th 2016 Wednesday Do Now Get your folder from the front crate and find your seat Begin working on your Daily Edit paragraph Once the bell rings you will have five minutes ID: 745653
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Welcome! January 4th, 2016 Wednesday
Do NowGet your folder from the front crate and find your seatBegin working on your Daily Edit paragraph. Once the bell rings, you will have five minutes to find all 10 mistakes in today’s paragraph.Remember: Do Now's are INDEPENDENT and QUIET exercises.Thank you Slide2
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January 4, 2016It’s a bird! It’s a plane No, its a flying boat airplane! The first commercial airplane flight was actually a flying boat. It happen in January 1914. A former mayor of St Petersburg, Florida, paid 400 to fly from St. Petersburg to Tampa. The 18mile trip took only 23 minutes by plane. Traveling the same distance by ship would of taken over two hours. Since the flight was successful, plane trips across the Tampa Buy became popular. Passengers paid $five each way to take a trip on the special boat plain.Slide3
Intro to World Literature
Focus is on British Literature, but we will delve into other countries and cultures as wellCentral questions focus on story-telling and its purposes. As we read stories from 700AD to the 2000s, we aren’t going to focus quite as much on historical context as the author’s purpose. Why is (s)he telling this story? What methods does (s)he apply, and why? Can anything in a story written over a decade, a hundred, thousand years ago still be applied to our own lives?Slide4
Intro to World Literature
First unit will be on epics – we’re going to read some of the first known stories humanity has documented. Our first longer piece will be Beowulf – one of the world’s first heroes. Though you guys will now be taking the ACT in the fall, we are still going to focus much more on English, Reading, and Writing ACT-specific skills as well!Slide5
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1/4/16CP 10Block #“Story Telling”Slide6
Essential Questions: StorytellingOn your paper, write for five minutes in response to the prompt below. I’m looking for at least 3-5 sentences.
Pre-write: Why do you think we tell stories? What kind of stories do you like to read or listen to?Slide7
Essential Questions: StorytellingListen carefully as I read through “The Zebra Storyteller.” Once we finish, take 15 minutes to respond to the questions below.
How do the Zebras react to the dangerous Siamese Cat? What does their reaction tell us about their society?Why did the Storyteller Zebra first tell the story about a Siamese Cat who spoke Zebraic? What was his motivation?What impact does the Storyteller’s story have?According to the story, what is the “function” of a storyteller? What is this story trying to say?Slide8
Essential Questions: Storytelling5. An allegory
is a story that is symbolic. If a story is allegorical, it can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a universal moral lesson.If we take “The Zebra Storyteller” as an allegorical story, what do you think the hidden meaning might be? Explain.