Friday, September 23, 2016

September 22 is Bilbo's and Frodo's Birthday! 
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Announcements and Reminders:           We will be turning in a Scholastic Book Order this Friday. Hurry up to order online or bring a check if you'd like to be included in this order and get your books sooner.   Of course you could also order by September 30.

Targets for Today: Reading: Literature Standard 3  Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). Reading: Literature Standard 10  By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. The Graveyard Book's lexile level is 820L.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Pick up your composition books. 2.  Individual Reading Time  Last time you noticed the setting.  This time you will list as many aspects of the setting as you can.   For example: The Outsiders Place:  Our Universe, Our solar system, Earth, North America, United States of America, the state of Oklahoma (or a state very much like it), Tulsa (or a town very like it), various places in and not too far from the town -- a long ride away on a train, yet the nearest hospital is in the town : a movie theater, a route from the theater to the Curtis home, the Curtis home, a route to the drive-in movie theater including a drive-up cafe and a drugstore, the drive-in movie theater,  the seats in front of the concession stand at the drive-in, the route between the drive-in movie theater and Two-Bit's home, etc.  Time: The twentieth century, 1960's, autumn?, most of the actions takes place within two weeks, the action takes place during the school year.  Remember our discussion about setting?   Some Points about setting:  Setting includes both place and time.  Setting can be macro --  Setting can be micro -- Setting can include        the era, the year, the season, the month, the time of day, etc.        Time setting can change as the story progresses.          The most -macro usually stays the same. Setting can include the general location and very specific locations.       Place setting can change as the story progresses.           The most -macro usually stays the same.   Notice how setting influences Bod: How he lives? (food, clothes, housing, daily life, etc.) How he sees the world? How he speaks? How he acts?  How he solves his problems?  ________________________________________________ Pretty much  off topic:  I found a description I really liked in The Fourth Stall, Part II: "His eyes bulged from his skull like analog sticks on a PlayStation controller."  Maybe not so off-topic!  What does this tell us about the setting?  __________________________________________________ Let's listen to more of  The Graveyard Book Chapter 3  Last time we read to page  153,  Chapter  5, minute 15:24. Today we read to page 166 , Interlude:  The Convocation   http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ A favorite (and useful) word or quote:  ". . . Bod found himself scared, like a child who has woken a sleeping panther." Town Hall p. 156 American Fork Town Hall  Teacher stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlTHHslh74M http://www.authorama.com/jungle-book-1.html http://helen-keeble.livejournal.com/76398.html

If You Were Absent: Catch up with The Graveyard Book next time.   See above for information about SETTING and how it affects characters.