Exiting The Village: November 10, 2017

Focus: What Gothic elements does The Village use, and to what purpose?

Reminder: I'm grading your Gothic journals; if you have anything you need to hand in, now is the time.

1. Warming up with mental jousting on The Village

2. Watching the ending of The Village with a critical eye

3. Composing a thesis statement about the symbol of your choice and posting it on today's blog

Ex: The Village uses the symbol of _______________ in order to illustrate that / criticize how / suggest that _________________.

HW:
1. Make sure your Gothic journals are shared with me; if you handwrote, take a photo and put it in Google doc in your Gothic Lit folder (you should have 4 entries, two of which have been graded).

2. Today is the deadline to revise/redo any assignments from the past six weeks. This includes cultural hysteria essays, missed fishbowls, ELIC journals, Gothic journals, grammar fixes, and anything else in IC that doesn't accurately reflect your learning. 

All revisions/redos/make-up work due today, November 10.

Reminders:

(1) If you're revising your cultural hysteria essay, you must conference with me before Friday.

(2) If you add to a journal or any other assignment, please e-mail me.

3. Make sure you have entered your final speech topic on the sign-up sheet by this Friday, Nov 10. Don't worry if it's not too specific yet; look to your index cards, and work with one of the ideas you put on top when you ranked them in terms of personal interest.

6th hour: Click HERE to sign up.

4. Start preparing your one-minute speech for next Thursday, November 16. Use the rubric to guide your preparation.