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Learning from Failure: A Lesson in Persistence

Reflect on a personal failure and the lessons learned from it. Engage in classroom activities and complete assigned homework. Analyze the opening paragraphs of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compare with the film version.

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Learning from Failure: A Lesson in Persistence

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  1. Tuesday, 27 August 2019Green Dot person get the folders, please.Yellow Dot person get the materials basket, please.In your Composition Book, write down the following quotation and your answer to the prompt:“I have not failed. I've just found10,000 ways that won't work.”- Thomas Edison American Inventor and BusinessmanWrite a brief narrative about a time whenyou failed at something. What did youlearn from this experience?

  2. 5th & 6th hours You will need to go on Google Classroom tomorrow to follow the directions to log on to Khan Academy and do the homework. There will be other instructions there as well. Also, remember on Thursday to go directly to the Blue Gym for pictures. I will take attendance there.

  3. Review of yesterday’s sentences As I read the sentences to you, decide whether they are specific enough to support the opinion of what the story may be about.

  4. Unit 1 Lesson 3.2

  5. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce

  6. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • First Pass: Read paragraphs 1-7 • As we read, the “movie” should be playing in your mind. • Consider how it would be different if the man’s eye’s were blindfolded.

  7. First Pass • Read Part 1 of the story (the first seven paragraphs) and think of the narrator as being physically present in the setting. Answer these questions in your composition book. • Where is the narrator positioned as he portrays the scene in each of the first seven paragraphs? Is the narrator moving around or staying in one place? • What are your clues? Underline them and make annotations in the My Notes section next to each paragraph in Part 1.

  8. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Second Pass: Notes on paragraphs 1-7 • Pay attention to where the “camera” is looking as it moves through the story. • Circle the details that the “camera” looks at. • In the margins, note where the “camera” seems to be to see these details.

  9. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • 1962 film version • Watch the opening of the film version. • Where is the camera for the different shots in the film version? • https://vimeo.com/15147706

  10. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • First Pass. Read Parts 2 & 3. • As we read, the “movie” should be playing in your mind.

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