Thursday, November 29, 2018

76 minutes

     1.   You will be writing about your Independent Book. To get some ideas, you will get together with others and discuss your book. As you have this discussion, I will come around and check off your dialogue journals.

Pre-writing small group discussion: Use your journals and books to discuss and find examples for these questions:

Get together with others who read your book and share/discuss these topics and find specific evidence (page numbers!!!)

          1.   How did the main character “identify?”  (think about race,      class, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, etc.) Passages? Page #?

          2.   Was the main character oppressed or discriminated against or threatened or in some way negatively impacted because of aspects of their identity?  Why? How? When? (give specific examples). Passages? Page #?

          3.   In what ways did the main character succeed because of aspects of their identity? What parts of their identity gave them strength to persevere and to succeed? Passages? Page #? 

    4.   Essay on Independent Book assigned and discussed. 

    5.   Begin writing in Google Classroom. In order to write the best possible essay that you can, you will need to work on this outside of class as well. 

The final (and only) draft is due by 10:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY, December 5.