Voting on and selecting the three best paragraphs about the poem. Check your school email accounts for a link to the ballot.
“Academic Integrity.” We will review the student handbook and talk about cheating. After, students will sign off on the official, “I know where the policy is” handouts.
HW: Using your notes on what a) writers do well, and b) what writers could do to improve, revise your paragraph on the poem and post the new draft AS A COMMENT TO YOUR ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH.

Practice annotating. Students will listen to the audio from the novel (click here) while re-annotating chapter three of the novel. (Chapter three begins at 42:30 in the above track, and goes until 1:04:30)
When annotating, students should a) circle vocabulary words—not just words you don’t know, but also words that Rushdie is carefully choosing for a purpose; b) write our questions that you have, as a reader, about what you’re reading—preferably about theme, not plot; and c) how Haroun responds to the coming adventure.
Afterword, students will work on study guide questions on that chapter, writing answers on paper. You will work individually or in small groups, at substitute’s preference.
HW: Spending an additional 20 minutes working on the study guide questions for chapter three.

Starting class by listening to an NPR interview about Salman Rushdie, the author of our summer novel. That story is here.
Reading aloud a NYT article on the attack on Rushdie, practicing annotation technique.
HW: Finish writing your paragraph at the end of the article for class on Tuesday. Remember, include at least one quote from the article, and at least one from the novel.