Mon. 10/22: Ch. 1
Tues. 10/23: Finish ch. 1; group discussion
Wed. 10/24: Ch. 2
Thurs. 10/25: Ch. 2; Library
Fri. 10/26: No School
Photographs of the Great Depression
Article on the Great Depression
Article on Race Issues in the 1930s
Mon. 10/15: Short Stories Due (112 pts.)
Tues. 10/16: Field Trip
Wed. 10/17: Computer lab for research
Thurs. 10/18: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, ch. 1; Library
Fri. 10/19: Ch. 1; Reading Logs Due
Mon. 10/1: Counselor day!
Tues. 10/2: Collages
Wed. 10/3: Collages
Thurs. 10/4: Turn in portfolios; discuss short stories; Library
Fri. 10/5: Reading Logs due; Brainstorm short stories (Early Release for Homecoming)
Here are the instructions for Monday, 9/24
Monday we are going to work on the rough drafts of our Birth Certificates. The purpose of the Birth Certificate is to create a character that each student is eventually going to write a story about. Please write everything on notebook paper, and not on the actual Birth Certificate. The following are the rules:
1. The character must be completely original, original name, original life, original everything. (In other words, it cannot be named after you or anyone you know and cannot be a famous person.) You will lose substantial points if your character is not original.
2. For the birth certificate, your character must have been born in the United States. This is not optional.
3. When picking the birthdate, choose wisely. You will be writing a story about this character, and if you make them too young, it will be hard to come up with enough material to write about. Definitely no characters younger than five. Your age or older would be better.
4. While the state where your character was born does have to be an actual state in the United States, everything else may be invented. For instance, if your character was born in Connecticut, you could make up a town, county, and hospital that don't really exist in Connecticut (I'm not going to get out an atlas and check).
5. Every character has a mother and a father. At birth every character has a mother and father. That doesn't mean that the mother or father has to still be around in your story, but, biologically speaking, every character has a mother and a father, it is a fact of biology.