Mrs. Kimmel email address is
c-kimmel@neiu.edu
After the class was over, I sent out the following email:
"Hi, Dear Students,
"Some of you had already left when I changed the assignment that will be due on Friday. You are supposed to read B. the G. pages 126 through 133 and do the exercises. But not ALL the exercises.
"Please DO NOT DO the "write about the selection" task on page 130. You don't have to do that. You do have to do everything else in pages 126 through 133.
"See you Friday.
"CR Kimmel"
On the board:
1. writing about the novel (see handout)
2. B. the G. pages 126-133 --- vocabulary and questions --- due Friday
3. NY Times article about college costs -- assignment is 6 bullet points
4. graph paper -- see vocabulary on pages 111, 118, and 126 of B. the G. This is the target vocabulary for Chapter 3.
Discussion of paragraph on 1st two chapters of Powers that was handed in on Monday. There were three groups of students
Diligent Observant Nice
did the reading did not do did not do
the reading the reading
added own used board notes didn't use board notes
details wrote kindly things
"I like the book"
If you can't be Diligent on a particular assignment, at least be Observant. Nice makes you a nice person, but I can't give you a good grade. "Diligent" got 5 points; "Observant" 4 points; "Nice" got 3 points (out of 5).
Handout: Reader's Journal
Beginning Wednesday of Week 5 and continuing
for ten consecutive weeks you will turn in a short journal entry to document
your reading and thinking on your book, according to suggestions given in Bridging the Gap, pp. 585-591. (10 points each) As part of our class,
you will be required to read the novel, Powers, by Ursula LeGuin, and keep a
journal.
a. Your
journal entries are not expected to be lengthy (about 300 words each; about one
page typed, double spaced) or to take away from your reading enjoyment. They
are designed to give you practice reflecting on what you read and to give you
practice making real-world connections as well as connections with your own
personal background knowledge (schema),
while you build on your schema.
b. You will have one vocabulary list for all
the journal entries. You should select 3 to 5 words for each
entry, for a total of 30 to 50 words for the entire vocabulary list. When you select a word, please copy the
sentence in which the word was used. Then look the word up in an
online dictionary of your choice and copy the relevant information.
Discussion of the above handout, including the fact that Monday's in-class writing has satisfied your first week's assignment -- emphasis that this is supposed to be reader's response, NOT a retelling of the plot. How do you feel about something that has happened in the story? How do you feel about the characters, at this point?
Handout of graph paper so that people (in their groups) can create a crossword puzzle using (as much as possible) all thirty words in a crossword, with definitions/clues.
Example:
1. f Across Down
l
u 1. a kind of 1. a musical
t Zero instrument
1. absolute
n
t 2. 2. Rambo was
i nterval like this
a i
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Homework for Friday:
1. Complete all the exercises after reading pages 126-133, but NOT "write the selection" on page 130
2. Working in your groups, create a crossword puzzle, with clues/meanings, using the 30 words from pages 111, 118, and 126 in B. the G. Each person in the group must hand in his or her own copy of the puzzle, even though the puzzles will be the same for each person. You must use graph paper.
Homework, ongoing:
Keep reading Powers
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