Please remember to make an entry in your reading log.
Please include the date, the page numbers, a brief summary,
a comment, and a prediction.
8:20 a.m.
Himbe is a young man with super powers on Planet Earth –
India, to be exact. His father is English. His mother was into spiritual things
– a priestess who died giving birth to him but who passed her powers on to her
son. Himbe’s father was shot in
the head by enemies. Himbe has
nightmares about his father’s death. He talks to his parents through dreams.
Himbe is in India as a child. His British foster parents, who knew Hembe’s
parents, find him wandering in the alley as a two year old in India and they
take him back with them to England.
Hembe doesn’t know he is adopted. Hembe is a regular kid living his
regular kid life in England. There
are no other siblings. Nobody suspects his super powers. Hembe is a lonely kid
without a lot of friends. Hembe has a special mark on his body.
Hembe’s enemies are the ones who shot his father and they
are now looking for him, but they don’t know he is in England.
Conflict: Both are auditioning for the same role.
Threshold Guardian: Yulma is Kimberly’s friend and tells him
that the audition has been canceled.
After Kimberly tries to sabotage Tyler’s audition, he gets
cast.
Kimberly continues to sabotage Tyler’s rehearsals but he
rises above it, and gives a brilliant performance, which is met by tremendous
applause and a contract with an agent.
Return of the Hero: Tyler talks to his cast mates after the
show and thanks Kimberly for helping him improve as a performer.
Protagonist: a 17 year old girl named Khaleesi who has skills! She knows how to fight,
how to hunt, how to navigate
Conflict: Decides to go into the forest to reconnect herself
with nature. She is annoyed with
her family because they do not want her to do the things she wants to do –
hunting, fighting, etc.
Antagonist: An old man who does not want her to go into his
territory, which is a forest. He is a misogynist!
Mentor: A spirit who speaks to her from the dead – perhaps
her beloved grandmother.
1st Period:
Friday, January 22nd:
BIC:
Silent Sustained Reading
Reading Log:
Please write the pages, a brief summary (remember to use
nouns and avoid overusing pronouns), a comment (what do you think about what is
going on in the book) and a prediction.
Break into groups and continue working on your story using
“The Hero’s Journey” as a guide. You should now be working on the “Special
World” or the second act of your story.
The entire story should be finished by Tuesday and we will begin
presenting on Wednesday, January 27th.
Conference:
Anselmo Ko, Jayla, Angie, Stephanie:
The setting: the school
Protagonist: Jayla
Antagonist: Aliens
Conflict: Aliens want to abduct the four students and they
want the students to battle each other (like The Hunger Games) in a forest.
Mentor: Angie
Angie wants the students to band together to fight the
aliens rather than each other.
Call to Adventure:
Aliens arrive with a human leader. The human leader tells
them that they have chosen four of the strongest students to battle to the
death for the entertainment of the aliens.
The Special World is the forest on an alien planet. The aliens have very fast transport
ships which take only two hours to zoom across the universe.
The Sacred Grove: the forest which is populated by unicorns,
and alien beasts. The Forest has a force field which has oxygen in it but also
keeps the humans from escaping.
The human leader wears an oxygen tank so he can breathe. The
students sabotage the tank, killing the human.
Angie mentors the students by telling them they need to band
together to fight the aliens. The human leader wears an oxygen tank so he can
breathe. The students sabotage the tank, killing the human.
Angie mentors the students by telling them they need to band
together to fight the aliens.
The Aliens give them weapons to fight.
In the Belly of the Beast: The students run away into a cave
which is actually the belly of a giant slug. They notice there is a peculiar smell and slime is dripping
from the ceiling. Angie tells them to use the saber to cut a hole through the
slug’s belly and escape.
The oxygen in the tanks are actually making the students
crazy. Jayla takes off the mask and realizes she can breath the alien planet’s
air.
The students are really hungry. Jayla sees a fruit and eats
it, despite the other students screaming at her not to.
The students need to finish the story, which should include
finishing the “Special World” (the students being chased by the aliens, getting
to the ship, figuring out how to pilot the ship) and “The Return of the Hero”
(landing back on earth and telling the earthlings about their experiences and
what they learned – “Bringing the Elixir”).
Angie, Anselmo, Jayla, Stephanie’s group:
What they have to finish:
The Special World:
The students being chased by the aliens
The students reaching the ship
The students figuring out how to pilot the ship
The students’ flight back to Earth
The Hero’s Return:
The students landing on the earth
The students are changed by their experiences and share
their new knowledge with the people of the world.
The above must be finished by Monday. The entire story must be finished, including dialogue, by Tuesday. We will begin presenting on Wednesday, January 27th.
3rd Period:
Silent Sustained Reading
Reading Log:
Please write the pages, a brief summary (remember to use
nouns and avoid overusing pronouns), a comment (what do you think about what is
going on in the book) and a prediction.
Monday, February 1st:
Library to retake the Stars Test!
Break into groups and continue working on your story using
“The Hero’s Journey” as a guide. You should now be working on the “Special
World” or the second act of your story.
The entire story should be finished by Tuesday and we will begin
presenting on Wednesday, January 27th. The story must include prose
and dialogue.
Conference:
Kristina, Mutasim, Yubendi, Tyron
The Setting: Downtown LA
Protagonist: a scientist named Daniel; he is 5’6’’
Conflict: a cure for cancer which turns out to be a deadly
virus named “A” Virus
Antagonist: Daniel’s friend, Michael, is Chinese out to
destroy the U.S.
Daniel’s mother is the mentor and was a professor at
Stanford in medicine. She has cancer and the “A” virus
Daniel graduated from college with a ph.d in medicine. His
mom starts getting sick. They go to the hospital and find out that she has
cancer, but there is no cure. And she has one month to live. Michael decides to
work with Daniel to find a cure. The cure works on rats. They decide to sell it
on the black market w/out FDA approval.
People use it
and begin to hallucinate, and get very sick, and die.
Special World: North Dakota – because it is the cleanest
place in the U.S.
Michael, Daniel, and Daniel’s mother go to North Dakota
because the virus hasn’t reached North Dakota, yet.
The C.I.A. goes
to North Dakota to find Michael, Daniel, and Daniel’s mother, Rosie.
The Sacred Grove or a forest:
Michael, Daniel, Rosie hide from the C.I.A. in a huge cavern
where they build a huge laboratory inside.
Daniel realizes that he has the A virus so he uses the new antidote
on himself.
They now need to do the following
Into the Belly of the Beast
The Hunt/Chase
