Reminder: I'm grading your Gothic journals; if you have anything you need to hand in, now is the time.
1. Warming up with mental jousting on The Village
2. Watching the ending of The Village with a critical eye
3. Performing a sample close reading of a scene together to get you ready for your end-of-unit assessment on Monday
Gather evidence: List at least five specific details from this scene that could be read symbolically. Look especially for details that can be read in at least two different ways.
Find the pattern: Choose the three strongest pieces of evidence and highlight them. Brainstorm what ideas they have in common.
Connect to something bigger: Look through our Gothic mysteries and your Village viewing guide. Select one Gothic element that might connect to the ideas/evidence you just explored.
Draft a thesis: Compose a thesis statement that asserts how one of the Gothic elements reveals a larger theme (a Level 3 idea) in The Village.
Sample: In The Village, M. Night Shyamalan uses the Gothic element of the forest's uncanny sounds to illuminate that our greatest fears result not from external forces but from our own insecurity and imagination.
Draft a little more: Try leading into and out of at least one of your pieces of evidence with Level 1, 2, and 3 ideas.
Gather evidence: List at least five specific details from this scene that could be read symbolically. Look especially for details that can be read in at least two different ways.
Find the pattern: Choose the three strongest pieces of evidence and highlight them. Brainstorm what ideas they have in common.
Connect to something bigger: Look through our Gothic mysteries and your Village viewing guide. Select one Gothic element that might connect to the ideas/evidence you just explored.
Draft a thesis: Compose a thesis statement that asserts how one of the Gothic elements reveals a larger theme (a Level 3 idea) in The Village.
Sample: In The Village, M. Night Shyamalan uses the Gothic element of the forest's uncanny sounds to illuminate that our greatest fears result not from external forces but from our own insecurity and imagination.
Draft a little more: Try leading into and out of at least one of your pieces of evidence with Level 1, 2, and 3 ideas.
HW:
1. Today is the deadline to revise/redo any assignments from the past six weeks. This includes cultural hysteria essays, missed fishbowls, ELIC journals, Gothic journals, grammar fixes, and anything else in IC that doesn't accurately reflect your learning.
1. Today is the deadline to revise/redo any assignments from the past six weeks. This includes cultural hysteria essays, missed fishbowls, ELIC journals, Gothic journals, grammar fixes, and anything else in IC that doesn't accurately reflect your learning.
All revisions/redos/make-up work due next Friday, November 11.
Reminders:
(1) If you're revising your cultural hysteria essay, you must conference with me before Friday.
(2) If you add to a journal or any other assignment, please e-mail me.
2. Decide on your speech topic and enter it on the sign-up sheet by the end of class today. Don't worry if it's not too specific yet; look to your index cards, and work with one of the ideas you put on top when you ranked them in terms of personal interest.
4th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.
6th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.
Sample topics:
4th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.
6th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.
Sample topics:
- Increasing diversity in schools
- Being an athlete on the inside (even if you're never going to win any medals)
- Failing your way to success
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