At the beginning of class today, I returned students' assessed essay for the WWII / Holocaust Theme essays. As a class, we went over the most significant points that each essay should focus on. These points were as follows:
1 - Come up with a specific (rather than a general) theme.
Most frequently, people had come up with one word for a theme they saw as being important in the pieces we looked at, like "leaders." The idea with this assignment is to be more specific about the theme (what message we get about leadership). A specific theme focused on leadership could be "leaders are only as powerful as their followers."
An essay on this theme would then look at the different ways each of the pieces we looked at (Night, Blindspot, articles on Japanese internment camps, etc.) addresses this theme.
2 - Identify what we should learn from this theme today.
A number of essays simply failed to explain how the theme they identified relates to us today. Strong responses were ones that identified how this theme could help us to better understand current issues/problems.
Everyone then had about 20 minutes to work on revising their essay.
Next, we returned to working with The Lord of the Flies and started looking more specifically at some of the noun elements that were identified on people's noun maps.
Everyone got a partner and a character from The Lord of the Flies and began looking for where that character showed up in the first two chapters of the book. Upon finding a place where the character was doing something or being talked about by other characters, people would insert a sticky note summarizing what was happening with that character (there need only be one sticky note per page).
Homework:
Read chapter 3 from The Lord of the Flies continue to track the character you were working with today.
Continue working with the set 4 roots and prefixes in preparation for the quiz on Friday.
Root/Prefix List
Root/Prefix Practice sheet
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