Thinking Skills Cont-- Asking the right questions.

0.  Please turn in your homework to the front desk.
 
0.1  Attendance

0.2  Papers returned... Please place these in your portfolios!  Why?

1.  Journal-

Do you have any superstitions/traditions you follow without thinking about them or things you do that you've just always done?  What are they?  Why do you do them?

Ex:  In my family, every Christmas, we open one present on Christmas Eve and the rest, if we have any, on Christmas morning.  I don't remember when we started this tradition, but it must have been sometime when my sister and I were under 10.  Now, that tradition continues in my own family, and my sons look forward to and remember that on that night, we get to open one present.  I guess it is a tradition that I haven't thought about until now.  I suppose my parents started it because we were always shaking the presents and trying to figure out what they were or because...

2.  In Class Reading...

 The Lottery. 

Background about the story here....

Note Ms. Jackson's response to the letter

 

3.  In class work... groups and thinking skill questions about the lottery-  Place in portfolio.

1.  Please identify all the character in the story.

2.  Explain why the boys selected the "smoothest and roundest stones."

3.  Define what Mr. Summers represents or symbolizes, stands for, in the story.

4.  Connect Old Man Warner to someone you know.

5.  Summarize the plot of the story.

6.  What can you infer about our lives from the story?

7.  Clarify how the drawing works.

8.   Identify the theme (the message the author intends) and explain why you think that is the theme.  Please use quotes in your answer.

4. Homework-

Read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and bring 10 thinking skill questions to class for another to answer.

5.  Homework:

Read another classmates editorial and answer their thinking skills questions.