We started today's class with fifteen minutes of reading from everyone's
free choice books (or any class novels that are currently being read).
During this time I met and spoke individually with people about their
books.
At the end of this reading time, everyone recorded their progress on
their reading sheets and tallied up their total page count for credit in their reading for this reading section.
We then returned to working with the vignette "They're Made out of Meat" from last class. We began by reviewing what inferences people had made about the story from last class. People who did not share their inferences last class were able to share inferences that they had made about the story. We then continued speaking about what else could be inferred from the text. We concluded this discussion with everyone sharing out what they thought the speakers (we said aliens) looked like and where the conversation was taking place (in a presidential office, on the deck of a space ship, etc).
Next, we watched an adaptation of this vignette in which everyone was asked to jot down notes to the following questions:
1 - How does the portrayal of this vignette compare to what you had imagined?
2 - Have the directors of this video made any assumptions about the story that don't fit with what we inferred from the text? Explain why or why not.
We will continue discussing the adaptation of this vignette next class.
Homework:
If you did not do so in class, finish responding to the questions about the video adaptation of "They're Made out of Meat."
