Welcome Mr. Obermeyer!
Goal: Read the interview with Diana Garcia about her process writing “On Leaving/On Staying Behind”
Agenda:
Journal
Poem Refresh
Reading the Interview
Answering Questions in GC
Grade Check
1. Journal
Describe the most important decision you’ve ever made.
2. Poem Refresh
- Earlier this week, we read poems by Diana Garcia called "On Leaving/On Staying Behind"
- Take out your copy of that poem since you will need to refer to it today.
- There is an interview with Diana Garcia for you to read with Mr. Obermeyer.
- He will pass out one copy of the interview to you.
- You will be answering a series of 4 questions based on this interview.
- There are questions posted in Google Classroom called "Responding to Questions: Diana Garcia Interview"
- These are the following questions:
- What other issues and contexts does the interview introduce?
- What does Garcia identify as her purpose for writing the poems?
- What is the situation Garcia is responding to in this interview?
- What does this broader context contribute to your understanding of the poems’ themes?
5. Work Check
Are you up to date? These are the assignments some of you should have completed this week:
- Compare/Contrast Writing in Google Classroom
- Venn Diagram completed on paper earlier this week
- 4 sentence precis from yesterday's article
Tomorrow you will be completing your performance task based on Garcia's work. Check to be sure your work from this week is finished.
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