Letting Your Questions Lead You to Research: August 30, 2018

Focus: How can questions and background knowledge help you understand a tricky text?

1. Warming up with a round of "What Kind of Question Is This?"

2. Using questions to guide small-group discussions: With your grid group, share some of your best questions from "The Yellow Wallpaper" and try to answer them; remember to jot down some notes on your grid

• Topic #1: How's the year going so far?
• Topic #2: Your Level 1 Questions
• Topic #3: Your Level 2 Questions

3. Sharing with the large group your best question and the best comment you had in your group

4. Activating your background knowledge

• What should we research?
• The rest cure
• Weir Mitchell
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Postpartum depression
• Anything else?

• How does our research help inform our understanding of "The Yellow Wallpaper"? Select ONE topic to research, then find at least THREE places in the story that your research helps you understand.  In the margins, explain what new understanding you've achieved thanks to this research.

HW:
1. Finish reading "The Yellow Wallpaper," filling out one final reading journal (at least five rows). In the middle column, continue to ask Level 1 and 2 questions and to use the background knowledge from class today to analyze the text.

2. For FRIDAY:

• IXL: Achieve a score of at least 85 on any two lessons from "Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons." The recommended level for English 10 is Level J, but move up or move down based on your skills.

• Independent reading PROPOSAL, SIGNATURES, AND BOOK due this Friday.