Continue The Never Ending Story analysis 

Homework: Never Ending Story Packet; Coraline due January 8th!

Warm-Up: “Peace broke out. The new government of the Land of Chup, headed by Mudra, announced its desire for a long and lasting peace with Gup, a peace in which Night and Day, Speech and Silence, would no longer be separated into Zones by Twilight Strips and Walls of Force” (160).

• When in the novel does this quote appear? What is happening and why is it significant

Literature Focus: Haroun and the Sea of Stories 

• The Hero’s Journey: The complete outer journey
• Text to Text Connections:The Never Ending Story Analysis 

Homework: Continue working on Never Ending Story Packet. It will be due after we are finished with the film (most likely tomorrow)

Literature Focus: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Literal vs. Metaphorical L2!

Homework: Finish the book! Packets due MONDAY!

Warm Up: Consider this conversation between Haroun and Kattam-Shud from last night’s reading: 

• “ ‘But why do you hate stories so much?’ Haroun blurted, feeling stunned. ‘Stories are fun.’
  
• ‘The world, however, is not for Fun,’ Khattam-Shud replied. ‘The world is for Controlling.’
• ‘Which world?’ Haroun made himself ask.
• ‘Your world, my world, all worlds,’ came the reply. ‘They are all there to be Ruled. And inside every single story, inside every Stream in the Ocean, there lies a world, a story-world, that I cannot Rule at all. And that is the reason why.’” (161)

Explain Kattam-Shud’s reason for hating stories. What does he mean by the idea that stories cannot be controlled? 

Literature Focus: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Motif Analysis Review
Quote Discussion and overview of the story so far

Homework: Chapter 11;  Literal vs. Metaphorical L2 Friday

Vocabulary Focus: Haroun Vocab #2

Literature Focus: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Motif Groups: Finish Working with your “home base”
Switch groups and share responses 
Close Reading Practice: “1,000 Days Trapped Inside a Metaphor”

Homework: Chapter 10 and packet

Warm-Up: Motif review
Coraline Outside Reading Assigned 

Literature Focus: Haroun Close Reading

• Motif Jigsaw Groups
  • Darkness vs. Light;  Silence vs. Speech
  • Look in Chapters 5-8
  • Red Cards: Silence vs. Speech
  • Black Cards: Darkness vs. Light

Homework: Chapter 9 and packet
LITERAL vs. METAPHORICAL L2 ON FRIDAY!

Literature Focus: Haroun and the Sea of Stories 
Close Reading: Review Story So Far on a Metaphorical level 

Weekly Writing: Mechanical Rough Draft Peer Edit

Homework: Chapter 8 and 5 Ins; final Shrek paper due Monday!

Warm Up: How to Read Closely 

Literature Focus: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

• Mini-Lesson: The Hero’s Journey
  • Where is Haroun in the pattern?
• Passage Annotation: Literal vs. Figurative
  • Salman Rushdie’s Bio
  • Literal, Biographical, Universal Close Reading Groups 

Homework: Read Chapter 7 and complete reading guide 
MOVE BEYOND THE LITERAL IN YOUR QUOTE ANALYSIS!
Extra Credit: Create your own hero’s journey