Imagining Setting - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Directions: Follow along to the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Imagine that you are in the world the song is describing. Look at the image in your mind. On the other side of this sheet, draw (to the best of your ability) what that picture looks like.


Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.

{CHORUS}
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Ah... Ah...

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain,
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.

{CHORUS}

Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Weekend Journals

All sections:

Saturday: Go back to and read an old journal entry of your choosing. Expand on it, rewrite it, or use it to inspire a new journal topic.

Sunday: Using the responses you gave on the "Dow the Rabbit Hole" assignment, write your own version of a trip down the rabbit hole (look at pages 7-9 in the book for Alice's trip).

Monday: Freewrite!

Journal for the day

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Freewrite!!!

Reading Notes Guiding Questions

Reading Notes
Guiding Questions

What are Reading Notes?
Reading notes are marginal notes you will make in your texts as you read. This is a simple way to interact directly with a text. As you become a more sophisticated reader, you will find it easier to make notes, but for now, use these guiding questions as you think about Alice in Wonderland and respond to the text.

Think about the guiding questions as you read, and try to answer them as you go along. Write responses in your book, or on a post-it (if the book is borrowed).

Guiding Questions

Plot
Can I describe the story in my own words?
What is the central conflict of this story?
What are the different kinds of conflicts in this story?
What is the climactic event of the story?
What are some key events in the rising action?

Setting
What is the setting?
Can I imagine what the setting looks like?
Does the setting remind me of somewhere I know, real or imagined?
How does the setting influence the events of the story?
How do the characters interact with the setting?

Character
Who are the characters?
What are the characters like?
What can I learn about the characters from this?
Do I know what the character looks or sounds like?
How do characters talk to each other?

Themes
What do I notice?
Does this connect with any themes (big ideas) that I'm familiar with?
If I take a step back from the events of the story, what do they have in common?

Critical Thinking
Do I agree with what the author is saying?
What is written in between the lines?
What is the importance of this event in the story?
What motivates this character?
Why did the author choose these words for this passage?
What is the purpose of (this scene, this conversation, this description)?

Connections
Can I make a personal connection to the events of the story? The themes?
What other stories have I read that are similar? How do they relate?
Have I read other texts with similar themes?
Can I connect the text to current or historical events?

Journal for the day

Sections 102, 103 & 104:

What leads Alice to question her identity? What are the results of her inquiry?


Section 101:

How does the setting change as Alice interacts with it? Why do you think this is?

Journal for the day

Sections 102, 103 and 104:

How does the setting change as Alice interacts with it? Why do you think this is?


Section 101:

What are some good questions to ask yourself while you're reading? (Anything! Magazines, books, websites...)

How do you know you are understanding a text?

Journal for the day

Sections 102, 103 & 104:

What are some good questions to ask yourself while you're reading? (Anything! Magazines, books, websites...)

How do you know you are understanding a text?

Section 101:

No journal today.