Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Week 21, Day 3
Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

  1. Bell Work: If you have witnessed a Random Act of Kindness today, fill out a chain link and attach it to our chain.  If you have not, your bell work is to perform a Random Act of Kindness today!  :-)
  2. Read Dickinson's Poetry (p. 408-417)  Take notes about what each poem means to you.  I will read you a little bit about each selection before we read it, it is probably a good idea to take notes on whatever I say about each selection, but I also want YOUR interpretation.  
    1. "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" (p. 408-409)
    2. "I Heard A Fly Buzz--When I Died" (p. 411)
    3. "There's a Certain Slant of Light" (p. 412)
    4. "My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close--" (p. 413)
    5. "The Sole Selects her own Society" (p. 414)
    6. "The Brain--Is Wider Than The Sky" (p. 415)
    7. "There is a Solitude of Space" (p. 416)
    8. "Water is taught by thirst" (p. 417)
  3. Tomorrow I won't be here.  You will answer the Critical Reading questions on pages 409, 411, 414, and 417.  

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