APillionaries—Monday, October 21st
· The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
Homework
Due
1. Put your
name in big letters on the top of PAGE 6, then put on the heater,
please. I’ll have them back to you in a
jiffy!
a. Page 6
2. Regarding your annotations over all
assigned pages: I will take up your
ENTIRE novella on Tuesday to assess your annotations. This will be a major homework grade.
WE
WILL TURN IN THE PAPER (COMPLETE WITH RUBRIC AND REFLECTION) TOMORROW!
Re-reading
Quietly On Your Own (15 minutes)
1. Review annotations from pages 30-64.
2. Start filling out page 9 (MOTIFS) and page
12 (STYLE ELEMENTS) in your packet.
Ø
Start @
Class
Discussion and Trios (20
minutes)
1.
Compare
your notes from all the following pages.
Borrow from each other, page until everyone in the trio has all the
blanks on all the pages filled in:
a.
8
b.
9
c.
11
d.
12
2.
Let
me hear your best academic discussion.
Quiz, then Quiet, Independent Work Time
1. Take quiz #1—no book allowed.
2. Turn it in at my candle.
3. Take quiz #2.
a. Craft detailed, thoughtful, specific answers.
b. Use your text and annotations for help.
c. Use They Say/I Say argument style as needed. Prove your point. Prove your answer is the correct one.
4. Turn it in at my candle.
Homework
for Tomorrow
1.
Read
and annotate Mango, pages 65-91.
2.
Fill
out the Character Chart on page 7.
3.
Take
the study guide quiz on page three (in your head) to see if you can answer all
the questions. This will mean you’re
ready for any quiz.
Reading
Reminder—Annotation
1.
Please
annotate the following items as you read, in addition to your own brainy
comments.
a.
Mark
metaphors and similes with a symbol.
b.
Ask
questions
c.
Comment.
d.
Make
inferences.
e.
Motifs
(an idea or object that appears repeatedly)
Vocabulary Note—Fiction Terms
Ø There are new terms on quizlet—fiction terms, a whole bunch of
them!
Ø Final vocab quiz = Thursday, 10/24/2013
Homework
1.
Mango
Assignments Listed Above
2.
Create a final draft of your
essay—due Monday (10/21)
3.
Vocab War—final turn in on Thursday (10/24)
4.
Quizlet = Fiction Terms—quiz Tuesday,
Term 2 (10/29)
Creative Writing:
When You Come In
1.
Pick up a bright
yellow Fifty-Word Story
handout.
2.
Sign in.
3.
Grab your manila folder off the circle table.
Last New Writing Assignment = Fifty-Word Stories
1. Colleen’s Model of Original Assignment—review and discuss.
2. Go to google for your class folder, and pull up the fifty-word
stories you liked. We’ll look at
Colleen’s as a model
3. …remember those? J
4. What’s cool about them?
5. Now look at some more models, and understand the requirements for
this assignment. (two handouts)
--RIGHT NOW, BEFORE YOU FINISH YOUR FIFTY-WORD
STORIES
Revision Preparation
1. Get out the following:
a. pink revision direction sheet--re-read the requirements and
expectations. You are responsible for
that information.
b. ORANGE SHEET--look at the FOUR pieces you are revising for a
grade.
2. On google drive, pull up
the piece I read for you this weekend, IF I’M GIVING IT BACK TO YOU RIGHT NOW, and
revise until I stop you, please.
Remember, revisions are ten percent of your entire term grade.
3. If you didn’t get your piece back today, revise ANOTHER piece
from your four choices.
12:40: What to Do Now
1. Fifty Word-Story
a. Finish them.
b. Fill out yellow sheet.
c. Print, and staple yellow
sheet ON TOP of paper copy.
2. REVISE! J
CPR
Ø Monday, 10/21/2013
The
House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
Homework
Due
1. Put your name in big letters on the top of PAGE 7, then put on the heater, please. I’ll have it back to you in a jiffy!
2. Regarding your annotations over all
assigned pages: I will take up your
ENTIRE novella on Tuesday to assess your annotations. This will be a major homework grade.
Close
Reading
1.
Re-read
“Sally”, starting on page 81.
o
What
does the text say?
o
What
do you infer?
§
Write
an “I”, then write your inference next to what the text says.
§
Start
@ 8:15
o
TEXT STATEMENT MY INFERENCE
o
“He remembers his sisters and is sad.”
§
I would guess that his sister shamed
the family in some way—perhaps by danching.
o
“Then she can’t go out.”
o
“Her father says to be this beautiful
is trouble.”
§
Because she’s beautiful, she might
cause problems with guys later on.
o
“You become a different Sally.”
§
She’s changing her personality AND HER
APPEARANCE from school to home.
o
“…but I want to buy shoes just like
yours.”
§
E. wants to be more like Sally.
o
“…not since she called you that name
and bit a hole in your arm and you looked as if you were going to cry and
everyone was waiting and you didn’t, you didn’t.”
§
slut; whore
o
“…maybe your feet would stop in front
of a house, a nice one with flowers and big sindows and steps for you to
climb…”
§
She thinks Sally wants to escape, too.
§
She thinks Sally might have dreams l
like her.
2.
“What
Sally Said” (pages 92-3)
3.
“The
Monkey Garden” (pages 94-98)
o
Highlight
(Yes, highlight!) any concrete detail you can visualize as I read this chapter
aloud.
o
Poster
Creation: you and your partner will use
your highlights to create a poster with TWENTY items illustrated from “The
Monkey Garden” chapter. If you don’t
have enough highlights, you can go back and re-read for more.
o
Each
partner needs to draw ten pics, for a grand total of twenty items.
o
DON’T
LOOK at other duos!
o
When you finish:
§ Tape your papers together.
§ Sign your names in an obvious place.
§ Put your poster up in the library with the tape circles I’ve
made you (back wall).
o
We
will have a gallery walk TOMORROW.
o
Started
at 9:12; went until the last few minutes of the block
Homework
for Tuesday
1.
Read
and annotate Mango, pages 92-end of the novel.
2.
When
you get to page
99, “Red Clowns” turn to page 15 in your packet, and fill that in after you read the chapter. (You will have to read this chapter twice.)
Reading
Reminder—Annotation
Ø
Please
annotate the following items as you read, in addition to your own brainy
comments.
a.
Mark
metaphors and similes with a symbol.
b.
Ask
questions
c.
Comment.
d.
Make
inferences.
e.
Motifs
(an idea or object that appears repeatedly)
What’s
Due Tomorrow
Ø
Yellow
page 15, completely filled out with exact quotes for “Red Clowns”
Ø
Complete
annotations for the whole novella
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