Do Now | Bookmark #4
Do Next | Peel the Fruit How do we begin our essay?!
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Do Now | Mark Denning Reflection
Analysis | Little Black Book Powwow
Finish the novel! Mark Denning is back, Tuesday and Wednesday!Do Now | Silent Reading
Analysis | Spider Web Throughout cultures and literary history the spider has been seen as both a symbol of patiences and persistence because of the long tangled web it seeks to weave, but also a curse with its toxic venom and the long, slow death it causes. Spiders are mentioned a couple of times throughout the novel There There by Tommy Orange. Pick one quote that references a spider and analyze which symbolism you think it represents. Final | Direct Evidence Select a character that is associated with your original character but not actually your original character. Provide direct evidence from the book to support one of the answers the original creator put on the character chart. “QUOTE” (345). Tape quote onto the spider map. Do Now | Silent Reading
At the door, each of you was given a character to analyze.
Do Next | Create spider web showing the connections between the characters Final | Direct Evidence Select a character that is associated with your original character but not actually your original character. Provide direct evidence from the book to support one of the answers the original creator put on the character chart. “QUOTE” (345). Tape quote onto the spider map. Do Now | Little Black Book
Parts, People, Interactions
Do Next | Watch Bureau of Indian Affairs "Chicago Story"
Remaining Time | Reading + Missing Work Do Now | Connect, Extend, Challenge Quick Jot
Do Next | Finish reading Part II: Reclaim
Extended Studio Time
Do Now | Quick Jot
Respond to the following:
Socratic Seminar | Circle up in middle of room
Exit Slip | I used to think....Now I think What is one thing you heard in the socratic seminar that made you rethink something from the novel?
Do Now | Silent Reading
Analysis | Part II: Reclaim
Do Now | Part 1: Remain Bookmark
Do Next | Carousel of Analysis Addie will create two equal groups. Group one will create a circle in the middle of the room looking out. Group two will create a circle around the Group One circle looking in. Share out your response to question 1 from Part 1: Remain bookmark with the person across from you and listen to their response. When directed to do so, the outside circle will rotate two people to the right. Share out your responses to question one but do so by answering on the following:
Exit Slip | 1: Remain bookmark |
Course DescriptionGreat World Text is an advanced English and Social Studies course sponsored by the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Humanities that investigates the novel There There by Tommy Orange, American novelist and citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. There There is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few have seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There shows violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. Through these striking, tragic, and often funny portraits of Native experience, classrooms will also explore specific topics such as fetal alcohol syndrome, housing insecurity, recovery, and healing Categories
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