November 3, 2015

We started the period with 25 minutes to read independently and write in our Writer's Notebooks. Today's notebook entry was inspired by last Tuesday's list of awesome things. I asked students to choose one item from their list and expand on it in the style of the entries on the 1000 Awesome Things blog.

We used Kahoot! to review a STAAR revising passage. Students did really well on this activity!

We returned to "The Demon Lover" retellings. Students read several variations of the ballad and then looked at the original ballad through a different lens. Here are the questions that were posed today:

Consider the variations of the ballad that you read.

• What's the same across all the ballads? What's different? 

• How do the differences alter your ideas about the characters or events?

• What, if anything, do the differences tell you about the time, place, or culture? 

One of the titles of the original ballad was "A Warning to Married Women." Please reread "The Daemon Lover" ballad to come up with a response to this question: "What is the warning to married women?" Be sure to support your interpretation with evidence from across the text.

Reflect

• Consider the variations that you read that are the most different from the Scottish ballad we've read and discussed. Do these ballads suggest a different warning to married women? If so, what's the warning and how is it conveyed? 

• How did reading Bowen's text and studying multiple versions of the Scottish ballad influence your thinking about the warning to married women?

• What can you say about how texts make meaning from other texts? 

Today's Board

 Remember to bring your charged iPad tomorrow for Career Cruising!