On the board--
1. Two handouts
A. Verb game -- explanation will follow
B. Famous poem. ("Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost)
2. Topic! Main idea! Supporting details, major and minor! -- concepts applied to poem, above, but helpful no matter what you read.
3. Chapter 4 of B.the G, pages 142-144
Topic/main idea/ supporting details
The Bible. God and human beings (list of major humans, including Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Abraham
The Odyssey. Odysseus and his journey home to Ithaca, past Scylla and Charybdis and the Sirens and Circe)
The Wizard of Oz. journey towards the Wizard so Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion can try to get what they want
Textbooks. Biology, botany, cells, mitosis, meiosis
Handout of word-game -- transformation of verbs -- Mrs. Kimmel suggested "read" and "write" but the class practiced with "go," which turned out to be pretty difficult
go going travel so forego walk I go to school every day. went run stop stopped shopped bought buy I like to buy clothes. "rebuy"? "reshop"? (we got bogged down here)
Homework:
On Monday, hand in the rest of the assignment on pp 285-287 of B. the G., this time doing "outlining" and "mapping" . Each assignment is worth 30 points, just as the previous two assignments "annotating" and "note-taking" were worth 30 points each . The item below is from the syllabus.
"Bridging the Gap
(TA=text assignment) Read Ch. 6, pp 272-290
Using
the selection on page 285, complete:
Annotating (30 points)**
Note-taking (30 points)**
Outlining (30
points)**
Mapping (30
points)**
Each one separately for the same
selection"
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