Week 4 Syllabus: November 11
OVER THE LAST WEEK, WE PREPARED AND began delivering oral presentations on the independent book you’ve been reading in class. These presentations should include a pan-and-scan and sign-posting. You should cover a summary of the novel, a description of the writer’s style and the book’s tone/mood, and both pro-and-con recommendations. We will complete these over the next two weeks, completing approximately 5 per day. Additionally, we will start reading the novel Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay. If you haven’t done so, purchase your copy in the bookstore now; the ISBN # is: 978-0525554929. It should cost approximately $10, plus tax.
TUESDAY, November 12
Independent reading.
Presentations of IR books.
Watching the following video in class on the geography of the Phillipines.
HW: Read the next selection
WEDNESDAY, November 13
Today we will continue with the oral presentations, completing at least four more.
6th period will watch the end of the video to the right, and one more on cuisine of the Philippines.
We will start reading Patron Saint of Nothing in class today, together.
HW: Finish reading chapter one tonight.
FRIDAY, November 15
This is the book you will need on WEDNESDAY of next week.
First 20 minutes, independent reading.
Finishing our oral presentations.
Once done, we will return to the paragraphs (that we didn’t finish) on Bambara’s “Raymond’s Run”
I’ll also review how to write a good claim (when you don’t have a narrow topic to write from).
HW: Pead and annotate the preface and chapter one from PSON. Check your school email for a link to the list of annotation assignments (it’s broken down by chapter)!
RR paragraph is due in class on Tuesday. We will post this one publicly on the blog.