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July 17, 2009

Reminders:

  • Bring a spiral bound notebook/notebook paper and pens/pencils to class each day.

Directions:

  1. Take out your notebook/paper and something to write with.
  2. Copy today's learning objectives and HW.

Learning Objectives (copy in your planner)

Students will:
  • Show understanding of vocabulary.
  • Identify elements of science fiction independently.
  • Present a dialectical journal based on Night.
  • Present arguments for/against technology.
  • Study a film's message concerning victimization during the holocaust.

Homework:

  • Get ready for the next school year. School starts Tuesday, September 8th.


Agenda (do not copy)


Vocabulary Final (50 Questions chosen at random from our 180 words this session)

7:30-7:50: Sci-Fi Independent Reading
  • Reading quietly .
  • As you read, keep track of the elements of science fiction in the novel in Cornell Note style
  • scifiels.pdf
  • Turn in your notes from Sci-Fi reading today.

7:50-8:00: Academic Vocabulary

8:00-8:10: Finish Night Dialectical Journal Presentations
  • Students briefly present their work and describe how they created it.
  • Students read the most memorable quotation they responded to.

  • Students share their journals afterward--gallery walk.

8:10-8:30: Journal Entry 12
  • Journal Entries
  • Turn in your daily journals.
  • Be sure your cover page is on top.
  • The second page needs to be your table of contents.

8:30-9:55: "Why We Fight"
  • How does this selection relate to Night and The Pianist?

10:10-10:30:Finish Technology Essay Presentations
  • Students evaluate presentations.

10:30-11:45: Film As Literature

11:45-12:00: Course Reflection
  • What good was this class to you?
  • What did you learn in this class that was important/interesting to you?
  • Was this course academically challenging?

12:00-13:30: Population Increase
  • Offer technological/scientific solutions that may help solve the problems discussed in the portion of the video we view.