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Do Now | Parking Lot
Analysis | Harrison Bergerone, Kurt Vonnegut Today you are going to individually read the short story Harrison Bergerone by Kurt Vonnegut. While reading you are going to complete the Perceive, Know, Care About thinking routine. In the past, you completed this thinking routine based on a character in a story. Today, you are going to complete it from the perspective of the government from the story.
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your second cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in weebly.com. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
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Professional Publication
Do Now | Headlines Routine
Create a headline that captures your ideas about the house in the short story from Friday. Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your first cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in Google Sites. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
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Professional Publication
éPortfolio | Update Individuality
Exit Slip | Cyberjournal Submission After you Post the blog post, open the internet version of your Writing Portfolio. Click on Cyberjournal/Blog then on your newly published post. Send that URL link to Addie using the éPortfolio Submission Form. Do Now | Write a newspaper headline that represents your cyberjournal about loss of individualism.
Conferences
Cyberjournal | The House of the Scorpion + Free Will
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Professional Publication
Exit Slip | Send professional email to Addie with a direct link to your cyberjournal Do Now | Middle Age 7 to 11
Boomark 2
Group Discussion | What is free will? Cyberjournal | The House of the Scorpion + Free Will
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Professional Publication
Exit Slip | Send professional email to Addie with a direct link to your cyberjournal Do Now | Circle Up
Discussion: If cloning was more beneficial, should it be utilized? Why? Silent Reading | Middle Age 7 to 11 Boomark 2
Cyberjournal | Technology This cyberjournal is only based on Youth 0 to 6 and what we learn about Matt in this first section of the novel.
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Publication
Friday | Since we didn't get to finish our cyberjournals and writer's conferences on Thursday, we will continue today. Please be prepare your space with the following—chromebook, Unveiling Stories thinking routine, headphones When Addie calls you up to conference please be prepared to share with her the following cyberjournals: There Will Come Soft Rains, Harrison Bergeron, All Summer in a Day, Amaryllis and The Lottery Do Now | What makes you say that?
Yesterday we read The Lottery, Shirley Jackson in which individuals in the small town did not question the lottery that resulted in the stoning death of one of their own. To review, we will respond and record the following prompt:
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your second cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in weebly.com. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
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Professional Publication
Do Now | Rename the short story
Amaryllis is obviously the name of the short story, but really only tells us the name of the boat. Rename the short story to identify one of the themes of survival. Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your fourth cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Étude Portfolio. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
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Professional Publication
Do Now | Circle Up!
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your second cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in Google Sites. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
Outline
Professional Publication
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal
Today you will write your second cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in Google Sites. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
Outline
Professional Publication
Do Now | Headlines Routine
Create a headline that captures the ideas you began to construct in your blog during yesterday's Writing Workshop. Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your first cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in Google Sites. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
Outline
Professional Publication
éPortfolio | Update Individuality
Exit Slip | Cyberjournal Submission After you Post the blog post, open the internet version of your Writing Portfolio. Click on Cyberjournal/Blog then on your newly published post. Send that URL link to Addie in a professional email with the subject line. Present updated version of your éPortfolio |
éPortfolio Submission FormCourse DescriptionThis course investigates stories of Totalitarian and post-apocalyptic societies in order to better understand topics relevant in our current society. We will read one dystopian novel as a group and then each student will select a second dystopian novel to analyze individually. We will break down the five characteristics of dystopian literature and research how those characteristics might already be happening in the world around us—government control, environmental destruction, technological control, survival, and loss of individualism.
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1 | Elements of Dystopian Literature
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