Week 2

Hello All!

This week we're focusing on making sure students get their Precourse Reading completed and edited up to my standards.  Parents: at home you should see your child reading Persepolis (and Kite Runner if in Honors).  You should see your child completing their Precourse Reading assignment in Google Drive--not Microsoft Word or any other word processing program.  Everything typed in this class will be using Google Drive and due on Turnitin.com.  On Level students are only completing the Precourse Reading Assignment for Persepolis, while Honors students are also completing one for Kite Runner in addition to the Major Works Data Sheets for each book.

Students, Socratic Seminar questions will be handed out later this week (as well as linked on the Resources Page), and you should be preparing for a class discussion about the topics and themes of the book(s).  Yes, you will be speaking aloud to your peers, sharing ideas.  Yes, this is for a grade.  Yes, you have to do it.  This assignment is to help us review the topics in the books for the test, as well as to get you more comfortable with speaking in front of and to your peers in your class.  You will be in groups of 10.  You can do this.  If you need to talk to me about nerves or anxiety, come see me before school and we can have a private conversation about it.

Happy Monday!