Please take today's tasks seriously. We are all really enjoying this engrossing novel, so let's keep progressing. Here are your tasks for the day:
- Find the pile of tests from yesterday (on my desk, on the far right). Hand them out (not to their owners) to finish the marking process. The key is somewhere in the pile of tests with a yellow sticky on the top of it. Collect them all back at the end. If there are some questions that are contested just let me know and I will make adjustments.
- Group Work: ask students to organize into groups or pairs and quickly discuss/review what happened in Ch. 8.
- Whole Class Discussion:
- Hassan has endured a horrible trauma. We never get to know what it is that he is thinking/feeling because of the first person point of view. What do you imagine is going through Hassan mind through the course of chapter 8?
- AND How are you as readers feeling about Amir right now? Should we pardon him because he has been an emotionally neglected child?
- Reading: Please read chapter 9 - teacher or student read (this can go on for 20 minutes)
- Maybe assign some silent reading too... or see if the library or netbooks are available to use so that they can have time to work on their journal entries.
