Wednesday,+March+16

Book Trailers of the Day
==Sold by Patricia McCormick (a possible lit circle read!) ==

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith
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Bell Ringer
Read the following journal entries. Decide which LOT # is being addressed in each one. Explain why it is this particular Level of Thinking. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 3/14/11 LOT ?????
 * Entry 1:**

"My human fixture and her satellites rushed to welcome me; exclaiming, tumultuously, they had completely given me up: everybody conjectured that I perished last night; and they were wondering how they must set about the search for my remains."

I love the language the author uses to refer to the narrator's wife and children here! By using a creative metaphor, Bronte helps the reader to picture his wife rushing to greet him while children run around her feet and cling to her skirts. As a mother of a toddler, I can totally appreciate this idea!

3/16/11 LOT ????? We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
 * Entry 2:**

pg.149 "Rwanda is landlocked and dirt-poor, a bit larger than Vermont and a bit less populous than Chicago, a place so dwarfed by neighboring Congo, Uganda, and Tanzania that for the sake of legibility its name has to be printed on most maps outside the lines of its frontiers. As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world's powers go, it might as well be Mars. In fact, Mars is probably of greater strategic concern. But Rwanda, unlike Mars, is populated by human beings, and when Rwanda had a genocide, the world's powers left Rwanda to it."

When I researched the genocide in Rwanda in order to teach my class, I learned that it took 100 days for the UN to involve themselves at all, and even then only 300 troops were sent! We knew that innocent people were being slaughtered, and we did nothing! During Addy Posey's presentation, I learned about the plight of the children in Uganda, who are being kidnapped and forced to fight in brutal battles by the thousands. Still, the US seems unaware. These situations really help me understand where the author is coming from.

Mini-Lesson
Discuss reading requirements for 4th quarter.

Let's Try It Together!
Make sure that your 3rd Quarter shelf is on your blog! Make sure that you have reviewed all of your 3rd quarter reads on Goodreads. Remember, a good review should contain:
 * 1) a SHORT synopsis
 * 2) highlight a particular story grammar (character, conflict, writing style, etc.)
 * 3) whether or not you would recommend this
 * 4) who would you recommend it for

Independent Reading Time
Read in your novel! Try to get two (2) journal entries!

Homework Assignment
Make sure that your book logs for 3rd quarter are turned in and your reviews are on your blog for your 3rd quarter reads before spring break!

"What's Really Going On" Self-Survey! Record your exposure to media throughout the next week. Bring it back to class the next class period after spring break. Be honest!