1. Bellringer Aug. 31 and Sept 1
Find your seats. Probably it will be different from last class meeting.
Take out your Vignette. Put the drafts in the following order:
Final copy ON TOP
Rough drafts and revisions next
Vignette directions on the bottom
If you are missing ANY part of your vignette assignment, don’t call it out. You’ll have to bring it to me tomorrow. TURN IN WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
If you don’t have your vignette finished, complete an “Oh No!” slip and explain why and what you need.

2. Theme review! THE MEssage!!!
Watch this video – take notes on the organizer.
Mr. Sato's Theme Review
(Don’t worry about who Mr. Sato is).

3. Why is it bigger than just this character and just this story?
What is “Theme”?
Why is it bigger than just this character and just this story?
How is theme different from subject?
How is literature like the real world? Why it is important to know this?
What are the four ways to find a theme? A. B. C. D.
Why is making meaning from literature important and a real life skill?

4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian?
Patterns – on your graphic organizer, fill in examples from the book which fit each category. They will all work together to support the theme.
Junior is the main character around whom the plot and the conflicts revolve. He is the PROTAGONIST.
He has several conflicts. Some are man vs. self, some are man vs. man, some are man vs. society. Name who he is actually in conflict with and what their conflict is.
Decide on a message or theme that the details seem to support

5. Theme Symbol Setting Protagonist Figurative Language Conflict
THE MEssage of this text is:

6. Unit One Skills Preview
Lesson 1 - patterns in poetry
Lesson 2 - organization in non-fiction
Lesson 3 - balancing details to develop theme in literary non-fiction
Lesson 4 - characterization and setting to develop theme in fiction

7. Encyclopedia of Your Life
Unit Project
Encyclopedia of Your Life
You will be creating a booklet focused on your life. Drafts will be created during each of the unit lessons.
Each entry will reflect what we learn in the lessons.
You will be revising and putting this book together in a publishable format by the time we finish this unit.
I will give you these directions during our first lesson with poetry.

8. Part of your unit project will address the idea of growing up.
10th grade is a defining year.
Why?
You’re no longer a freshman. (well, most of you aren’t. Some of you need to get those credits you missed last year. You really won’t graduate at the end of four years here if you don’t have your credits. Pull yourself together and quit messing around!!)
Driver’s Education! (Passing this class means that you could qualify for your driver’s license. You’ll be driving an deadly weapon and have to act maturely when you’re behind the wheel. Lock your phone away!)

9. What does it take to be an adult?
5 – list five things (actions, behaviors…) which demonstrate someone is an adult.
3 – list three things (actions, behaviors…) which adults are always telling teenagers they need to learn to be an adult.
1 – identify ONE grown-up in your life who is the most adult person you know.
Turn to your partner and share.
What items do you have in common?

10. Rites of Passage
In most cultures, we have steps in life which mark a coming of age or a movement towards adulthood. It is part of our changing identity as we grow up.
Think of what happens in our culture:
at 16?
at 18?
at 22?
16- driver’s license. 18- high school graduation/legal adulthood college graduation maybe or moving out of parents’ house

11. The three stages in a rite of passage
1. Separation - we lose our identity as a child, often abruptly (Think about Junior moving schools)
2. Transition - we are being tested, educated, or confused. We might have to undergo some form of ordeal. (Think about the problems Junior faces both at home and at Reardon before he is accepted)
3. Incorporation - we move back into the larger community, often with our new identity. There is usually some form of ceremony. (Remember the final two chapters of the summer book? The graveside ceremony and then Rowdy and Junior’s reconnecting as friends?)
You could hand out the pdf as a further reference and notes for throughout the lesson and year.
Make Foldable: for Rites of Passage pdf. Three columns – for taking notes and adding to it throughout the unit.

12. Coming up! Course descriptions are due Sept 10/11
Summer reading should be turned in. Late penalty is applied after Sept 11.
Next class we will be completing our writing pre- test. It’s a text based essay. Try to review what you remember about writing essays and using text examples in those essays.

13. Exit Ticket On the 5-3-1 paper, answer this question.
What is a song you know that deals with growing up and becoming an adult?