Wednesday, August 23, 2017

STEAL: Compare and Contrast

After attendance, today's classes enjoyed a brief excursion outside for a mini-lesson on what to do, an where to go, in the event that we have a fire drill during that class period:

If there is ever a Fire Drill during our class:
Meet Me By The Light Post
(the first student to correctly connect that instruction to the Narnia books will receive 3 bonus* points)

Once re-settled in class, students retrieved their S.T.E.A.L. Charts on Rainsford and Zaroff. This was last night's HW. And I checked it, for a grade. You can find it in IC right now.
If you were absent yesterday, and didn't complete the HW, scroll down to find the document. Or see me and ask me to print it out for you. Either way, bring me a completed piece of work to receive credit.

Students then began to think about both characters at the same time using this Venn  Diagram.

After a few minutes of individual brainstorming, I invited students to chat with an elbow partner (a classmate sitting to the right or left) about character comparison ideas. Just a bit of a sounding board moment, before jumping in to this writing prompt: (see slide 2 for the prompt, and slide 3 for the BONUS question from 3rd period.)

Here's a link to a helpful website with contrasting and connective transitions to use, as well as several sample Compare and Contrast writing samples!

That was it; students had the rest of the class to draft their responses. The BONUS was not required. HW for tonight was just to be aware of information, which is here below:

HW:

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