Wednesday, August 26

If you are reading this, you didn't get donuts.

Hw:  

• Song annotations. She wants to be able to say she knows you after reading your annotations. Friday.
• Read/ annotate chapters 9-18. Friday.
• Essay.  How do our beliefs and faith define us?  RULE for college essays. 1/3 story 2/3. You. Due monday
• Pg. 57 quotation due Monday.

HW: Essay: typed, proofread, double spaced 1 ½ pages: How do our beliefs and faith(either absence or presence) define us?

College Essay tips:

1. Tell a story: be about you
2. ⅓, ⅔ rule
3. Be positive
4. Don’t offend
5. Avoid cliches
6. Be you

• scribe
• song assignment: questions?
• discuss 4-8
• share thinking out loud- participation graded :) how are you going to show me your thinking?
• 3 observations, questions, or thoughts: post on board
• Discuss reading
• Watch Name scene, tiger scene
• Read ch. 9-18
• Be able to share your thinking on Friday
• HW: Song assignment, Essay: How do our beliefs and faith(either absence or presence) define us? p.57 quotation- due Monday, finish reading,

We watched the scene of Pi getting his name.

• when role was called in each class he made sure everyone knew to call him pi.

We also watched the scene of the tiger and the goat.

• What lesson was his father trying to teach him?

Class discussion about chapter authors note -8

• You dont need to raise your hand
• “those we meet can change us.” Eli thinks this is foreshadowing because he thinks someone pi meets will change him
• who you are is based by who you associate yourself with.
• The animals like being in captivity because everything given to them
• Pi also argues that man is the worst behaving animal in the zoo
• Why does martel spend so many pages talking about animals?
• maybe he is trying to make a comparison to humans
• Why does pi go from being so positive about animals to so negative so quickly?
• he does know that they can still take his life
• Zoos compared to religion
• certain aspects of freedom cloud them both
• he argues this because he thinks that religion is not tangible
• “I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he could ruin something I love.”
• Atheist vs. Agnostic
• atheist
• no belief
• Pi can not stand agnostic because they are uncertain
• Is Pi closer to his mom or dad?
• while young liked mom more but older will like his dad because of the lessons provided by his dad
• He compares himself at school to an animal in the zoo treated by man.