What The? Oskar's Voice: September 19, 2017

Focus: What the? What are we learning about Oskar, our unusual narrator?

1. Warming up with a a quick timeline of what actually happened on 9/11

2. Flipping through the book to figure out this book's "rules" (in you "In-class Thoughts" doc)

• As a class: What do you notice about the cover? What about the title page? What might be the intent behind these designs?
• Which pages stand out to you? What exactly are you looking at?
• What patterns are you starting to notice?
• What are you wondering?

3. Creating your ELIC journal:

1. Go to www.blogger.com.
2. Sign in with your school Google account.
3. Create a new blog for this class. Include your First name (and last initial, if your name is Ethan), and whatever else you want to call this blog. It will serve as your reading journal for the year.
4. E-MAIL YOUR WEB ADDRESS TO ME.
5. Choose the layout, template, etc. that makes you happy.
6. Note: If you're a handwriter and/or an annotator, you can simply snap a picture of what you wrote and upload that to the blog. Do what works for you.

4. Reading Oskar's narrative; try to get to page 15 (finish tonight if you do not finish in class).

• Your first journal entry/blog post: 

• Find three passages from the first 15 pages. Type them out.
• For each one, ask a Level 1 and a Level 2 question (or two Level 2 questions if nothing is confusing you).
• Hit the "Publish" button!

• Note: If you'd like to listen to someone read the book aloud, click HERE for the audiobook. You can do a free 30-day trial, but I believe you do need a credit card number.

5. Setting up your Fishbowl discussions (links to all of today's handouts are on the website)

HW:
1. SKIP TO PAGE 35 and read through page 85 for Thursday's first Fishbowl discussion. For your second journal entry, I'd like you to perform the same activity we did in class today (three passages with a Level 1 and Level 2 question for each). Focus on passages and questions that you genuinely want to discuss as a class.

2. Thursday's leaders need to prepare a syllabus and post it to the link on the class website before class on Thursday.

3. Make sure your cultural hysteria essay is submitted by 3:00 pm today to www.turnitin.com