Grades 6/7 History, Literature, & Logic

Today our Grades 6 & 7's:

• Continued working on their Pictorial History of a SMERFCAPS - The due date was changed to Friday, 9/4/15.
• Analyzed the excerpt from Wordsworth's poem, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" that prefaced The Light in the Forest, the historical novel we will be reading the next two weeks. Here are notes taken during the discussion of the poem.
• Examined and began color coding a Vocabulary Diagnosis of words from TLITF. Each student emailed me her/his color coding so I could get an idea of how difficult they found these words.

Assignments

For Thursday: None

For Friday
1. Have your Pictorial History of a SMERFCAPS ready to turn in at the first of class. If possibly, post it at your blog.
2. Read pp. 3-16 of The Light in the Forest.
3. Write 5 discussion questions from the reading. Your questions might include one or more of the following

• Anything you didn't understand from the reading
• Anything you found interesting and would like to discuss in class
• Questions comparing and contrasting any of the characters
• Evaluation questions: Who was better: ___ or ___? How moral was ___? 
• Questions asking classmates to personalize something in the reading: "Pretend you were ___. How would you respond if . . .."
• Other questions you might devise

Do make sure your questions are answerable from the reading.
4. Come to class prepared to discuss pp. 3-16 on Friday.