Monday, September 9

• vocab warm-up:
  • Remember: add to your list, then write sentences
  • 9. phlegm (n.) – the thick substance in the respiratory passages, especially produced when someone has a cold
  • 10. graft (n.) – dishonest activities in business or politics where money is exchanged for favors . (Also in orchards – starting one twig in a slit in the bark)
  • 11. topography (n.) – the arrangement of natural physical features of an area (where mountains, rivers, valleys are, etc)
  • 12. bowdlerize (v.) – to remove parts of a text that are objectionable or obscene
• Short Story chart
  • Work on as a class
• What are the rules of a place?
  • Have you been somewhere where you don't know the rules?
    • Small version:
      • What are different traditions when you go to someone else's house?
      • What do people experience differently when they come to your house?
  • Sometimes we don't know that we don't know the rules
    • (Happens at school, too)
  • What sort of rules do we live by that we're not aware of?
  • "Learning the Hard Way"
  • read in class
  • work with someone next to you to add info to chart
• Time to work on class work
• "The Flying Machine" by Ray Bradbury
  • tomorrow we'll write about this
  • two paragraphs in class

Tuesday, September 10

• 400 hall CoWs for writing - p. 1 & 5
• vocab warm-up:
  • 13. arable (adj.) – fertile, able to be farmed
  • 14. binary (adj.) -
    • 1. relating to, composed of, or involving two things.
    • 2. a math system that has 2 rather than 10 as a base.
  • 15. diminish (v.) - diminish, v. - to make or become less; to make someone or something seem less valuable or less impressive
  • 16. generic (adj.) - relating to an entire group or class of things; a product sold by a general name instead of a manufacturer's brand name.
• Proper citation form:
  • "Short Story or Article" by Author
  • Large Work (Book, Film, Newspaper) by Author or Director
• Write about "The Flying Machine"
  • print to room 408
  • Staple green assignment sheet to your paragraphs
  • Due at end of class
• Read "The Sound of Thunder" by Bradbury
  • answer blue questions
  • due Friday, September 13

Wednesday, September 11

• vocab warm-up:
  • 17. grope (v.)
    • to feel blindly with the hands: He groped in the dark for the key.
    • to fondle someone for sexual pleasure, especially against their will.
  • 18. fealty (n.) - obligation of faith and honor sworn to a lord by one of his knights
  • 19. perplex (v.) - to puzzle or confuse
  • 20. agrarian (adj.) - related to farming
• What about "The Flying Machine"?
  • why did Bradbury choose ancient China?
    • who makes the decisions?
    • if this came up in our world, would decision making happen the same way?
  • an issue Bradbury doesn't mention
    • can you stop an idea?
• What about "The Sound of Thunder"?
  • Time travel stories always ask us to accept something
    • what does Bradbury ask?
    • Does it work?
  • How do you think it would work?
  • what happens by the end of the story? Why?
  • What is the sound of thunder? (2 answers)
  • theme?
• Get question sheet for short videos
• Gabriel Teodros TED talk
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvpgggGYtW4
• Yasser Bahjatt TED talk
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWPM_Vy-Zw
• Time to finish "Sound of Thunder" questions
• Handout for Elliott essay
• Elliott essay

Thursday, September 12

• vocab warm-up:
• Draw one picture that incorporates four vocab words
  • Write a caption underneath that uses all four words
    • (might help explain moods and other things the viewer can't exactly see)
    • Underline the vocab words in the caption
  • Let's have a vocab quiz on Tuesday, September 17
• notes on speculative fiction
• Read and work on stuff!
• work on story chart
• prep questions for tomorrow's Socratic Seminar

Friday, September 13

• vocab warm-up:
  • On a small piece of paper
  • Write a mini-story including three vocab words
  • Include a rhinoceros and a pineapple
• Socratic Seminar - small groups
  • Have ready:
    • Elliott essay
    • pink sheet
    • green sheet
    • story chart
    • today's yellow discussion chart
  • Everyone at your table should offer a question
    • or some commentary
  • Encourage others
  • This is not a debate (win-lose)
    • this is a discussion
  • Topics you can cover:
    • world-building and what it can show
    • themes of stories (story chart)
    • how stories connect to each other?
    • how stories connect to our world
      • "The Pedestrian" - who do police stop now? How does this make our societies similar?
• turn in reaction to Socratic Seminar