Using Foer's Words: September 27, 2017

Focus: How will the characters' quests unfold?

1. Warming up with a review of yesterday's fishbowl discussion

• Kudos to the blogger of the day: Ms. Jacqueline P.

2. Meeting the ELIC words, List 1 (in www.quizlet.com)

3. Reading ELIC, journalling, and conferencing (click HERE for the conference rubric)

More creative journalling options:

• Write about your day in Oskar’s voice, or Thomas’ voice, or any of the character’s voices.

• If you had a book like Thomas’ in which you wrote out the phrases you needed most, what would they be this week? What does that suggest about you as a character?

• Turn a chapter you just read into a poem. Give it a title.

• Take pictures. Use them to seek connection/understanding in the same way Oskar does. Or draw. Make sure you explain the connections.

• Find clues to your own life (it’s up to you to decide what you’re trying to figure out). You could use headlines from newspapers, from social media, or any other “artifacts” from your daily life. Describe your journey compares to Oskar’s (or the grandparents’).

HW:

1. For Thursday: Read pages 142-173 in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; complete your 4th journal entry. You can continue journalling in the same way, or you can try out some of the creative options above! Whatever you do, make sure you post it on your blog:

If you miss a Fishbowl or Socratic, you must make it up. Fishbowl: Read over the syllabus and blog comments, then add an extended comment to the class blog. Socratic: Read over the syllabus and the class notes, then add an extended comment to the class blog.

2. Spend five minutes with ELIC words, List 1.

3. All make-up work, missing work, and revisions must be submitted by this Monday, Oct 2. After this date, grades from the first 6 weeks will stand as they are.