1. Contemporary Literature Week 6 September 26-30, 2011

2. Monday, September 24, 2011 Walk-IN: Form your book club group based on your first choice and turn to a new sheet of paper and title it Discussion Art in Life and Book Club Learning Objective:  Students will form purposeful generalizations and draw sound conclusions about an artists message and intentions based on the overall composition and the specific details in a piece of art. Agenda:  Discussing and Interpreting Art Due Today: Homework: Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response: Week 4 due Blockday Bring your Book Club Book to class on Friday

3. Discussing Art in Life and in Book Club  First Viewing: list what you observe and notice  Start with the big picture  Focus in on the details  Connect back to the big picture/whole composition  Focus in on the details  Write down what you notice (specific details) on their chart—column one  Share and discuss the specific details and how this connects with the overall composition (format, style….) of the work of art.  Second viewing: write down questions related to what they wonder about in the artwork  Share your questions with the group and discuss possible answers based on the specific details in the artwork  Third viewing: write down general topics the artwork seems to be dealing with.  Share and discuss your topics with the group. Based on the overall composition and details in the piece of art what might be the artists message?  Reflection: write a paragraph  Assert a theme statement in the topic sentence (what is the author saying about the topic?)  Provide additional sentences that support the theme statement with evidence  … analysis (how does the detail prove the theme statement)  End with concluding sentence that reasserts the theme statement without merely repeating.

4. A Big Family by ZHANG XIAOGANG

5. Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Walk-IN: Sit in your Book Club Group and turn to your free write about the question What Make or Breaks a Family? Learning Objective:  Students will understand that we can learn about the world and about ourselves when we form purposeful generalizations and draw sound conclusions from a variety of informational texts.  Students will be able to synthesize information to form purposeful generalizations and sound conclusions. Agenda:  What Makes or Breaks a Family?  Vocabulary Job Due Today: Homework: Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response: Week 4 due Blockday Book Club Book in class on Friday

6. Non-fiction articles: What makes or breaks a family?  IN THIS COLUMN list any vocabulary words that you do not know, or any vocabulary words that you feel are strong and others should know.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6. What makes a family _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ What breaks a family _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ While reading the non-fiction articles dealing with family and marriage, locate and record main ideas related to What Makes a Family and What Breaks a Family.

7. Summary  Summarize in a well detailed paragraph what you learned from the article on What Makes or Breaks a Family.

8. Vocabulary Job: Option 1 Vocab. Word 1: _________________  Page number and sentence in novel where the word appears:___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ ____________________________________(Author’s Last Name pg). Dictionary definition: _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________  Name:Guess: You MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 5 WORDS

9. Vocabulary Job: Option 2 Vocabulary Job Procedures: Fold your paper in half. Direct your group to where the word appears in your book, and read the relevant sentence(s) out loud. Show your visual representation to your group. Record each person’s guess for the vocabulary word (YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 3 WORDS) Vocab Word 1: Word in Context: (sentence it appears in): Dictionary Definition: Visual Representation:Name: Response:

10. Wednesday/Thursday, Sept 28-29, 2011 Walk-IN : Please put your reading responses for week 4 in the box on the chair and take out your notes from yesterday. Learning Objective:  Students will understand that we can learn about the world and about ourselves when we form purposeful generalizations and draw sound conclusions from a variety of informational texts.  Students will track theme development, plot development, and synthesize prior information, by locating key passages in a short story. Agenda:  Summary and Reflection  Vocab Job  Where are you Going, Where have you Been  Book Club Jobs: Passages Due Today: Week 4 Reading Responses Homework: Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response: Book Club Book in hand on Sept 29th

11. Summary  Summarize in a well detailed paragraph what you learned from the articles on What Makes or Breaks a Family. Include references to both articles.

12. Vocabulary Job: Option 1 Vocab. Word 1: _________________  Page number and sentence in novel where the word appears:___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ ____________________________________(Author’s Last Name pg). Dictionary definition: _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________  Name:Guess: You MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 5 WORDS

13. Vocabulary Job: Option 2 Vocabulary Job Procedures: Fold your paper in half. Direct your group to where the word appears in your book, and read the relevant sentence(s) out loud. Show your visual representation to your group. Record each person’s guess for the vocabulary word (YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS FOR 3 WORDS) Vocab Word 1: Word in Context: (sentence it appears in): Dictionary Definition: Visual Representation:Name: Response:

14. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been In this column ask any level 2 and level 3 questions. ? Important passages ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Passages that develop Theme ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Passages that relate to What Makes a Family ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Passages that relate to What Breaks a Family ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ While reading the short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been your task is to find passages that you feel are important to the story in particular, hint at the story’s theme, and passages that relate to What Makes or Breaks a Family?

15. Book Club Jobs: Passages Passages  Preparation: Select at least 2 important passages from the assigned text. A passage can be as short as a paragraph, or as long as a page. Choose each passage because it is key to understanding that section of the novel or the book as a whole, and/or because it is funny, confusing, or simply because you like it. For each passage: identify its location in the text, and write down the beginning of the passage. Next write a one sentence summary of the part of the reading the passage comes from, AND write a paragraph that explains, in detail, why you chose it. Skip about six lines for discussion notes.

16. Friday, September 30, 2011 Walk-IN : Take out your notes from blockday and your passages job. Learning Objective:  Students will understand that we can learn about the world and about ourselves when we form purposeful generalizations and draw sound conclusions from a variety of informational texts.  Students will track theme development, plot development, and synthesize prior information, by locating key passages in a short story. Agenda:  Where are you Going, Where have you Been  Passage Job  Synthesis Job Due Today: Book Club Book Homework: Read for 20 minutes and complete a reading response Write a structured paragraph that answers the family question based on examples from both non- fiction and fiction texts. Book Club Book in hand on Monday

17. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been In this column ask any level 2 and level 3 questions. ? Important passages ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Passages that develop Theme ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Passages that relate to What Makes a Family ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Passages that relate to What Breaks a Family ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ While reading the short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been your task is to find passages that you feel are important to the story in particular, hint at the story’s theme, and passages that relate to What Makes or Breaks a Family?

18. Book Club Jobs: Passages Passages  Preparation: Select at least 2 important passages from the assigned text. A passage can be as short as a paragraph, or as long as a page. Choose each passage because it is key to understanding that section of the novel or the book as a whole, and/or because it is funny, confusing, or simply because you like it. For each passage: identify its location in the text, and write down the beginning of the passage. Next write a one sentence summary of the part of the reading the passage comes from, AND write a paragraph that explains, in detail, why you chose it. Skip about six lines for discussion notes.

19. Synthesis Job (green = before book club red = during book club) What Makes or Breaks A Family? What is the difference between Love and Lust? Why do people resort to violence? In-Class Connections Out-of-class connections Emerging Message Theme/Generalization/Conclusion according the group based on discussion: Summarized Examples from Book Club Book Other Examples it Reminds Me of… (Synthesis) Conclusion based on examples

20. Synthesis Paragraph  Synthesizing what you learned about love and lust from the articles The Perfect Family, Is There Hope for The American Marriage, and Where Are You Going, Where have You Been come to an overall conclusion or answer to the class question that applies to all texts. Support your generalization or conclusion by writing a detailed synthesis paragraph using textual evidence from your sources and analyze your evidence by explaining how it supports your generalization.