DO NOW | Watch this super catchy song/video about nouns from a show your parents used to watch. DO NEXT | Your teacher will split you into breakout rooms to complete 3 tasks:
MAD-LIB | Trade your mad-lib with another breakout room group who will fill your blank spaces with words that use the part of speech indicated. Be creative and have fun with this part! (mad-libs are supposed to be fun . . .) SHARE OUT | We will all read out our Giver Mad-Lib!
Do Now | Take the final The Giver Chapters 19-23 vocabulary quiz in www.vocabulary.com Do Next | Record the following definitions in your ELA notebook.
Write | Write 3-4 sentences describing your Thanksgiving break. After you are done, underline all the nouns, circle all the verbs and cross out all the adjectives. Notice that you are probably using all three types of words already. Which ones do you use most in your writing?
Do Now | Guided Work Day English Goals Open the Google Classroom document, Guided Work Time | Monday, November 23, 2020.
Here is Ron Weasley's Guided Work Time form. Notice he received a score of 3 for his Analysis Paragraph 1 Sameness. He can go ahead and mark YES in the final column. However, he has not submitted his Analysis Paragraph 2 Symbolism yet as indicated by the 0 in Skyward. Ron must work on this assessment on Monday. When he has submitted to his English teacher, he can then mark YES in the final column. If he never gets to the assessment, he will have to answer NO at the end of Monday's guided work time. Reading | finish The Giver
Do Now | Habits of Self-Discipline
It is necessary to overcome multiple distractions and obstacles in order to develop ideas and complete tasks. At Étude Middle School, we strive to:
Reading | The Giver, chapter 21
Do Now | On the surface, Jonas's community appears to be a utopia. There is no war, everyone has plenty of food, there are jobs and equality. Yet, since Jonas's 12 ceremony there has been information released that should cause us to start to consider his community a dystopia.
Reading | The Giver, chapter 20
Vocabulary | continue on Giver practice in vocabulary.com Reading | The Giver, chapter 19
Internal Conflict is when the emotions or thoughts (internal) of a character conflict with what people see or hear on the outside (external).
Exit Slip | Vocabulary.com Do Now | Vocabulary Quiz
When you have finished the quiz, play in vocabulary.com until everyone else in the class is finished. Vocabulary.com | When you have finished, please continue to practice the next list for The Giver DO NOW: On Tuesday, we talked about internal conflict.
After listening to this poem, let's try to identify some specific places in the poem that suggest there is an internal conflict.
Reading | The Giver, chapter 18 On page 144, the Giver says, "Memories are forever." Why does he say this? And what does it mean for the community if something were to happen to Jonas? Vocabulary | vocabulary practice, quiz tomorrow! Internal Conflict | In this short, seemingly simple poem, there is a tension between how the poet feels inside and how others see them. We might call this tension an "internal conflict" since the conflict only exists internally. Until we read the poem, we wouldn't guess there was anything wrong with a "minstrel man."
What specific things do other people see and hear from the outside? What does the poet tell us they feel on the inside? How does using tension and conflict in a poem make it more powerful than simply stating the list of internal feelings—like "I suffer" or "I am in pain" or "I die"? Minstrel Man —Langston Hughes Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter, You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing, You do not know I die? Reading | Chapter 17 The Giver
Exit Slip | Imagine going through your own personal internal conflict. How would you feel having knowledge that you can not share with your friends? What kind of strain do you think that would put on you? Do Now | Analysis Paragraph Checklist. Review the list below. Can you check yes to all of these points?
Reading | chapter 15/16 The Giver Padlet | Respond to the questions in our Padlet notes
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