Magical Realism and Real Life

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Magical Realism
Where wonderful and terrible meet

Syllabus for Magical Realism Unit

March 14-29

As a reward for your hard work on the writing test, there will be no homework the rest of March.

Dates	Lessons	Homework
March 14-15	Video Clip from Harry Potter Lecture and Power Point on Magical Realism Author Bio	None
March 16 and 19	Read, “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Start Study Guide
March 20-21	Complete Study Guide Create a Written Conversation between two characters
March 22-23	Turn conversation into a drama and present for class.
March 26-29	View Big Fish

Where Are We Going

To know where you are going it is important to know where you have been.
• Love and Sacrifice Unit: Short stories, news articles, and Cyrano
• Genocide Unit: Rwanda, The Holocaust, author interviews, research, and Night
• The Writing Process
• Definition Writing
• Cause and Effect Writing
• The Writing Test

Now Where? This year we spent all of our time reading for writing. We were collectors looking for stories and ideas to help us define, explain, and share ideas. Now we are going to do some reading for readers and some writing people will actually enjoy reading. Here are next stops.
• Magical Realism
• This I Believe Essay
• The Iliad and Greek Mythology
• The Kite Runner

Now what else should we do? Where do you want to go next?