Thursday, August 23, 2018

Paintings Are Texts, Too: August 23, 2018

Focus: What strategies do we use to understand visual texts?

1. Warming up with "If You Really Knew Me" and your seating charts

2. Establishing your main reading strategy with a card trick from Ms. Leclaire: Making connections and making inferences; offering you an overview of Critical Reading Boot Camp

3. Applying your new reading strategy to a few paintings by Norman Rockwell

a. Inside your English 10 folder, please set up a folder with your last name and "Reading Boot Camp" in the title.

b. Inside the "Reading Boot Camp" folder, make a copy of THIS NOTE CATCHER.


HW:
1. Last call: Make sure you are signed up for the class Remind account and that you have taken the survey (due tomorrow). The homework picks up next week, so take care of these now.

2. Remember that you need a physical copy of your independent reading book, your short proposal, and your signed permission form in class on Friday, August 31.

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