Core 1: Write-On: Do you believe that each person has a place in life? Read Chapter 5 in class and discuss Cassie and Stacy’s “Place in life.” Core 2: Discuss-On: How is war like a disease? Discuss chapter 3 and its use of trains as torture. Read chapter 4 and …
Cores 1-4: Read my Weekly Authentic and discuss Critical Mass. Write your Weekly Authentic, Nominate for an Authenticity Award, and Celebrity Comment.
Cores 1-4: Spelling Bee information and initial entrance test. Core 1: Chapter 4 Comprehension Question: What is the real reason that Mrs. Logan didn’t want her kids to go to the Wallace store? How do you find out about a character that is silent, or nearly silent? What forms of …
Cores 1-4: Look at and discuss first guest blogs. Congratulate the Authenticity Award Recipients for the past two weeks. Core 1: Write-On: When is revenge the sweetest? Discuss Chapter 3: Explain the trail of headlights that haunts Cassie at the end of the chapter. Chapter 4 in partners. Core 2: …
Core 1: Making the N-word History. What is Cresthill’s hierarchy of names? Read Chapter 3 and discuss the dignity of getting even. Core 2: Look at Maus analysis on PotatoPotatoPugPug’s Blog. What else do these elements (flies, dead bodies, getting smaller, mouse masks, etc.) represent. Draw a flow chart of …
Core 1: The context of Racial Slurs: Why are they so powerful? Destructive? What does it mean today? What did it mean in the 1930’s? Who can say them? How does it change the way we look at the characters in the book? Read Chapter 2. What is the significance …
Cores 1-4: Vote on Guest Blogging Question: How have you changed since you were in middle school? What piece of advice do you wish you had when you were in middle school? What is the most important decision you have ever made? What is the one thing that you wish …
Core 1: Write-On: Why is the novel genre so powerful? Introduction to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Go over my expectations for reading and engaging in the Novel. Core 2: How big is the generation gap between you and your grandparents? How do you think your experience differs from …
Cores 1-4: Discuss rules for guest blogging (something simple enough that even a parent could understand them). What is transliteracy? What does it challenge us to do? Develop proper usage for video in your blogs. What about web junk? The concept of building. The concept of school appropriate. Nominate, Comment, …
I am finally back for good. Thank you for still engaging in class even though I wasn’t here to enjoy all of the fruits of your labor. Don’t think that I forgot about any of you, though. Along with taking care of my wife and my daughter, I was still …