1. Reminders:
We will have a quiz over shared inquiry and FIDDS next class. Review the annotation guide in your binder. You can download it from my website or take a photo of it now.
Make sure you have the annotation guide and a copy of the Book Thief excerpt.

2. Grammar Quiz Time!
Let’s do this.

3. Think about the following quotes.
I am human and nothing human is alien to me.
My own group aside, everything human is alien to me.
Terence, 163 B.C.
Renato Rosaldo, 1984
What do they mean?

4. In your writer’s notebook, respond to this question…
Do you think we are more shaped by “The Universal Human Experience” or specific cultural experiences?

5. Philosophical Chairs The Universal Human Experience
Do you think we are more shaped by “The Universal
Human Experience” or specific cultural experiences?
Choose which side of the room you will go based on your
answer. The opposing sides will face each other, just like these arrows.
The Universal Human Experience
Specific Cultural Experiences

6. The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak

7. *
Use a star for significant information, devices, and strategies you notice. !
Use an exclamation point to indicate what you feel strongly about in the article. ?
Use a question mark next for parts that are confusing or next to any information that you’d like to explore further.

8. F
Figurative Language I
Imagery D
Diction.

9. Short Answer practice: in your writer’s notebook
After reading the excerpt from The Book Thief, consider the following question. We’ll walk through it together.
How would you describe the narrator in the excerpt from The Book Thief?
Support your answer with evidence from the selection.

10. Short Answer practice: in your writer’s notebook
Think about the way the narrator (Death) feels in the passage from The Book Thief. These key quotes may help– pay attention to specific word choice (DICTION).
“Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks.”
“I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear.”
“I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I looked at the world above.”

11. Short Answer practice: in your writer’s notebook
Why do you think Death “kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks” of the victims?
What does a kiss indicate about how he feels?
What does the word “weary” suggest about the victims?
What does Death’s use of the word “weary” indicate about how Death perceives the victims?
Emotions Associated With KISS 1. 2. 3.
Emotions Associated with WEARY

12. Short Answer practice: in your writer’s notebook
After examining the text, let’s answer the question using the evidence we found.
How would you describe the narrator in the excerpt from The Book Thief?
Support your answer with evidence from the selection.
Refer to the table below as an example:
ASSERT
(Answer the question.)
In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the narrator, Death, is…
PROVE
(How do you know?)
He “kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks” and “freed them from their fear.”
EXPLAIN
(What does that mean?)
Zusak chose for Death to use the words “kissed” and “freed” because they convey…

13. Short Answer practice: in your writer’s notebook
Now put the A(ssertion), P(roof), and E(xplanation) all together!
Use TEN LINES in your writer’s notebook to do so.
TRADE with a PARTNER! Make sure he or she ANSWERED the question, PROVED their answer with text, and EXPLAINED the significance of their quote.
After the
timer goes…

14. Now, it’s your turn…
Find your own evidence to support the answer that the narrator is sympathetic. Use the APE format to write your answer.

15. KAHOOT QUIZ!
Review your notes on FIDDS and Shared Inquiry. You have 5 minutes to review any notes you have on these things. (Hint… I gave you an annotation guide handout at the beginning of the year. You may use it on the quiz.)
Then we’ll be taking a quiz on kahoot. GO TO KAHOOT. IT Remember, you may not talk during the quiz. You talk, you get a ZERO!
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