5th block ONLY-due to FCAT schedule
-Read W5-Gothic Short Story/Poem packet together. Batten emphasized students must use checklist to write their story, and must fill out the checklist and submit it with their story/poem which is due before or on 4/26, next Friday. 100 pts/80%
Class is to review "The Raven" packet together next class.
Work period:
Work on W5-plot outline, R19 marking devices in "Raven" or R17-R18 Visualizing.
Xaynah teaches how to do visualizing Ra Ta Ta on board. Students are still not being descriptive enough. For example,
pg 113 "Merrill was also good-looking, in an intense, pale, slightly undernourished way."
Instead of: I see him looking bad.
I see him as handsome.
I see his light face.
I hear him standing at the pulpit.
Be descriptive and visual:
Xaynah's example: I see a pale skinny man with a slight smile and a deep widow's peak.
For extra: use it in a helpful, useful way which reflects deeper thinking.
Don't: Why is he good looking? (no point at all in this question)_
Is he pale? (no point at all in this question)
Is he hungry? (emphasis is on that he is thin, not hungry and question is insignificant to description)
Xaynah's example: His smile is embarrassed? Whad does that mean? (Reflects student is searching for author's deeper meaning behind describing a smile in a peculiar way.)
Students told to bring in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston for 40 extra credit points on or before 4/22. After 4/22 the 40 extra credit points drop each day.
Reminders:
Due by 4/19 The Raven packet marked with inside completed thoroughly
Due by 4/26 or before (no class 4/26-turn it in before this date or to Ms. Batten anyway) W5 Gothic Short Story or poem and Their Eyes Were Watching God novel
