1. Sit in your assigned desk number
Pick up the short story, “The Veldt” from the front table, the rubric for classwork and homework, and the metacognitive bookmark.
Turn in your interpretation to “The Log Goblin”, your annotations and summary to “The Log Goblin”, and any work you have for “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Staple in this order. Stapler is by basket.
Have out your notebook, a pen or pencil, colored pencils (if you have them), and the 3 Story Intellect (the house for questioning)
THINK—If you could enter a virtual reality world, would you? Where would you visit? Why?

2. Bellwork 20 August 2018
Review your notes with a partner and answer the following questions orally:
What are the four elements of style?
What are we looking at when we are looking specifically at each element. For example, with diction, what classifications do we have for diction?

3. “The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats high o’ver vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance.
“The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth

4. Objective & Purpose
Read “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury and answer and discuss questions on reading to understand, reading to interpret, and reading for style.
Continue to practice our reading skills for fiction, and read to prep for composing our own imagined narrative.

5. Check for Understanding
Summarize the intended benefits of the technology of the Happylife Home in which the family lives. What dangers have the parents begun to recognize at the beginning of the story?
How does Lydia view the technology differently from her husband George at the beginning of the story? How does this conflict move the plot?

6. As you read… Draw a picture of the African veldt
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How does this setting impact the characters?

7. Intermittent Closure
What questions could you form to help us really get at the meaning of the story and what actually happened?

8. Have out homework sheet that includes your answers to “Understanding and Interpreting” #3, “Analyzing Language, Style, and Structure’ #1-5. Title this “The Veldt” Discussion Questions. Make sure your name is in the upper left.
Have out a pen or pencil that is a different color than your answers to your homework.
NOTE: If you do not have your homework done, you are not prepared for class today. BUT… you will have another opportunity to complete it tonight.

9. Bellwork 22 August 2018 “The Veldt” by deadmau5
Answer on your homework sheet: how do the images from the video reflect the themes expressed in the story? What is different?

10. Objective & Purpose
Discuss questions on reading to understand, reading to interpret, and reading for style.
Practice our speaking and listening skills while continuing to push our ability to read the story.

11. Pair. Share
Discuss your answers to the homework with your partner. Clarify answers that you are unsure about or questions you would particularly like to go over with your partner. 5 minutes

12. Turn In the following TOMORROW, and staple in this order:
Closure
Answer on your homework sheet: What did you learn from reading this story? What are some big takeaways in terms of theme, or takeaways that have to do with the skills we are working on in the class (perhaps you became more familiar with the power of allusion in storytelling, the importance of diction, setting and its impact on characters, etc.? Explain).
Turn In the following TOMORROW, and staple in this order:
Drawing of the veldt with answer to how setting impacts characters.
Answers to “Understanding and Interpreting” #3, “Analyzing Language, Style, and Structure’ #1-5, Bellwork 22 August 2018, and Closure.

13. Staple the following assignments together (in this order) and turn into the basket:
Homework sheet that includes your answers to “Understanding and Interpreting” #3, “Analyzing Language, Style, and Structure’ #1-5, Bellwork 22 August 2018, and Closure 22 August 2018.
“The Veldt” Discussion Questions Sheet with drawing on back.

14. Objective & Purpose
Choose a short story you would like to read for independent/small group study; read the story and answer questions on reading to understand, reading to interpret, and reading for style.
Discuss your answers in small groups tomorrow.

15. Mini-Lesson
Sentence Pattern #1

16. Homework “The Veldt” Topics for Composing Typed copy DUE
Wednesday August 2018
Topics for Composing
Analysis: A central conflict in this story is between the adults, who don’t understand the technology they have installed, and the children, who seem to understand the hidden power of it and use it to their advantage. Write a response in which you explain what Bradbury might be suggesting about the children and parents, especially considering how the story ends.
Argument: The children are clearly addicted to the technology in the nursery, and the parents respond by cutting off all technology. In real life, do you think there is a middle ground in the use of technology that Bradbury has not presented? Are the dangers that Bradbury warns of in “The Veldt” real?

17. Bellwork 24 August 2018
Form 5 questions to your story. These can be questions that you have in general, or questions that can lead you and your group to a deeper understanding of the story.

18. Discuss answers to your story in small groups, and discuss the story: what did you like about it? Anything you did not like? What questions do you still have? Answer these questions.

19. Mini-Lesson
Sentence Pattern #1

20. Closure
Answer on your discussion questions sheet: What did you learn from reading this story? What are some big takeaways in terms of theme, or takeaways that have to do with the skills we are working on in the class (perhaps you became more familiar with the power of allusion in storytelling, the importance of diction, setting and its impact on characters, etc.? Explain).