1.    Journal-  Which article did you read?  What’s your initial impression? 

2.    Groups and Giver

3.    Article sample plan-  First, DFW plan, then mine.

4.    HW-  return w/ article idea—Reading:  Book Thief – to “The Kiss” Giver, Article.

History of the situation—Capitalist.

Description of the Property. (research)

Story of artist neighbor.  (research)

Draw contrasts between two ways of life.

Find examples of capitalists who support art (research)

Friend chose that property because even capitalists like beauty.

In Tuesday's class we wrote Giver quotes on the board to share, made lunches, and discussed the upcoming Giver essay that is due and the other homework, reading one of the David Foster Wallace essays.

Next class-  Draft groups, Giver/ Article discussion DFW.

1.  Journal-

How's The Giver essay coming along?   What do you need?  What questions do you have?  When should it be due?


2.  Planning-  Next book.


3.  What's our next essay?

4.  We need works cited help.

5.  Reading-  DFW:   Ticket to the Fair/  Consider the Lobster.

6.  HW-  Finish Giver for Tuesday.  Finish one essay for Thursday.

Close-  Class chat-- where are we?

Essay planning-

1.  What's a symbol in the giver?  Why is it a symbol?  What does it mean?  Why does it mean what it means?


2.  Quote work/ or practice making meaning with poetry.


3.  Quote expectations, briefly.


4. HW- finish giver, return with Thesis and quotes, only.


5.HW- complete PP to earn a star, revise essays.

1. Finish Giver by next Tuesday.

2. MLA Review

3. How to fix the Perfect paragraph.

4. HW-  Perfect paragraph: fixed.

1.              Remove and vary transitions.

2.              Combine and lengthen sentences.

3.              Add extra fact/opinions.

4.              Mix the sentence types.

5.              Re order the sentences.

6.              Find better words.

Transitions List

1. What’s our goal in reading The Giver?  Why?

1.5:   Fix the sentence.

I love to eat tacos, they are my favorite type of food, I like them with rice beans cilantro and the hottest salsa around.

2. Last checks.

3. Next essay introduction

4. HW reminders.

TS: Topic Sentence (opinion)

F:    Fact                                  For Example,

O:  Opinion                             This shows that

O                                             This also shows that

F                                              In addition,

O                                                TST

O

F                                              Moreover

O

O

CS:  Concluding Sentence

TS: Tacos are the best food.  For example, they can be filled with chicken, beef, or pork or anything you want.  This shows that people can make them the way they like.  This also shows that tacos are customizable.  In addition, tacos can topped with salsa, cheese, cabbage, cilantro, beans or whatever you prefer.  This shows that tacos can be made for even picky eaters.  This also shows that tacos…

For Tuesday-  get to chapter 13, finish p/s essay, finish paragraph in the format.