Homework for Coop Day Two
Students are to come to class on Coop Day Two having read both assigned short stories with a theme identified and written for each one. A theme is a complete thought- and they have notes they took in class yesterday to help with this. As a reminder, attach the phrase “the author believes that” to a topic in the story, and then after determining what the author believes, remove the attached phrase. (Again, we did this in class and they took notes). They need to bring these written down themes with them to class.
In addition, I announced in class the writing assignment we will be doing instead of the writing listed on the syllabus. Students received a gingerbread half-sheet that announced they will be realtors writing flyers to sell gingerbread homes. We will work more on this descriptive writing project in class on Day Two. They need to begin imagining and designing their dream gingerbread house for homework.