Country groups continued research and began outlining plans for their storytelling. Please note: we have moved presentations of stories to MONDAY instead of FRIDAY. I listened to groups explain what they have learned to help them identify other aspects of their topic they may still need to research.
ENGLISH
Students passed off their memorization from Man's Search.
A key reading comprehension strategy is identifying passages of text that you do not understand. I had students mark 2-3 passages from Screwtape Letter 2 that they did not understand fully. Then we practiced re-reading and discussion strategies to strengthen reading comprehension.
We discussed Screwtape's idea that "The Enemy [i.e., God] allows ... disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour" (Lewis 7). We considered why marriages, even LDS marriages, often fail in the first year or two. We also considered how disappointment sets in after the start of a school year, after beginning a New Year's Resolution, when an investigator starts learning about the Church, and in other endeavors such as joining a sports team. We considered that in these moments of disappointment, we have a moment of decision: will we keep our commitments? Screwtape points out that "In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing." Why would God allow this discouragement? Screwtape explains that God does so because he wants humans to become his "free lovers and servants--'sons' is the word He uses."
HW
- Read Screwtape Letter #3. Look up vocabulary that you do not understand. Put difficult passages into your own words, writing your paraphrases in the margins of the book.
- History storytelling on Monday.
- Second scenes of short stories are due on Friday.
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