Digging in: Is Jack a snake?

Why (our essential question(s) of the day; why we're here): How does Golding use imagery to illustrate his beliefs about human nature?

How (how we're going to work to answer the why): We'll look closely at a few paragraphs from Chapter 3 about Jack.

What (what exactly you're going to do today; the agenda):

1. Book Love
2. Root Vocabulary - VOC
3. Two-Chunk/MLA review of homework
4. Close reading activity and in-class writing assignment
5. Chapter 3 Quiz (last ten minutes)

Today you'll need access to:

• your Carlsbad Gmail to log into the Chromebook. (For the three of you that couldn't log on before, I have a solution for you.
• A new Google Document that I sent you called your English Journal! (We'll talk about it.)
• Illuminate online:
• your username is the first part of your email (ex: blacka386)
• your password is Csd12345 (the numbers are your student number)
• you should write this information on your tech cheat sheet.

Homework:

• Book Love (As always. Also: Literacy Letter tomorrow. You should have made some progress in a book (i.e. probably at least 70-100 pages.) It's your first one, so don't worry too much, but you need to make sure you're reading.
• Read Chapter 4 in Lord of the Flies
• Submit your two-chunk paragraph to turn item.com AND revise your paper version for MLA structure so that it is PERFECT. (You get a zero until MLA on this is perfect.)
• Finish the in-class English Journal writing for today: What is Golding's view of human nature? How do you know? What imagery supports this? (If you were absent, we'll catch you up on this.)
• VOC Homework due Wednesday (front and back, including synonyms/antonyms)
• Click here for the classwork/homework grading rubric
• Vocab Root Quiz on Friday: PRO/VOC

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And now, a short video for your amusement because it's what I think of when I think of snakes. You're welcome:

In case you don't know, this is from "A Very Potter Musical." Some high schoolers wrote their own Harry Potter Musical and put it on at their school. Darren Chris is Harry Potter, back when he wasn't famous and on Glee. (You can find it on Youtube.)