1. Answer the following questions in the margins:
Monday Warm-Up: Read the poem by Sherman Alexie: “Why We Play Basketball.”
Answer the following questions in the margins:
Part 1: Identify what challenges might make them not play basketball.
Part 2: Identify the reasons they love basketball.
Part 3: According to the speaker, what is important about Seymour?
Part 4: Identify all the ways basketball is like war, according to the speaker.
Part 5: Identify the reasons they play basketball no matter what.
Discuss the meaning of the last stanza. What do you think he is saying?
Bonus: Find and identify three pieces of figurative language.
Bonus 2: What’s the tone? What’s the mood? Explain each.

2. Today’s Reading Reindeer Games And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Go ahead and do your reading homework for tomorrow:
Red Versus White
Wake

3. Reading Calendar Changes (everything else is the same)
Wednesday 11/8: Valentine Heart, In Like a Lion, Rowdy and I Have…. (Reading Quiz)
Thursday 11/9: Because Russian Guys…, Remembering, Talking about Turtles (Assessment/Homework: Banned Book argument)
Friday 11/10: Watch “Smoke Signals”
Monday 11/13: Body Biography Activity

4. Wednesday Warm-Up
What brings you JOY?
Complete each square with as many things as you can think of.

5. Today’s Reading Valentine Heart In Like a Lion
Rowdy and I Have a Long and Serious Discussion about Basketball
Reading Quiz before the end of class! 

6. Thursday: Let’s finish the book!
Because Russian Guys Are Not Always Geniuses
My Final Freshman Year Report Card
Remembering
Talking About Turtles

7. Did you know ATDPTI is a BANNED BOOK?
Read the three sources provided.
We will watch the fourth source together.
Complete the graphic organizer –
Write an argument paragraph defending your opinion.