Thursday, May 1 - Research

Objective: By the end of class, students will research self-generated questions from informational text in order to develop the skill of finding relevant and reliable information quickly and efficiently that will be beneficial in any career.

DO NOW

Get your soft HOLT reader and turn to page 321 to have access to your questions. 

Direct Instruction

Get a laptop and begin research to answer each question. Continue to change the words you enter in google until you find what you are looking for. For Example: If you enter, "What did Shackelton's men eat?" and you do not get what you are looking for, try different words such as "shackelton expedition diet" or "elephant island food sources," etc. 

Reminder: Wilkipedia is not a reputable source!!

Guided / Independent

Type the questions, answers and cut and paste your sources into a google drive document and share with me.

Extra Credit 
Use Easybib.com to properly site your sources as you would in a research paper.

Closure
Independent student checks.

Exit Pass

What is the most surprising thing or the most helpful thing you discovered during your research?

Wednesday, April 30, Research Informational Text

Objective: By the end of class, students will research self-generated questions from informational text in order to develop the skill of finding relevant and reliable information quickly and efficiently that will be beneficial in any career.

DO NOW

Get your soft HOLT reader and turn to page 321 to have access to your questions. Review multiple choice answers on age 322 with me before getting laptop.

Direct Instruction

Get a laptop and begin research to answer each question. Contniue to change the words you enter in google until you fond what you are looking for. Wilkipedia is not a reputable source!!

Guided / Independent

Type the questions, answers and cut and paste your sources into a google drive document and share with me.

Extra Credit 

Use Easybib.com to properly site your sources as you would in a research paper.

Closure
Independent student checks.

Exit Pass

What is the most surprising thing or the most helpful thing you discovered during your research?

Tuesday, April 29 - Shipwreck - Informational Text

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze informational text in order to distinguish between essential and non-essential information.

DO NOW

TEXT STRUCTURE

Direct Instruction

shakelton video #1

background video on shackelton #2

Guided

Finish reading Shipwreck. Annotate as you read. pages 318-320.

Independent

Add another question for each category on page 321. You should have two questions now for each category. 

Complete multiple choice questions on page 322.

Constructed Response Question:

Analyze how the text structure of Shipwrecked at the Bottom of the World helps the reader understand the events of the Shackelton expedition.  Also identify elements of informational text that help the reader more easily understand the adventure.

Closure

Review the research questions generated.

Exit Pass

What text structure is Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World written in? How do you know?

Monday, April 28, Informational text

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze informational text in order to determine essential and non essential information.

Do NOW

Keystone practice worksheet

Direct Instruction

Informational text info

PIC of Antartica

 Antartica - Video 

Guided

Read Introduction to Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World - page 312 - soft holt reader and then pages 313-315. 

Independent

ANNOTATE and Complete sidebars.

Generate at least one question for each category on page 321.

Text structure handout. Realize that informational text is usually descriptive or chronological.

Closure

review

Exit Pass

In what text structure is Shipwreck written? How do you know?



background video on shackelton

Friday, April 25 TONE, MOOD AND STYlE

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze tone mood and style in order to improve reading comprehension.

DO NOW

Literary Device Practice sheet

Direct Instruction

style  / tone / mood

Guided / Independent

Style worksheet.

YOU MUST ANNOTATE EACH ARTICLE FOR:
1. Sentence structure - are the sentences long or short?
2. Vocabulary - difficult or simple? 
3. Formal or informal words - does the author use simple language and possibly slang or not?
4. Descriptive words - is their figurative language (similes or metaphors or hyperboles, etc)

Then answer the questions on the back. For # 3 , be sure that you completely analyze the style you prefer and explain why you prefer it.

On a separate piece of paper: What is the mood of the first passage (remember mood is based on feelings and senses)? What is its tone (the author's attitude about the subject) ?
What is the mood of the second passage? What is its tone?

Exit PAss

Allusions

Thursday, April 24 - TONE and MOOD

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze MOOD and TONE and practice keystone terms in order to improve vocabulary and communication skills.

DO NOW

propaganda worksheet

Direct Instruction

tone powerpoint

Guided

Read from 'The Eyes Have it" and annotate. Make comments as well in margins. Especially pay attention to TONE and MOOD.

Independent

Answer the multiple choice questions following the story. For #4, use your best writing skills. Assume the word  "EXPLAIN" is "ANALYZE." So, start by tagging. Then provide evidence (examples) from the text. Then explain in your own words how it adds a humorous tone. 

Keystone prep worksheet.

Closure

Review answers.

Exit Pass

Tone helps establish the mood. 

Wednesday, April 23 - MOOD

Objective:By the end of class, students will analyze TONE and MOOD and practice Keystone terms in order to increase vocabulary and improve communication skills.

DO NOW

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAKESPEARE!! In honor of his 450th birthday, complete the handout by identifying the similes and metaphors in some of his most famous quotes.

DIRECT INSTRUCTION

POWERPOINT ON TONE AND MOOD - take notes and write down a simile or metaphor for each photo that helps create the mood.

listen to mood in nature

listen to mood

listen to mood

listen to mood

listen to mood

listen to mood

boat # 1

Guided

READ MOOD passage - A White Heron - 

INDEPENDENT

Complete questions for White Heron. Use your best "constructed response" writing to analyze and answer each question in detail.

Practice Keystone terms handout. use the definition handout as a reference if you need it. 

Look at all the terms on the handout I gave you. Which ones do you need to practice the most before the Keystones? Write them on  the bottom of the page.

Closure

Review Answers

Exit Pass 

Analyze the author's use of similes and metaphors to create mood in "A White Heron." 

Tuesday, April 22, Poetry

Objective : By the end of class, students will analyze poem in order to recognize devices and elements that will improve vocabulary and reading comprehension.

DO NOW

As part of your quiz:

What is a sonnet? How many lines are in a sonnet? How many quatrains in a sonnet? How many syllables in each line? What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet? What does a sonnet always end with?

Direct Instruction

POETRY QUIZ

Exit Pass

Staple do now to quiz and submit for first grade o the last semester.

Monday, April 21 - Poetry / Sonnet

Objective: By the end of class, students will review poetic devices and analyze Shakespearean sonnet in order to develop new vocabulary  and distinguish between different types of poems.

DO NOW

Practice keystone handout (poems n more)

Direct Instruction

slideshare on poetry and Shakespearean sonnets

Guided

Analyze "Shall I compare Thee to A Summer's Day."

Independent

1. Label the Quatrains (three sets of four lines - be sure to notice that there are 10 syllables in each line)
2. Label the Rhyme scheme
2. Identify the couplet.
4. Interpret each line and translate into your own words (you do not have to rhyme).

Closure

Review elements of different types of poems (Prose, figurative, imagery, sonnet, etc).  To remember what a couplet is, think of "couple" meaning "two." Two lines of poetry, 10 syllables each with END rhyme.

Exit Pass

How does Shakespeare use personification to emphasize the constant beauty of the woman he loves?

Thursday, April 17 - Sounds of Poetry and Keystone Prep

Objective: By the end of class, students will practice recognition of Keystone terms, and analyze the sounds of poetry in order to prepare for Keystone exam and improve vocabulary.

DO NOW

Keystone term handout.

Direct Instruction

Read page 229 together in soft holt reader. Determine which terms need to make THE WALL.

Guided

CHOOSE TWO OF THE THREE FOLLOWING POEMS:

1. Out-Out by Robert Frost
2. Spring is like a perhaps hand by E. E. Cummings
3. Bailando by Pat Mora

For BOTH poems that you choose, complete page 234 in soft holt reader. be sure to read all directions first.

Independent

Sounds of Poetry handout.

Closure

Review answers on handout.

Exit Pass _IMPORTANT!!!

Analyze how the author of the poem uses sound to add more meaning to the poem and help the reader understand what he is trying to say.

Wednesday, April 16, Poetry and Keystone Prep

Objective:By the end of class, students will practice Keystone skills and vocabulary and analyze prose poetry in order to communicate visually using imagery.

DO NOW

Storm in the Mountains Quiz
Direct Instruction

Handout - Keystone terms 

Read introduction to Dreams and Ice -pages 223 soft holt reader 

Guided

Read Dreams and Ice. Identify similes and metaphors.

Independent

Answer side bars and questions on page 227-228.

In your own words, summarize DREAMS on a separate piece of paper. Then, evaluate Langston Hughes' use of metaphors in the poem DREAMS. What effect does it have on the reader?

Closure

Review answers.

Exit Pass

 

Tuesday, April 15, Keystone Prep and Poetry

Objective:By the end of class, students will practice Keystone skills and vocabulary and analyze prose poetry in order to communicate visually using imagery.

DO NOW

WRITE into notebooks -

vice

1  

noun

1.

an immoral or evil habit or practice. Synonyms: fault, failing, foible, weakness.

vir·tue

 

1.

moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

VICE AND VIRTUE ARE ANTONYMS - YOU WILL SEE THESE WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH ALLEGORY. Sometimes, an allegorical story represents more than a historical event - it uses fictitious characters or things to symbolize virtues and vices such as goodness, excellence, weakness and/or evil.

Direct Instruction

Handout - Keystone terms

Read introduction to Storm in the Mountains -pages 219-220 soft holt reader 

Guided

Read Storm in the Mountains and identify words and phrases that create imagery (sight, sound, smell, taste, feel).

Independent

Answer questions in soft holt reader at end of Storm in the Mountains. Pages 221-222 - rip out and turn in.

Closure

Review answers.

Exit Pass

Remember a prose poem contains a lot of imagery and little action, but what does a prose poem and a story have in common? 

Friday, April 11 - Animal Farm

Objective:By the end of class, students will analyze allegory and propaganda in order to make real life connections.

DO NOW

Propaganda Quiz

Direct Instruction

Finish reading for Periods 1/2.

Guided / Independent

Go back to question from yesterday: 

Analyze three ways that Squealer uses propaganda to control the animals.

(go back to story - find three occasions where Squealer manipulates the animals. Decide what type of propaganda he is using - fear, name-calling, logical fallacies, emotional words, etc. )

Complete all sidebars and questions at end of story 213-214-pages in soft holt reader.

Finish watching film.

Closure

Review allegorical elements and why authors use allegories to express ideas and opinions about a historical event.

Review EXtRA CREDIT HOMEWORK

Exit Pass

If you were to write an allegorical story about what really goes on at Randolph throughout the day, what setting would you choose and why? Be creative :)

Thursday, Animal Farm / Propaganda (bias)

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze allegory and propaganda in order to make real life connections.  

DO NOW

BIAS HANDOUT

Direct Instruction

Review elements of propaganda and BIAS.

Review answers to Animal Farm as Allegory quiz.

Read conclusion of Animal Farm.

Guided / Independent

1. Analyze three ways that Squealer uses propaganda to control the animals.
2. Choose one (1) character and analyze his behavior by what he says and does. Did his character grow/ change throughout the story? (This is called a dynamic character.)

a. Mr. Pilkington
b. Napoleon
c. Snowball
d. Squealer




Complete all sidebars.

Watch film that correlates with text.

Closure

Review sidebars and review for propaganda quiz tomorrow.


Exit Pass

Why is the use of propaganda important to the government? 9remember, you should be defining the word propaganda in your answer.

Wednesday, April 9 - Animal Farm - Propaganda and Characterization

Objective: by the end of class, students will analyze allegory and the use of propaganda in order to make real life connections.

DO NOW

QUIZ - 25 points

In 5-7 sentences, ANALYZE how Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Be specific AND cite examples.

Direct Instruction

propaganda in american news!

propaganda in Animal Farm

Read pages 200-206 - soft holt reader and complete side bars

Guided / Independent

(You can use NEOS if you want )

1. Analyze Squealer's speaking parts and determine if he is using propaganda. Then try to label the kind of propaganda he is using.

2.  Why does Napoleon first oppose the idea of the windmill that Snowball presents? What is it that Napoleon DOES NOT want the people to have and why?


3. Choose two characters and analyze their behavior by what they say and do. Is their character growing/ changing? (This is called a dynamic character.)

a. Mr. Pilkington
b. Napoleon
c. Snowball
d. Squealer


CLOSURE

Review answers

Exit Pass

Why do you think author's use allegories to express their ideas about a historical event?

Tuesday, April 8, Animal Farm / Propaganda

Objective; by the end of class, students will analyze allegory in order to make real life connections and learn from history.

DO NOW

Write the definition into your notebook:

Propaganda is the spreading of ideas in order to influence the public opinion to either support or rebel against a cause. 

Direct Instruction

Review how animal farm is an allegory for the Russian revolution and why an effective communistic society is difficult or impossible to achieve.

Types of propaganda include:

propaganda in Animal Farm- take notes

Guided

Assign roles  - soft holt reader pages 200-206 .  Read / Analyze and complete sidebars.

Independent

Propaganda worksheet

___________________________________________________
1. Why does Napoleon first oppose the idea of the windmill that Snowball presents? What is it that Napoleon DOES NOT want the people to have and why?

2. Analyze two ways that Squealer uses propaganda to control the animals.

3. Choose two characters and analyze their behavior by what they say and do. Is their character growing/ changing? (This is called a dynamic character.)

a. Mr. Pilkington
b. Napoleon
c. Snowball
d. Squealer


Closure

Review

Exit Pass

Why do you think author's write allegories to comment on historical events?

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze allegory and its elements in order t make real life connections and practice Keystone skills.

DO NOW

com·mu·nism

  noun \ˈkäm-yə-ˌni-zəm, -yü-\

: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property

: a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably

Direct Instruction

Review Russian revolution. 

stalinism

characters

Analyze characters of Animal Farm and correlate with historical figures.

Guided 

Assign roles  - soft holt reader pages 193 - 199 .  Read / Analyze and complete sidebars.

Independent

1. Explain how communism seemed like a good idea "in theory." 
2. How does human nature prevent the creation of an "ideal" communist society?
3. Explain how Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian revolution.

Closure

Review

Exit Pass

Why do you think author's write allegories to comment on historical events?



propoganda

Wednesday, April 2, Symbolism and allegory

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze symbols and be introduced to the concept of allegory in order to make real life connections.

DO NOW

Anticipation guide for Animal Farm

Direct Instruction

Read 398-399 - holt text

Powerpoint on symbolism and allegory

Guided

 video on connection between animal farm and stalinism

Independent

Symbolism handout


Closure

 review 

Exit Pass

What symbol best represents you?