Circle: If you were going on a long road trip, who would you bring to keep you entertained?
Intro to the Day
Target practice
Vocabulary Practice
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5/6 Words: demographics & values, hubris, ethics
7/8 Words: demographics & values, TBA, TBA
Making connections
I can determine the topic of a work.
I can determine the theme of a work.
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?
Unit: Rumford or Cape -- Time to Decide
Learning Target: I can use reteach to make a decision and support me decision with information.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford. Your family will earn $140,000. One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse. This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000. That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape. Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) Your child. Make and determine the values you want your child to have in order for them to have a happy, successful life. Write three on the back.
2) Quick research on each town.
3) Turn and talk -- what did you find?
4) Make your choice: Cold call. Your pick and why.
5) Place your child.
Learning Target: I can use reteach to make a decision and support me decision with information.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford. Your family will earn $140,000. One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse. This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000. That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape. Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) Your child. Make and determine the values you want your child to have in order for them to have a happy, successful life. Write three on the back.
2) Quick research on each town.
3) Turn and talk -- what did you find?
4) Make your choice: Cold call. Your pick and why.
5) Place your child.
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.
In the future...
Elements of Deep Culture
What do you need to know about Rumford and Cape before you make a decision?
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