Complete the characterization chart we started in class today. Use specific details and examples from Chapters 1-7 to support each of your inferences.
Read Chapters 6 and 7 and prepare required notes for these two chapters. Chapter notes for Chapters 1-5 should be complete and filed in your RWNB. All notes will be collected prior to the release of progress report grades. Please catch up if you are behind in your reading.
REQUIRED NOTES FOR EACH CHAPTER INCLUDE:
Plot: 4 significant happenings
Rising Action: 1-2 significant conflicts
Setting Notes: Evidence of Jim Crow South/Evidence of the Great Depression
Characterization: Influence Notes (See questions listed in your notes)
Characterization Chart: What do I know about these characters? How do I know it? (Chapter notes should be specific to main characters and any new character introduced in the chapter.)
Reading Quiz on Wednesday: Chapters 6 and 7/Be prepared!
Monday, November 28, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Homework for Periods 2-a, 3-a, and 4-a assigned on 11/22 and due on 11/29
To Kill a Mockingbird Reading and Writing Assignments
Chapter 7 Please prepare notes for this chapter and chapters 1-6 if you are behind in your reading. (See required elements for note-taking in your RWNB.)
REQUIRED NOTES FOR EACH CHAPTER INCLUDE:
Plot: 4 significant happenings
Rising Action: 1-2 significant conflicts
Setting Notes: Evidence of Jim Crow South/Evidence of the Great Depression
Characterization: Influence Notes (See questions listed in your notes)
Characterization Chart: What do I know about these characters? How do I know it? (Chapter notes should be specific to main characters and any new character introduced in the chapter.)
Reading Quiz on Tuesday: Chapters 6 and 7
Chapter 7 Please prepare notes for this chapter and chapters 1-6 if you are behind in your reading. (See required elements for note-taking in your RWNB.)
REQUIRED NOTES FOR EACH CHAPTER INCLUDE:
Plot: 4 significant happenings
Rising Action: 1-2 significant conflicts
Setting Notes: Evidence of Jim Crow South/Evidence of the Great Depression
Characterization: Influence Notes (See questions listed in your notes)
Characterization Chart: What do I know about these characters? How do I know it? (Chapter notes should be specific to main characters and any new character introduced in the chapter.)
Reading Quiz on Tuesday: Chapters 6 and 7
Periods 1-b, 3-b, and 4-b Assigned on 11/21 and due on 11/28
To Kill a Mockingbird Reading and Writing Assignments
Chapters 4-6. Please prepare notes for each of these chapters. (See required elements for note-taking in your RWNB.)
Plot: 4 significant happenings
Rising Action: 1-2 significant conflicts
Setting Notes: Evidence of Jim Crow South/Evidence of the Great Depression
Characterization: Influence Notes (See questions listed in your notes)
Characterization Chart: What do I know about these characters? How do I know it? (Chapter notes should be specific to main characters and any new character introduced in the chapter.)
Period 4-b ONLY: Please bring your Lit Circle Book and accompanying assignment to class on Monday. We will meet in the library.
HW reading quiz/Chapters 4-6 on 11/28.
Chapters 4-6. Please prepare notes for each of these chapters. (See required elements for note-taking in your RWNB.)
Plot: 4 significant happenings
Rising Action: 1-2 significant conflicts
Setting Notes: Evidence of Jim Crow South/Evidence of the Great Depression
Characterization: Influence Notes (See questions listed in your notes)
Characterization Chart: What do I know about these characters? How do I know it? (Chapter notes should be specific to main characters and any new character introduced in the chapter.)
Period 4-b ONLY: Please bring your Lit Circle Book and accompanying assignment to class on Monday. We will meet in the library.
HW reading quiz/Chapters 4-6 on 11/28.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Homework for 2-a, 3-a, and 4-a/Assigned on 11/16 and due on 11/18
Everyone should have completed Chapters 1-3/To Kill a Mockingbird
Tonight, you will be reading Chapter 4 and completing the following writing assignments:
What is the most significant moment in Chapters 1-4? Why is it important? Use details and examples from the text to support your choice. This is a paragraph response.
Read Chapter 4. Record notes for this chapter using the format we practiced in class today. (See models and directions in your RWNB. If you left your notebook in school, I have copied the directions below.)
DECODING THE TEXT GETTING THE GIST To Kill a Mockingbird
For each chapter you read, you are responsible for recording the following information:
Plot Sequencing/Action Chapter _________
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What do you consider to be the four main “happenings” in this chapter? List these in the order in which they occur in the chapter.
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RISING ACTION (The building up of conflicts in a story)
What is the most important conflict presented in this chapter? Why is it significant? (Cite specific incident in the text and corresponding page numbers.)
SETTING (Time and Place)
• Can you detect evidence of the Jim Crow South in this chapter? Does the chapter express or imply a segregated society? Is there evidence in the text to suggest that African American citizens are not afforded the same rights and/or consideration as the white citizens in Maycomb. Cite specific examples from the text and corresponding page numbers.
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Can you detect evidence of the Great Depression in this chapter? Is there evidence of the effects of the Great Depression? Are people suffering from joblessness, hunger, poverty, etc.? Cite specific examples from the text and corresponding page numbers.
CHARACTERIZATION
• Which characters influence one another in this chapter? (See influence chart.) Cite evidence and page numbers from the text to support your response.
• Which character do you learn the most about in this chapter? What do you know about this character, and how do you know it? (Include expressed (what the book tells us) and implied (what we can infer based on what the book tells us) information.__________________________________________________________
WONDERINGS: What do you want to know about the people, conflicts, and ideas presented in this chapter?
If you don't understand something you read or an idea seems confusing, please cite the page number so that we can discuss it when we are decoding the chapter.
Tonight, you will be reading Chapter 4 and completing the following writing assignments:
What is the most significant moment in Chapters 1-4? Why is it important? Use details and examples from the text to support your choice. This is a paragraph response.
Read Chapter 4. Record notes for this chapter using the format we practiced in class today. (See models and directions in your RWNB. If you left your notebook in school, I have copied the directions below.)
DECODING THE TEXT GETTING THE GIST To Kill a Mockingbird
For each chapter you read, you are responsible for recording the following information:
Plot Sequencing/Action Chapter _________
_
What do you consider to be the four main “happenings” in this chapter? List these in the order in which they occur in the chapter.
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RISING ACTION (The building up of conflicts in a story)
What is the most important conflict presented in this chapter? Why is it significant? (Cite specific incident in the text and corresponding page numbers.)
SETTING (Time and Place)
• Can you detect evidence of the Jim Crow South in this chapter? Does the chapter express or imply a segregated society? Is there evidence in the text to suggest that African American citizens are not afforded the same rights and/or consideration as the white citizens in Maycomb. Cite specific examples from the text and corresponding page numbers.
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Can you detect evidence of the Great Depression in this chapter? Is there evidence of the effects of the Great Depression? Are people suffering from joblessness, hunger, poverty, etc.? Cite specific examples from the text and corresponding page numbers.
CHARACTERIZATION
• Which characters influence one another in this chapter? (See influence chart.) Cite evidence and page numbers from the text to support your response.
• Which character do you learn the most about in this chapter? What do you know about this character, and how do you know it? (Include expressed (what the book tells us) and implied (what we can infer based on what the book tells us) information.__________________________________________________________
WONDERINGS: What do you want to know about the people, conflicts, and ideas presented in this chapter?
If you don't understand something you read or an idea seems confusing, please cite the page number so that we can discuss it when we are decoding the chapter.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Homework for 2-a, 3-a, and 4-a Assigned on 11/7 and due on 11/9
Construct a paragraph response for #2 on the “Marigolds” handout you received in class today. Begin with an inference. Support the inference with three specific details (quotations) from the text. Explain each quote to support your inference. Write a closing sentence that restates your inference.
"Marigolds" begins on page 75
QUESTION 2: The narrator expresses a sense of hopelessness that is mirrored by her setting in the short story, "Marigolds." Explain how the story's setting reflects the protagonist's inner feelings. Use details and examples from the story to support yhour explanation.
"Marigolds" begins on page 75
QUESTION 2: The narrator expresses a sense of hopelessness that is mirrored by her setting in the short story, "Marigolds." Explain how the story's setting reflects the protagonist's inner feelings. Use details and examples from the story to support yhour explanation.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Homework for 3-A/Assigned on 11/3 and due on 11/7
Re-read pages 75-79 in your text, and construct responses for each of the questions listed on the "Marigolds" handout you received in class today.
We were delayed in our reading due to the scheduling of yearbook pictures. Finish what we were unable to finish at home, and we will do the rest when your return on Monday.
We were delayed in our reading due to the scheduling of yearbook pictures. Finish what we were unable to finish at home, and we will do the rest when your return on Monday.
Homework for 2-a and 4-a
Re-read pages 75-79 and construct responses for questions 1-13 on the "Marigolds" handout you received in class today. All questions are specific to the first reading chunk: pp 75-79.
Today is the LAST day to turn in the final, typed copy of
the Personal Challenge essay. If you have not submitted it yet, you may send it to my e-mail (suzan.falls@pgcps.org) by midnight.
Today is the LAST day to turn in the final, typed copy of
the Personal Challenge essay. If you have not submitted it yet, you may send it to my e-mail (suzan.falls@pgcps.org) by midnight.
Homework for 1-b, 3-b, and 4-b Assigned on 11/2 and due on 11/3
Please complete the research notes on the Great Depression that you started today in the library. Use the database we used in class to access articles, videos, and primary sources specific to this topic.
Period 4-b, you are also charged with securing a copy of the novel your literature selected in class.
Period 4-b, you are also charged with securing a copy of the novel your literature selected in class.
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