Activity 1 (5-10 mins): Turn and discuss with two other people your character chart and annotations for the prologue...Use this opportunity to corroborate and add details (e.g., character traits and page #'s) to your chart. 


Activity 2 (5 mins): Hand out and discuss BBF annotation bookmark

BBF Annotation Guide

In addition to your other annotations  
(character traits, relationships, events, questions, vocab) track the following essential questions/connection mentally - and with annotations - as you read...

Essential Questions/Connections

Chicago Connections (C&A): In what ways is Mumbai like Chicago, like America?  How is it different?

Depravity (D): How is this a story of human depravity?

Human Spirit (S): How is this a story of human strength & spirit?

Power (P): How is this a story of how power really works?  Consider the influence of the 
following on power and opportunity: money, connections, skin color/race/ethnicity/religious prejudices, police and political corruption, pollution, unbridled/unregulated capitalism)

Activity 3: In-class Reading (20 mins)

Activity 4 (Exit Ticket): (10 mins) Name, period, date. Stop reading and, on a half sheet of paper, write a paragraph with an embedded quote or two which draws a connection between some passage in chapter one and one of the  questions/connections suggested by your bookmark.

Read and annotate chapter 1 for tomorrow