1. Writing Standard 9-12.4 Development, Organization, and Style
Reading Literature/ Informational Text Standard : Cite Strong and Thorough Textual Evidence
Four Square
Please print this slide show, follow the directions, and staple it to your reading response.

2. Fold Paper Fold paper into four Squares.
O.k., it may be four rectangles, but work with me people.

3. Visualize
Close your eyes and visualize the most powerful image you remember from what you read
Then . . .

4. Upper Left Box
Draw or download a picture of a powerful image for what you have read Must be in color.

5. Upper Right Box
Put the picture you drew or downloaded into words by explaining its significance in the story.

6. Lower Left Box
Imagine you are an English professor lecturing to a college class on the scene you just described from what was read. Now, write your lecture.

7. Lower Right Box
Write a poem, create a word collage, follow a stream of conscious ness, or in any other way respond to the scene you have drawn.

8. Guidelines Picture captures a significant moment from what you read
Artistic effort and message counts, not artistic ability
Written work is evaluative and captures the meaning of the drawing and significant moment of what was read with the upper right box at least 50 words long and the lower left box at least 75 words long.

9. In the beginning of the story we notice that Winston ran into the poster saying “ Big Brother is Watching you” in the building where he lives. Later on, he sees same poster with the same caption, all over the London streets and buildings. In this chapter he visit’s Mrs. Parson and he again sees this image in her apartment. This poster shows which people are the supporters of Big Brother and which people belong to the “Party.”
What emerges in this chapter is an external conflict between the protagonist, Winston Smith, and the potential antagonist, as represented by the totalitarian regime of Big Brother. Complicating the conflict is the pervasiveness of Big Brother’s indoctrination of the general populous. Winston’s every movement, conversation, and action is under the surveillance of Big Brother or his minions. Winston’s desire for freedom is under constant attack.
Be Aware
Look at the crawly eyes.
They follow you,
Like a dog follows his master.
Be aware!
They want to play with your life
Using the strategy of Monopoly.
They want to enslave you
And hold you down under control.
Be aware, be aware
“Big Brother is Watching You”
He is watching every move you make
Every breath you take..

10. (See next slide for Bloom’s Taxonomy Grading Scale)
Grading Guidelines
Significant Image/Picture
Upper Left Corner
50+ Word Evaluation
Upper Right Corner
Student Point of View
75+ Word Evaluation
Lower Left Corner
Teacher Point of View
Poem/Word Collage
Evaluative = No Errors
Analytical = 1 Error
Application = 2 Errors
Comprehension = 3 Errors
(See next slide for Bloom’s Taxonomy Grading Scale)

11. Secondary Literacy Summit X December 2010
Creativity
California Department of Education
Evaluation
Write one sentence explaining what you did well according to the skill being learned using the language of Bloom’s taxonomy. Then, write one more sentence explaining what you could do better or differently next time and how you could move up one level on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Higher Order Thinking Skills
4.5 to 5/A
3.5 to 4.4/B
2.5 to 3.4/C
1.5 to 2.4/L
.1 to 1.4/K
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Student Directions for Written Evaluation
Lower Order Thinking Skills
Grading Scale
0 Errors = 4.5/A to 5/A 3 Errors - = 1.5/L to 2.4/L
1 Errors = 3.5/B to 4.4/B Errors = .1/K to 1.4/K
2 Errors = 2.5/C to 3.4/C
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12. Four Square