Wednesday, October 19th

In response to a student's smart suggestion, I am reversing the order of things a little. I'll read first and then silent reading will follow.

1) Teacher Reading - Chapter 5
2) Silent Reading - finish at least up to Chapter 6 tonight. I'll read Chapter 7 tomorrow.
3) Discussion -->
4) Notes - Chapters 1 -4 --> Template in Google Docs
5) Review all the major projects. Questions.
6) Time to work. Your choice - the journal, the bulletin board, the creative and visual projects... get out your schedule and set up some deadlines. I'll come around and sign them.

Kite Runner Project Choices

See them here.

Kite Runner Unit Overview

You can see the Google Doc version here.

Tuesday, Oct. 19th

Silent Reading - Read Ch. 3

Teacher Reading - Read Ch. 4?

Notes - Character List
Brief History of Afghanistan = SETTING
About Hosseini

Discussion - Who are Amir, Hassan, Baba??? What are they like? How do we know?
Is it possible to be good again? Do you believe in redemption? Examples?

Time to Work - Projects/Writing

The Kite Runner begins...

1) Take out The Kite Runner
2) Discussion: Are there absolute rights and wrongs?
Terms to Know:

Hedonism - pursuit of or devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.

Altruism - Unselfish concern for the welfare of others. An altruist is not concerned with pursuing pleasure.

False Dichotomy

3) Read first two chapters

4) Unit Overview and Personalized Completion Plan - see it here.

Friday, Oct.15th

1) Silent Reading in B block, Presentations in D block

2) Get out your draft response to the Q's about My Left Foot

3) Sentence Variety Handout

4) Netbook Lab - Google Apps Page

5) Type up your My Left Foot Draft

6)Edit it with a partner - create a Google Doc, upload your response, and share with tara.colborne@sd71.bc.ca If you do not get this done during class-time, it is homework. You will be marked out 0f 12 with special attention to sentence variety.

7) If you get done, start to do some research on Afghanistan - explore their history, religions, culture.... Monday - we begin The Kite Runner. Tests will be returned on Monday, as well.

Have a great weekend!

My Left Foot - Writing Topics

1) "Hope deferred makes a heart sick." Christy quotes this and Dr. Eileen knows the proverb, as well. How is it that hope can be both a positive and negative emotion?

2) "To Be or Not to Be..." Hamlet's famous soliloquy about whether or not to be alive or dead is repeated by Christy over and over. What would you have said to Christy when he was suicidal? What reasons might you have given him to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?"

3) Tell your own story about empathy/compassion - it can be about a lack of empathy or about someone who exemplifies empathy.

Remember that a movie is like a text. You must use the title and refer to specific parts of the film as evidence.

300-500 words

Rough copy due Friday.