Monday, September 23, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• Share a creative monologue
• Connect the idea of change to personal experience
• Recognize the elements of conflict and resolution

Opening:

1. Share your monologues in your small groups (HW Stamp).

• Was the writer successful in creating the voice of the toy?
• Did the monologue express the toy's attitude toward Change?

2. Preview Activity 2.3

• Examine the list of events on page 77 and CHECK any events that have occurred in the past 3 years.

3. Read through the bottom of page 77.

4. Explore the concept of CHANGE in your class journal:

• Internal and External Conflict.
• Double-Bubble (Examine the differences and similarities between "Internal Conflict" and "External Conflict")
• Bridge Map (Examine analogies related to both terms.  "Internal Conflict is to ____________ as External Conflict is to _____________."

Work Period:

5. Review and respond to the quickwrite questions at the top of page 78

6. When you are done, ask for a piece of construction paper so that you can begin the assignment at the bottom of page 78.

• A graphic can be many things:
• Illustration
• Thinking Map
• Storyboard
• Comic Strip

Closing:

7. This "divider" you are creating is due Wednesday - and will go into your folder to help keep Unit 2 work organized.