Here is a video in which Chinua Achebe, resident professor at Brown University, talks about the devastation of Africa . . .
In addition to reading up to Chapter 13 and completing Dialogue Journals, watch the video (7 minutes long), linked below and write down three ideas that are interesting to you from the information therein.
http://youtu.be/mNdjcFOoVi8
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
A Note on Dialogue Journals...
Your dialogue journals should be a record of your reading, summarizing the chapters, but also a collection of artifacts, or evidence from the text that you will use to write an essay. The three main themes I want you to think about are:
- The presence of a developed and complex culture evident in customs, practices, celebrations, ceremonies, cultural codes etc.
- The clash of cultures when the Umuofia people collide with Europeans.
- The development of Okonkwo as a character.
Gather evidence on these three themes and you will be golden.
11/27 Homework Reminder
Period 3, wonderful work today on your proverbs! I am so lucky to be among so many wise and penetrating minds!
Make sure you read chapters 8-9 in Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, by Thursday as well as complete dialogue journals to be handed in on Monday.
Period 5,6. & 8, chapters 8-9 must be completed by Friday.
You will all read 10-13 by Monday and submit dialogue journals for 8-13 on Monday.
If you haven't already:
- turned in your SSR calendar and book review
- turned in your flash fiction edits (aim for Friday--no work accepted later than Monday)
- turned in your final draft of the Role of the Writer/Role of Literature
- dialogue journals from chapters 1-7
then, NOW is the time.
By the way, you are all brilliant, marvelous, humans and I am so very honored to work with you.
SSR reminder!
Calendars for SSR are due each time the calendar period is over. Please submit these with a book review for (October-November), found on the back shelf (second shelf down). New calendars will be handed out. Remember that your goal is to read at least a little every day, ideally a choice book as well as our class novel.
11/25-26
Welcome Back from Thanksgiving!
High Priority Items:
Make sure that you are finished with chapter 7 in Things Fall Apart by Tuesday (3rd period) and Wednesday (5,6,8th period)
Turn in your dialogue journals for those chapters ASAP. I will not accept dialogue journals for chapters 1-7 after Friday.
If you have not turned in your Role of the Writer/Role of Literature Paper it is very important to your grade that you do so as it is weighted heavily and a Final Assessment. You have until Friday to turn this assignment in.
If you have not turned in your Flash Fiction, do so as soon as you can. I will take no newly submitted Flash Fiction after Friday and all late work will lose credit each day that it is late.
If you are working on revisions of your Flash Fiction, please turn them in ASAP, no later than Monday the 3rd. (I would prefer to have them graded by Friday.)
High Priority Items:
Make sure that you are finished with chapter 7 in Things Fall Apart by Tuesday (3rd period) and Wednesday (5,6,8th period)
Turn in your dialogue journals for those chapters ASAP. I will not accept dialogue journals for chapters 1-7 after Friday.
If you have not turned in your Role of the Writer/Role of Literature Paper it is very important to your grade that you do so as it is weighted heavily and a Final Assessment. You have until Friday to turn this assignment in.
If you have not turned in your Flash Fiction, do so as soon as you can. I will take no newly submitted Flash Fiction after Friday and all late work will lose credit each day that it is late.
If you are working on revisions of your Flash Fiction, please turn them in ASAP, no later than Monday the 3rd. (I would prefer to have them graded by Friday.)
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Thanksgiving HW
Over Thanksgiving you will be reading chapters 3-7 in Things Fall Apart and creating dialogue journals for each chapter. Don't leave it to the last minute. I advise you to work on it in 2-3 chunks.
*You will see that I have written FREE RICE on your reading schedule. Free Rice is not a requirement, but a suggestion if you get bored and so stuffed that you think you might benefit from a little vocabulary power workout.
To get credit for the Free Rice Challenge you will need ot donate 10,000 grains of rice. The program will keep track of this for you. Once you reach the total (10,000) you may either come to class and show me (you have to login and create an account so that the program will keep track) or take a picture of your score with your phone.
Remember, students seeking As need at least two Challenge Opportunities per semester. Challenge opportunities don't necessarily guarantee you an A, but clear efforts to go over and beyond into the realm of excellence, depth, and mastery are required. This is one way to show effort.
*You will see that I have written FREE RICE on your reading schedule. Free Rice is not a requirement, but a suggestion if you get bored and so stuffed that you think you might benefit from a little vocabulary power workout.
To get credit for the Free Rice Challenge you will need ot donate 10,000 grains of rice. The program will keep track of this for you. Once you reach the total (10,000) you may either come to class and show me (you have to login and create an account so that the program will keep track) or take a picture of your score with your phone.
Remember, students seeking As need at least two Challenge Opportunities per semester. Challenge opportunities don't necessarily guarantee you an A, but clear efforts to go over and beyond into the realm of excellence, depth, and mastery are required. This is one way to show effort.
Periods 5,6, and 8
See the post below for Period 3. You have already turned in your Role of the Writer/Role of Literature Essays. On Friday you will turn in your typed piece of Flash Fiction. Remember, it can be about anything. Your journal writes were meant to help you generate ideas. You can go back to one of those pieces, complete it and enhance it, or you can use one of the ideas on the Short Story Ideas handout I gave you. You may also simply come up with your own idea.
Remember, you are shooting for 500-1,000 words. If you have made other arrangements about length with me, you may alter the length to suit your story.
HW: You are to have Chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe read for class on Friday with six sticky notes annotating sections of the text. For annotation ideas, remember the CARPE notetaking system--Connections (text to text, text to self, text to world), Ask a question, Review what you understand so far, Predict what you think is going to happen, Evaluate the structure, characters, and author's style or choices.
We will be applying your notes to dialogue journals on Friday.
Remember, you are shooting for 500-1,000 words. If you have made other arrangements about length with me, you may alter the length to suit your story.
HW: You are to have Chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe read for class on Friday with six sticky notes annotating sections of the text. For annotation ideas, remember the CARPE notetaking system--Connections (text to text, text to self, text to world), Ask a question, Review what you understand so far, Predict what you think is going to happen, Evaluate the structure, characters, and author's style or choices.
We will be applying your notes to dialogue journals on Friday.
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