Literature Circle 1: pages 1-40

Monday, Aug, 31

1. Distribute Roles

2. Complete today's job in a Word doc

3. Work with Mrs. Clark Evans to create your page

4. When all group members are ready, share and discuss your ideas for about 20 minutes. Remember: "More heads are better than one" and "The teacher doesn't have all of the answers." What seems important to YOU? to your GROUP?

You are all responsible for: sharing, discovering, and learning something new today during your group discussion.

* By the end of class today, your group needs a unique and mutually agreed upon group name :)

Literature Circle 2: pages 41-69

Wednesday, Sept 2

1. Group discussion-share, discover, and learn

2. Whole class discussion

-What important ideas or aspects has your group noted so far?

-What specifically do we note about the writing style and the effect these techniques create for the reader?

Whole Class Discussion

Thursday, Sept 3

WHAT I WONDER:

·         Why the man was keeping the wife from killing herself and the boy?

·         Why are there so many storms?

o   Whatever happened disrupted weather

o   Large amount of ash à can’t see the sun

·         Did the woman kill herself or is she somehow still alive?

·         What happened to the world? Why is there ash everywhere?

·         Why did the wife have a child if she knew the consequences?

·         Why would the wife want to kill the boy?

o   As a mother she does not want him to live that way

o   She knows the man won’t keep living for himself but he will keep living for the boy

·         What happened to the third bullet

o   Some kind of attack

o   She used obsidian to kill herself

WHAT WE KNOW:

·         The woman did not shoot herself

·         The world is full of destruction

·         Journey à south – goal (to a warm place)

·         Survival

·         People aren’t helping others

o   The man didn’t want to help the lightning-struck man but the boy did

o   The man is less hopeful than the boy; the boy wants to help the man, the dad thinks he’ll die either way

·         Man

o   Know things about him from “flashbacks” and experiences

o   Coughing up blood

o   Diesel truck à other people coughing

o   Never mentions the boy coughing

Literature Circle 3: pages 70-100

Tuesday, Sept 8

Class chat pages 100-150

-What happened? Are there others like them?

-Parenting: the man is protecting the son from harm/horror

-Wondering about apples. It has been several years since the incident, and maybe the ash preserved the apples.

-What the man has done to help them survive: had them eat snow, avoiding others, being resourceful with what they already have. Did he know all this stuff beforehand, or is he learning stuff as he goes along? None of what he's doing is worth doing, but he does it because of the boy.

QUESTIONS:

1. What state are they in? Where are they located? Are they getting closer to the warmth? Rural?

2. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WORLD?!