English 8/9 (2)

Today students began with a creative writing exercise.  Students were asked to type a story using the following prompting questions:

1.    How long have you been on the planet?

2.    Why did you go there?

3.    Describe two people who are with you?

4.    Why is your spaceship damaged?

5.    When you decided to leave your ship, how far did you walk?

6.    What were you looking for?

7.    When did you realize that someone was following you?

8.    Describe the creature.

9.    While you were running away, you tripped and fell.  What happened?

10.         What was the big surprise at the end of your story?

Students then printed this off and handed it in.

Students then worked through an activity based on the book/movie Divergent.  See the instructions below:

Divergent Activity

Please define the following terms.  Use the dictionaries at the back of the class.  Feel free to discuss the definitions with the people at your tables so that the best student friendly language can be utilized.

Erudite:  

Abnegation:  

Dauntless:  

Amity:  

Candor:  

Identify the faction you would choose:  _________________________________________________

In a paragraph below, explain why.

Students watched the first 20 minutes of the movie after finding the definitions and then had about 10 minutes to write their paragraph.