Short Story Collaborative Task

Welcome!

This is intended to be a collaborative task. Your group will contain three members. Each member has a specific role, that is essential to the completion of the task as a whole. 

1. Chairperson and Reader

2. Summarizer and Question Asker

3. Notetaker and Secretary

Open up a second laptop, begin building a word processed document that keeps track of your responses to the following three sections.

Section I. Vocabulary, Spelling and Grammar

• Task 1: Browse through your booklet. Select four aspects/concepts from the unit that you learned, found intriguing or significant. For each, explain what you learned, and how it will be useful to your future studies.

• Task 2: Identify five vocabulary terms that you have learned thus far. Define each, and provide an example of how the word can be used.

Section II. Lather, and That's All

• Discuss your responses to the assigned homework Assess each group member a mark out of 10. For each member, explain why the mark was awarded.
• Complete the remaining aspects of this assignment collaboratively. Record your responses on your short story.

Section III. New Story

• Acquire the appropriate story from your teacher. 
• Predict what your story is going to be about based on the title. Record your answer.
• Divide the reading into three chunks
• For each chunk, complete an active reading strategy (SC3P, Chunk Summary, KWL or F&I sheet)
• When your have completed all three chunks, analyze your story on a story map, or a roller coaster.
• Select one of the images from the Blog. Cut and paste it onto your project. Select a quotation from the story that matches your chosen image. Produce a paragraph response that explains how the image suits your selected quotation.

Doneski.

May 22 Task 3

Upload the audio file for the reading section for pages 63-70.  When you are finished, complete the following:

1. Summarize the action of this section

2. Select your favorite quotation from this reading selection. Copy it down, insert the page number. Then explain the context and significance of this line to the book.

To make your work more eloquent, utilize sentence starter variation, vocabulary and transition words (however, nevertheless, furthermore)

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May 22 Task 2

Select two of the images. For each, select a quotation from the novel that is fitting. Copy the quotation and page number. Then explain how this quotation matches the image, and how it is significant to the novel as a whole.

May 22 Task 1

In your assigned teams, compile the BEST possible response to the following assignments. Be sure to compose a finished response that is complete, eloquent and insightful. Place all team member names on your posting.

Examine your comprehension:

1. Who visits Montag and Mildred in this section?
2. What shocking discovery does Mildred make (pg 56)

Analyze key lines:

Choose one quotation from each of the following sections. Explain the context, and significance of each line.

3. pages 53-55
4. pages 56-57
5. pg 58
6. pg 59
7. pg 62

Theme:

Beatty attempts to explain why books are so dangerous in this world. Summarize his reasons for this book ban.

Put your Ben Franklin Comment Here!

Please post your individual comment on Benjamin Franklin in this section!

451: Key Quotes pg 27-47

Task 1: Identify four of the following quotations. Explain the context of each line, then describe how each can be considered a significant moment in the novel. 3 marks for each quotation.

1. “I'm antisocial” (29)

2. “The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky” (33)

3. “any man's insane who thinks he can fool the government and us” (33)

4. “Was it always like this? The firehouse, our work? I mean, well, once upon a time...” (34)

5. “...we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out” (36)

6. “A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon” (37)

7. “Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger had turned thief” (37)

8. “Montag felt himself back away and away out the door, after Beatty, down the steps, across the lawn, where the path of kerosene lay like the track of some evil snail” (39)

9. “His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms”(41)

10. “Well, wasn't there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it?” (44)

11. “Run over by a car” (47)

Task 2: 
“Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin” (34)

Montag quotes this "historical fact". Research the actual history of Benjamin Franklin (yeah the guy with the key on the kite during the thunder storm). Summarize BF's impact on the Firefighting industry. How does this reflect on the laws Montag quotes on 34?

http://www.firefightercentral.com/history/benjamin_franklin.htm

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/fire.htm

Swimmer's Moment Poem

Compose a comment that addresses the two tasks below.

Avison's poem "The Swimmer's Moment" utilizes a classic metaphor to describe the pros and cons of conflict.  Explain how the poem can help us see conflict as a positive thing in our life. Be sure to use specific reference to the poem (quotation).

Next, copy a version of your own poem "to turn from conflict and walk away..."