More analysis work and ideas for book trailer!

Here are links to the documents we worked on this week (January 13,14,15)
Pictorial metaphor for literary analysis
Book Trailer links: EXAMPLES FROM LAST YEAR
Analysis paragraph example: KEEP THIS AS REFERENCE FOR THE FINAL EXAM
Quiz #2 : character analysis: Of Mice and Men

Analysis! Levels of thinking and questioning!

Here is the lesson plan from Tuesday/Wednesday plus supplementary stuff-- lots of group work!
Lesson plan
Poem you need and analysis
analysis handout and pictures to question

Book Talks and Book Trailers!

Book talk Research link:

Listen to the “How to” stuff and watch some—find what you should include and what you liked best about the good ones. Feel free to surf for other examples on the www ocean!

Basic requirements:

1-      Read a short (very short) passage from the text

2-      Bring a copy of the book with you

3-      2 minutes-- MINIMUM to three minutes-- MAXIMUM

http://www.schooltube.com/channel/scholastic_booktalks/

24 hours AFTER the snow day...

Here is the work from January 5th:
Lesson for the Day
Five Important Things about Writing Analysis

Last Week Before Winter Break-- Have a Blast!

Here are the things we are doing to wrap up the text, The Things They Carried, and also the PEP portion of our program.:
Week Dec 14 - 18
Comma Splice Exercise
Theme and Thesis Handout

Assignments and stuff from this week

Monday, November 30th
Tuesday/Wednesday, December 1 and 2
Thursday/Friday, December 3 and 4
Speaking of Courage One-Pager Assignment Sheet (we will finish on Monday)
Have a great weekend and--- READ!

Read and enjoy your break-- lessons from this week

We wrote a poem from words we "found" in the story: "How to Tell a True War Story," and we also talked about how to write a great objective summary by considering plot and writing a one-sentence "movie pitch" before we write the summary. Here are the details and assignments:
Found Poem: Directions 
 Found poem process and example
Objective summary lesson and read "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong."
Over the break: please read for three hours, total, as a minimum in the book you have chosen-- read as much as you like after that--have a great holiday!
Mrs. E