The 14th Goldfish Cross Curricular wk 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Lesson aim

Making links between myself and the story

Understanding what assignment we are working towards

Self discovering journey

Middle school can be hard.

 In addition to finding your way around a new school, students are beginning a journey of self-discovery. Ellie takes this journey throughout the story. You may identify with her feelings and experiences; happiness, sadness, confusion, hunger, and complete exhaustion are all thrown together into the blender of life. The results can be alarming or exhilarating. You are going to go on a journey of self-discovery to prepare for reading The Fourteenth Goldfish. 

Middle school is 11-14 years old - group 8 to 3rd year in Holland roughly

Choose 1!

• Poster collage: Cut out pictures, words, phrases, and quotes from magazines to create a collage that represents you.

• Alphabet book: Write a word that describes you for each letter of the alphabet (A: artistic, B: beautiful, C: craves chocolate, D: dancer, E: enthusiastic reader, and so on).

• Poetry: Write a poem about yourself.

• Music: Write an original song or find a song that represents you, and write about why it is an appropriate choice.

• Autobiography: Write your life story or choose one moment to explore.

• Self-portrait: Draw a picture of yourself; include details that tell who you are. 

Must be finished by: 4th november

• Poster collage: Cut out pictures, words, phrases, and quotes from magazines to create a collage that represents you.

• Acrostic poem: Write each letter of your first and last name vertically on paper. Then write a word that begins with each letter to describe yourself.

• Alphabet book: Write a word that describes you for each letter of the alphabet (A: artistic, B: beautiful, C: craves chocolate, D: dancer, E: enthusiastic reader, and so on).

• Poetry: Write a poem about yourself.

• Music: Write an original song or find a song that represents you, and write about why it is an appropriate choice.

• Autobiography: Write your life story or choose one moment to explore.

• Self-portrait: Draw a picture of yourself; include details that tell who you are. 

The assignment this term

A free verse poem

Based on your 14th Goldfish

Containing literary devices (more on that later)

Presented to the class

This smiley shows how much I understand the assignment this term

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• Write an acrostic poem: Write each letter of your first and last name vertically on paper. Then write a word that begins with each letter to describe yourself.

• Finish the assignment you started in class

• Due 4th November

Today

What I need to note while reading the book

Start reading the book

Classmate check in

Making connections – Text to...

• Text-to-self connections: How does this story relate to your life? Do the characters remind you of yourself or anyone you know? Does this story make you think of something that has occurred in your life?

• Text-to-text connections: Can you think of another book, poem, or play that is similar to this story? How are the two texts alike? How are they different?

• Text-to-world connections: Does this story make you think of something that is happening in the real world right now? Does it make you think of anything that has happened in the past? How could this story impact our world? 

Take note!

In your notebook keep note of the following critera and fill in while reading the story.

SCASI

SETTING, CHARACTER, ACTION, STYLE, IDEAS

Expository - analytical/ explaining something

Motif - something which recurs in writing to support the theme

Read Chapters 1-5

Classmate check-in

Read over what your partner has written on SCASI

What do you have the same?

What is different?

Change what you think is necessary

• Finish reading chapters 1-5 (book in teams)

• Finish the writing to accompany the reading (check your notes)

• Due 5th November

Please put your mobile phone face down on your desk.

Today

Aim: To learn different ways of performing poetry

Performed poetry

Your poem turned into performed poetry

Performances

Homework

What makes something 'performed poetry'

Poem 1- IF

Poem 2 - Wake up

Draw a table in your notebook. Note the differences between poem 1 and 2

Poem 2

Assignment

Take out your acrostic poem

How can you perform this (use the ideas you wrote down while watching the other two

Add small bits of text to help it flow (if you need it)

You have 10 minutes

This will help you prepare for the test

Finished? Practise your poem out loud - 1 minute max length

Performances

In groups of 4

Each person performs their poem

Audience: write down what you liked about the poem e.g the language they used, how they performed it

Back up what you have written by explaining why.

What did you most enjoy about the poem(s) you heard?

• Finish reading chapters 6-10 (book in teams)

• Finish the writing to accompany the reading (check your notes)

• Due 9th November