Today in English class, we dove into a peer edit on our book reviews, and then signed onto the iPads and used keyboards to make further revisions on the reviews.
The final drafts of our book reviews are due on either Wednesday or Thursday of this week (December 2 or December 3).
Here is a model middle paragraph, including notes on how to include a quote and thoughts on your topic sentence. For more examples of the first paragraphs, and organizers for how to structure your middle and concluding paragraphs, scroll down through previous posts to find loads of fabulous links!
At the end of last week, before the holiday, we explored the idea of perseverance, and how finishing something is deep[ly powerful--even if it is not as amazing as you had hoped. Here is the powerful Olympic video we watched of Derek Redmond of the 1992 Olympics.
Our word of the day today is JUXTAPOSE, which means to compare two things side by side. It is also a poetic term that we'll discuss further in the Spring!
Our words of the day from last week that we'll carry over are: THESIS (a formal argument!) and TRAJECTORY (a path forward for a character!)
Peace!
Mr. R
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Monday, November 30, 2015
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Redefining Success!
Today, we explored the question, WHAT IS SUCCESS?
You all wrote for a quick two minutes about what you think success is, and then we did a word splash (waves! water! words!) on the board as we shared our ideas about success.
IN the novel The Absolute Value of Mike, we have explored how Mike's father views success for him, and we've talked about homelessness and stereotypes about the homeless in society. We also applied the iceberg theory to characters in the novel--and to ourselves--as we've thought about what it means to be authentic and real.
Many of you shared definitions of success that connected to achievement, reaching a dream, or having what you want / desire.
Here was our board--with all of your ideas in purple, and all of what you shared after a brief film clip and discussion in black and blue.
We segued (remember our word of the day from yesterday?) into a brief clip from the 1992 400-Meter run at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Something fascinating occurred at that Olympic race that revealed a different vision of success.
Here is the footage of the race, which we watched in class and then discussed:
VIDEO OF 1992 OLYMPICS WITH DEREK REDMOND'S RACE
We then explored success using a more complex idea of what it might mean, and we connected this to our novel, and to ourselves.
Our word of the day was REDEMPTION, which means the process of winning or getting something back that was either lost or assumed gone.
An example of our word in a sentence: By the end of the novel we hope that Mike and his father will find redemption in their relationship with one another.
You all wrote for a quick two minutes about what you think success is, and then we did a word splash (waves! water! words!) on the board as we shared our ideas about success.
IN the novel The Absolute Value of Mike, we have explored how Mike's father views success for him, and we've talked about homelessness and stereotypes about the homeless in society. We also applied the iceberg theory to characters in the novel--and to ourselves--as we've thought about what it means to be authentic and real.
Many of you shared definitions of success that connected to achievement, reaching a dream, or having what you want / desire.
Here was our board--with all of your ideas in purple, and all of what you shared after a brief film clip and discussion in black and blue.
We segued (remember our word of the day from yesterday?) into a brief clip from the 1992 400-Meter run at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Something fascinating occurred at that Olympic race that revealed a different vision of success.
Here is the footage of the race, which we watched in class and then discussed:
VIDEO OF 1992 OLYMPICS WITH DEREK REDMOND'S RACE
We then explored success using a more complex idea of what it might mean, and we connected this to our novel, and to ourselves.
Our word of the day was REDEMPTION, which means the process of winning or getting something back that was either lost or assumed gone.
An example of our word in a sentence: By the end of the novel we hope that Mike and his father will find redemption in their relationship with one another.
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