How have the past three situations in the book (the Indians after the Battle of Little Big Horn, the attack of the settlers, and the attack of the Indian camp) been similar?  Write this as a comment to this post while talking with your small group.

Then, do this:

• • • • Pick a big idea from violence/revenge/victim/etc, pick three pieces of evidence for it (with page #s) then explain what MESSAGE about the idea all of the pieces of evidence are showing.
      • Post Title: Theme Chapters 9-11
      • In the text: 
        • Theme (BIG IDEA + MESSAGE = THEME)
        • One piece of evidence from ch 9
        • One piece of evidence from ch 10
        • One piece of evidence from ch 11

To continue what we’ve talked and written about the past week or so, we’re going to look at the statistics for book banning and challenging.

Here are some infographics I’d like you to read through:

2018

2018 top ten books

2017

2016

2015

2014

Now take a look through this timeline of banned and challenged books for the last 30 years.

Finally, I’d like you to take a look at these charts:

As a comment to this post, make three inferences from the different infographics and charts you’ve been given.  Remember, an inference is something that you can claim/state based on the evidence you are looking at.  Make sure to explain where your inference comes from (what piece of data/information).

Ex: Based on the challenges by institution graph, people are mostly concerned with books when they are easily accessible for children.  The largest numbers of challenges between 1990 and 2009 were in schools/libraries.

Go to this link to this link to take a quick little assessment of your grammar and conventions level so I can help you through the semester.

Start by reading the comments on the post of what we as a class know or think we know about foster care and Native Americans.  Next, we are going to watch the first three videos in this playlist.

As you are watching, you are going to annotate/take notes on these points:

• What is said in the videos that is similar to what your classmates or you typed in the comments of the last post as well as the article on Sherman Alexie we read?
• What is said in the videos that is different from what you or your peers thought you knew and the article we read?

We will discuss these tomorrow, so take these written notes in your Reader’s Notes section (Flight section).

With your partner, talk about what you ‘know’ (from first-hand experience, from what you’ve heard from others, from what you’ve seen in the media, etc) about these two topics:

Since it may have been a significant amount of time since some of us have been in an English class, a good way to start may be to remind ourselves of the things that we should be doing EVERY TIME WE WRITE (In ALL classes, on ALL social media platforms, in EVERYTHING).

With your neighbor, you are going to create a brainstormed list of what we need to do when we are writing (ideas, grammar, format, punctuation, structure, conventions, etc).  Once you create your list on paper, you are going to comment on this post with the list in order of importance.

Once you (or your neighbor) have written a comment, you need to read through this link to get some more information on why we will be writing so much 🙂

Grammar Infographic

As a second (individual comment) on this post, you need to explain three important points from the infographic and why you think they are important.

You have watched two interviews with the author of our next book as well as a historical background video.  Based on the notes you took on those videos, what previous knowledge you have on the historical time period, and your conversation with your group, post answers to these questions as a comment to this post:

What is this book going to be about? List as many things as you think.

How did you come to the above answers?

What do you know about Vietnam (country and/or people) and the Vietnam War (event and/or time period)?

Post a comment on this post with examples of literary devices in what we read.  Here are the literary devices we should look for:

Similes (comparisons using like or as)

Metaphors (comparing things without like or as, one thing is another)

Personification (giving non-living things human characteristics)

Symbols (something standing for something else)

Make sure for your comment you write the textual evidence and then explain which device it is and what it is comparing/showing/meaning.

Post your pieces of textual evidence for this topic from reading Of Mice and Men as comments on this post.