Sunday, October 21, 2012

Monday!

1) Discussion - you were supposed to read up to the end of Chapter 13. With your partner, or in a group of up to four people, discuss the following:

  • According to traditional Afghani views, what should men be like?
  • According to our own North American views, what should men be like?
  • According to traditional Afghani views, what should women be like?
  • According to our pop culture and internet culture, what should women be like?
  • Who is more right? Us or them? Why? How do you know?
Even consider our differing notions of female beauty:

Young Afghani Woman
Young Pop Star
Send one person up to the board to write down you most interesting insights on one of the boards.
  • What are the rules of courtship/dating/marriage according to traditional Afghani culture?
  • What are the rules of dating/marriage here?
  • What could we learn from the Afganis?
  • What could they learn from us?
Send one person up to the board to write down you most interesting insights on one of the boards.

NEW JOURNAL TOPIC(s) - any of the above questions.

2) Reading - teacher to read Chapter 14... (others can go out to the halls and read)

3) Time to work on journals and questions and vocabulary.... (the new question sets and vocabulary handouts are somewhere in the mess of Kite Runner stuff on the table at the front of the class by the door. (Not in one of the binders... just in a pile somewhere).


4) VOTE: Tomorrow is Drop Everything and Read Day. Do you want to have a giant read-in? I'll bring hot chocolate... vote.