Today we returned to our unit on Magical Realism and began reading the first part of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

Mrs. Scales explained that we are learning to do our annotations on our iPads rather than on paper. Everyone found The Metamorphosis part one in the resources for Eng. 9 in Canvas. Students then downloaded the text to Notability so that they could have the text on their iPads and annotate on the digital text.

We read paragraphs 1-22 in our small groups. Students were instructed to highlight all of the words that they did not know as the first part of their annotation of the text.  The Metamorphosis Section I Post-Reading Questions had also been passed out. Students were encouraged to read the first five question and annotate support in the text for those questions. As homework all five questions must be fully explained with supporting evidence from the text, in the student’s reading logs.

The final 10 minutes of class was used to review questions 1 – 5. The following question was assigned as homework for today: