Today I decided to stay in the creative realm. My students will be overwhelmed with the Common Core high expectations, so I stayed with a creative prompt for writing. We have been focusing on allusion especially with Alice in Wonderland. Today started with a quick write and we re-visited it later in the day. We also continued our reading of certain chapters of Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. I tried to convey to students that they must be like crime scene investigators. We read half of the chapter together, groups and then re-visited key passages to find evidence for theme.
PART 1-
PART 1-
- QUICKWRITE-75 WORDS
USING ALLUSION- HAS THERE EVER BEEN A TIME WHEN YOU FELT LIKE ALICE FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND? HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU WERE FALLING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE? ( THIS COULD BE WHEN YOU FELT NERVOUS OR ANXIOUS BEING IN A NEW PLACE OR CONFUSED OR ANXIOUS ABOUT MEETING NEW PEOPLE) WRITE 75 WORDS BEING AS DESCRIPTIVE AS YOU CAN ABOUT A PAST EVENT THAT WAS STRANGE AND OR DREAM LIKE.- CORNELL NOTES- DIVERGENT FACTIONS, DAUNTLESS, AMITY, CANDOR, ABNEGATION, EURDITE
PART 2- READING -CITING EVIDENCE
READ "PART-TIME INDIAN" TOGETHER FOCUSING ON S.I.F.T METHOD.- HIGHLIGHT IMAGES AND SIMILES-AS A CLASS
- GROUP WORK-READ AND HIGHLIGHT AS A GROUP TO PAGE 6
- GROUP WORK-READ AND HIGHLIGHT AS A GROUP TO PAGE 6
CITING EVIDENCE- USE G.O QUOTE-CONTEXT-INFERENCE-COMMENTARY
QUOTE "No, I felt like a magician slicing myself in half, with Junior living on the north side of the Spokane River and Arnold living on the south." - HIGHLIGHT IMAGES AND SIMILES-AS A CLASS
- COMMENTARY : STUDENTS HAD TO FOCUS ON THE THEME- LOOKING AT THE TITLE AND QUOTE- FORMULATE A THEME OF THE NOVEL.
- CORNELL NOTES- DIVERGENT FACTIONS, DAUNTLESS, AMITY, CANDOR, ABNEGATION, EURDITE
- STUDENT CHOSE BETWEEN A CREATIVE NARRATIVE OR A FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY- BOTH AVID STRATEGIES AND FROM CURRICULUM SUGGESTIONS. THEY BOTH ARE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FORMS OF WRITING. THEY BRAINSTORMED TODAY AND STARTED WRITING ON THE COMPUTER.
STUDENTS WATCHED THIS BEFORE THERE QUICK WRITE- THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO VIEW THIS FROM A WRITERS PERSPECTIVE....THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO IMAGINE GOING THROUGH THEIR OWN METAPHORICAL RABBIT HOLE.