Day Two

Do now: If you have not already done so, complete the student survey, create a google folder, and add the class handouts to your google drive

Objectives:

• discuss summer reading book
• actively listen to a TED Talk about the dangers of a "Single Story"
• connect the message of the TED talk to summer reading book

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Individually:

• write down 3 things that interested or surprised you about your book
• Write down something new you learned about the culture or society featured in the novel.

3. In table groups: impromptu book club! Share your findings with your group

4. TED talk "The Danger of a Single Story" | by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5. take notes on her main points about what a single story is and why it is always incomplete. We will come back to the themes of this talk frequently throughout the year.

6. As table groups, discuss prompts (https://docs.google.com/a/belmontschools.net/document/d/1QpN7i72U5X9KeESFS3rM_6praSw5DdesU9lm6Exk8PE/edit?usp=sharing)

7. Write down:

• 1) What “single story” did you first have about your summer reading book’s culture/setting/society/people before you began reading this summer?
• 2) How did this change as you read? How did the book challenge your single story of this culture?  

Brainstorm for these two questions in preparation for the Summer Reading quiz Tuesday.

(IN ORDER TO USE NOTES DURING QUIZ, YOU MUST HAND WRITE THEM ON A PIECE OF PAPER.  NO FULL SENTENCES ALLOWED. IPADS WILL NOT BE USED)

HW: Summer Reading Quiz TUESDAY