Thursday, March 15, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Thursday, March 15, 2018: Beware the Ides of March! After being warned by a soothsayer about the  Ides of March (March 15), Caesar was assassinated on that day  by other politicians who were worried  he would make himself king. https://www.biography.com/people/julius-caesar-9192504 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWkoj1BF0fw

Targets for Today: I can read, think about,  and discuss literature.

Today’s  Agenda for Thursday, March 15, 2018: 1.   Keep reading  Legend.  If you have finished reading Legend, begin reading Cinder. 2.  A few reports on the books you learned about last time.  3. Your own books.  4.   A few more reports on the books you learned about last time.  Legend   Dystopian Fiction:  Select a book to find out more about.  Select three with 1 being your first choice, 2 and 3 your second and third.  ______  Anderson, Feed ______ Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker ______ Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars ______ Bethell, A Whisper of Horses ______ Card, Ender's Game ______ Carman, The House of Power ______ Cass,  The Selection ______ Clayton, The Roar Collins, The Hunger Games trilogy ______ Condie, Matched and Crossed ______ Dashner, The Maze Runner series ______ DeStefano, Wither  ______ DuPrau, City of Ember ______ Farmer, The House of the Scorpion or  The Ear, the Eye and the Arm ______ Fisher, Incarceron ______ Goodman, The Other Side of the Island ______ Gordon, Tunnels ______ Grant, Gone ______ Gray, Behind the Gates ______ Haddix, Among the Hidden ______ Hautman, Rash  ______ Huxley, Brave New World ______ Kidd, Dreambender  ______ Lowry, The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger, and Son ______ Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries ______ Mardsen, Tomorrow, When the War Began ______ Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go ______ O’Brien, Birthmarked ______ Oliver, Delirium and Pandemonium ______ Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox ______ Rosoff, How I Live Now Roth, Divergent and Insurgent ______ Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves ______ Shusterman, Unwind ______ Westerfeld, The Uglies series ______ Weyn -- Bar Code Tatoo You will look up your book, read about what it is about, and see if you can find it on Common Sense Media, and/or on Goodreads.   Be prepared to tell a little about it.  Avoid spoilers.  How favorable are the reviews?  How interesting does this book sound to you?  Lab 224  https://lauriemorrisonwrites.com/2012/10/8th-grade-dystopian-unit/

If You Were Absent: See above.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  http://community.sparknotes.com/2018/03/07/8-weirdly-specific-things-that-happen-in-every-dystopian-novel/slide/1