Thursday

Today was our 3rd ever Literature Circle. We reviewed our agreements for active listening and looked at how your peers felt you did last week. You each set a specific listening goal to work on, and overall, I think you guys did much better.

Luke led his group through some interesting questions including, where are they getting their food if all the markets are closed? Nina volunteered to follow the director (good stepping up!) and pulled out nice passages and explained them well. Mesoma made vocabulary a little more fun by having everyone find the word in the book and then guess what it meant from the context. Nina was able to figure out the part of speech, and Max gave a great definition for "recuperate". Good team work!

Mickey took good control over the rowdy boys and kept them remarkably focused. Evan and Pascal politely took turns making connections. Christian gave a detailed description of his illustration even connecting it to other shows and movies. I loved hearing all the boys admit that if they had to walk through a field of dead bodies like Daisy does in the book, they would all "lose their minds", "scream", and "freak out". They all agreed that the author's use of a teenage voice is annoying and distracting. They like the content, but are tired of the run-on sentences, the lack of punctuation and the made up words. "It seems like the author was just being lazy".

Kelsey started by asking her group what they would do if their houses were robbed. "I'd get the sword and kill them" Thomas asserted. But the ladies admitted that they too would be scared, shocked and maybe not so ready to get revenge. Luna reminded everyone that the book is set in the past where they didn't know much about diseases and how they spread. They were all paranoid and panicked and weren't making decisions based on the information that we have today. "I don't want to call them stupid, but..."

Good work!

emma

P.S. If you didn't turn in your Philosophy Packet (Chapters 6-9 with checks) make sure I get that asap!) Also, don't forget to finish your Grad Bio because we'll be talking about those again on Monday.