Tuesday, February 17 - Friday, February 20
Friday
We started the class with a rousing game of Chiffre Chance in order to practice some of the short story terms. Afterwards there was time to work on the theme paragraphs for Rock Bottom or The Larder.
Thursday
After silent reading, we reviewed the "give-aways" that can help identify the theme in a text. For practice, we returned to Rock Bottom and wrote pair theme statements and shared them. I was impressed that people avoided cliches and remembered not to use story specific details. Next, we did a quick refresher on the three types of irony: verbal, situational and dramatic. Finally, we began the theme paragraph for either the story The Larder or Rock Bottom. For the paragraph you must discuss what you think the theme is and support that with a discussion of any 3 of the theme give-aways. For example, you might choose to discuss irony, the goals of the main character(s) and the conclusion. This paragraph should feature P.E.E. organization and embedded quotes. The rubric was handed out and the Links list on the right side of this blog has a link to the criteria as well.
Wednesday
We began with silent reading for the first time this semester! Afterwards, we reviewed the "theme give-aways" again. In pairs we tried creating theme statements for the story The Larder. I was impressed no pairs had any difficulty either coming up with the story's BIG IDEA or writing this ideas in a theme statement. Again, the reason we are doing this is because tomorrow you will be writing a draft theme paragraph about either Rock Bottom or The Larder. For the remainder of the class, I shared four examples of strong theme paragraphs and we identified what makes a strong paragraph. I will type up your observations to create a grading rubric which you should use as a guide for writing tomorrow.
Tuesday
After a brief definition and hand-out about realistic fiction, we went to the library to pick up a novel to read during silent reading. I went over the novel autograph that should be completed once your novel is done. We finished up Story Wars! and awarded the prize to the winning team. The story war was used to pull out interesting points in the short story that will hopefully help you identify the theme of the story. At the end of the class we discussed and listed the theme "give-aways" in a story: title, conflict, irony, repetition, goals of the main character, conflict, conclusion. We will work more with theme tomorrow.
We started the class with a rousing game of Chiffre Chance in order to practice some of the short story terms. Afterwards there was time to work on the theme paragraphs for Rock Bottom or The Larder.
Thursday
After silent reading, we reviewed the "give-aways" that can help identify the theme in a text. For practice, we returned to Rock Bottom and wrote pair theme statements and shared them. I was impressed that people avoided cliches and remembered not to use story specific details. Next, we did a quick refresher on the three types of irony: verbal, situational and dramatic. Finally, we began the theme paragraph for either the story The Larder or Rock Bottom. For the paragraph you must discuss what you think the theme is and support that with a discussion of any 3 of the theme give-aways. For example, you might choose to discuss irony, the goals of the main character(s) and the conclusion. This paragraph should feature P.E.E. organization and embedded quotes. The rubric was handed out and the Links list on the right side of this blog has a link to the criteria as well.
Wednesday
We began with silent reading for the first time this semester! Afterwards, we reviewed the "theme give-aways" again. In pairs we tried creating theme statements for the story The Larder. I was impressed no pairs had any difficulty either coming up with the story's BIG IDEA or writing this ideas in a theme statement. Again, the reason we are doing this is because tomorrow you will be writing a draft theme paragraph about either Rock Bottom or The Larder. For the remainder of the class, I shared four examples of strong theme paragraphs and we identified what makes a strong paragraph. I will type up your observations to create a grading rubric which you should use as a guide for writing tomorrow.
Tuesday
After a brief definition and hand-out about realistic fiction, we went to the library to pick up a novel to read during silent reading. I went over the novel autograph that should be completed once your novel is done. We finished up Story Wars! and awarded the prize to the winning team. The story war was used to pull out interesting points in the short story that will hopefully help you identify the theme of the story. At the end of the class we discussed and listed the theme "give-aways" in a story: title, conflict, irony, repetition, goals of the main character, conflict, conclusion. We will work more with theme tomorrow.
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