Making Connections

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: connect what you have been reading to what you are studying independently.

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th.

Agenda:

1. English Journal: Making Connections 
1. How can you connect what you are learning outside the book to what is happening inside the book?
1. The general argument made by author X in her/his work, _______________, is that _______________. More specifically, X argues that _______________. She/he writes, “ _______________.” In this passage, X is suggesting that _______________. In my view, X is wrong/right, because _______________. More specifically, I believe that _______________. 
2. The novel Fahrenheit 451 makes some of the same points. For example, ___________. X says, "____" This quote illustrates that...(Make a connection to the article cited above.)
2. Meet with the people who are studying the same topic as you. Create new sticky notes.

Homework:

1. Finish your vocabulary by Monday.
2. Read F451 pages 48-58