2/15/12 - WE

* * *  LATE OPENING DAY


I.  TRACKER, people
- you know the routine.  Check your tracker.
- What's due?  What do you not have done?
- What do you need to work on?  Fill in?


II.  OUTSIDERS - memorization strategies
- review notes, chapters 1-4
- read and memorize chapter plot summaries
- (a) read; (b) read again, underline key words you'd use to paraphrase
- (c) read again, write down list of key words underlined or boxed
- (d) read out loud plot summaries; all at once; quiet voice
- get into groups, with each person speaking out their chapter summary

III.  OUTSIDERS
- read Chapter 5
- notes on prison imagery; bucolic, romantic imagery of country
- Ponyboy's "sleepiness" "dreaminess" (foreshadowing of later break down)
- sense of image/mirror image of how greasers look; self-awareness

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HOMEWORK

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___ complete VOCAB WK 12 DAY 4, self-correct (due TH)

___ review/peruse ATLAS pages 32-33, "Growing Population"

___ continue writing crossword-style questions based on "Growing Population" (due FR)

___ complete 5-7 more questions, MAP CROSSWORD PUZZLE (due FR)

___ begin to think about CASTLE PROJECT (due first week of March)

___ 5 LITERARY LETTERS due next Library Day 

      * plan on writing 1-2 this week