Homework Pass Reward Option

Here is the outline for a RST paragraph.  Figure out a pnemonic device (like RATE), image organizer, for relationships listed, or something like that to make it easy to remember.  Submit your best ideas as comments using your blog ID. Winning ideas get a free homework pass.

Body Paragraph

You must include two different sources.  Circle yours:       A       B        C       D

Ø  Have you highlighted some possible quotes to include from those two sources?  If not, go back to do that.

What is the relationship between these sources?  They

Have the same theme                 show problem/solution or cause/effect           

Compare similarities                  contrast differences                                      

show how times have changed (chronological)

Your first required source:        A       B        C       D

Ø  What academic example or background knowledge can you relate to your quote from this source?  (text-to-world or text-to-text, or text-to-academic class subject)

Your second required source:     A       B        C       D

Ø  What academic example or background knowledge can you relate to your quote from this source?  (text-to-world or text-to-text, or text-to-academic class subject)

Return to discuss the relationship between the two sources.

Conclusion sentence

 

Source D

"The Pedestrian" text

http://mikejmoran.typepad.com/files/pedestrian-by-bradbury-1.pdf (online text)

Mastery (Complete both)	Interpersonal (Respond in an open-ended response that follows RATE/QASI.)
1.   Define simile and personification. 2.   Write down three simile examples and three personification examples.  Write a sentence to describe what is being compared and why Bradbury makes these connections.	3.   Aldous Huxley once said, “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backward.” There may be some truth to this statement.  There may not be. è In what ways does technology allow/force us to move backwards as human beings?  è Do you believe that technology is more of a help or more of a hindrance (burden) to our future?
Understanding (Complete as an open-ended question following RATE/QASI.)	Self-Expressive
4.   Ray Bradbury is most well-known for his love of and expectation of future technology.  Both of the pieces we read provide evidence of the ways in which technology makes life both easier and harder. ·         Provide three examples from the texts that illustrate how technology helped people of the future. ·         How was humankind’s ability to make decisions for themselves eliminated by technology?	5.   Imagine that you are given the task of selling this neat house (before it destroys itself).  Using the template directly (or recreating a similar one), create a sign advertising this house.  Include: o   a creative hook that will draw the reader into the advertisement o   a list of helpful features o   a picture of one of those features o   a technological “contact” mode

"There Will Come Soft Rains" text

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXKT7QQsVx0 (audio read aloud)
http://www.cardinalhayes.org/ourpages/auto/2006/8/22/1156300239992/There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20Text.pdf (online text)

HW: Complete either Mastery or Self-Expressive.

Mastery (Complete both)

1.   Define simile and personification. 2.   Write down three simile examples and three personification examples.  Write a sentence to describe what is being compared and why Bradbury makes these connections. Self-Expressive 1.   Imagine that you are given the task of selling this neat house (before it destroys itself).  Using the template directly (or recreating a similar one), create a sign advertising this house.  Include: o   a creative hook that will draw the reader into the advertisement o   a list of helpful features o   a picture of one of those features o   a technological “contact” mode