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Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: 10 loose sentences

After today I should be able to: find the agenda for this class and access Google Classroom.

Reading: finish one book by September 5th

Agenda:

1. Write 10 loose sentences. 
1. String ideas together using and or but, and sometimes who, which, when, where and while.
1. Example: Mr. White carefully planned the stages of his essay, and then he wrote it.
2. Choose your first vocabulary list from the Big Book of Words. You must use 10 words from the letter A or B list. You will add these words to a list you create on Vocabulary.com You should finish your list by Sunday evening.21
3. You need to finish reading and annotating the Norse Mythology reading by 8/21. We will have our first class discussion on that day.
4. Annotations
1. Contrasts and Contradictions
1. A character thinks and behaves in a way that we don't expect. 
2. An element of a setting is something we would not expect. 
1. Question: Why did...How can this help us understand or predict...? 
2. Patterns 
1. A word is repeated again and again 
2. An idea is repeated again and again (but with different words, i.e. war, battle, fighting, etc.)
3. An image is repeated several times
1. Question: Why is the author continually bringing up...?

Homework:

1. Ten loose sentences
2. Vocabulary BBoW A-B