Future Readings

Okay, so for March 7th we'll be reading:
"Feathers," "Chef's House," "Preservation," "The Compartment," and "Vitamins."

Then we'll manipulate these prompts to fit our short story needs:

Post 5: (Chapters 8 – 10, pages 80-120) As you read the next three chapters, pick specific lines to respond to. What lines did you like or dislike the most from each chapter? Why? Do you think these lines are important to the overall development of the story? Do you have any problems with the way race, class or gender is being portrayed here? Do you think these lines relate at all to your life? Why did you pick them? What do they mean to you?

Use these lines to create a found poem you feel relates to the big critical issues in the story, post the poem to the blog – record it and upload it to the blog so blog members can listen to it as well. You should try using voice thread for this activity (http://voicethread.com/)

Post 6: (Before you start the end of the book) Pick a character from the story and create a piece of writing that they would write in their journal or diary. Start with a specific event in the story, but also add events, issues, characters that we were not told about. In your post try and address the issues you believe the character is thinking about and dealing with that we may not have been told about in the story. Record video of this piece as if the character were reading it and post it to the blog as a v-log. Your group members can comment on your post as characters from the story as well.

Then for March 21st we'll be reading:
"Careful," "The Train," "Fever," "The Bridal," and "Cathedral." That will complete the collection of Cathedral. We've already read "A Small, Good Thing" and "Were I Am Calling From" out of this collection. This would be a good time to go to an establishment and talk because next we would be getting into the NCTE book.

The final prompt is:

Post 7 (Chapters 11 and 12, pages 120-145) Create your own activity and experiment with it on the blog.

Some sites you may want to consider using:

http://www.glogster.com/ (example: http://ma96.glogster.com/langston-hughes/)

http://prezi.com/

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

http://www.capzles.com/