Contents
- 0.1
- 0.2 Thursday September 26th, 2024
- 0.3 Task 1: Book Talk for the Literature Circles
- 0.4 Task 2: Students make their book selections.
- 0.5 Task 3: Preview Assignment: Background Information Assignment.
- 0.6
- 0.7
- 0.8 Tuesday October 1st, 2023
- 0.9 Task 1: Students work on Background Information Assignment
- 0.10 Post the visual of your Background Information Visual on your blog. I will be checking during tomorrow’s class.
- 0.11
- 0.12 Wednesday October 2nd, 2024
- 0.13 Task 1: Discuss Effective Questioning PowerPoint
- 0.14 Task 2: Do a closed reading of a children’s book. Students generate questions that would be potential good discussion questions.
- 0.15 Task 3: Do a closed reading of a children’s book. Students complete the Effective Questioning Worksheet.
- 0.16 Task 4: Students participate in a 15-minute discussion based on their 2 best questions. Students will be in groups of 3.
- 0.17 Task 4: Go over Expectations for Lit Discussions
- 0.18
- 0.19 Thursday October 5th 2023
- 0.20 Task 1: Go over Literary Lens PowerPoint and expectations for the Literary Circles.
- 0.21 Task 2: Go over the Literary Lenses for Historical Lens/Reader Response
- 0.22
- 0.23 Friday October 6th, 2023
- 0.24 Task 1: Prepare for the 1st discussion
- 0.25 Tuesday October 10th 2023
- 0.26 Task 1: Non-Fiction Identity Worksheet.
- 0.27 Task 2: Students work on Non Fiction Identity Worksheet and go over the responses from the worksheet.
- 0.28 Task 3: Discuss the Non-Fiction Article with another student.
- 0.29 Task 4: Tutorial on using the Microphones
- 0.30
- 0.31 Wednesday October 11th 2023
- 0.32 Task 1: Discussion #1 Historical Lens/Reader Response
- 0.33 Task 2: Introduce Psychological Lens in preparation for Discussion #2
- 0.34 Thursday October 12th 2023
- 0.35 Task 1: Go over the Id, Ego and SuperEgo
- 0.36 Task 3: Go over Psychological Lens Ignite Assignment
- 0.37 Task 4: Students work on their Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation
- 0.38
- 0.39 Friday October 13th, 2023
- 0.40 Task 1: Students present their Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation. You are only presenting to your lit group members.
- 0.41 Task 2: Students prepare for the second discussion: Psychological Lens
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- 0.43 Monday October 16th, 2023
- 0.44 Task 1: Students prepare for discussion #2: Psychological Lens
- 0.45 Tuesday October 17th, 2023
- 0.46 Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #2: Psychological Lens
- 0.47 Task 2: Go over the Feminist Lens
- 0.48 Task 3: Work on the Feminist Lens Ad Activity
- 0.49 Wednesday October 18th, 2023
- 0.50 Task 1: Go over the Feminist Lens Ad Activity
- 0.51 Task 2: Show the following two clips to the class
- 0.52
- 0.53 Task 3: Feminist Stereotypes (Look for how are females and men are portrayed in this cartoon?)
- 0.54 Fill this in as you are watching the cartoon: Poor Cinderella (1934).
- 0.55 Task 4: Students will start the Feminist Lens Paragraph Assignment
- 0.56
- 0.57 Wednesday October 18th 2023 and Thursday October 19th 2023
- 0.58 Task 1: Students worked on the Feminist Lens Written Assignment
- 0.59 Monday October 23rd 2023 and Tuesday October 24th 2023
- 0.60 Task 2: Prepare for Discussion #3- Feminist Lens
- 0.61
- 0.62
- 0.63 Wednesday October 25th 2023
- 0.64 Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #3
- 0.65 Task 2: Talk about Ecocentrism Lens and Archetype Lens
- 0.66
- 0.67 Thursday October 26th 2023
- 0.68 Task 2: Look at some of examples of Ecocentrism
- 0.69 Task 3: Ecocentrism/Archetype Lens Activity
- 0.70 Task 4: Ecocentrism Write
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- 1.1 Monday October 30th 2023 and Tuesday October 31st 2023
- 1.2 Task 1: Students prepare for the fourth discussion: Archetypal Lens/Ecocentrism Lens
- 1.3
- 1.4
- 1.5 Wednesday November 1st 2023
- 1.6 Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #4
- 1.7 Task 2: Go over New Criticism and Reader Response Lens
- 1.8 New Criticism
- 1.9
- 1.10
- 1.11
- 1.12 Thursday November 2nd, 2023 and Friday November 3rd, 2023
- 1.13 Task 1: Start preparation for the Lit Circle Novel Research Paper
- 1.14 Task 2: Lesson on using the Database: Canada in Context
- 1.15 Task 3: Students start searching for a Non- Fiction article for your Lit Circle Research Essay
- 1.16
- 1.17
- 1.18 Monday November 6th, 2023 and Tuesday November 7th 2023
- 1.19 Task 1: Students prepare for Discussion #5
- 1.20 Task 2: Students work on their Novel Synthesis Research Essay
- 1.21
- 1.22 Wednesday November 8th, 2023
- 1.23 Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #5
- 1.24 Task 2: Students continue to work on their Synthesis Research Essay
- 1.25
- 1.26
- 1.27
- 1.28
- 1.29 Task 1: Community Connections Novel Project Check- In #2
- 1.30 Work Block: Students work on the following:
- 1.31
- 1.32
- 1.33 Task 2: Work Block
- 1.34 November 29th and November 30th 2022
- 1.35 Community Connections Novel Project Presentations
- 1.36
- 1.37 Helpful Tips:
- 1.38 Task 2: Draft Essay Peer Edit Review
- 1.39
- 1.40 Thursday November 16th 2023
- 1.41
- 1.42
Thursday September 26th, 2024
Task 1: Book Talk for the Literature Circles
Task 2: Students make their book selections.
Task 3: Preview Assignment: Background Information Assignment.
Tuesday October 1st, 2023
Task 1: Students work on Background Information Assignment
Post the visual of your Background Information Visual on your blog. I will be checking during tomorrow’s class.
Wednesday October 2nd, 2024
Task 1: Discuss Effective Questioning PowerPoint
Task 2: Do a closed reading of a children’s book. Students generate questions that would be potential good discussion questions.
Task 3: Do a closed reading of a children’s book. Students complete the Effective Questioning Worksheet.
Task 4: Students participate in a 15-minute discussion based on their 2 best questions. Students will be in groups of 3.
Task 4: Go over Expectations for Lit Discussions
Thursday October 5th 2023
Task 1: Go over Literary Lens PowerPoint and expectations for the Literary Circles.
Task 2: Go over the Literary Lenses for Historical Lens/Reader Response
- Discussion #1- Your goal is to fully discuss the role that family has in shaping a person’s identity so far in the novel from the first few chapters.
- SAMPLE QUESTIONS
- What time period was this book written and what time period is your book taken place? Is there a connection between the two?
- What background information do we need to know in order to understand what is going on in the novel to this point?
- What do you like about novel so far?
- Your group leader will need to come up with 3 or 4 questions for you first discussion. Use the Bloom’s taxonomy sample question to generate questions for your discussion.
In preparation of the first discussion please work on the following assignment:
Friday October 6th, 2023
Task 1: Prepare for the 1st discussion
Tuesday October 10th 2023
Task 1: Non-Fiction Identity Worksheet.
Half the class will read Coming Out article and half the class will be reading the Artist article. Once you have read their articles, students will sit with someone who has the other article. They will summarize the article and then work together to find the similarities and the differences between the two articles.
Article A: Coming Out
Article B: How an Artist
Task 2: Students work on Non Fiction Identity Worksheet and go over the responses from the worksheet.
Task 3: Discuss the Non-Fiction Article with another student.
Task 4: Tutorial on using the Microphones
Wednesday October 11th 2023
Task 1: Discussion #1 Historical Lens/Reader Response
Students will conduct their first discussion. Students will record that discussion and upload the discussion on TEAMS.
Task 2: Introduce Psychological Lens in preparation for Discussion #2
Thursday October 12th 2023
Task 1: Go over the Id, Ego and SuperEgo
Example 1
Example #2
Task 3: Go over Psychological Lens Ignite Assignment
Option 1- Dave Cooks a Turkey by Stuart McLean
Option 2: Joe the Painter and the Deer Lake Massacre by Thomas King
Option 3: Entrophy by Andrea Rinard
https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2021/entropy-by-andrea-rinard
Option 4: Popular Mechanics by Raymond Craver
Task 4: Students work on their Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation
Friday October 13th, 2023
Task 1: Students present their Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation. You are only presenting to your lit group members.
At the end of each presentation ask the following two questions:
- What did you like about the presentation?
- What did you wonder about the presentation?
You are posting your responses to these two questions in your group channel on TEAMS. This is part of the group’s mark so identify which presentation that you are referring to in your response.
Task 2: Students prepare for the second discussion: Psychological Lens
- Discussion #2: Your goal is to fully discuss the big events from your novel from the psychological lens. Think about the plot, character, symbols, irony, and other literary devices through this lens.
- Sample Questions
- What psychological conflicts drive the characters or the plot?
- What significant events are going to have an impact on the character’s psyche in the story?
- Which characters exemplified one of the Id, Ego or SuperEgo at this point in the novel?
- Use the Bloom’s taxonomy sample question to generate questions for your discussion.
Monday October 16th, 2023
Task 1: Students prepare for discussion #2: Psychological Lens
Tuesday October 17th, 2023
Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #2: Psychological Lens
Task 2: Go over the Feminist Lens
Task 3: Work on the Feminist Lens Ad Activity
Wednesday October 18th, 2023
Task 1: Go over the Feminist Lens Ad Activity
Task 2: Show the following two clips to the class
Example #1
Example #2
Task 3: Feminist Stereotypes (Look for how are females and men are portrayed in this cartoon?)
Fill this in as you are watching the cartoon: Poor Cinderella (1934).
Task 4: Students will start the Feminist Lens Paragraph Assignment
Wednesday October 18th 2023 and Thursday October 19th 2023
Task 1: Students worked on the Feminist Lens Written Assignment
Monday October 23rd 2023 and Tuesday October 24th 2023
Task 2: Prepare for Discussion #3- Feminist Lens
- Discussion #3- Your goal is to fully discuss the Feminist Lens and how it connects to your novel from the next few chapters of either book.
- Sample Questions
- What would life be like if the protagonist was of the opposite gender?
- How are women viewed within this society?
- Do you believe that the female characters in your novel are good and strong role models for other females?
- Your group leader must come up with three more discussion questions that you would post in your Group Channel on TEAMS.
Wednesday October 25th 2023
Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #3
Task 2: Talk about Ecocentrism Lens and Archetype Lens
Example #1
Example of other Archetypes
Thursday October 26th 2023
Task 2: Look at some of examples of Ecocentrism
Task 3: Ecocentrism/Archetype Lens Activity
Task 4: Ecocentrism Write
Monday October 30th 2023 and Tuesday October 31st 2023
Task 1: Students prepare for the fourth discussion: Archetypal Lens/Ecocentrism Lens
- Discussion #4- Your goal is to fully discuss the role that archetypes has in shaping events, characters and other literary elements in the novel from the next few chapters.
- SAMPLE QUESTIONS
- What is the relationship between your protagonist and nature (land)?
- How has the protagonist’s archetype changed in your novel?
- Outside of characters, what archetypes have shaped the character’s identity?
- Use the Bloom’s taxonomy sample question to generate questions for your discussion.
Wednesday November 1st 2023
Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #4
Task 2: Go over New Criticism and Reader Response Lens
- Discussion #5- Your goal is to fully discuss the criticism lens so far in the novel from the first few chapters.
- Sample Questions
- What literary devices were most helpful in better understanding your novel?
- What lessons can we learn from the novel?
- Which literary devices did the author rely on the most in the novel? Do you believe it enhanced the story or not?
- Come up with two more questions on your own for this discussion.
New Criticism
Thursday November 2nd, 2023 and Friday November 3rd, 2023
Task 1: Start preparation for the Lit Circle Novel Research Paper
Task 2: Lesson on using the Database: Canada in Context
Students will log on and learn how to use the database to find an article for their novel research essay. Your goal is to find an article and bring it to class on Thursday or Friday.
Task 3: Students start searching for a Non- Fiction article for your Lit Circle Research Essay
Monday November 6th, 2023 and Tuesday November 7th 2023
Task 1: Students prepare for Discussion #5
- Discussion #5- Your goal is to fully discuss the criticism lens so far in the novel from the first few chapters.
- Sample Questions
- What literary devices were most helpful in better understanding your novel?
- What lessons can we learn from the novel?
- Which literary devices did the author rely on the most in the novel? Do you believe it enhanced the story or not?
- Come up with two more questions on your own for this discussion.
Task 2: Students work on their Novel Synthesis Research Essay
Wednesday November 8th, 2023
Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #5
Task 2: Students continue to work on their Synthesis Research Essay
Task 1: Community Connections Novel Project Check- In #2
Work Block: Students work on the following:
1. Community Novel Project (Check in takes place on Monday and Tuesday)
2. Continue to prepare for you Lit Circle Synthesis Research Paper
Task 2: Work Block
Students can work on the following assignments:
- Community Connections Project
- Novel Synthesis Research Essay
November 29th and November 30th 2022
Community Connections Novel Project Presentations
Helpful Tips:
Task 2: Draft Essay Peer Edit Review
Thursday November 16th 2023
Brainstorming Sheet
Brainstorming sheet- Community