Review and Monologue Writing Resources

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE REVIEW WRITING TEMPLATE

Below is the monologue sample to help you in writing your monologue:

The monologue requirements can be found in a previous post.

Lit Circles

I handed out copies of "Of Mice and Men" along with our Lit Circles Packet  Lit circles are a new way that we are going to be looking at this novel.

Reading Schedule for 7A Group
Reading Schedule for 7B Group
CLICK HERE for a digital copy of the Jobs Packet

It is important for students to follow the schedule carefully and complete their jobs. Everyone will do each job once. It is also important for students to keep their packets in tact to turn in at the end of the novel for an overall final grade.

Below are some resources to help students with some of the jobs in their packet:

Click here for a link to information on Bloom's Taxonomy that is mention in job #6 Discussion Director.

Below are the the review slides needed for the Critical Theories need for job #6 Critic:

Monologue Requirements

On 7/3/19, students were given the following monologue requirements:

Notes from 7/1

Piecing Me Together Reading Schedule

Writing prompt from 6/28

Overview from 6/26

Analysis:

•Explicit=Explained-what is seen or noticed easily

•Implicit=Implied-what you can assume from the explicit details

Analysis is explaining what explicit evidence implies about a text/subject/etc.

After discussing Analysis, we analyzed a painting through several viewings.

Notes from 6/24

Notes from 6/21

Overview from 6/19 and 6/20

We had our first book discussion day on 6/19.

On 6/20, we started talking about types of IRONY. The notes are below. Students should now be thinking about the Psychoanalytic Criticism AND types of Irony as they are reading.

Overview from 6/18

Today we took notes on how to annotate AND the first of 6 critical theories we will discuss this summer. The notes are below:

Homework is to read the first 70 pages of "Long Way Down" and be prepared to discuss how the psychoanalytic criticism can be employed. What motivates one of or several of the characters?

The reading schedule for the rest of the book is as follows:

Email me at fameacademy.literacy@famefund.org with questions

Overview from 6/17

Today students got an overview of what we would be working on this summer with the opportunity to ask questions. 

Students will read and annotate outside of class each day to be prepared for class assignments and discussions.

Here are annotations guidelines and the reading schedule for our first book:

For Wednesday students need to read and annotate pages 1-70 before class. Annotations will be checked at the start of class before we begin our assignments and discussions. 

If students miss a class, they MUST email me on the day of their absence to obtain their assignment.

Feel free to email me at fameacademy.literacy@famefund.org with any questions