On the board:
1. Warm-up handouts
a. Chicago Tribune article "Leadership Chicago Street Gangs Vex Police Efforts to Quell Violence" by David Heinzmann
b. vocab., questions, your answers
2. Short story by Ethan Hunter (B. the G.)
page 192
3. Vocabulary .... general
NEIU.READ.097-6 warm-up October 24, 2016 --
Monday
Thinking about reading -- Do
you know what these words mean?
Introspection cogitation
contemplation reflection
self-analysis meta-cognation
Start reading the Chicago Tribune
article (handout) about gang violence in Chicago. Then do the short warm-up assignment below.
1 Think about how you feel while you're
reading?
2 What are you thinking while you're reading.
3 On a separate piece of paper, write 3
or 4 sentences in answer to these questions. I will collect your answers in 10
minutes.
As you work on the short writing sentence, don't forget the "Three Questions"
Topic?
Details?
What does the author want me to think or know about the topic?
The above three are about finding the Main Idea
Don't forget the "Kimmel Question" -- how do I feel about what I'm reading"
Discussion of short story from textbook and related article from the Tribune
SHORT STORY -- IMPORTANCE OF VALUING YOUR OWN LIFE
ARTICLE -- POLICE EFFORTS TO END GANG VIOLENCE
Word game -- word chain
Divide into groups
Each word must have 3 or more syllables, and words may not begin and end with the same syllable.
Some of the words the class generated...
inclusion
neuroticism
mechanism -- NO, because it begins and ends with "m"
molecule
eco-system
meta-cognition
nationalism
meteorite
episodic
concentric
nonchalant
titanic
Gummy candy for group that won!
Homework:
1. pp 198 in B. the G. -- "write about the selection" -- "How do Andy's thoughts of his own life evolve from the beginning to the end of the story??
2. Reader Response to Chapter 6 of Powers
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