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1. Quick write 3 minutes: • Everything that comes to your mind when you think of it • Personal experiences • what it means • what it does • questions about it CANCER

4. Standards RL8.3 • Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. SL.8.1 • Engage in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. RL8.1 • Cite textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RL8.2 • Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the character, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

5. I DO (3 min) • Teacher Read Pages 3-4 • Teacher Annotate (?, , , yes, OMG, comments) • Look Fors… • Propel the Action (PA) • Provoke a Decision (PD) • Reveal Aspects of a Character (RC)

6. WE DO (3 min) • Students & Teacher Read Pages 5-6 • Annotate (?, , , yes, OMG, comments) • Look Fors… • Propel the Action (PA) • Provoke a Decision (PD) • Reveal Aspects of a Character (RC)

7. YOU DO ( 8 min) • In pairs students Read Pages 7-10 @ level 1 • In pairs students Annotate (?, , , yes, OMG, comments) • Look Fors… • Propel the Action (PA) • Provoke a Decision (PD) • Reveal Aspects of a Character (RC)

8. Shout it Out!! (5 min) • ?, OMGs, Smiley Faces, YES, Sad Faces, Comments • Look Fors… • Propel the Action (PA) • Provoke a Decision (PD) • Reveal Aspects of a Character (RC)

9. Possible Themes from the text • Suffering • Fear of oblivion • Fairness of Life • “Life Is not Fair and then You Die” • Family • Isolation • Love • Religion • Death is Inevitable Give students possible themes and allow them to discover them in the text. Allow them to decide which are prevalent and which are not. Why?

10. Vocabulary: Make it REAL!!(especially if it appears heavily throughout the text) Cannula page 8

11. Grammar in Isolation? Of Course Not • Using chapter one • place a C above all common nouns on pages 4-5 • be able to explain why? • Underline (using a pencil) all action verbs • be able to explain why? • The colon is used on pages 4-7 – where and how is it used? • Why are certain words, titles, phrases italicized in chapter one? What does that mean?

12. I DO: My Eulogy • Using poetry and/or prose write YOUR Eulogy • Use commas, dashes, ellipsis correctly • Demonstrate command of the conventions of SE • Use at least 3 literary devices • Audience??

13. Melanie was a person of much character! She was known to most by her infrequent sarcasm and frequent attempts of perfection. It was always so much she wanted to do in life, yet time always found a way to hide himself among the darkness. I remember 20 years ago when we first met. It was at Greater Harvest COGIC and Central High School…I mean THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL. I thought she was stuck up and later I found out that she thought I was stuck up as well…..funny right? It got really interesting when we ended up dating the same guy anonymously. We then REALLY didn’t care for each other. She thought I was robbing the cradle (he was a year younger) and I thought she just had a crush on him and wanted him to like her. Well in the end he was playing us both. We later became the closest friends through the beautifully easy yet complicated artistic expression and ministry called…DANCE!!! Dance was our poetry and prose. Dance was our outlet and hidden gem. Dance was how I learned to know, love, and appreciate my best friend Melanie. Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Flashback

14. YOU DO: Your Eulogy (5 min) • Begin writing Your Eulogy • Using poetry and/or prose write YOUR Eulogy • Use commas, dashes, ellipsis correctly • Demonstrate command of the conventions of SE • Use at least 3 literary devices • Audience??

15. Field Experience (Virtual or Actual)St. Jude

16. Math Connections • Statistics about Cancer in Memphis, US, World • Ratios, how much money does it take for St. Jude to operate, the coordinates of the St. Jude building • ? • ?

17. Science Connections • What does the body do when cancer gets it ? What does that look like from the inside? • Chemical imbalance • What ions make up cancer cells? What does a cancer cell look like? Why? • What are the treatments?

18. Social Studies • Which cities have the most cancer survivors, patients? • Why does cancer reek havoc around chemical plants? Research on this…

19. Exploratory • Music • Can Music Heal? • P.E. • Can being physically fit really fight cancer? • ??

20. Types of Text • Visual • Informational (non-fiction) • Literary (fiction)

21. REMS will use: VISUAL • Maps • Images • Pictures • Designs LITERARY • Novels • Adolescent Lit • Classics (old canon) • Poems • Short Stories INFORMATIONAL • Educational Magazines • Periodicals/ Newspapers • Articles • Speeches

22. Genres of Writing • Creative • Letters, Emails, Eulogies, Poetry, Prose • Expository • Informational • Letters, Emails, Memos, Speeches • Persuasive • Essays, Speeches • Narrative • Compare/Contrast

23. Genres of Speaking • Informal • Your audience • Formal • Your audience

24. REMS Literacy Plan 2014-2015 READ IT SEE IT WRITE IT SPEAK IT

25. REMS SCHOOL-WIDE LITERACY PLAN

26. READ TEXT VIEW TEXT WRITE A RESPONSE (TEXT depen/indepen) SPEAK A RESPONSE (TEXT depen/indepen)

27. QUESTIONS ???? COMMENTS??? CONCERNS??