1. English III Unit 3 Day 7-

2. Leader: Good afternoon, Pumas. Please compose yourselves for prayer by taking a comfortable position in your chairs. Leader: Ad Majorem... All: Dei Gloriam. Leader: We study, work and play... All: for the greater glory of God. 2- MINUTE REFLECTION Leader: We close by saying, “Glory to the Father, and to Jesus the Son, and to the Holy Spirit... All: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen! ”

3. Happy Wednesday! Do-now: 1) Take quiz 2) When finished, leave your quiz at your desk and READ or JOURNAL

4. Announcements/Reminders:  Bring in Crucible books!  Come in to make up quizzes you’ve missed!!  Journals due: Wednesday, January 8 th (after break)  Outside reading due: Friday, January 10 th (after break)

5. Prayer:  Period 6: Nafiso  Thursday: Victor, Friday: Alberto, Monday after break: Anthony W.  Period 7: Jazmin  Thursday: Jessica S., Friday: Carmen, Monday after break: Diego  Period 8: Sara  Thursday: Audreanna, Friday: Laura, Monday after break: Anile

6. SWBAT…  Explain the significance of specific events in Of Mice and Men  Summarize a grade-level text

7. Of Mice and Men  p. 72-79 (in the smaller books, bottom of p. 75-83)

8. Quotes: Written discussion on Of Mice and Men  On the walls, there are multiple quotes from Of Mice and Men that are on colored papers.  YOU will be commenting on each quote/writing on the papers below each quote.  About 2 people will start at each quote, then when you finish your comment, wander to another quote. NO MORE than 2-3 people at each quote at a time.  You may also comment on other people’s thoughts, but try to ADD to the conversation and further it. Just saying you “agree” does not add to the conversation.  Put your initials next to your comment.

9. Questions to consider when looking at the quotes…  What might you learn about a character or a conflict from this quote?  Does this quote develop a theme of the book? How?  How does this quote make YOU feel?  What might be important about this quote?  What questions do YOU have about the quote? **A couple of purposes in this activity: 1) It may help you clarify your thoughts about a character or a situation in the text by reading what others wrote. 2) It helps you to see which pieces of a text may be important and how to distinguish what is important from what is not.

10. Of Mice and Men Mini-Project  Follow along with the prompt for this please…

11. HW:  Vocab 8

12. Exit:  Tell me one interesting comment that a classmate wrote about a quote today.