This past week, we moved into our second unit for the year, in which all the readings deal with the topic of survival. Although we learned a bunch of the different elements of literature already, there are still plenty more to go, and this week we learned about THEME and IRONY. For theme, we threw it back to elementary school and read The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss--storytime style. The students did a great job identifying multiple themes in the story, ranging from "You're beautiful just the way you are" to "Don't trust strangers" to "Capitalism works." All equally valuable takeaways. After The Sneetches, we moved on from rhyme and picture books and listened to a story called "Keep Going" by Peter Sagal, originally told on The Moth. Listen here! Once again, the students nailed their identification of various themes from the story, most of which revolved around perseverance and pushing through even if you think you can't go any further. Our first short story of this unit is "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, and we would be remiss not to cover irony before diving in because the situational and verbal types abound! We reviewed foreshadowing (evidence-based predictions) and irony (when our predictions are wrong), and then we got to it. We left off on a cliffhanger on Friday and will be finishing the story this upcoming week. Here are this week's caption contest winners! “No, you can’t ride it! I only have 10 minutes left in my lunch break!” - Makena G.
"Sliding into a mid-life crisis." - Jessica N. "You don’t stop playing when you get old, you get old when you stop playing." - Ryan R. “Did your mom forget to pick you up, too?” - Trevor S.
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