Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022

 If you are home:

--Watch "The Present"

--Finish and submit Fall of Rome essay

Circle: What Thanksgiving food is your favorite.

Target Practice

CMCC Career Fair

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Vocabulary Words

Period 5&6: economy, globalization, obfuscate

Period 7&8: economy, globalization, obfuscate

Unit: Fall of Rome

Learning Target: I can explain the connections between historical events and the present.

Finish Essay:

Introduction: 

Conclusion: 

Unit: Understanding how Theme's a developed in Literature/Film
Learning Target: I can explain how an author uses symbol, setting and characterization to develop a theme.
Next Week, you will be watching "Cast Away" and writing an essay explaining how the theme of the film was developed by using symbols, setting and characterization. Today, we will watch "The Present" determine how the film uses characterization to develop the theme
1) On the board: "I can explain how a film or book develops a theme"

2) To be clear: you will be explaining exactly how the film uses characterization & setting to develop the theme.

3) Review -- what is theme?

4) Now we watch the film in three parts.

5) Watch part one: on your paper (use newsprint for each table), draw a stick figure with these elements: speech, actions, thoughts, looks, setting. Working in pairs, collaborate to fill in as many elements as possible describing what the film did to characterize the boy.

6) Fun Activity: replace the kid playing the video game to him listening to sad or angry music.  Each table secretly come up with a song that would fit. Write name and artist on a piece of paper. We'll now play name that tune and artist for Humex cash.

7) Repeat step 5 for parts two and three.

8) Look at the differences between the character from part one and three and use those differences to figure out the possible themes.

9) Difficult: look at what caused the transformation to make the theme more elaborate.

10) When writing, it's helpful to think of the film as having parts. How many parts are there?

11) Introduce the idea of structuring your essay as follows. We will do this with pair and share:
     Part 1: Use one or more paragraphs to explain how symbols, setting or characterization develop the character as they are at the begining/ OR how they define the problem.
     Part 2: Use one or more paragraphs to explain how symbols, setting or characterization develop the character as they are at the end AFTER CHANGING/ OR how they solve the problem.

12) Write.

Our Learning Targets:

• I can explain all the parts of the essay and their function.
• I know people in the classroom better; I feel more comfortable talking to more students in the class.
• I can explain how to invest money in the stock market and how the stock market works.
• I can evaluate (for bias and perspective) multiple sources to determine what really happened.
• I can determine the meaning of a story by examining the author's use of characterization. I can write about literature using a specific technique of my choosing.
• I can explain my personality using the Meyers-Briggs letters.
• I can use presentation technology to organize and present information.
• I can explain the difference between Maine's candidates and participate in an election
• I can explain my political beliefs and my political party.
• I can use internet resources to discover career possibilities and explore specific career option.
• I can use internet resources to discover career possibilities and explore college options.