Fri Nov 27

1. Plays and Much Ado stuff....prepare, watch and then complete a paragraph on one of the following: a). What does your character want in the scene chosen by your group? or b). What is standing in his or her way?.................paragraph form ( a minimum of five sentences with an introduction and and a conclusion.).....printed out and stapled to other "presentation" page, shared on google docs and a copy placed in appropriate hand-in folder.......................then...your research topic....on the index card, 10 different facts about the topic..handed in (name on back of card).....then blogfs or read (128-170 for Monday)

Thur Nov 26

In order: 1. yesterday's quizzes: put your name on ! 2. Much Ado...Presentations/Acting Company Self-Evaluation thing today (and be an audience when required).... 3. Update blogs and put research topic on post-it note..... 4. Read to 128 for tomorrow....5. If given the "ok", begin researching your assigned topic (info on research report tomorrow)

#22 a research report topic

one of the things we will be doing from The Book Thief will be to produce a research report on one interesting topic arising from the events of the book. You will researching and finding out more information about the particular topic and organizing that info in report form. Obviously more info on that to follow. Examples of suitable topics might be book burning or The Battle of Stalingrad or Dachau. Identify one topic of your own which might be suitable for a research report and explain in three sentences which you chose that one.

#21 the lessons of the past

what can we learn from the Book Thief?....what single lesson could a reader of today (you ) take form the first 100 pages of the Book Thief

#20 the setting

A small German town at the beginning of WWII in the birthplace of Nazism. Effective? Interesting? Explain.

#19 The Book Thief 1

The narrator...the narration...do you like the style....explain.

Nazi Book Burning

WW2 in 10 minutes

Much Ado About Nothing cloze activity

using the model provided (Beatrice), create a 10 blank minimum passage on your character ( Hero, Claudio, Benedick, Don Pedro, Don John, Leonato, Dogberry, Friar). The "blanks" should be interesting vocab words or words from the text which would be recognizable to those whe knew the story..............Create the document in google docs and then share it with the members of your group and myself (tv30266)

#18 Much Ado...a series of tricks

list the seven tricks (in order) and explain which one you think was the most: a) cruel.............b) forgivable......c) deceitful. Explain each.

#17 your "narrative"

why did you choose this plot? were you happy with how it turned out? explain