Checking Reader Baggage with "Birthday Party" and Intro to STICCCS

 Agenda:

  • Warm-up: Finish Blog & reply; vocab. site
  • Check personal reader baggage and feelings towards birthdays
  • Check Cultural (top ten list w/ share)
  • Brief Mansfield BG
  • Read and Annotate "Birthday Party"
  • Add theme at the end keeping in mind if the story met general/cultural expectations or not (was there irony?)
  • Honors:
    • Give all of the definitions
    • Have students begin looking for STICCCS on their own
Homework:
  • Vocab due to 80% by tomorrow
  • Blog and Reply due tomorrow  

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