Syllabus for Week 2, January 13
PRACTICE YOUR ANNOTATION TECHNIQUE in The Patron Saints of Nothing with this list of questions/tasks. Please remember that your independent reading book is something you should bring TO CLASS each day, and LEAVE WITH the book each day. A key part of this assignment is that you WANT to read the book, and that you CAN read it during down times, at home, outside of school. That’s key to building better reading skills. Our student teacher, Ms. Devdariani, will begin observing our class the week after next, Tuesday, January 28. For the first two weeks, she will observe and occasionally help students in small groups, so that she can get to know you (and so you can get to know her). I will be your primary teacher through the end of Patron Saints, and she will take over teaching Romeo & Juliet.
TUESDAY, January 14
Independent reading. Some scholars have forgotten that you should bring your book WITH your each day. Part of this assignment is that you CARRY and KEEP your book with you. That’s important! If you don’t like your book enough to carry it, you should get a better book!
Quiz #4 on last weekend’s reading in PSON.
Reading together in PSON.
Vocabulary crosswords, with partners.
HW: Read the next chapter, “To Flood,” pages 224-230. Bring color pencils, markers, or crayons to class tomorrow. Also, decide on your “theme song” for your life as a scholar in your first year at New Trier.
WEDNESDAY, January 15
This is the book you will need starting in two weeks. You should buy the LARGER edition (costs approx. $10).
Silent, sustained reading.
Art project: re-creating the Philippine home of Jun and Reyna, as portrayed in “The Wide Eyes of the Lost.”
HW: Reading the next chapter, “Its Center Unsolved,” pages 231-232. Also, finish the crossword started in class on Tuesday.
FRIDAY, January 17
Today we will have silent, sustained reading.
Quiz on the last two chapters we have read (the first of which we read together in class, so…)
After break, we will listen to the next chapter, starting on page 231, “Its Center Unsolved.”
Time permitting, we may provide more time to finish crosswords and drawings of the Manilla Metro slums.
HW: Read the next three chapters in PSON.