Meeting Our 2nd Narrator: November 11, 2019

Focus: What background do we need to understand our first two narrators?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Discovering background on Dresden; add to your journal with things you're learning, images, and your reactions.

• Click HERE to read about the bombing of Dresden.

• Click HERE for before and after pictures of Dresden (before the bombing and after).

• Click HERE to read a survivor's story (he was a POW in Dresden at the time).

• Click HERE to read another survivor's story (this one was a child at the time).

• Click HERE to watch an interview with a Dresden survivor (contains war footage).

3. Reading aloud Thomas's narrative (he's a Dresden survivor)

As we read...

• What are you learning about Thomas?
• What are you wondering?

After we read...

• How do Oskar's and Thomas' narratives relate?

4. Reading, journalling, and prepping for our first fishbowl tomorrow

HW:

1. TODAY:

• Transcendentalist essay revisions due. 

• Please follow the revision policy explained in your conference and linked HERE.

• Turn in your book club book (if you checked one out from me).

2. Change: WEDNESDAY, NOV 13: Read through page 86 in EL&IC and complete your first journal; leaders need to prepare their syllabus.

3. Change: FRIDAY, NOV 15: Read through page 141 in EL&IC and complete your second journal entry; leaders need to prepare their syllabus.