1. 2/26/15 Do Now: -Take out your Into the Wild books. Homework: Read Chapter three Content Objective: Content Objective: Students will continue reading and understanding Into the Wild. Language Objective: Students will use guided reading to ask questions and demonstrate their understanding. Students will use the guided reading questions to help them record their understanding.

2. Think about some alternative plans you might have instead of beginning college immediately after high school. What might you do, why would you do it, and how long do you see yourself in this activity? (Get specific!) “Writing Into Class”

3. First Person: The use of I, me, we and other first- person pronouns to relate the thoughts, experiences, and observations of a narrator in a work of fiction (a short story or novel) or nonfiction. (The Great Gatsby – Nick Carraway) Third Person: The third person point of view is a form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as "he" or "she." Third person point of view allows a writer more freedom in how a story is told. (Jon Krakauer – Into the Wild) Point of View:

4. Leo Tolstoy: 1828-1910 Russian Studied law and Oriental languages at Kazan University – teachers said he was “unwilling and unable to learn” – diaries reveal his “insatiable thirst for a rational and moral justification of life”

5. Tolstoy continued Military experience, but later a pacifist and considered a “moral” philosopher – Influenced Gandhi and MLK, Jr. Drifted towards a more oriental worldview with Buddhist overtones, – learned to feel himself in other living creatures Realist fiction, realistic depiction of 19th- century Russian life – War and Peace & Anna Karenina

6. Multigenre research paper is an alternative to the traditional five paragraph. It emphasizes the use of multiple genres to represent a given research topic. With this type of project, writers are expected to research their given topic and then present the information they gathered using a variety of genres, with an emphasis on writing and composition. The genres created to represent the topic can be put together through the creation of a theme and bracketed by an introduction and conclusion. This creates a unified research paper that avoids the structure of a traditional five paragraph essay. Multigenre research paper:

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