notice the size of the picture on the page. What choices has the author made with color? Movie Soundtrack:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFf1245LMSA&list=PLBFA320B8982F5C6A&index=1

If You Were Absent:

http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=3485&a=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk  Full Video with more appropriate music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGd_240ynk   A Trip to the Moon  -- modernized music

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/311601#view=notes