Friday Self-Assessment

Developing Themes in Bodega Dreams

This week you should have read up to p. 107 in Bodega Dreams. Throughout the past two weeks, we’ve been analyzing the complex characters and to a lesser degree the ways in which these characters develop themes or ideas. Below are the English standards that have been addressed through these lessons.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) ·

Journal Prompt #14: “Friday Self-Assessment”

Assess your learning for the week. Don’t worry. You will not get a low grade if you feel you have not met the standards. You will, however, get a low grade if you do not put in any effort. Please rate your learning this week next to each of the four standards above. Use this rubric:

4 = Fully understand the concept/skill

3 = Understand most of the concept/skill

2 = Need help in some of the concept/skill

1 = Don’t understand the concept/skill

Please add your remarks/comments below. When this is returned to you, slip it into your journal so that you will get credit for today’s Do Now.

Writing Workshop: Thematic Essay

There are at least three ideas or themes that are developing in Bodega Dreams: Dreams, loyalty, and change (self-reinvention.) Choose one of these ideas (or any other you see developing) and write a reflection on this idea off the top of your head. Just write what your thoughts on this topic in at least one well-organized paragraph without any concern for what the novel has to say about them.

***This paragraph will provide the basis for Writing Workshop next week.

Agenda
I. Do Now
II. Mini-lesson: How do we assess our learning?
III. Ra/ta/ta (Round 2 of Book II)
IV. Workshop
V. Closing