Review of Novel Begins...

1) Hazara Judgement withheld until tomorrow...
2) Today, begin review.

Friday! Morality!

1) Silent Reading - Chapter 20
2) Inquiry Questions - What is your morality? How do you know? What are the character's morality? How do they break with it? Does everyone ultimately fall down? If so, why are we so reluctant to forgive - ourselves and others?

MORALITY -  is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are good (or right) and those that are bad (or wrong).

3) Group Work and Theme Presentations - Baba, Amir, Hassan, Sanuabar, Rahim

• Their morals - sum up in one sentence.
• What they actually do - list of examples.
• THEME STATEMENT - what does their example represent?
  Example: "Being too hard on yourself is really a very selfish act."
  12 marks

4) Creative Project - start planning...

Comma Splices and Back to 2001

1) Return Compare and Contrast Essay - feedback and read examples...

An example of a comma splice.

2) Run on's and Comma Splices - blechy but important. http://write.siuc.edu/Handouts/Comma%20Splices.pdf

3) Reading - back to 2001

4) Time to work on Journals - and begin generating creative project ideas.

The Storm and The Kite Cont'd

1) Storm Stories! 

2) Open Book Review Quiz

3) What are our society's rules? Group list and post.

4) Reading - discussion...

5) Time for journal.

Anti-Bullying Video

By Georgia, Mandy, Kyle, Paige, Amanda

Safe School Week Contest

Watch - Instructions for A Bad Day

• Do you know what inspired this film?

• How does this relate to our discussion yesterday? What does this have to do with suicide? What does this have to do with The Kite Runner?

The Documentary:

Now it is your turn - our school has been hosting a anti-bullying contest - in place of one of your journal entries, I am asking you all to submit something - more details in class.

What's Good Got to Do With It?

1) Catch me up. What did I miss?

2) What is good? What is right? What is wrong? How do you know? - A stand up demonstration.

 3)What is it like living in a world that preaches good, but exemplifies wrong? Let`s look at what`s in the headlines right now. Robocalls, the cop with the drunk driving charge, the teacher`s contract, anonymous hackers, rich educated people more likely to cheat, and so much more in the world of celebrity worship... and all the ordinary stuff of your world that is so not cool. How does this relate to our novel?

 4) Emails needed - I`m going to invite you into the elevens.

 5) Reading - what pages?

 6) Time to work. Uh huh. Work. How`s them journals flying?