Friday, October 7, 2016

Thursday, October 13, 2019


Announcements and Reminders:
                         
 Same seats as last time -- pick up your compostiion book.

Term 1 ends on October 26. Any late or revised work is due by October 19. 



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  (It will be shorter today, so we can read more of The Graveyard Book.)



   
Then Let's listen to more of 
The Graveyard Book
Begin creating an illustration or map for The Graveyard Book
What places would you need to include on a map?  

The Owen's Crypt
The Chapel
Unconsecrated ground where Liza Hempstock is buried
Frobisher Mausoleum -
The Sleer underneath
The Ghoul Gate
The Egyptian Walk
The poet's grave
The smaller graveyard
Scarlett's house
The Dorian Home
The Bus stop
The Pawn Shop
the School
where Silas was hit by the police car
where they danced  the Macabray








Last time we read to  page 279, Chapter 7,  Part 2,  minute 42:45.
Today we finished the book.    (There are about 54 minutes left in the book.)


A favorite (and useful) word or quote:  
"You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it."  pg. 298

1:10:05
       25:17
Map or illustration





Places: 
The Dorian home
The Graveyard 
Silas'  
The Owens'  Crypt
The Frobisher Mausoleum -- with the Sleer below
The Ghoul Gate
The Pawnshop
The other smaller graveyard

The School


If You Were Absent:
See above. 



Vocabulary:




Background music for discussion:
Haunted Mansion Ride
Nightmare Before Christmas
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B009JDUZ90/ref=dm_ws_dp_ald_bb_phfa_xx_xx?do=play

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