1. English 4 Unit: Looking for Alaska
Unit 2: Day 5
English 4
Unit: Looking for Alaska

2. Bellringer:
How was your SAT experience? Talk about some of the challenges you faced. How did you prepare? What test-taking strategies did you utilize? Were they effective?

3. Agenda Warm-up: Journal Review last class: reading, project, etc.
Correction on schedule: class tomorrow!
New vocabulary: 20 minutes work time.
Read pgs
Exit ticket: reflection journal about what you read

4. Last night’s reading: what did you think?
Who is Takumi?
Sara?
The Week Day Warriors?
Dr. Hyde?
Alaska?
Chip?
Miles?
The setting?

5. “Who Are the characters?”
Complete an independent creative project which illustrates and analyzes one character from Looking for Alaska.
For example, create a poster using quotes or descriptions from the novel to draw a representation of how you visualize this character as a person.
What can you discern about the character based on his/her use of language? How does this character describe their own appearance/How does Miles describe it? What kind of relationships does Miles have with this person? How would you describe their outlook on life in the first chapter of the novel?

6. Requirements:
Your project must contain an image or images representing your character
Your project must contain at LEAST one KEY quote (more is DEFINITELY better)
You must explain what the quote shows about the character: what are his/her attributes? What do the quotes show?
Your project must be visually appealing !
Due Sunday!

7. Ticket out the door Exit ticket:
3 sentence reflection journal. Remember to use three different
Categories!