Final Day of Book Clubs: December 14, 2017

Focus: What are your transcendentalist book club take-aways?

MAKE SURE YOUR GOOGLE SLIDES FOR YOUR PRESENTATION 

ARE IN YOUR SHARED FOLDER.

1. Warming up with a mini grammar assessment on run-ons (take 2)

2. Contributing a real, live book review to a reading community

• Scholastic
• Amazon 
• Barns & Noble 
• Goodreads 
• Allreaders.com (beware internet trolls)
• LibraryThing
• Figment

3. Enjoying your final day of book clubs

• Structure and Shift: Reread the last couple of pages, Then reread the first couple of pages. What has shifted, and why?

• Theme and Tone: What does your author want us to understand better or differently?

4. Composing an exit ticket on the dynamics of your book club

5. Recapping speech expectations and answering any last-minute questions

From last Friday's blog:

• What will be the first thing you say to us?
• Be vulnerable (pathos/ethos).
• Consider telling a story (ethos).
• Consider addressing/involving your audience (pathos).
• Consider shocking/intriguing us with a fact (logos).

• What will be the last thing you say to us?
• Make us believe in your ideal.
• Consider calling us to action.
• Your speech took us on a little journey. The ending should be even better than the beginning.
• "And that's my speech about ____."  "And that's pretty much it."

• What will be on the slides behind you?
• An image?
• A single word or short phrase?
• A quotation?
• A graph or chart?
• A video you made that's no longer than 20 second in duration?
• Remember to avoid guiding bullet points or any writing that goes beyond a phrase or single quotation.

HW:
Prep that speech! MAKE SURE YOUR GOOGLE SLIDES ARE IN YOUR SHARED AMERICAN LIT FOLDER.