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Defining Fantasy and Science Fiction

 

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." -Neil Gaiman

January 13/14, 2010

Self-Starter:  On the sheet provided,  create a list of things you've found out about the community in The Giver.  How long can you make your list?  (Perhaps as a group?)  -- 6 minutes for groups +share

Spelling  handout for B1.
Spelling practice for all. -- 10 minutes

Test for all classes on January 15/19 on
Prefix to study:   post- which means after
1.    postgraduate
2.    postpone
3.    postwar
4.    postscript
extra credit: script comes from scribere  which means “to write.”  (1 Point)

Extra Credit from looking here:  In the word "postpone,"  the "pone" part means "to put," so to postpone something is to "put it after." 
More Extra Credit:
[The word posthaste is from the phrase "haste, post, haste,"  a direction on letters.] 
Word History for posthaste  --

1545, usually said to be from "post haste" instruction formerly written on letters (attested from 1538), from post (3) "system for sending mail" + haste. The verb post "to ride or travel with great speed" is recorded from 1558.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harpe 
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More about our January genres and the Book-of-the-Month Assignment.
Books should be read by January 26/27.
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The Giver has a lexile level of  760L.

Read The Giver.
Chapter 3 = 10 minutes
Chapter 4 = 12 minutes
Chapter 5 = 9 minutes
Chapter 6 = 15 minutes 
Chapter 7 = 16 minutes

Chapter 8 = 10 minutes 
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B1 -- Chapter 2  through   Chapter 4 --   Track 9 about 2/3 through
B2 -- from end of Chapter 2 -- "Did you still play at all, after Twelve?"  page18, Track 5 almost done through chapter 4 -- just started chapter 5. Track 9 about 2/3 of the way through.


B4 -- almost to end of Chapter 2 -- "Did you still play at all, after Twelve?"  page18, Track 5 almost done through page 29, top of the page, track 6 about 1/3 of the way through. 


A1 -- to page 16  "His father smiled" to  page 21, "Hippo."

A2 --  to page 21, "he, too, had that look."

A4-  to page 23   Track 6, about 2/3 through "he had taken an apple home."

Targets while reading:

Gather evidence by observation.
Visualize what you read.
Notice your own alignment with the text.  From where are you viewing the action?  
Answer questions about the text. 


Notes to teacher: assign speaker