Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Key Objectives:

• Sign Up for Open Mic (Tonight at 6:30 in the Cafeteria)
• Go through a Peer Review and Revision Process

Here's what your instructions look like from SpringBoard:

Who is at the same point as you in the process?

What is your preferred method of sharing? 

• Exchanging papers and reading silently?
• Reading your essay aloud and talking through it with a partner?

Last 15 minutes of class: 

• Mini-Lesson: Review on Citing Textual Evidence from Walk Two Moons
• After seeing Sal's precise throw, "The boy stepped away from [her] grandpa's pants"(89).
• Grandma just says, "'Huzza-huzza'"(221).
• Mini-Lesson: Introductory Paragraphs
• Hook (Question, Statement of Intrigue, Quotation, Anecdote)
• Snakes under the hood?  Swimming in your underwear?  Smoking a peace pipe with your granddaughter? Does that sound like someone you'd want driving you across the country on a specific route and on an all-important timeline?
• Context (Introduce the literary element your essay focuses on - setting, character, plot, conflict, theme)
• In life and in novels, characters are sometimes controlled by internal forces, like their emotions or fears, by external forces, such as other people or natural disasters, or a combination of both.
• Thesis - what is your opinion on one of the four topics?
• In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, because of external forces, Gramps is forced to change from a "loose canon" personality to an organized, thoughtful caregiver.