February 5 - 8


Thursday
1. Round-table discussion about SHLFM and SLOMO. Be prepared with your ideas about these two texts.
We will use the discussion in place of a quiz on these texts. You will be scoring points for your contributions to the discussion.
We will try Parlay first, if that doesn't work, we will use the coloured cards from last week's debate.

Here is the link to Parlay...
https://go.parlayideas.com/classes/8a0e871f-c65e-4cc6-8ff9-3dcb1eb00e7d/roundtables/online/d02cdce0-67b7-49d9-a5d2-b90c2fb119af?invite_code=C10Q9CuJN




We will start the discussion with the following questions:
A. Hemingway the writer: find a passage that illustrates his "principle of the iceberg"
B. SLOMO - how did he get "lost"in the experiences of his generation?

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Wednesday
1. Please have your final draft of the response to "Hello Monster" in OneNote by the end of class.
2. Carry-on with the calendar of events for this week.




Tuesday

Calendar of events for the remainder of the week: OneNote/content library/inquiry1/calendar feb 6-8
1. Reading SHLFM.

print: http://www.standardsinstitutes.org/sites/default/files/material/winter16_ela_9-12_day_2_session_1-macomber.pdf 

audio: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Listening.Short.Stories/Francis.Macomber/01/default.html


2. I will be checking-in with each of you about your "Hello Monster" response.




Monday
Our inquiry question: DO PEOPLE CONTROL THEIR OWN FUTURE?
1. Introduction to the guy with the cat.
The lost generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suEbG3vMm2U
Mini bio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQDe0GCNHg
What are you writing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wM06z5lA74&t=1s  stop @ 2:24
On love and death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuctV_o398
Expats/expatriates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdZhbsyOSw

2. Begin reading TSHLFM?????

print: http://www.standardsinstitutes.org/sites/default/files/material/winter16_ela_9-12_day_2_session_1-macomber.pdf 

 audio: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Listening.Short.Stories/Francis.Macomber/01/default.html

3. "Hello Monster" re-write: how to?

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