Tuesday, March 3, 2026

The Notebook - Assignment #2 DUE: Thursday, 3/5 - Does True Love Exist? What makes it TRUE? .. what makes it LOVE? Does IT Have to be Forever?

SCHOLARS!!!!

Excellent Work Today Wrapping up Workshop #1! I am proud of my classes and expect nothing but greatness as we move into our next piece and work toward PUB #1 . PUB 1 is COMING UP NEXT WEEK!! We will MOVE FAST with our next Reading! 



 DUE: THURSDAY - Make SURE YOU PRINT " The Notebook" by Sparks - It is an EXCERPT!!!

We BEGIN with MIRACLES!!! 

BEFORE YOU READ :

Check out this brief video of your classmates introducing time period, setting, characters and conflicts!!


WATCH THIS !!!!! 

Gricelle, Jeffrey , Dominick  - 12:15 CLASS

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VVpF6dGq5lviV022hdVnZCSZetfUHJjI/view?usp=drivesdk

                               

DUE- 3/5 - Please print and review my lecture NOTES ! 

Lecture Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_PorVMlhVYPkEC-yLBHVism2sziePRYHkF-gF8tC5oQ/edit?tab=t.0


ADD THEMES TO YOUR NOTEBOOK!!  Make sure you know it..  we WILL ADD More AS WE GO!!! 

THEMES 

Young Love 

Deep Attachment

Societal Expectations that Dictate Love 

Commitment To Love 

Resilience in Life’s Journey 

Lifetime Love - Endless / Enduring Love  - Longevity 

Making Life Changing Decisions


Students will add as we read… I decided to have you WRITE in YOUR NOTEBOOK!

 I PLAN To go over this on Thursday - I also plan to have another read aloud - and we will round table discuss some themes as we SPOT and JOT!! BRING A PRINTED COPY of the Excerpt - ALONGSIDE A PEN - We will create a Board of Ideas as We Annotate and Analyze ! 

1. READ  " Miracles" - PAGES 1-5 - RE- READ if  you are in my morning class.  

We began with the Imagery and documenting thematic phrases - Lets keep that in our notebooks and add the below to your notebook - We will create  BOARD on Thursday ! 

2.WRITE -  ANSWER the following IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!!!!!!!!!  We will have a fishbowl on Thursday! 

 - Today we talked about introspective reflection &  Contemplative thinking.  Provide two examples from " Miracles" with concrete examples of stream of consciousness  (inner thoughts and feeling of the character) and discuss how that impacts the beginning of the story.  


3.Jot down three SYNONYMS for the word MIRACLE- ___________,__________,________

 How does Noah communicate to the reader that he is praying for a miracle? Give one example 


4.- extract two examples of IMAGERY  - place these examples in quotations- how does this communicate images in the readers mind to help them Feel l what the character is feeling.. 


* We will have a SPOT and JOT on Thursday in Roundtable - BRING highlighters, pens, the story  to class - WE will read the first 10 pages of " Ghost". ! Be prepared and bring a copy to class. 


In Class 3/5

- Small Teaching - What do you have in your notes from Tuesday

Round Table - The Miracle - Q&A- Spot & Jot 

Spot & Jot - Take out the story, a pen and your A GAME - Let's Read in Round TABLE  " Ghosts" pgs 6-15. Brady will throw out the Spots to JOT! 

HW DUE on 3/10 

 PRINT PUB #1- Will be posted on our class blog Thursday PM! 

Brady will Go over PUB 1 on March 10th  IN CLASS - Do not be absent 


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EQ: True Love Does EXIST? Agree or Disagree

Think about - What makes it TRUE? Does it exist? Last? 

What’s the other side to that - circumstances, choices, etc.. True Love is ????



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