<table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 6.65in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #1f497d; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt;" colspan="2" valign="top" width="638"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: white;">Welcome to Unit 4 Session 2</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 318.6pt;"> <td style="width: 239.4pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; height: 318.6pt;" valign="top" width="319"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"> </p> <p><img src="Burning_Book_5aff07218f673.jpg" alt="" width="255" height="255" id="" title="" /></p> </td> <td style="width: 239.4pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; height: 318.6pt;" valign="top" width="319"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In this session you’ll finish the first half of your sci-fi novel, start keeping a weekly reader response journal and begin your analysis of the characters and plot. Here are a few essential questions we'll consider in this session:</span></p> <p> </p> <ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 20px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em; clear: both; color: #222222; background-color: #eeeeee;"> <li style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Are some questions more effective than others?</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">What questions do readers/writers ask themselves to check their thinking?</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.116666793823242px; background-color: #eeeeee;">What stays the same and what changes when I read different types of texts?</span></p> </li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.116666793823242px; background-color: #eeeeee;"></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.116666793823242px; background-color: #eeeeee;">How do authors create the aesthetics of a literary work? How does the aesthetics of a literary work affect the meaning of the text?</span></p> </li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.116666793823242px; background-color: #eeeeee;">Why is it worthwhile to deliberate over the language used in a text and contrast it to the domain-specific language of a critical lens?</span></p> </li> </ul> <ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 20px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em; clear: both; color: #222222; background-color: #eeeeee;"> <li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">How do I determine what information to retain, remove, combine and restate when note-taking?</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">How does note-taking help me summarize and synthesize the message or theme of literary work(s)?</span></li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">How do I know when I have done enough to prepare for small group discussions?</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">When is my participation in small group discussions just right? Too much? Too little?</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>