Tuesday, March 15, 2016

The Ides of March!

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                    If you haven't handed in your composition book check  or your brief report on Stargirling/Starboying,  hand it in today.  Term 3 ends March 18.  All late work, revisions, and extra credit should have  been turned in  by March 11.    Hand in your unused hall passes for extra credit -- if you won't be using them this time or next.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will notice words and phrases and sentences in the books we read.  We will build background knowledge -- schema for our reading. We will finish our discussion of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. We will compare the book with the movie version.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2.  Write a response.  3. Share your responses -- Pick your partner 4.  Writing about the differences between the book and the movie for Hugo. Jot down any differences you notice between the book and the movie. Like the book, it begins without words -- visual and music. In the book, Isabelle says she'd never seen a movie. They sneak in on their own. She doesn't hurt her leg falling.  Does she slam the door on his hand? The station master becomes more of a character, with his crippled leg.  The movie adds the "romance" between the station master and the flower girl. [Great word:  Panache] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Begin Walk Two Moons. “Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”  ― Steve Martin Assignments for building background  https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zR-OKp-T8h4M.kuoR35RhnN1c&hl=en_US Bybanks, Kentucky Euclid, Ohio Chicago, Illinois Madison, Wisconsin The Wisconsin Dells Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota The Missouri River in South Dakota The Badlands and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota Old Faithful in Wyoming Coeur d'Alene in Idaho Lewiston in Idaho Email yourself images, information! If you were taking a road trip, where would you stay? Where would you eat?   How far is each location from the one before and after?

If You Were Absent: See above. Your assignments: Brittany Fryer:  Lewiston, Idaho Kaeli J Schmuhl  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho