Friday, September 2, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                          Cavetime will begin on September 6.   School pictures will be taken on September 8.

Targets for Today: Read!   Utah State Core:  Reading Literature Standard 10.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Pick up your composition book.     2.  Sit down with a book of your choice, relax, and read. Notice whether the part you're reading is realistic or unrealistic. Is it something that could really happen, or would people really act that way if a situation like that could happen?   Why or why not?  3.    When directed to,  respond to what you read in your composition book, under "Reading Response Log."   Use the prompt, "This part is realistic or unrealistic because. . . ."  Write at least a third page in response.   Date your response: 9-2. Ms. Dorsey says:  I'm reading Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and even though it is fantasy the characters usually react like people would if they were in that situation.  So in that way, the book is realistic. Albus Potter (Harry's youngest son) isn't getting along with his father because his father is so famous and so supposedly perfect. Albus feels like he's not good enough for his father.  That makes him angry and leads to Albus doing some "stupid" things.  Some kids in the real world who feel they just can't please their parents no matter how hard they try also might be angry and rebellious.  Of course the book is not realistic because our world doesn't have magic -- I think.   Overall, though, I believe that many fantasy books are more realistic than books that pretend to be realistic fiction. In such a situation, how would people really react?   *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *   4.  Find your __2__ o'clock partner and discuss your responses to what you read today.  (We used 6 and 11 already.) 5.  Continue reading our group book.  Before we begin:   Video tour of Highgate Cemetery:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Y9IlFYJRU The Graveyard Book -- winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, and the Hugo Award. Let's listen to Neil Gaiman read from his novel The Graveyard  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpLQCK8CcA or http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ Chapter 2  Last time we read to page 38 -- "You do not."  Chapter 2, minute 3:16.   Today we read to page  55  -- top of page Chapter  2  , minute 32:17 A favorite (and useful) quote:     "You're my friend, so you can't be a stranger."  p. 41 "Bod was thrilled.  He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered." p. 46 About Neil Gaiman: http://www.mousecircus.com/meet-neil-gaiman/ Teacher Notes: http://helen-keeble.livejournal.com/76398.html The Jungle Book:  http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Jungle-Book1.html

If You Were Absent: See the agenda above.  Respond to something you are reading, using one of the reader's response journal starters.  Write at least a third page.  Bring it to tape it into your composition book.   Read on your own to catch up with the class on The Graveyard Book.  You could do this during your quiet reading time at the beginning of class next time.  You can also listen to Neil Gaiman read the second chapter at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpLQCK8CcA