TUTORSinACTION by Gordon Hultberg

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why and how we read and write . . . audience
an invitation to join me on a word and mental journey
INVITE
Last part owes Tom Romano

TUTORSinACTION

Published on Oct 05, 2020

A Deck for American Lit, NAMESAKE, Jumpa Lahiri.

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why and how we read and write . . . audience
an invitation to join me on a word and mental journey
INVITE
Last part owes Tom Romano

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we read for enjoyment first, and for understanding . . . literature, anyway.
We try to make sense of newly minted word order. To aid our understanding we use numerous strategies.
In our reading conferences I name such strategies, urging you to practice the important ones.
newly minted.
INVENT

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We began asking each other "What is my piece about?"
reason . . . sometimes we ourselves don't know what we are writing about until we have written it.
Practice asking others and ourselves WHAT A PIECE IS ABOUT.
Such practice prepares us for a life of faith, citizenship, and guarding and protecting family, the faith delivered to the citizens through the constitution of whichever country whose freedoms we enjoy
TELL ME.
We are used to being told what to think or if something works. We need to practice doing hard things, making sense of complex things, complex pictures, two-way books, papers, essays, poems.
TELL

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Label Points of View

Who am I hearing from this time?
Ashoke?

Gogol?

Ashima?

(What am I gaining by seeing the experience through their eyes this time?

Let's look at Gogol's birthday!

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Today

Get to know you
Explore pp 79-84
Set a long term goal

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Sample goals

to write better essays
to interpret literature
to understand long texts
to enjoy reading
to improve discussion skills

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What do books mean to each person?

Check pages in which Ashoke gives Gogol a book. Where does Gogol place it? What seems to be goingon in this scene? What STRATEGY is ASHOKE using to get what he wants? (Giving a gift with special meaning - but he isn't capable of telling Gogol exactly what the book means (train, saved life). Is he hoping the book will do the SPEAKING for him? What is Gogol's RESPONSE? Does he have a strategy, or is he just "reacting"?

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before b.o. room

We paused three times to ask ourselves what Capote's essay was about
We drew kites, noted compound adjectives, poetic sound devices

INFER a general from specifics
INFER a pattern in delicious details

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carackle . . . LISTEN, smile, feel! hear, touch, know, learn, experience!! Rosenblatt if ever.

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and now we are ready to enter b.o. rooms and here is the charge.

H5 we few, O for a muse
MSND floating fatties float,

Share what jumped out at you,

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there a number of things WORDS do on their own.... but it will be our job as eighth graders to discover and figure out what the verbs are doing, several of the peculiar ways they work in sentences.

They already DANCE! Just ask Martha Graham, Twyla Tharp, or Jane Austen.

we are obligated to read backward to Capote, Bradbury, Rita and Delphine to losten to various verbs. Figure out the specific kinds of magic they work, dancing they do . . . line dance, partner dance, solos, ballets, swing, military marches.

We will study several uses of verbs, and categorize them.

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