Last 1st Day!
8/20/13
Welcome to your last first day as school students! We will use this day to become acquainted with the direction of our studies and our classmates/collaborative groups.
OBJECTIVES:
1) To examine the direction of this year’s studies
2) To participate collaboratively in a project within a group to build group cohesiveness and security (Speaking Std. 1; Language Std. 1)
BELLRINGER:
ANTICIPATORY SET:
Watch Sketch Ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrHoDJinMQI
Critical Thinking Discussion:
How would you compare this to reading novels?
(Don’t judge a book by it’s face)
Identify “curtains” that separate us from understanding ourselves or understanding
literature?
Infer what drives our descriptions of ourselves and of literature?
Examine why is it that we can find it difficult to analyze literature?
Evaluate what created the difference in the 2 pictures?
Propose the result of not pursuing the depth?
DIRECT INSTRUCTION and DISCUSSION:
Focuses for LA 12 studies this year:
What is the relationship between place and literature?
How does literature shape or reflect society?
What is the relationship of the writer to tradition?
Introduction of biopoem:http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson398/biopoem.pdf
COLLABORATIVE GROUPWORK:
Biopoems
CLOSURE:
Biopoem share
AT HOME ACTIVITY:
Peruse Novel List for Independent Reader