Quote of the Day:"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore,
there is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, byt nature more."
~~Lord Byron, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
In honour of Earth Day, 2010, I have pledged to go paperless. So, today everything you need to do is posted here and inside our elevens network.
Today is our Literature Circle Day in the library. Many of the groups have lit up with discussions. PARTICIPATE. SHARE YOUR THINKING.
Take a look at the Rubric and the Discussion Starters for ideas. Remember that we will only check into our Lit. Circles one more time online. Then, the groups will close and you will have a final assignment to complete. By next week, you need to have finished reading the entire novel.
Today's Tasks:
- All
Online discussion forums are more and more the way of the future of education. Colleges and universities, in particular, are heading towards more and more online work. Given this, take a look at your group participation so far. Think about how you could do more. Then, do it. Discuss more, say more, read more. If your group members are not participating, talk to them, email them... - Peruse your shared resources - find the best two quotes about the book or something related to the book. Put them in the Resources Discussion.
- Roles
Discussion Director - Look at all of the discussions so far and post a discussion that will really shake your group up. You can be controversial, inflammatory... whatever works to spark some new ideas about the book you are reading.
Connection Maker - What are the connections we are missing? You should have thought about text-to-text connections, text-to-self connections and text-to-world connections. Add in a new layer of connections. One possible new connection, is to look at the author's life and make connections.
Passage Picker - for the 1/2 - 3/4 check in on the novel, decide what quotes/scenes are most important to note. Explain why they are important.
Summarizer - summarize the novel from the halfway point to 3/4 of the way through.
TOMORROW: Hand-in your journals and your paragraph about the poem you have selected to read.