Science+Fiction+-+September+21+-+25

=Monday, September 21= = = =Tuesday, September 22= = = =Wednesday, September 23= = = =Thursday, September 24= = = =Friday, September 25=
 * ===Vocab warm-up:===
 * ===Choose four words (hard ones?)===
 * ===Trade words with someone else===
 * ===Write sentences - or draw a picture- using the four words you got===
 * ===Turn in to the silver box===
 * Vocab quiz tomorrow!
 * Choose the right word to fit into the paragraph
 * ===Open book reading quiz on "My Voice is in My Sword"===
 * ===Open book===
 * ===Open note===
 * ===Closed mouth===
 * ===Closed neighbor===
 * ===If some of the questions just don't make sense to you===
 * ===put a note to me on the question===
 * ===Discuss story===
 * ===Pull out story chart to work on as we talk===
 * ===How much do the travelers understand the Squat world?===
 * ===How much does the reader understand the Squat world?===
 * The writer puts us in the situation of the characters
 * but still gives us clues along the way.
 * ===What assumptions do we make when we meet aliens?===
 * When we meet anyone?
 * ===What would it be like to meet people whose minds worked completely differently than ours?===
 * ===Can we imagine it?===
 * ===Any questions for story chart?===
 * ===Tonight's homework: "Hollow"===
 * ===What's going on?===
 * Make notes in the margins about confusion
 * and about when you're given info
 * ===When do you figure it out?===
 * ===Vocab quiz!===
 * ==="Hollow" notes===
 * ==="Hollow" chart===
 * world building
 * ===some stories very different===
 * ===hard to track because we have to figure it all out===
 * some stories happen in a world not ours but very like ours
 * then we can fill in with prior knowledge
 * ===Cowboy train robbery!===
 * //Firefly//, "The Train Job"
 * ===finish cowboy train robbery===
 * ===Homework: "The Token Superhero"===
 * ===themes?===
 * ===hint: look up the author!===
 * ===Quiz: Were you paying attention during "The Train Job"?===
 * Chart for "The Train Job"
 * ===note a few world-building details===
 * ==="The Token Superhero"===
 * ===What is the author's concern?===
 * ===chart===
 * ==="How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse"===
 * ===In groups discuss===
 * Writer's
 * audience
 * purpose
 * ===Text vs. Subtext===
 * ===Text vs. Subtext===
 * =Warm-up:=
 * =On a small sheet of paper:=
 * =List your two top priorities for seating=
 * =Where in the room? Who next to? Who not?=
 * =Just in case there's a new seating chart . . .=
 * ="How to Survive the Apocalypse"=
 * =What is the text?=
 * =What is the subtext?=
 * =Why did the author write this?=
 * ="The Perfect Woman" by Robert Sheckley=
 * =Story Connection sheet=
 * ="The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury=