Wednesday, September 21, 2016

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.  Immediately get into the groups shown here.  Pick up ONE worksheet for your group and follow the directions.  Group Number  Group Members Group 1 Olivia A Nicolas C Whitney W  Lily W Group 2 Mesa  B Abigail C Nephi N Haylie T Group 3 Miriam C Morgan L Rebecca Th  Sydney W Group 4 Jaden C Gavyn Du Amber S  Ava N Group 5 Tori D Benjamin M Tyler S  Mari G Group 6 Abigail D  Natalia S Wyatt N Group 7 Mallory J Matthew W Kadence P  Jace W Some Points about setting:  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. 3. "What would happen if. . . . " Your group will draw from the piles of pieces of poster board (alliteration!).   Draw one blue, one yellow, and two green. If the pieces you draw are from the same book or show, draw again.  Discuss as a group how the character and his or her life would be different if the setting and conflict were different.  Share with the class.  4. Focus on Setting -- Which Often Changes the Conflict.   Let's look at The Outsiders. What if the Curtis brothers -- Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darrell lived in the country?  How would that affect . . .  How they live? How they see the world? How they speak? How they act? How they solve their problems? 5.  Focus on Setting -- Which Often Changes the Conflict. Let's look at The Graveyard Book. Write in your composition book to answer these questions:  What if Bod had been adopted by a regular family? How would Bod be different in. . . . 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?  Let's listen to more of  The Graveyard Book Chapter 3  Last time we read through page  143 ,  end of Chapter 4. Today we read to page  153,  Chapter  5, minute 15:24. http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ A favorite (and useful) word or quote:  ". . . when the sun was a silver coin high in the grey winter sky."  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.