Good morning 8th graders,
On this 19th day in March, I wish you several things:
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- A knowledge-filled 4th day of Distance Learning – each day we learn new things, about our curriculum, technology, and ourselves!
- A bountiful 1st Day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere!
- …and a happy Father’s Day in many countries, including, but not limited to Spain, Mozambique, Honduras, Italy, and Bolivia!
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And now, a word about work time – the time in parentheses, after the bold titles, is how long I expect you to work on the activity. For example, if you saw something like this – Making a butter sculpture (2 hours) – you would know you needed to work on that (most unlikely, but still intriguing) project for about 2 hours that day. Just like in Math, it’s okay if you don’t finish; I just want you to put in solid work during that time!
Today you have three items for your Literature To Do List:
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- Monologue preparation (15 minutes)
- All of you are at different places in your monologue work, so I’m posting a few guidelines and ideas of what to do next:
- First, finish up “Questions to guide your monologue” by Monday, March 23rd. You can refer to previous posts (March 17th and 18th) for suggested analysis exercises.
- Second, based on your responses in the above worksheet and activities, begin to annotate your monologue with stage directions and tone. Make sure to identify any moments of tension or shifting emotion.
- Third, begin to memorize your monologue. One way to do this is to break your monologue into different emotional beats, then rewrite those sections on individual notecards. See tip number two in this article for more information. You should begin memorizing no later than Monday, March 23rd.
- All of you are at different places in your monologue work, so I’m posting a few guidelines and ideas of what to do next:
- Reading log (35 minutes – 30 for reading and 5 for reflecting)
- Please follow the instructions from previous posts
- Contact me with any questions!
- Teams test for presentations (2 – 5 minutes)
- I’m working on presentation plans, but I need to check if everyone can use the tools. So, we’re going to test out the meeting feature in Teams today! Thank you for your patience, persistence, and positivity. Hooray for learning opportunities!
- Here’s what I would like you to do:
- Sometime during your normal Literature class time (Thomas 11:05 – 11:55am and Mansfield 12:45 – 1:28pm) get on to your Teams app
- Join the meeting that will be in progress.
- Give some sort of greeting and identify yourself, we’ll check that audio and visual work, and then you’ll hop out of the meeting.
- E-mail me with any feedback (issues with the technology (Teams app), hardware (computer, etc.), or anything else). This will help me iron out the details in the presentation plan and schedule.
- Monologue preparation (15 minutes)
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That’s everything for today. As always, contact me with questions, and I look forward to seeing you soon!