Unreal Literature Week 6

1. February 6-10, 2012 Unreal Literature Week 6

2. Walk-IN: Pick up a white binder and take out your Socratic Seminar # 3 preparation. Learning Objective: Students will paraphrase, build upon, and question other student’s ideas and refer to the text to come to conclusions or a better understanding of a variety of texts. Agenda: Socratic Seminar #3 Due Today: Nothing Monday, February 6 Homework: Option #1: Read for 20 minutes and complete Journal # 20. Option # 2: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading logs #20 and take notes for discussion and set up meeting # 4. Option # 3: Read for 20 minutes and complete annotations #20(5/7 each time)

3. In the Socratic Seminar Section of your notebook, you should have a Running Socratic Seminar Journal where you will take notes on ideas you have and things said during discussion. Do not lose this; it will be invaluable on the final exam. For each Socratic Seminar complete the following. • Socratic Seminar # ____ • Date: • Texts: • Question: • According to the texts, what implications do the different models of reality have on how we define our reality and affect our experience? • Does one model define, or do we rely on one model to define our reality more than the other? • Preparatory Response: • Notes: Socratic Seminar Journal Guidelines

4. While the teacher is coming around to check off prep, set up the Running Socratic Seminar Journal and complete the preparatory response to the question. • During discussion students should focus on • Demonstrating Socratic Seminar Discussion skills • Try to answer the question, but also raise new questions • First, try to answer the question specifically by using the texts. Then gradually move to a more general answer by synthesizing the specific details from the text • Creating a flow to the discussion, which may look/sound something like • Refer to Text • Listen • Paraphrase • Build on Ideas • Question • REPEAT (referring to the text and questioning may at times be interchangeable) • Take notes about possible answers to the question, new questions they have, ideas they found interesting or would like to further explore. • After discussion students should write a brief reflection synthesizing the ideas and texts from discussion as well as a brief assessment of the quality of discussion. Socratic Seminar Discussion Guidelines

5. Walk-IN: Turn to “What does it mean to be human?” section of your note book. Write the date (2/7) and write “Feature Film: The Elephant Man by David Lynch. Learning Objective: Students will analyze a film by tracking themes, asking questions, analyzing scenes and synthesizing other texts to provide deeper meaning and a greater understanding of the big ideas in a work of art. Agenda: The Elephant Man Due Today: Tuesday, February 7 Homework: Option #1: Read for 20 minutes and complete Journal # 21(22). Option # 2: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading logs #21(22), take notes for discussion and set up meeting # 3. Option # 3: Read for 20 minutes and complete annotations #21(22) (5/7 each time)

6. Explain the goal for viewing/note-taking: • We will be having our first real Socratic Seminar discussion on Monday, focusing on the movie, The Elephant Man. • Take notes on anything that relates to the human experience, how our perception of reality affects our human experience as well as how our fears affect our human experience: • Paraphrase key scenes • Make connections to stories we have read and any other texts. • List important facts to turn into Level 1 questions • List things you are wondering about for Level 2 questions • Track the big ideas to create level 3 questions. • You will use this to set up your discussion preparation that you must have to participate in Monday’s Seminar. Feature Film: The Elephant Man by David Lynch.

7. In 1980, David Lynch's masterpiece The Elephant Man was released. The film told the story of John Merrick, a tragically deformed yet charming and intelligent Englishman. When it hit the screens in the 80s, it became a cult hit with sufferers of neurofibromatosis, the disease that the Elephant Man was thought to have had. Previously, it was thought that he suffered from elephantiasis, a tropical disease causes by parasites in the bloodstream. However, it was suggested in 1979 that Merrick had Proteus syndrome or "Elephant Man's Disease", which causes abnormal, unchecked growth of bones, skin, and other systems. Fewer than 100 cases of Proteus have been recorded, while NF occurs in one in every 4,000 births. No condition has ever produced a degree of deformity equivalent to Merrick's. The Elephant Man was, in fact, named Joseph Carey Merrick. He is often called John because in the memoirs of Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick's doctor, the name was deliberately changed to John. No one is sure why; it is suggested that Treves was merely senile. Joseph Carey Merrick was born in Leicester, England in 1862. He began growing disfiguring tumors before the age of two and his condition rapidly worsened, rendering one of his arms completely useless. Nevertheless, he was described as a wonderfully imaginative and intelligent boy. When Joseph was 11, his mother, Mary Jane, who was also physically handicapped, died, and Joseph's father remarried. Joseph's stepmother was not nearly as compassionate as his mother, and she even gave Joseph's father an ultimatum: "Joseph, or me." The young Joseph was cast out of the home and went to live at the Leicester Union Workhouse, and sold shoe polish on the street. However, he was constantly taunted by crowds of cruel children and soon moved on to another line of work. Joseph became a sideshow freak: The Elephant Man, so-called for the roughness of his skin and a facial deformity that was said to resemble a trunk. Merrick's caretaker was Tom Norman, who was a far cry from the monster portrayed in the movie. Norman cared genuinely for Merrick, who was quite a success as a freak. Merrick accumulated 200 pounds, a large sum of money at the time. Sadly, he was robbed by an Austrian showman who was not connected with Norman, and left stranded in Belgium. Returning home from Belgium, Merrick was discovered in the Liverpool train station by Dr. Frederick Treves, who had previously seen Merrick on display in a medical school. Merrick was suffering from bronchitis and malnutrition, and Treves brought him back to the Whitechapel Hospital. The hospital became Merrick's permanent home; in his room he wrote poetry and prose and built models from card stock, his most famous being of the St. Philip's cathedral. While the film suggests he built the model from the view from his window, it is likely he studied architectural drawings of the church. Introduction to “The Elephant Man.”

8. Walk-IN: Put your Reading Responses for Week 4 in the box, and open up to your Elephant Man notes. Learning Objective: Students will analyze a film by tracking themes, asking questions, analyzing scenes and synthesizing other texts to provide deeper meaning and a greater understanding of the big ideas in a work of art. Agenda: The Elephant Man Due Today: Reading Responses Week 4 Wednesday/Thursday, February 8-9 Homework: Option #1: Read for 20 minutes and complete Journal # 22(23). Option # 2: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading logs 22(23), take notes for discussion and set up meeting # 4. Option # 3: Read for 20 minutes and complete annotations #22(23)(5/7 each time)

9. Explain the goal for viewing/note-taking: • We will be having our first real Socratic Seminar discussion on Monday, focusing on the movie, The Elephant Man. • Take notes on anything that relates to the human experience, how our perception of reality affects our human experience as well as how our fears affect our human experience: • Paraphrase key scenes • Make connections to stories we have read and any other texts. • List important facts to turn into Level 1 questions • List things you are wondering about for Level 2 questions • Track the big ideas to create level 3 questions. • You will use this to set up your discussion preparation that you must have to participate in Monday’s Seminar. Feature Film: The Elephant Man by David Lynch.

10. Highlight important facts/details, specific scenes you want to use for your preparation in one color. Highlight questions you want to use in a second color. Highlight areas of synthesis—connections between other texts in class or connections to material outside of class. Creating your Prep from your Notes

11. Walk-IN: Pick up a white binder and take out your Socratic Seminar # 3 preparation. Learning Objective: Students will paraphrase, build upon, and question other student’s ideas and refer to the text to come to conclusions or a better understanding of a variety of texts. Agenda: Socratic Seminar #3 Due Today: Nothing Friday, February 10 Homework: Option #1: Read for 20 minutes and complete Journal # 24. Option # 2: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading logs #24 and take notes for discussion and set up meeting # 4. Option # 3: Read for 20 minutes and complete annotations #24(5/7 each time)

12. Explain the goal for viewing/note-taking: • We will be having our first real Socratic Seminar discussion on Monday, focusing on the movie, The Elephant Man. • Take notes on anything that relates to the human experience, how our perception of reality affects our human experience as well as how our fears affect our human experience: • Paraphrase key scenes • Make connections to stories we have read and any other texts. • List important facts to turn into Level 1 questions • List things you are wondering about for Level 2 questions • Track the big ideas to create level 3 questions. • You will use this to set up your discussion preparation that you must have to participate in Monday’s Seminar. Feature Film: The Elephant Man by David Lynch.

13. Highlight passages you want to use for your preparation in one color. Highlight questions you want to use in a second color. Highlight areas of synthesis—connections between lecture, movie, and story in another color. Creating your Prep from your Notes

14. Directions: This is your ticket into seminar—you must have this to participate. • 2-3 Passages (summary of scenes or direct quote if you have one) • Paragraph explaining each scene and how it relates to humanity • 4-6 Questions (these can be Level 1, 2 , or 3) • 2-3 areas of synthesis • Choose a scene from the movie that relates to other texts/movies from our class or outside and explain the connection Socratic Seminar Preparation Due Monday