Tiny Tim - Discussion of A Christmas Carol

The Ghost of Christmas Present

Today students:

• Checked one another's blog-posted questions over Staves Two & Three of  A Christmas Carol
• Discussed Staves Two & Three of A Christmas Carol - A few insights here
• Decided to write a collaborative Christmas carol over A Christmas Carol rather than individual carols
• Set up a Google Doc to compile ideas they had written so far
• In answer to a question about Dickens' Tiny Tim learned there was another Tiny Tim from the 1960s. As it turned out, they'd already learned about his music from its being in various computer games, t.v. programs (Spongebob SquarepantsI, etc.). They just hadn't known the singer looked as follows:

Assignment for Tuesday

1. Read Stave Four of A Christmas Carol.
2. Write and post to your blog possible discussion questions over Stave Four.
3. Use the Vocabulary for Stave Four as needed.

"The Lottery," Day 2

Today, students:

• Read the text of "The Lottery," and
• Highlighted it using the Diigo Chrome Extension or a Mac-based pdf. annotation tool
• Compared it with the video version
• Wrote interpretive discussion questions
• Raised and discussed their questions; here are the notes taken by this week's Class Historian, The Right The Honorable 12345.

Assignment - Due Thursday: Be sure to view again the video of "The Lottery" and take VideoNot.es.

• There was some confusion about this assignment from yesterday, so be sure and complete it by tomorrow.
• Don't forget to put a good title on your VideoNot.es.
• Share your VideoNot.es with me so I can read your analysis.