Q2 - Week 2

Day 1
Monday 10/20/14(p3) - Thursday Schd. --- Tuesday 10/21/14(p4, p7) - Friday Schd.
Essential Question:  How does dialogue impact a story?
1.  Do Now:  Journal # 4:  Respond with +/-/? to the video "Kaffir Culture" - 1/2 page
2.   Activities:
  • Reminder: no food, drinks, or electronic devices
  • 2.4 Kaffir Boy pp. 98-102, read, annotate (see a sample), and do questions 3 & 4
  • Review Topics/Themes of the two pieces we have read this quarter
  • Journal Check via Peer Review; Book Check via Teacher Review
3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now.  List 3-5 ways that dialogue impacts a story. 
    
Day 2
Wed. 10/22/14(p4, p7) - Friday Schd. --- Thu. 10/23/14(p3) - Thursday Schd.
Essential Question:  How does sentence variety affect narrative pacing?
1.  Do Now:  Journal # 5:  Using indirect and direct (w/tags) dialogue, write a real or imagined conversation that takes place in a high school cafeteria - try to include a cultural issue as the topic - 1/2 page
2.   Activities:
  • Types of Sentences and Syntax
  • 2.5 "Pick One" pp. 103-104
  • 2.6 "If You are What You Eat, Then What Am I?" pp. 106-110
3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now.   Use 3-5 different types of sentences to explain how sentence variety impacts pacing.










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