MP2 - Week 10 - 2022

     MONDAY    1-24-22      A-Day: Identifying Literary Elements in Context     

        ANNOUNCEMENTS          

1. Go to the class blog at www.johndegrandis1.blogspot.com

2.  New Chromebook Repair Process! See Google Classroom for details.

3.  Open your digital version of Inside Out & Back Again with Kami!

4. Blog Update #2 will not be due until this weekend! (Periods 1, 2, 6 only)

        DO NOW          

Copy the following new vocabulary words into Vocabulary List III

5.  refugee n. (refugees) a person forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

     Many child refugees experience the horrors of war before they leave their home countries in order to find a safe place to live.

6.  endure v. (-d, -s, -ing, endurance) to patiently suffer something painful or difficult; to remain in existence or last a long time.

     It is unbelievable that a child can endure such horrible living conditions and still manage to smile.

LEARNING TARGETS    

1.  I can explain what the protagonists and antagonists are in a work of fiction.

2.  I can identify the protagonist and antagonist in the novel Inside Out & Back Again.

        MINI-LESSON          

1.  Watch this video about protagonists and antagonists.

2.  THINK-Pair-SHARE:  With a partner, create a definition of antagonist and protagonist and share it with the class for Class DoJo points.

 

        WORK TIME          

1.  While we read... try to identify the main antagonist in Part II of the novel.

2.  Challenge:  Can you identify the antagonist in Part I of the novel?

          ASSESSMENT          

Who is the antagonist in your Inside Out & Back Again poem?

     TUESDAY    1-25-22      B-Day: Identifying Literary Elements in Context     

        ANNOUNCEMENTS          

1. Go to the class blog at www.johndegrandis1.blogspot.com

2.  Check your Gmail!

3.  Open your digital version of Inside Out & Back Again with Kami!

        DO NOW          

Copy the following new vocabulary words into Vocabulary List III

7.  cringe v. (-ed, -s, -ing) to feel disgust or embarrassment often through movement of your face or body; to make a sudden movement out of fear of being hurt.

Many English teachers cringe when they hear their students use the non-word "mines."

8.  alienate v. (-ed, -s, -ing) to cause someone to feel that he or she no longer belongs to a particular group or part of society.

He alienated most of his friends with his bad temper and soon no one even texted him anymore.

LEARNING TARGETS    

1.  I can identify and explain how Thanna Lai creates dialogue in the novel.

2.  I can tell the difference between punctuating dialogue in regular fiction and in the novel Inside Out & Back Again.

        MINI-LESSON          

Open your digital notebook and under the Do Now sections, create a new page and copy the following under the title, Writing Dialogue.

 

Traditionally, dialogue is written like this...

For Inside Out & Back Again, dialogue is written using italics like this... (This is only done in this novel.)

        WORK TIME          

1.  Find at least one example of dialogue as we read today.

2.  Can you identify the conflict (issue) between Ha and Pink Boy?

          ASSESSMENT          

Copy one properly punctuated quote and then punctuate it the traditional way.

Example of Non-traditional Way to Punctuate Dialogue

The commander says,
Thailand is much farther
on one engine.

Example of Traditional Way to Punctuate Dialogue

The commander says, "Thailand is much farther on one engine."

     WEDNESDAY  & THURSDAY   1-26,27-22      C- Day: Identifying Literary Elements in Context     

        ANNOUNCEMENTS          

Take Edulastic Student Survey!

1. Go to the class blog at www.johndegrandis1.blogspot.com

2.  Check your Gmail!

3.  Open your digital version of Inside Out & Back Again with Kami!

4.  Make some progress on your Genius Project this week!

5.  Quiz Friday on the first half of the novel.  Read up to and including Part II.

        DO NOW          

Copy the following into Vocabulary List III

9.  conviction n. (convict, -ed, -s, -ing) a firmly held belief;  a formal ruling that someone is guilty of a crime.

It is my firm conviction that all students have the ability to learn and be successful.

10.  monastery n. (-ed, -s, -ing) the place where a group of nuns or monks work and live either as a group or alone.

Brother Maurice lived in a beautiful monastery in Bolivia for most of his life.

LEARNING TARGETS    

I can identify literary elements in the novel.

        MINI-LESSON          

None

        WORK TIME          

Use Kami to annotate the text as we read in order to identify examples of literary elements, character traits and dialogue.

          ASSESSMENT     

Final Project for Inside Out & Back Again.  Deadline coming soon.

     FRIDAY     1-28-22      A-Day: Novel Quiz and Edulastic! Survey