Circle: From your experience, is suffering a life of poverty a choice?
Intro to the Day
Target practice
Vocabulary Test
5/6 Words: Class & Classism, social needs,
7/8 Words: Class & Classism, social needs,
Grades To-Do List
Tech Recruitment Fair
Making connections
1) How is a theme developed in a story?
2) Review: Theme of Cast Away, La Luna, The Present
2) Introduce the idea of "topics" becoming themes
3) Topic game: How many topics can you name from the movie "Cast Away?" You'll get one dollar per successful topic.
4) In your book, what are the topics that are explored? Any idea on a theme?
Understanding Class: The Outsiders
Learning Target: I can explain how a theme is developed in literature using characterization and symbols; I can define class and explain how class can limit people.
We will be reading the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Written in the 1960's when she was 16 years old, it is a book that explores class and how classism limits people. We will use it to understand how class in both Rumford and Cape Elizabeth is both good and bad and how it can put up barriers to growth and change.
Resources: Audio Book, PDF of the book
1) As we read, there will be a goggle doc (in Classroom) that you will use to keep track of your notes, including characterization, conflict, topics.
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