1. Warming up with quiet conversations on your reading blogs (click HERE to find your blogging buddies)
For the first 10 minutes of class, please spend time reading the blogs of the other people in your group (see list above); try to leave detailed comments on at least one Color of Water blog of every member of your group.
If you're not sure what to write, here are some ideas:
- Give a specific compliment on something they wrote or how they phrased it.
- Answer a question they posed.
- Offer a follow-up question to something they pondered.
- Offer a different way of thinking about something.
3. Speed dating and discussing relationships in The Color of Water
- Please find a partner and set your desks so that you're facing each other.
- Bring your computer, and open the slides linked above.
- Start with the first topic/question. You have about three minutes to discuss this with your partner.
- When Mrs. Friis tells you to switch, find a new "date."
- Go to the next slide and spend about three minutes discussing it with your partner.
4. Reflecting on your takeaways: On today's class blog, please write down one idea you and one of your "dates" came up with that you think is insightful and/or important. This will be a way for me to tell what you talked about.
HW:
1. Finish your Renaissance Little Project before class tomorrow; try to convert it to a Youtube video and upload it to your blog. If you have questions, feel free to e-mail me.
2. Open-note, neighbor-friendly "quiz" on parallel structure tomorrow.
3. For Tuesday, read and blog on Chapters 12, 13, and 14 in The Color of Water. I'm starting my first reading check on your blogs, so please make sure they are up to date.
My idea was that the mother created a mini version of her childhood home. The strictness she has over her children. Like the beating with the belt.
ReplyDeleteEthan and I Talked about how the beginning of Chapter 9 was so graphic so then the reader erlizes how scared she was of Tateh.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about how the mother was "starving." She was deprived of love from her parents and she had only one friend. She was neglected most of the things that other people would take advantage of.
ReplyDeleteThe cow was so graphic because she saw her father as a very scary person who held a lot of power and that can be shown through the graphic description of the cow.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the first question, I think it relates to the gun cleaning and Tateh's personality.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about how chapter 9 was chaptered Shul we talked about her coming out of her shell.
ReplyDeleteMe and my partner concluded that being a child makes it difficult to be different. Children naturally want to be accepted, so being different makes them feel alone.
ReplyDeleteI talked about the significance of the father and knife in the beginning of chapter 9. The father seems to be a very violent and hotel person. This is seen in the way that he sexually assaults his daughter, and again in Chapter 9, when he talks about killing the cow. We were beginning to discuss what caused the fathers anger.
ReplyDeleteChapter 9 is the most graphic chapter we've read
ReplyDeletesomething we discussed was about how when she's embarrassed to be Jewish, that it's because she's different and how I can relate to people feeling embarrassed for being different.
ReplyDeleteLauren and I talked about question 1 and how poor and unfortunate the mother
ReplyDeletes family was. She hated that they had to work for food and shelter
Ruth cares about her children so much because as a child she was "starving" for that kind of love and affection.
ReplyDeleteShe was embarrassed because her family was poor and her mother was sick with polio. For the question about why the mother was ashamed of her Jewish Heritage.
ReplyDeleteAlex and I talked about how the mother was "starving" because she was deprived of a fun action packed childhood.
ReplyDeleteWe were talking about how she was starving not literally for food but she was starving for normalcy
ReplyDeleteWe talked about main ideas of the books and what we were confused on. I enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteEllie and I talked about how being different from others can really make you uncomfortable. Ruth feels very different from those around her and its a cause of her somewhat odd behavior.
ReplyDeleteOne take away I had was the importance of all this happening to a child. Everything seems harder as a kid and this only makes his life harder.
ReplyDeleteShe really wants her kids to get the best education that they can and is a firm believer in education.
ReplyDeleteIt was really mature of the mom to value education even though she hated her dad and he valued it
ReplyDeleteOne we focused on was how much mommy valued education and how hard she pushed to get her kids into the best schools so they were successful.
ReplyDeletewe talked about the differences of the schools and the chapters of them.
ReplyDeleteWe mostly talked about the differences between James and his mothers way of being raised.
ReplyDeleteThe mother was starving for love as a child, but later in life her kids were literally starving for food.
ReplyDeleteThe Mother really drives ideals for her children to be something that she could never be. She wants them to be intelligent people.
ReplyDeleteOne big takeaway that I took away was the significance of the chapter names
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I think it was really important how much the mom emphasized education because in the end she really wanted a good life for her kids and she really felt like that was their ticket, She saw what not getting the best education did for her and she wanted something different for them
ReplyDeleteWe talked about how admirable the mother's efforts to provide her children with a good education were.
ReplyDeleteThe mother really wants her children to live a better childhood then she ever had, the mother really appreciates the ideas of education and succeeding in life.
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