1. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

2. Objectives: Journals Please take out your journals
Circle the one that is the most insightful and deliberate
Turn in to the gray basket near the back filing cabinet
Prepare to begin a new set of journals
1. Students will produce a written response to an image.
2. Students will view and discuss the most recent homelessness statistics for America.
3. Students will be introduced to Jeannette Walls, the author of The Glass Castle through a television interview.
4. Students will be introduced to The Glass Castle reading schedule and begin reading.

3. Title: Picture Date: 10-17-16
Look at the following image, without talking. Then answer the following questions about the image.
What would you think if you saw this family on the street?
What kinds of assumptions and judgments would you make?
Have you seen families like this before?
How do you think they feel? (5 minutes)
Photo courtesy of awesomedc.com

4. picture is of a homeless family from Arizona.
View Homelessness in America video clip.
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5. write about which of the statistics in the film surprised you the most
write about which of the statistics in the film surprised you the most. Discuss student responses
In January 2015, 564,708 people were homeless on a given night in the United States.
Of that number, 206,286 were people in families, and
358,422 were individuals.
About 15 percent of the homeless population - 83,170 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals.
About 2 percent - 13,105 - are considered "chronically homeless” people in families.
About 8 percent of homeless people- 47,725 - are veterans.
*chronically homeless individual is someone who has experienced homelessness for a year or longer, or who has experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years (must be a cumulative of 12 months), and has a disability
Works cited:

6. The Glass Castle -Jeannette Walls-
Watch the following clip in which Jeanette Walls talks to Stephen Colbert.
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7. Journal: Family
Part 1: Describe What American families look like today?
Part 2: Consider the following statistics, which ones support or conflict with your description?
62 percent of the nation’s 73 million children live with both biological parents
Single parents account for 27 percent of family households with children under 18.
One in three children is born to unmarried parents.
Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce.
More than half of Americans today have been, are or will be in one or more stepfamily situations.
One child out of 25 lives with neither parent.
2.4 million grandparents are the primary caregivers for the children in their families.
More than 100,000 children are adopted each year.
There are more than 4.5 million married and unmarried couples in the United States who are mixed racially or ethnically.
Estimates show that approximately 2 million American children under the age of 18 are being raised by their lesbian and gay parents.
One-third of lesbian households and one-fifth of gay male households have children.

8. Journal: Reacting to the Glass Castle 10-21-2016
You are now 75 pages into the memoir. What are your initial reactions? What do you like? What do you find startling? Annoying? Exciting? What event in the story evoked an emotional reaction (maybe you laughed out loud, tossed the book out of anger, felt bad or guilty, associated yourself with a similar scenario).
Please explain your reactions.

9. Journals for the novel are due.
Circle the journal that best demonstrates your ability to think critically and intellectually.
Hand in to the basket in the back
read to page 115 by Tuesday
Five more journals

10. As a class, read the following excerpts taken from interviews with the author, Jeannette Walls, about her experience writing The Glass Castle:
Next Steps:
Reflect on the interview excerpts by writing for 10 minutes. In this free write, consider the following questions:
1.) What do you think the author’s life was like growing up?
2.) Where do you picture her childhood taking place? Describe it.
3.) What comes to mind when you consider the words: hardscrabble, welfare, luck, privilege, free-spirited?

11. Journal: Welfare, Privilege, Free-Spirited, Homeless Oct-24th
Take a look at how you and your peers interpret the following words: welfare, privilege, free- spirited, and homeless. Find one word in each list that disagrees with your connotation of the word. Explain why you believe that that word does not belong in the list. Now: define each word. Dictionary.com or old school dictionary

12. You wrote about your thoughts on the words, hardscrabble, welfare, luck, privilege, free-spirited. How are their connotations different from their denotations?
Now consider the word HOMELESS.
What is the denotation of the word homeless?
How about the connotation?
Now go one step further... In groups of four create a Homeless Meaning Chart
Use the organizer on the back of the interview excerpts.

13. Homelessness…
1. Put the word HOMELESS in the center 2. Use the other circles to create a phrase for each of the following. (Use vivid descriptive language in your phrases)
Homelessness looks like... Homelessness feels like.... Homelessness smells like... Homelessness tastes like... Homelessness sounds like...

14. Good Morning seniors. 10-25-16
Take out your homeless organizer.
Contribute at least three thoughts to the organizer on the whiteboard.
As you see new ideas, add the ones that you like to your organizer (to be collected).
At the bottom of your organizer,
write the definition of Homeless
Take out your five reflection
journals (not the salmon
colored sheet) and circle the most
intuitive reflection.

15. Reflection Journals
Share your reflection journals with one or two other people
Read one journal that is Not circled.
Comment (in a different colored ink)
Do you agree or disagree with points? Why?
Can you relate to the quote that was discussed? Why or why not?
Other points that stand out
Didn’t do it? Start or continue working on journals.

16. Discussion questions Complete discussion questions (reading category).
Contribute to conversation.
Write answers on one sheet of paper.
Each group member must write at least one response
Choose 10 to answer.

17. Journal Title: Gender, Age, Location October 26th
Today we are going to do some research about the current state of homelessness in America.
Journal: Gender, Age, Location. How do these factors affect homelessness? Explain.
Watch the following clip from The New Yorker Homeless in New York: The Other Millennials What do you think? Is the definition changing for younger people?

18. write an Op-Ed (Opinion) Article
read three articles & complete the blue worksheet. One that makes a gender comment, one an age comment and another from the Location Perspective. Feel Free to Choose Another Source if Those Given Do Not Work.
Once you have finished reading the articles, you need to form an opinion about the idea of homelessness. Then write an Op-Ed (Opinion) Article in which you discuss your opinion and put forth a solution to the said problem.
Due: November 2nd TurnitIN
Use the following guide to writing the article.
At least 250 words
Make a claim and support it with evidence from the reading.
Put forth a solution for your chosen claim.
Create a Headline that contains an active verb.

19. Good Morning Please smile about something awesome
Write down on a sticky note what you commit to accomplishing during this class period (stick to whiteboard). Remember your name. Participation points.
Here are your options
Read and write journal reflections
Complete blue sheet about homeless articles
Begin writing your mini essay (due November 2nd)

20. Good Morning Seniors Today we will:
As a class, Read Four excerpts from the Glass Castle.
Memoir: It’s All a Matter of Perspective
KWL (collected)
Complete a KWL by discussing with your peers and taking notes
Santaland diaries
Listen to an Example of a memoir
Write your own
Write your own memoir
One complete paragraph: due Wednesday

21. Memoir: It’s All a Matter of Perspective
As a class, we will Read the following excerpts from The Glass Castle.
Then in groups of four discuss the passages.
What do they have I common?
How are they different?

22. KWL: What is a memoir Complete the Know and want
Watch the video and take notes on the learn
When the video is done, add to your learn list by discussing with your peers what you learned.

23. Memoir Paragraph
Following the model, students will create a memoir paragraph.
You can finish this sentence with a story. “When I walked into first grade for the first time…
Or you can simply write about a family story that you have heard many times before.
The memoir paragraph should be written in paragraph form, making sure to include the elements that have been discussed. Homework: Paragraph is due on Wednesday.

24. Good morning
Staple your blue sheet (facts about Homelessness) to the back of your op-ed rubric
Rubric facing up with name and date in top left corner
11/2/2016

25. Journal Title: unreliable narrator Nov. 2nd 2016
Consider our discussion about “What is a memoir?” and answer the following questions:
Have you ever read a memoir before The Glass Castle? Do you think the author is an unreliable narrator? Why or why not?
Explain. Write in complete and thoughtful sentences.

26. Share your memoir paragraph with a partner
Share your memoir paragraph with a partner. One story often leads to another... What did their paragraph make you think of in your own life? Write about that memory in your journal.
Thinking about memories of your childhood and even memories of yesterday, write six words that would best describe you... (In your journal).
How many of you know Ernest Hemingway? Books written? Details about his personal life?
The story says that Hemingway lost a bet and so he had to create a novel using only six words.

27. Who Is Ernest Hemingway?
Born into a strict, Protestant family
Famous and well accomplished author (49 short stories and over 10 novels)
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Avid hunter and fisher
Considered a hero of WWI
Used the experiences of his life to create literary masterpieces during the Modernism Era
WWI Photo
Table of Contents

28. Hemingway’s Professional Life
Wrote forty-nine short stories and published six best-selling novels:
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell To Arms
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Old Man and The Sea
To Have and Have Not
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Working
Table of Contents

29. Hemingway "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn"
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing the six-word story “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” Hoping to cash in on that story’s success, Hemingway wrote some six-word sequels.
For sale: baby shoes. Really big.
For hire: giant baby. Very amusing.
Rent baby for fun, scary evening.
Have you seen enormous baby? Escaped.

30. Now, it's your turn. Create Three Six-Word Memoirs of Your Own.
SIX WORD MEMOIRS DUE today
First let me show you some examples 19

31. Daughters sweat equity paid son's tuition
Background: Central High School Needle Trades in Manhattan prepared my grandmother to work in a sweat shop and earn a meager paycheck. Her step-mother helped her hone her seamstress skills at home. Between her formal training and her home refresher courses, she became a skilled seamstress. Along with her six sisters, she would go to work from their home in Brooklyn to lower Manhattan. Their father instructed them to turn over their paychecks each week to help pay the tuition for their three brothers. One brother became a lawyer and another became a chiropractor. My Grandmother became the wife of a deli owner. She worked under his command preparing food for him to sell in his deli. She never used her trade school skills for her own income or pleasure. For Rose, this life in Brooklyn was freedom. This was America.

32. Manny Trillo autograph says I'm not.
I was wearing my Cubs hat yesterday and someone at the market asked if I was a bandwagon fan. I told him if he wanted to wait a few moments, I could go home and get my autographed Manny Trillo baseball card to prove I'm not.  (Manny Trillo played second base for some of the most awful Cub teams ever assembled, And again from )  I was a big fan. I loved the way he would flick the ball to first base in side winder fashion. A graceful ballplayer. My dad suggested I write to him, care of Wrigley Field, sending him his Topps baseball card for him to sign, with a self-addressed stamped envelope. Caveman Twitter.  Weeks later, and to my delightful surprise, I received the envelope back with the signed card.  Either he signed it or some secretary did!

33. Watch the following clip: The 2013 Memoir Movie
Read the following statement: Music is magical. It has a power to it, the ability to instantly make you feel a certain emotion or remember a particular place and time. In a way, we all have our own soundtracks: the songs, artists, and albums that played when we had our first kisses, danced our first dances, or the song that played when we first drove the car 'all by ourselves...' It might not be a good feeling, but the right song can make you feel the way you felt at any particular moment in your life and that's nothing short of incredible. Blank sheet of paper: Title: Soundtrack Now look at your six word memoirs. Choose one and connect it to the soundtrack that invariably runs through our heads at any given time. What song would best describe that memory? If not a song how about a particular artist or a genre of music? Explain your reasoning.

34. Skip a line on “Soundtrack paper” and write: Musical Performers
Make a list of five of your favorite musical performers. Make a list of five of your favorite songs. Why did you choose those? Are the lyrics or the music more important? Why?

35. Skip a line on “Soundtrack paper” and write: Soundtrack of my life
How will you remember the moments in your life? How would you like to be remembered?
Brainstorm a list of events that have changed your life... (need fifteen) DUE November _____

36. Skip a line on “Soundtrack paper” and write: one event
 Choose one of the events on your list of fifteen and write about its importance to you. 
Make a list of ten songs and ten performers you like, admire or can relate to. Try to make a connection between the events and the songs or performers...

37. Good Morning Seniors Please choose your seat wisely
Project descriptions and signup lists
Soundtrack of my life: Rough Draft November 14th
Next Reading date and journal reflections due November 16th
Pages

38. Journal Title: Characters 11/14/2016
Journal: From your reading of The Glass Castle, which character do you like the most? what about the least? Explain your answers using specific examples from the book.
Discuss as a class for five minutes.

40. Expectations Revise a peer’s essay
No essay to revise? You will take notes from the handout on sentence variety and rewrite a paragraph (due at the end of the hour).
Time remaining: make corrections on paper or read and journal (Journals due on Wednesday).

41. Neon Revision You will need three different colored highlighters
Essay to revise

42. Neon Revision Highlighter Markers: 3 Colors
Yellow – Mark the first word of each sentence.
Spend 1 minute looking at the sentence variation models
Pick one sentence that needs the most improvement and put a one next to it
Revise the sentence beginning with an adverb (#4) – write the new sentence on the revision worksheet.
Answer the questions on the revision worksheet

43. Adverb Review

44. Neon Revision Pink – Highlight each adjective.
Fill in the blanks for adjective review
Think about: Is the writing descriptive? Are the adjectives strong and specific? 

45. Adjectives describe __________ and __________.
nouns
pronouns

46. Adjectives answer four questions.
Which one?
How much?
How many?
What kind?

47. Neon Revision
Blue – Highlight each verb. Think about: Are there too many “to be” verbs? Are the verb choices strong?
Fill in the blanks
Verbs are a necessary component of all sentences. Verbs have two important functions: Some verbs put stalled subjects into motion while other verbs help to clarify the subjects in meaningful ways. Look at the examples below:
My grumpy old English teacher smiled at the plate of cold meatloaf.
My grumpy old English teacher = stalled subject; smiled = verb.

48. What is a Verb?
 A verb is a word that expresses action  OR a state of being.  There are 3 different kinds of verbs: Action, Linking, and Helping.  Every sentence needs a verb.  Verbs tell us what someone or something is doing.  Verbs help connect us to the state, or condition, of someone or something.

49. Journal: Adjectives 11/15/2016
Brief notes on Adjectives
KHAN Academy grammar/partsofspeech/the- modifier/v/intro-to-adjectives-v1