SSR!

Remember, SSR calendars and book reviews are due! 10/19  Make sure you are reading almost every day and tracking your progress on your calendar!

Welcome sophomores, class 2015!  This blog is a tool we will be using for World Literature this year. I hope you find it helpful and easy to use.  This is the place where you will check homework, post comments, find links for homework, attachments for class notes, embedded videos related to our course and many more helpful and (hopefully!) interesting tidbits. If for some reason this site can't help you answer any question you have about this class, then please feel free to e-mail me at the address on the syllabus or at my PPS e-mail address as I will be checking both often.

HW for 3rd period only. Due Tuesday 10/16

Look up TED Talks on the internet. Once on the site, type in Chimamanda Adichie, "The Danger of a Single Story." Watch the entire talk and fill in your graphic organizer on the role of the writer.

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie )

Instructions for  stories from Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan.

Due Monday October 22.

Basic Criteria*

1. Finish reading, “An Ex-mas Feast”.

2. Read the interview with Uwem Akpan at the back of the packet.

3.Choose 1 question to answer from each of the clusters of questions at the back 1, 2, 4 and 7. Make sure to answer clearly restating the question and to support your opinion with evidence from the text using quotes around anything you cite.

Challenge Criteria*

1. Finish reading “An Ex-mas Feast”

2. Read “What Language is That?”

3. Read the interview with Uwem Akpan

4. Choose 2 questions to address from each of the clusters of questions at the back 1, 2, 4, 7 and 8. Make sure to formulate responses clearly, restating the questions and supporting your opinion with evidence from the text using quotes around anything you cite.

*Basic Criteria meets proficiency for grade-level requirements. Basic criteria is C level work. This level work is complete, accurate, and shows an understanding of the material.

*Challenge Criteria is A/B level work.  Here I am looking for depth of thought, analysis, and exploration of the topic. I expect the work to challenge you. This level work shows ownership of the topic.