Tuesday, November 14th

Characterization: The manner/method in which an author creates a character. Asking HOW and WHY an author develops a character in the manner in which it is created. 

Method of performing characterization:
1. Carefully pick an adjective that you feel describes the character. Think to the personality of the character, versus physical. (Often the physical description supports the personality characterization).
2. Ask yourself why you named this characteristic....
3. What textual evidence supports the conclusion of this adjective.
4. Ask what is the reasoning that the author creates the character with this specific personality trait? How does it serve the meaning of the text? How is this character "working" for this text?
5. Rinse and repeat... pick another adjective.

Go through the characterization process, twice, with three major characters of Hidden Figures. You will have two character traits per character.

• Dorthy Vaughan
• Katherine Johnson
• Mary Jackson
• Paul Stafford
• Al Harrison

Put in your notes.

FOR THURSDAY: Be up through chapter 22 in Hidden Figures. Be ready for literature circle.

Monday, November 13th

My husband is having rotator cuff surgery today. I will be back tomorrow.

1. Click on the NoRedInk.com link.

2. Get logged in to your account. Use your Google account. If you haven't created account, go ahead and do so.

3. Join the following class:
5th Hour: cool lemon 24
7th Hour: strong basket 83

4. Take the NoRedInk Diagnostic Test.

5. You will need to be to chapter 22 in Hidden Figures on Thursday.  This will be your last literature circle for this book.

November 10th- Happy Friday!

1. Reading DAY!! Get caught up on your reading of Hidden Figures! We should be to chapter 19th by Monday!

November 9th

Happy Thursday!

1. Today we will be meeting with our literature circles.  You will want to achieve the following:

• Establish expectations for the small discussion time. What do you want to see happen? Goals? 
• Supplement your conversation with discussion questions provided by me. 
• Start pulling the first half of the book together. What are some of the larger patterns you have seen developing?
• How does your identification of THEME address the first half of the book? 

For FRIDAY:
1. Your THEME Prezi is due BY the beginning of class on Friday.
2. Literature circle response #3 on Google Classroom.

November 6th

In class today (Monday)...

You will be constructing a Prezi Presentation where as you will include the following:
1. Your personally constructed theme for the first half of the book, Hidden Figures.
2. Explanation of how you developed this theme, and why you gravitated towards this topic as the foundation of your theme.
3. Textual evidence (quoted and cited) as evidence to how this theme is developed and delivered in this book.
4. Explanation of the specific textual evidence and how it supports the declared theme.
5. The literary devices that are utilized that result in the creation of the declared theme.
6. Significance of this theme to the meaning of the book.
7. Explanation as to how this theme is universal.... how is it applied in other texts?
8. A list of analytical questions that you propose developed from this theme in projecting its continuation through out the rest of the book.

This presentation is due to Google Classroom before the start of class on Friday, November 10th.

Remember:
Be up through chapter 14 for Hidden Figures for literature circle on Thursday.

For Lit Circle Preparation:
1. Who will fulfill what role for Thursday's group meeting?
ROLE SHEETS are found HERE: Lit Circles Role Sheets (Pages 4-8)
2. Do you still need specific role's for your discussion?
3. What do you want to be the focus of your discussion for Thursday? Theme? Historical Context? Characterization? Comparison texts? Plot?
4. What are your goals for Thursday's meeting? What do you need to work on as a group?

Hidden Figures Reading Schedule:
* Chapter marked indicates up through this specific chapter.
Thursday, November 9th: Chapter 14
Monday, November 13th: Chapter 19
Thursday, November 16th: Chapter 22
Tuesday, November 21st: Finish the book

Friday, November 3rd

1. Microcosm Passage Presentation:

Group 1:
Keely, Austin, Garrett, Jonathan, Soleil, Niraj, Jillian
Serena, Evan, Konnor, Kemmery, Nick

Group 2:
Chloe, Kelsy, Marcus, Alec, Sean, Evan, Hailey, Drew
Tim, Madison, Sarah, Zane, Gracie

For Monday, November 6th-

You will determine the THEME of Hidden Figures. 

1. Consider of one of the following topics that you feels applies to Hidden Figures. 
2. Ask what you feel that the author is saying about this topic in this book.
3. Expand this idea into a statement of what you feel the author is saying about life.

Theme is not the topic... it is what the author is saying universally about the topic. Theme should be applicable to multiple texts.. not just the one.



Once you have determined the theme of the book, you will need to make a list of textual evidence from the first six chapters of Hidden Figures to support the theme.

Thursday, November 2nd

1. Literature circle discussions- Chapters 4, 5, 6 of Hidden Figures. 

• focus on the development of a critical conversation about the text. 
• continue examination of literary devices in the text.
• reach out to other texts... what similarities do you see between a multitude of texts and Hidden Figures. 
• what is the significance of conversations of gender in this text? 

2. Respond to the Google Classroom discussion question(s) reflecting upon literature circle meeting.

For Friday . . .
Take a reading passage from the first six chapters of the book that you feel exemplifies the significance of this story that is being told?  You will first have to identify what you feel is the significance of this story to the world... to the world of literature... to science... to gender... to civil rights. You will be examining this passage as a microcosm of the larger text.

Have a copy of the chosen passage... make sure that you can tell your classmates where to find this passage. Explicate the components of the passage that contributes to your argument as to the significance of this passage. You will point to diction.. plot points... characterization... tone... symbolism... etc.

Be ready on Friday to present your findings to the class... or smaller group... in a 3-5 minute presentation/instruction.

For Thursday, November 9th: Read chapters 7-14 of Hidden Figures