Announcements and Reminders:
Remember to wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a jacket if it looks like it might be chilly.
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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. Today instead of individual reading time, we will read from The Graveyard Book. We will take a break to discuss. . . . . Find your ____ o'clock partner and discuss your responses to what you read today. (We used 1 (today)1, 2, 4 , 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 already.) Instructions for next time: How to do gravestone rubbings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GukkkmNEzR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100y2PdymJk Begin at 1:15 -- to about 2:50 How to find a ghoul gate: Find the description in The Graveyard Book of ghoul gates. pg. 61 "One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it -- waterstained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling when you reach it, of abandonement. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like a fungus itself. If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate. If the grave makes you want to be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate. There was one in Bod's graveyard. There is one in every graveyard." pg. 74 "Bod stopped beside a grave that looked the way he felt: it was beneath an oak that had once been struck by lightning, and was now just a black trunk, like a sharp talon coming out of the hill; the grave itself was waterstained and cracked, and above it was a memorial stone on which a headless angel hung, its robes looking like a huge and ugly tree-fungus." Please plan to take pictures! Then Let's listen to more of
Last time we read to page 198 6th paragraph down, Chapter 6, minute 42:06 .
Today we read to page 229, Chapter 7, minute 24:20 .
A favorite (and useful) word or quote: "Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surpize us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod." --Liza Hempstock p. 198 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. |
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