Lesson 3: Choosing your path
This lesson focuses on your chosen novel--there are 10 different books to chose from, so not everyone may be using The Boy in the Striped Pajamas--but that is the novel I'll be using to explain the various novel assignments.
If you need a novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is offered to you free here.
If you'd rather listen to a novel, access a free recording to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl here.
What ever book you chose, begin it now. Keep doing your lessons, but read the novel also. The novel and packet need to be complete by the time you get to lesson 10 in this unit.
If you need a novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is offered to you free here.
If you'd rather listen to a novel, access a free recording to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl here.
What ever book you chose, begin it now. Keep doing your lessons, but read the novel also. The novel and packet need to be complete by the time you get to lesson 10 in this unit.
the context of the story
This lesson wants you to do some research so that you have a basic understanding of what's going on in the setting of your novel.
ASSESSMENT: PORTFOLIO
On slide 5, click the link for the worksheet you'll need to fill out and turn in.
Don't get overwhelmed, it's not as hard as it looks.
Fill in the title of the book you've chosen and the author.
Read the instructions.
I will provide a simplified version of the three questions you need to answer on this worksheet here:
1. What's going on in the country at the time this story is set?
2. Imagine what it would be like to there at that time. What would be hard about it?
3. How would people's sense of themselves be affected by the circumstances that they are experiencing?
You need to look at the sources provided to you in the lesson on slide 4 to answer these questions. Click on your chosen novel's title to drop down web links that provide you with information you need to answer the questions on the worksheet.
Where it says 'SOURCE' on the worksheet, that means that is where you put the title (and other information) of the website where you got the majority of the information to answer that question. Please do not sweat the 'SOURCE' stuff too much, I'm not looking at it with a fine-tooth comb.
NOW, if you haven't yet, START READING!!! (or listening).
Don't get overwhelmed, it's not as hard as it looks.
Fill in the title of the book you've chosen and the author.
Read the instructions.
I will provide a simplified version of the three questions you need to answer on this worksheet here:
1. What's going on in the country at the time this story is set?
2. Imagine what it would be like to there at that time. What would be hard about it?
3. How would people's sense of themselves be affected by the circumstances that they are experiencing?
You need to look at the sources provided to you in the lesson on slide 4 to answer these questions. Click on your chosen novel's title to drop down web links that provide you with information you need to answer the questions on the worksheet.
Where it says 'SOURCE' on the worksheet, that means that is where you put the title (and other information) of the website where you got the majority of the information to answer that question. Please do not sweat the 'SOURCE' stuff too much, I'm not looking at it with a fine-tooth comb.
NOW, if you haven't yet, START READING!!! (or listening).