The Metacognitive: September 7, 2017

Focus: How can we develop our close reading skills?

1. Warming up with Steinbeck's allusion:

• (Re)read Verses 2 and 4 from Genesis. Describe Steinbeck's allusion to Genesis: How, specifically, does Steinbeck dramatize the first few verses of Genesis? What parallels can you find, and what does he alter?

2. Understanding the method and purpose of a metacognitive writing; trying your first metacognitive with Emily Dickinson

3. Debriefing as a class

• By slowing down, what did you find yourself focusing on?

• What did you discover in the midst of your reading?

• Where did the journey take you? In other words, what did you understand at the end of the metacognitive that you didn't understand at the start?

4. Offering you Socratic seminar ticket options for East of Eden (guess what? One is a metacognitive!)

HW: 
1. For catch-up: 

• Finish composing your first Big Question blog; spend time simply freewriting on your question (why'd you pick that one?), then use it to analyze/react to Oedipus Rex. Make sure you hit the orange "Publish" button.

• Augmenting your vocabulary with Quizlet: Click HERE to join our class.

• Staying on top of your game with Remind: Click HERE to join (if you haven't done so yet).

2. For tomorrow (Friday):

• Read (and annotate) Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 in East of Eden.
• Create a Socratic seminar ticket (see options above).

3. Ongoing: Stop in for a conference on your college essay!