You all have been working so incredibly hard on your games. I'm very proud of you and the work that you have been doing. Today, we are going to take a step away from FLASH, and concentrate more on the online text, the features of gmail, and the blogs.
Gmail Feature
Gmail has a chat feature which I'm sure you all use. Gmail also has a group chat feature. Group chat allows a person to invite more than one person to a chat session. Once you have started a chat session with one person, you can click on the video and more tab. There you will find a group chat option that allows you to invite other individuals to chat session.
Now that you know about the group chat feature on gmail, I want you to use it.
Today's Assignment
You and your partner are going to pair up with one other group. The two groups are going to become a literature circle. One person in each literature circle needs to set up a group chat using the directions I just gave you. DO NOT log out or click out of the group chat box. Once the group chat has been established you will need to individually log on to the online textbook and read the poem found on page 826. After this poem has been read, one person in the literature circle will need to provide a summary using the chat feature. The other members of the circle will construct a well developed chat question to post on the group chat. Everyone will participate in a discussion about the poem using the three to four discussion questions posted.
You will complete this process for three poems. The poems are found on pages 826, 827, and 831-833.
Once you have completed reading and group chatting all three poems, one person from the literature circle needs to PRINT the group chat history and turn it into me for a grade.
Everyone needs to write a blog post on the EXPERIENCE not necessarily the poetry.
You have a lot to do and only today and half of the class tomorrow to finish it.
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