All Boys, All Blogged: September 18, 2014

Focus: What's the relationship between power, weakness, and bullying?

1. Warming up: Ranking your thesis statements

Is it clear?  (Beautifully worded and easy to understand)
0     1     2     3     4     5

Is it specific? (Mentions title and/or author and goes into sufficient detail)
0     1     2     3     4     5

Is it debatable? (Makes a true argument instead of just summarizing plot)
0     1     2     3     4     5

Is it provable? (Easily supported by evidence from the text)
0     1     2     3     4     5


2. Reading together a story about bullying; discussing why people bully and what your experiences have been with this

3. Staging the different parts of Chapter 3 to illustrate power and weakness; finishing Chapter 3 together

Thesis of the day: In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses ________________ (bully's name) to illustrate how bullies want ___________________ but end up ________________________.

Please turn in your reading journals.

4. Visiting the magical land of subject-verb agreement; make yourself an "is" card and an "are" card

• Here is/are the books you ordered.  

• The Broncos and Andrew is/are going to the movies.

• Either the Broncos or Andrew is/are going to the movies.

• Neither the Broncos nor Andrew is/are going to the movies.

• In case you're wondering, the kittens, the stickers, and the marker is/are under the couch.

• In case you're wondering, the kittens, the stickers, or the marker is/are under the couch.

• Here is/are my class of brilliant boys. They are gentlemen and scholars.

HW:

1. Please study for tomorrow's quiz on subject-verb agreement.

2. Bring your independent reading book to class (also, if you have been annotating instead of keeping a reading journal, please bring your annotated book to class tomorrow so that I can assess it during reading time).