Comp/Lit 9: 10/20/10

"Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird"

• We started the period with a cumulative review of some of the Commonly Confused Words. We will do another cumulative review on Friday, then the quiz for all of the Commonly Confused Words will be on Tuesday October 26.
• We then got started on our short story for the day-"Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird".
• The students responded to 7 statements in the packet based on how intrusive they thought the action mentioned would be.  Then for all of the yes statements that had to explain why this would be intrusive to them.   They wrote their responses in their Interactive Notebooks.
• We then did some practice with dialect.  "Blues..." is very heavy in the African American dialect of the south; therefore, I wanted to be sure that the students had some exposure to it before getting into the story.  
• Then we finished the set-up of the Interactive Notebook.  In addition to commenting on the usual important phrase, summary and question/comment, the students needed to look for point-of-view and theme.  The themes they were looking for were not only the overall theme of the story, but the sub-themes of the brief tales/incidents that took place in the story (the story of a man on a bridge, the Goldilocks tale and the hawk incident) as well.
• We spent the rest of the period reading the short story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" and taking notes.
• Homework: Finish all notes for "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird", Finish the Revealing Character Through Dialect Activity (page 4), periods 3 & 7-finish the "Marigolds Intro Activity, page 2, period 5-finish reading the story.