"I Came, I Saw, I Shopped"
What kind of text is "I Came, I Saw, I Shopped"?
Informative / an article.
What is the main twist in "The Necklace?"
What is the name of King Midas' daughter?
Marygold
What is today's learning intention?
"I am learning to write a well-developed informative essay that examines complex ideas by selecting and including relevant details from a text to convey information clearly and accurately."
What is the main idea in "I Came, I Saw, I Shopped" ?
That people tend to overspend and shop more than they need to.
What is Mathilde's main flaw in "The Necklace"?
She values material things and beauty over everything else.
What tragic thing happens to Marygold?
She gets turned into a golden statue.
What is today's success criteria?
"I can write a well-developed explanatory essay that answers the prompt, “How do we decide what we want versus what we need? What can result from an imbalance between want and need?”
What did the girl in the video we watched ask her family to do?
Sell their house and donate half the money to charity.
What is situational irony?
When what the reader expects to happen doesn't actually happen.
How did King Midas get rid of the golden touch?
By sprinkling the water from his garden's river over everything he had turned into gold.
What is our essential question?
"What do our possessions reveal about us?"
What is one piece (One Piece?) of evidence used in "I Came, I Saw, I Shopped" ?
- Mirror Neurons
- People want to buy what their friends buy
- People want to buy from brands who support the same social causes
- Americans save less than Europeans
What is the name of the friend who lent Mathilde the necklace?
What two things remained golden even after King Midas turned them back?
Marygold's hair and the sand at the bottom of the river.
What is the essay prompt?
"How do we decide what we want versus what we need? What can result from an imbalance between want and need?"
How does "I Came, I Saw, I Shopped" connect to "The Golden Touch" or "The Necklace" ?
It explains the reason WHY people become obsessed with material goods, much like King Midas and Mathilde do in their respective stories.
When should a semicolon be used?
What is the name of the narrator in "The Golden Touch"?
What is a thesis statement?
The main idea or question that the entire paper is centered around.