The facebook project

Objectives

A> For your character
i. Capture 2-3 critical qualities
ii. Provide brief background from story

B> Themes
i. Identify and discuss two or three ideas/themes that would concern this character
ii. Debate these themes with three characters from other books

C> For extra fun--but required...
i. Reject three characters in some way
ii. And explain one other cool and creative thing you did


Anything that isn't obvious on your page will need to be explained in writing. (Set this up as bullet points "B> i.") For example, if you include a clever picture to illustrate a key quality of your character, you'll need to explain it sos that I don't get to confuzed. You will also need to tell me where to look for character interactions.

Q4 & summer recs

Use the following format to complete this journal:

Q4 Outside Reading: (Title)
Author:


Review: (4-5 sentences; give genre, best and/or worst qualities, and your rating 1-5 w/five as MUST read no matter what)


Summer Recs: (list three books and authors that you'd suggest for summer reading; provide a sentence or two to sell the book)

GST final responses

GST 296-end

GST 268-296

GST 239-267

GST 205-238

GST 178-204

GST 148-177

GST 118-147

GST 84-117

GST 35-83

GST 35-83

GST 21-33

God Of Small Things Study Guide

For each reading assignment, one team will be responsible for posting 4 things:

1. Two vocabulary words and definitions
2. One link that illuminates some aspect of the story that we don't all know about (specific aspects of the setting; political movements; religious references)
3. Two really great quotations from the reading.
4. Two interpretive questions that the reading leaves you with.

Speech deadline

So it'll work just as we discussed today in class. Anyone who wants to volunteer to go on Tuesday or Wednesday can go, otherwise you can wait until Friday. We'll finish any remaining speeches the week after. Happy three day weekend.

Please pass this along to anyone you know in my other tenth grade classes.

Vocab Post Speech (Bercovitch - Lee, B)

We need to take a quiz on these words, but let's plan on doing that AFTER the soph speeches. That will be a longer list to study, but it seems preferable to focus on the speech. Let me know if you'd rather take the quiz during the speeches.