1B
1. Freewrite.
2. Focused freewrite: What could characters have done to stop the rumble?
3. Dramatization: Students worked in groups of 4-6 to act out one possible alternate solution to the rumble.
4. Focused freewrite: What common solutions did you see? Why did none of those solutions occur in The Outsiders?
5. Oral quiz on Chapter 8 and 9.
6. SCOPE and annotation. Students received this sheet: Close Reading and Annotation (front) and Annotation gold (back). As a class, we took notes on SCOPE. Here they are:
Summarize the difficult parts.
Connect the passage to your life, other books, history, other events in the novel, and the big pictures
Opinions: Write them down.
Pose Questions
Exclaim your thoughts and feelings
7. Find your own passage. Students chose their own few sentences from Chapter 8 or 9 to annotate on their own. Here is the sheet we used: outsiders motif writing.
HW: Read Chapters 10 and 11 for Thursday.
2AB
1. Freewrite.
2. Oral Quiz on Chapters 8 and 9.
3. Film terminology. Students received notes on different techniques used in films and we discussed the effect of each. Here is a blank version of the handout and a version with the completed notes: Film Terminology. We will finish this tomorrow.
HW: Read Chapter 10 for Thursday and take motif notes. Also, find a film review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and print it out. A good place to look is Rotten Tomatoes; from there click Full Review and print.
4B
1. Freewrite.
2. Oral quiz on Chapters 8 and 9.
3. ACE-IT practice. Students received feedback on their last ACE-IT paragraphs and then tried another paragraph. But first we looked at a successful paragraph from last class:
Next, students were asked to consider how the evidence in green proves this assertion in red:
They discussed with a partner and then we shared out as a class. Finally, students were asked to write a new paragraph starting with the assertion provided and adding the CEI steps of ACE-IT on their own. They were to choose only one piece of evidence. If you were absent, do this at home and bring in your paragraph for a grade.
4. Film terminology. Students received notes on different techniques used in films and we discussed the effect of each. Here is a blank version of the handout and a version with the completed notes: Film Terminology.
HW: Read Chapter 10 for Thursday and take motif notes. Also, find a film review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and print it out. A good place to look is Rotten Tomatoes; from there click Full Review and print.
ALEXA GARVOILLE 