JOURNAL TOPIC: ("Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies)
Montag feels pressured by the culture that surrounds him into taking drastic action. What elements of his circumstances resonate with you, and what elements seem far-fetched and exaggerated?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Vocab/reading quiz
3. Socratic seminar: guided questions and (maybe) a good ol' fashioned argument
HW:
1. Read & take/post notes on pp.120-130
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
november 5
JOURNAL TOPIC:
Overheard in class on Tuesday: "Hey, fool! It says it right there, dumbo!" There are many ways to teach each other; when does it help to chide/shame/insult each other? When can we laugh at our mistakes?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Vocab definitions
3. Fahrenheit 451: summary & reading
HW:
1. Finish reading to p.120 & post notes to your course blog
Overheard in class on Tuesday: "Hey, fool! It says it right there, dumbo!" There are many ways to teach each other; when does it help to chide/shame/insult each other? When can we laugh at our mistakes?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Vocab definitions
3. Fahrenheit 451: summary & reading
HW:
1. Finish reading to p.120 & post notes to your course blog
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
november 4
JOURNAL TOPIC:
Today most Americans will continue to complain about our society and government, and they won't vote. How will anything ever get better if we don't DO something about it? For that matter, how will your education improve if you don't take charge of your own learning?
1. Journal
2. Vocabulary
HW:
1. Vote.
2. Nag someone to vote.
Today most Americans will continue to complain about our society and government, and they won't vote. How will anything ever get better if we don't DO something about it? For that matter, how will your education improve if you don't take charge of your own learning?
1. Journal
2. Vocabulary
HW:
1. Vote.
2. Nag someone to vote.
vocabulary: fall list 8
ruinous
quavered
certitude
notch
perspired
manifested
latrine
uttered
parried
oracle
conscious
feigning
leisurely
conjure
anesthetized
tyranny
folly
dreary
grotesque
reckoning
quavered
certitude
notch
perspired
manifested
latrine
uttered
parried
oracle
conscious
feigning
leisurely
conjure
anesthetized
tyranny
folly
dreary
grotesque
reckoning
the nicest kid in the world
On Halloween it poured. We went trick-or-treating early (with somersaulting Scooby Doo, below) and spent the rest of the evening watching "The Great Pumpkin" & answering the door for soggy Elsas and monsters.
Our next door neighbor James, who is eight years old, came to the door in a fighter pilot's jumpsuit and did something I had never seen in forty-four Halloweens. Not only did he not ask for candy, he offered my daughter candy because he was worried she hadn't gotten a chance to trick-or-treat because of the rain.
Yesterday I repaid the favor. We had a bunch of leftover candy, and I figured James was an excellent distributor. So I brought a three-pound bag to his door and asked him to help me share it with people who didn't get to trick or treat. His eyes got big and he looked up at his mom for permission. She nodded, and he said, "I've just identified my first targets." It's going to be a sweet day at his school.
Our next door neighbor James, who is eight years old, came to the door in a fighter pilot's jumpsuit and did something I had never seen in forty-four Halloweens. Not only did he not ask for candy, he offered my daughter candy because he was worried she hadn't gotten a chance to trick-or-treat because of the rain.
Yesterday I repaid the favor. We had a bunch of leftover candy, and I figured James was an excellent distributor. So I brought a three-pound bag to his door and asked him to help me share it with people who didn't get to trick or treat. His eyes got big and he looked up at his mom for permission. She nodded, and he said, "I've just identified my first targets." It's going to be a sweet day at his school.
Monday, November 3, 2014
november 3
JOURNAL TOPIC:
Over the weekend it rained for the first time in a long, long time. How do authors use rain to establish setting and tone? Consider this example from Ray Bradbury:
Over the weekend it rained for the first time in a long, long time. How do authors use rain to establish setting and tone? Consider this example from Ray Bradbury:
“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard
someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it
was dry.
Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
― Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland
Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
― Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Paragraph explaining your grade
3. Grade conferences
HW:
1. Review Fahrenheit 451 to p.110
2. Contribute vocab word candidates in a comment to this post
2. Contribute vocab word candidates in a comment to this post
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