Competition, Survival, and "The Most Dangerous Game"

Good Afternoon!

Today, students in class responded, in writing, to these two Journal Response prompts:

Complete both of the following sentence stems:

•To succeed in a fight for survival, a person needs to ____________ because ___________.

•Competition is important for our personal growth because_______________________.

After sharing responses, we reviewed the purpose, and variety, of Literary Conflict (link is a .pptx file).

Finally, we analyzed the different meanings of the word game: 1) A pleasant diversion, often in an imaginary or digital (virtual) world, and 2) wild mammals or birds hunted for food or sport.

And after reading about the author, Richard Connell, we quickly and reasonably inferred that this story, "The Most Dangerous Game", would most likely involve hunting dangerous animals, and not involve a PS3, XBOX360, PC, or other gaming platform.

We began reading the story in class, and will continue tomorrow, so...

HW: Bring textbooks to class tomorrow!

I am sad to report that we did not get our online textbook access set up today, due to a scheduling conflict with the mobile lab. Later this week, that will occur.