Friday, May 13, 2016

Assignment:  Consider who you would cast in a movie of The Rithmatist.

This Week: American Fork Junior High Presents

by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

The Strength of Our Spirit
By Cynthia Mercati

May 12 & 13 - 7:00PM
Recommended Donation: $1
AFJH Small Theatre

Announcements and Reminders: If you haven't finished and handed in your blackout poem, do that.                                                                  If you didn't collect pictures and information about your assigned place from Walk Two Moons, please do that as soon as possible, and send it or share it with Ms. D. Missing that assignment is affecting your grade. If you didn't complete your composition book check, also do that as soon as possible.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will read from The Rithmatist.

Today’s  Agenda:  1. Today -- something different!  We'll watch part of a show with 3 giants of YA lit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edOXhnoCxY To minute 18:41      2. Write and share. (Write at least a Quarter Page.)  Notes:  The marketing people decide where a book goes -- in adult or YA. The YA section a safe haven for teen readers    intimidated by the big thick books Sanderson was a reluctant reader.    He feels that a  YA section is a safe haven for teens, and that it would have helped him if they had had such a section in the library when he was growing up. Dashner's favorite: Stephen King Sanderson:  Robert Jordan Recommended: Starman Jones Heinlein Gormanghast  McCaffrey (I'd add The Blue Sword and others by Robin McKinley.)  Sanderson architects his plots  Sanderson's penny arcade? The main character in Steelheart makes terrible metaphors.   _________________________ Another author Ms. Dorsey recommends: Greg Park (a teacher at a local high school). http://www.gregpark.net/ author of the Earthsoul Prophecies Series -- beginning with Veil of Darkness Paolini:  http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ow-Sh/Paolini-Christopher.html Dasher:  http://www.gradesaver.com/author/james-dashner Sanderson:  http://www.writingexcuses.com/about-2/brandons-bio/ 3.  Individual Reading -- finish chapter 11 of The Rithmatist or read your own book. 4.   We read from The Rithmatist page 162 to  top of page 175. Assignment:  Consider who you would cast in a movie of The Rithmatist. http://rithmatistthegame.webs.com/for-those-who-have read the book ______________ http://thebooksmugglers.com/2013/05/the-rithmatist-a-chat-with-brandon-sanderson.html Review:  http://thebooksmugglers.com/2013/05/book-review-the-rithmatist-by-brandon-sanderson.html Brandon Sanderson's Website:http://brandonsanderson.com/books/the-rithmatist/the-rithmatist/

If You Were Absent: See above.