Students are “Mining for Quotes.” Next week students will have a graded discussion. Students have been reading Cry the Beloved Country and focusing our annotations, graphic organizers, small discussions on the 3 power standards for the unit: analyzing theme, complex characters, and structure choices. Tiered reading groups are cycling through 5 topic stations (the topics are also aligned to one or two of the power standards) where they can discuss the topic in order decide their position and then help one another find quotes and put them on note cards. Students won’t know the specific questions before the discussion but all questions fall under the umbrella of the topics. They will already have some ideas of what they think and will have gathered relevant text to support their opinions. The discussion will primarily be students debating their ideas, using text and analysis to create logical and valid arguments where the text is ambiguous.
Front Row L-R: Zachary Plimpton, Vivia Lung, Dara Karadsheh, Kaci Xie, Olivia Colburn, Nikhil Jaganathan Back Row L-R: Kevin Zhao, Harika...
