Thursday, April 21, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze internal and external conflict in a text.
• Make connections within a text, between texts, between texts and self, and between a text and the broader world. 

UIL Updates (Practices): 

• Ready Writing during Lunch today.  You'll compete next week.
• Dictionary Skills and Number Sense after school today.  (Dictionary Skills with Ms. Rosales.)

Opening:
Review your response to the writing prompt:
1. Writing Prompt: "Theme in Up!"

Write a summary of your literary element and how you think the author, Sharon Creech, may be using that literary element in developing a theme in Walk Two Moons.  

2. Share your response aloud to your partner.

• What evidence did you each use? 
• How did you cite the evidence?  Did you put quotation marks around the evidence?

Work Period:

Read Chapters 31-32 this weekend (One more entry)

3. 4/21: Internal and External Forces

• Draw a picture of Carl Fredrickson's Head

• Add in details that explore his internal and external forces.
• Whenever there is an internal or external force at play, there is usually a conflict in the film.

What conflicts occur because of his internal and external forces?  Discuss and add notes.

4. Now draw a smiley face with long, straight hair (Salamanca) and one with curly hair (Phoebe).

• Add details that explore each girl's internal and external conflicts. (Add at least one force inside and outside of each face.)
• What conflicts occur because of each girl's internal and external forces?  

5. In a group of three or four - discuss who is struggling more with internal conflicts and who is struggling more with external conflicts.

6. 4/21: Connections

With your seat-partner, discuss and take notes on four connections you've made in the book so far.

Then, think about Predictions you can make about the rest of the book.  

• You've read through Chapter 30 now
• Work with a group of three (I will create these groups).
• Use the graphic organizer below to take notes on your discussion
• CN: 4/21: Predictions