1. Bellringer Nov. 2
What abstract concept would you say AHH addresses in the first 8 chapters of part 1?
(example: love, fear, jealously, desire, yearning)
What evidence in the novel supports your assertion?
PSST – a smart kid would use his or her notes to help with this bellringer. I’m walking around checking them anyway.

2. Theme review.
Right, so many of you aren’t writing thematic statements when I ask you to write thematic statements.
Break out your theme notes. – It says “What is theme” and then you filled in a bunch of notes in boxes.
How is a theme different from a topic?
How is a theme different from a summary?

3. To help you with writing a theme
A School in Georgia has this helpful formula.
Step 1: Topic (subject)
Choose an abstract concept like unrequited love, freedom, abuse, jealousy, self-pity, or fear of the dark that the work explores.

4. Step 2: Statement part 1 The _____ _______ by ________ is about
(genre) (title) (author)
____________________________________.
(topic/subject/abstract concept)

5. Step 3:
Now you need to state what the literary work asserts about this abstract topic. If a poem is about jealousy, what opinion does is express about the effect of jealousy on humanity?

6. Step 4: Statement part 2 The _____ _______ by ________ is about
(genre) (title) (author)
____________________________________ and
(topic/subject/abstract concept)
reveals ________________________________.
(assertion about human condition)

7. Today’s discussion
In your groups of three, choose one person to be the facilitator – he or she asks the questions and runs the group.
Choose one person to be the recorder- he or she takes the notes and submits the group’s note paper.
Choose one person to be quotation expert.
For each discussion point, you will change roles.

8. Listening and Speaking Criteria.
Student participates in seminar by doing ALL of the following:
Student follows norms for discussion both as listener and speaker.  This includes making eye contact, sitting up straight, and maintaining focus and energy throughout the discussion.
Uses academic transitions and phrases to build on the thoughts of others every time he/she speaks.
Makes a relevant comment, question, or clarifying question that is on- topic and builds the discussion.
Provides relevant quotes from the focus texts to support point.  Offers page number/title, directs everyone to the text, and waits for most of the group to find the quote and reads it out loud.
Explains how the quote supports point in own words.
Does not dominate or withdraw; does not need to be invited to join discussion or asked to hold back until others have spoken.

9. Discussion Point One
“And so there must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know it ceases to exist” (23)
What in the text points to the “catastrophic turning point” for our narrator – look beyond literal plot events to symbols, figurative language, and imagery (for example – the novel starts with her in a “wretched hovel” of tea room. How might that setting indicate a catastrophe?
Make connections to our lives here too.

10. Discussion point Two
In chapter 7, the narrator changes. How do the story telling styles change? Think about how our first narrator tells the story and then how the narrative changes in chapter 7 – look at the types of symbols, figurative language, imagery, syntax, and other literary elements.
Who seems more believable? Why?
Make connections to our lives here too.

11. Discussion point three
What seems to be a theme from this first 8 chapters.
Use the formula from the beginning of class.
Provide a couple of examples from the chapters to help show your theme.
Make connections to our lives here too.

12. “Only Daughter” Finish writing the response for “Only Daughter.”
If you don’t finish it today, you will finish it for homework and turn it in next class.
If it is not turned in today or next class, I will deduct 2 points per calendar day for everyday it is late until you hit 50%. Once 50% is hit, that is the highest percentage grade you can earn on the assignment all marking period.

13. Homework: Due Nov. 9 – Lesson 3 drafts
Due Nov. 9 – Parent conference letter completed
Due Nov. 9 – Part 1, chapters 9-15 notes.
Due Nov. 4 – Any “Only Daughter” responses not submitted today. You must turn it in with your SOAPSTone notes and the assignment page with the scoring guide. No scoring guide and SOAPSTone notes, no grade. (0%)

14. Lesson 3 drafts
Use the rough draft rubric for lesson 3 to help you compose.
Your drafts for lesson 3 are due Nov. 9
Next section of AHH is due Monday, Nov. 9.