---
title: "10.24.07"
date: 2007-10-24
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/10/24/102407/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 10.24.07

Core 1:

- Share-on: Share your 3 quotation rich examples of persuasion with one other person. Have your partner pick your best example and tell you why it is the best one.
- Revise a few examples with the document camera (revise yours along with the group).
- When you already have a powerful thesis (what you want to prove) and great examples to back it up including quotations, what else is there?
- What is [revision in persuasion?](http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/congress.htm)  Why did the founding fathers make the changes that they did?
- How has their persuasion benefited society?  How do you give that kind of importance to your own writing about a book.

- Extensions:  Come in tomorrow with your thesis on your blog, ready to be worked into an entire piece of persuasive writing.

Core 2:

- Quiz-on: Why did the author print out exactly who had had Cassie’s book before she got it? What is the significance of this information?
- ![](https://i0.wp.com/storage1.morguefile.com/images/storage/r/ren/lowrez/school_house.jpg?resize=580%2C435)  How does this picture make you feel?

- ![](https://i0.wp.com/storage1.morguefile.com/images/storage/p/priyanphoenix/lowrez/Dirt_Road_Truck_Sun.jpg?resize=576%2C432)  What is different about the way you get to school and the way Cassie gets to school?

- From what you know of Cassie, draw her in her ideal environment.
- Extensions:  Start reading Chapter 2 (Due Friday)

Core 3:

- Write-on: In your opinion, which is more life-changing: love or hate?
- Read through Act I, Scene III.  How does the relationship between Bassanio and Antonio develop?
- What is our first impression of Shylock?

- ![](https://i0.wp.com/storage1.morguefile.com/images/storage/c/clarita/lowrez/94892337.jpg?resize=575%2C404)  In terms of the value of a human life, draw out how you believe Shakespeare would weigh out his characters.

- Extensions:  Due Thursday: Write out what you believe the boundaries of Shylock’s life are?

Core 4:

- Perform-on:  Perform four speeches (see the previous speeches at the bottom of this post).

- Grapple with Persuasion and Change notes from your books.  From all of your notes, how did you character grow?
- From all of your notes, what were the heaviest influences on your character (pieces of persuasion)?
- From all of your notes, what is the one generalization that you could make about your character, the author, or you as a reader.

- Extensions:  Comment on one of the speeches through this post.