9th Grade - We finished up working with the idea of the Hero archetype, by developing very specific criteria for what makes someone a hero. Students completed a worksheet with 10 different scenarios, in which they had to rank them in order from "most heroic" to "least heroic." After ranking these, we discussed as a class why certain scenarios would be considered more heroic than others.
General criteria the class agreed upon - to make an act heroic, there must be an element of risk/danger, the hero should NOT be obligated to enter the dangerous situation, and the goal should be to help someone/save a life.
Students also completed a journal entry composed of three parts - 1) why they made their choices for "most" and "least" on the worksheet, 2) Someone they personally consider a hero, and 3) if their personal hero matches the criteria they cose.
10th Grade - We added in the last set of vocabulary words for the quiz tomorrow - affect and effect, accept and except.
Students also were asked to turn in their first five Reader Response Journal Entries, which are a significant portion of the TKAM unit. We had another couple of student presentations, and then worked on an in-class project called a body biography.
For the body biographies, students chose a character from TKAM and sketched them out as a blank body - inside the body various facts and inferences about that character's personality and history were written to give a more complete idea of that character.
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