Hon. Am. Lit Monday Sept. 25
Objectives/Essential Question: Can You…
•RL.2- Identify how multiple themes interact to construct a complex narrative.
RL.4- ID word meaning and impact of word choice.
RL.4- ID word meaning and impact of word choice.
W.3- Construct a narrative about what it means to be an American Teenager.
RL.1/RL.3/RL.4- Cite text to support characterization/tone.
Agenda:
Be thinking about what pleasure reading book you would like to read.
•Note: American Teenagers work- ROUGH DRAFT INTERVIEW DUE TUESDAY/ WEDNESDAY SEPT. 26-27- w/ picture of your subject. SEE ME TODAY IF THERE ARE ISSUES.
•Get into The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, or Into the Wild book groups.
•Share Dialectic Journal work- discuss noticings (remember, 1 vocab and 2 passages for each chapter/reading session)
•Discuss ch.4/ 7-8 N2Wild
•Read ch. 5/ch. 9-10 N2Wild for Tuesday/Wednesday
•RL.2 (theme) with your dialectic journal
Homework:
•American Teenager project rough draft due Tuesday/ Wednesday.
•Read ch. 5/ch. 9-10 N2Wild for Tuesday/Wednesday
RL.2 work examples
1. Find a quote "All of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand."
2. Identify a theme and write theme statement Jon Krakauer underscores the thematic thread running through the text, that of the exhilaration of survival, when he discusses his own climb where reason is "forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand"(143).
3. Identify another theme, based on other dialectic journal quotes and discuss how the themes clash or dovetail to support ideas.
...where reason is "forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand." Linked to this discussion of survival is the higher meaning in the notion of taking extreme risks, specifically brought out when the author says, "even the mundane seemed charged with meaning"(138).
RL.2 work examples
1. Find a quote "All of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand."
2. Identify a theme and write theme statement Jon Krakauer underscores the thematic thread running through the text, that of the exhilaration of survival, when he discusses his own climb where reason is "forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand"(143).
3. Identify another theme, based on other dialectic journal quotes and discuss how the themes clash or dovetail to support ideas.
...where reason is "forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand." Linked to this discussion of survival is the higher meaning in the notion of taking extreme risks, specifically brought out when the author says, "even the mundane seemed charged with meaning"(138).
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