Prose Terminology

Monday April 26th 2021

Task 1: English Outline and Introduction Activity

Task 2: Review Plot Map PowerPoint

Task 3: Review Foreshadowing and Irony on Prose Terminology PowerPoint.

Task 4: Think about the following question: Are you comfortable with this idea?

Task 4: Read Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Murderer in class.

Task 5: Complete The Murderer discussion questions

Task 6: Complete The Murderer Prose Terminology Worksheet.

 

Tuesday April 27th 2021

Task 1: Go over The Murderer discussion questions and The Murderer Prose Terminology Worksheet.

Task 2: Go over the PEEC Writing Paragraph PowerPoint

Task 3: Pick one of the two videos to complete your compare and contrast.

Option One

Lyrics

Option Two

Black Mirror: ArkAngel  (Season 4, Episode 2)

Video can be found on TEAMS under the file Video. (Open with VLC media player if it does not open automatically.)

Task 4: The Murderer Compare and Contrast Assignment

Wednesday April 28th 2021

Task 1: Go over MLA Citation PowerPoint

Task 2: Go over Quotation Integration Handout

Task 3: Students will work on their The Murderer Compare and Contrast Assignment. 

You have the rest of the block to work on your draft.

The assignment will be due on Tuesday November 25th 2020

 

Thursday April 29th 2021

Task 1:  Students will work on their The Pedestrian Compare and Contrast Assignment. 

The The Murderer Compare and Contrast Written Assignment is due on Friday April 30th 2021.

 

Friday April 30th 2021

Task 1: Did Riley do the right thing in this situation?

Discuss the clip

Task 2: Watch the clip on Moral Development.

 

Task 3:  Review Symbols and Character from Prose Terminology

Task 4: Start reading the short story, “A Teacher’s Rewards” by Robert Phillips

Task 5: Students work on the discussion questions for the short story, A Teacher’s Rewards

1.Why do you think Miss Scofield let Raybe into her house?

2. How does Raybe lower Miss Scofield’s guard once they begin their conversation?

3. What are some hints or phrases in the story that Raybe was not there for a friendly visit?

4. Did Raybe make the right decision at the end of the story?

5. What is the ultimate explanation for the events at the end of the story? Is it a rational explanation?

6. What is Phillips saying about morals?

Task 6: Complete A Teacher’s Reward Prose Terminology Worksheet

Monday May 1st 2021

Task 1: Go over the discussion questions and terminology worksheet

Task 2: Go over the Synthesis Essay PowerPoint

Task 3: Watch the clip: Why do you think Rango did not stand up to Rattlesnake Jake?

 

Task 4: Read the short story, “Just Lather, That’s All.”

Task 5: Students work on the Just Lather discussion questions. This is part of your synthesis essay.

1. Why did the barber fear the general?

2. How does the author build suspense in this short story?

3. Why does the barber feel that it would be wrong to let his customer go? On the other hand, why does he feel it would be wrong to kill him?

4. In the end, why do you think the barber does not kill Torres? Do you think this is the right or wrong decision?

5.  What is ironic about Captain Torres’ quote at the end of the story?

6. What do you think the author is trying to say about morals?

 

Task 6: Go over  Just Lather, That’s All Terminology Sheet

 

Tuesday May 4th 2021

Task 1: Go over the discussion questions

Task 2: Go over the Synthesis Essay Outline

How to write a Synthesis (Compare and Contrast) Essay

Task 3: Students work on Short Story Essay Outline

Wednesday May 5th 2021 and Thursday May 6th 2021

Task 1: Finish Prose Terminology Terms PowerPoint

Task 2: Continue working on the Synthesis Essay Outline. Each student must check in and show me their thesis for the essay.

Friday May 7th 2021

Pro-D Day (No school)

Monday May 10th 2021

Task 1 : Short Story Exam

Tuesday May 11th 2021

Task 1: Discussion: What does conflict mean to you?

Introduce the Conflict Literature Kit

Task 3: Students make their Book Selection

 

Wednesday May 12th 2021

Task 1: Introduce Background Information Assignment

Task 2: Students work on Background Information Assignment

 

Task 1: Students continue to work on their Background Information Assignment

Task 2: Post the Infograph on your blog and place the link on TEAMS

Task 3: Go Over Literature Discussions Expectations and Groups

 

Thursday May 13th 2021

Task 3: Discuss Effective Questioning PowerPoint

Task 4: Do a closed reading of a children’s book. Students generate questions that would be potential good discussion questions.

Task 5: Go over the student’s responses.

Task 6: Go over Literary Lens PowerPoint 

Task 7: Go over the Literary Lenses for Historical and Biographical Lens

• 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 key historical figures appear or are alluded to in the text?
• What seems to be the author’s major concerns in the novel? (information you found and what you have read to date.)
• What information did you learn about the author that is important to know while reading this novel?
• Your group leader will need to come up with 2 or 3 questions for you first discussion.

In preparation of the first discussion please work on the following assignment:

Task 8: Non Fiction Worksheet

Half the class will read War Robbed Him of His Family article and half the class will reading the The End of the War As We Know article. Once you have read their articles, students will be 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: War Robbed

Article B: The End of War

 

Friday May 14th 2021

Task 1: Students work on Non Fiction Identity Worksheet and go over the responses from the worksheet.

Task 2: Students will prepare for the first discussion (Biographical/Historical Lens)

 

 

Monday May 17th 2021

Task 1: Students will participate in discussion #1 (Biographical and Historical Lens)

Task 2:  Lesson on Discussion #2 Psychological Lens

Task 3: Go over Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation

Option A: Popular Mechanics by Raymond Craver

Option B: The Hitchhicker by Roald Dahl

Option C: The Lasts of Her Sons by Alden Nowlan

Option D: The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams

Task 4: Students work on the Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation

 

Tuesday May 18th 2021

Task 1: Community Connections Novel Project (Conflict)

Task 2: Students work on the Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation

 

Wednesday May 19th 2021

Task 1: Students work on the Psychological Lens Ignite Presentation

Task 2: Students present to the group they were assigned to today. All students must upload their presentation to TEAMS after the presentation.

Task 3: Students prepare for Discussion #2

• 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.
• What psychological conflicts drive the characters or the plot?
• How can characters’ behavior, narrative events, and/or images be explained in terms of psychoanalytic concepts of any kind?
• What are the subconscious fears and desires of the author or the characters?
• Your group leader needs to come up with 2 more questions for the discussion.

 

Thursday May 20th 2021

Task 1: Prepare for your Community Connections Novel Project (Conflict) Check-In

Task 2: Students prepare for  Discussion #2 on Friday

 

Friday May 21st 2021

Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #2 (Psychological Lens)

Task 2: Go over discussion #3 Feminist Lens

Task 3: How are women and men portrayed in the following cartoon?

Tuesday May 25th 2021

 

Task 1:  Go over the Feminist Lens Activity from Friday

Task 2: How are women and men portrayed in the following cartoon?

https://youtu.be/EpaLbYFVfbQ

 

Task 3: Class Discussion

Task 4: Students will start the Feminist Lens Free Write Assignment

Task 5: Students work on the Feminist Lens Paragraph

Wednesday 26th 2021

Task 1: Students prepare for Discussion #3 Feminist Lens

• Discussion #3- Your goal is to fully discuss the criticism lens so far in the novel from the first few chapters.
• Sample Questions
• How are women viewed in this society in the novel?
• Do you believe that the female characters in your novel are good or strong role models for other females?
• What gender stereotypes are evident in the novel?
• Your group leader should come up with 2 to 3 more questions for your discussion.

Task 2: Students work on Feminist Lens Free Write Assignment

Task 3: Students prepare for Discussion #3: Feminism Lens

 

Thursday May 27th 2021 and Friday May 28th 2021

Task 1: Students present their project proposals in Check #1 for the Community Connections Novel Project

Task 2: Students start working on their Community Connection Novel Project

Task 3: Students finish their Feminist Lens Free Write Assignment

Task 4: Students prepare for Discussion #3: Feminism Lens

 

Monday 31st 2021 and Tuesday June 1st 2021

Task 1:  Go over Literature Circle Novel Research Synthesis Paper

Task 2: Students work on their Community Connections Novel Project

Task 3: Students can start preparing for their Novel Research Synthesis Paper

Task 4: Students prepare for Discussion #3 (Feminist Lens)

Wednesday June 2nd 2021

Task 1: Go Over Discussion #4 Archetype Lens with the students

• 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 archetype represents certain events in the novel?
• How has the protagonist’s archetype changed in your novel?
• Why do you think archetypes has such an important role in shaping one’s identity?
• Your group leader should come up with 2 to 3 more questions for your discussion.

Task 2: Additional Archetypal Meanings to Consider

Task 2: Students participate in Discussion #3 (Feminist Lens) (Those who have not completed their discussion on Monday or Tuesday)

Task 3: Introduce Poetry and the Archetypal Lens assignment

Task 4: Students work on Poetry and the Archetypal Lens Assignment

 

 

Thursday June 3rd and Friday June 4th 2021

Task 1: Go over the Poetry and the Archetypal Lens Written Assignment

Task 2: Students continue working on their Community Connections Novel Project

Task 3: Students continue to work on their Novel Research Synthesis Paper

Task 4: Prepare for Discussion #4

 

 

 

Monday June 7th and Tuesday June 8th 2021

1. Go over Discussion #5 New Criticism and Reader Response Lens

• Discussion #5- Your goal is to fully discuss the Themes and connections to everyday life in the novel from the next few chapters of either book.
• Sample Questions
• What literary devices are essential in this novel?
• What lessons can we learn from the novel?
• How have you connected to the novel and why should people read this novel today?
• Which literary device(s) did the author rely on the most in the novel? Do you believe it enhanced the story or not?
• Your discussion leader must come up with 2 to 3 more questions.

2.

 Task 3: New Criticism Assignment

Task 4: Students work on one of the following:

a. Students prepare for Discussion #4

b. Students work on the Community Connections Novel Project

c. Work on Novel Research Synthesis Essay

 

Wednesday June 9th 2021

Task 1: Students participate in Discussion #4

Thursday June 10th 2021 and Friday June 11th 2021

Task 1: Check in #2: Community Connections Novel Project

Task 2: Students work on the Community Connections Novel Project

Task 3: New Criticism Assignment

Task 4: Continue to work on Synthesis Research Essay

Task 5: Prepare for discussion #5

 

Monday June 14th 2021 and Tuesday June 15th 2021

Task 1: Database Lesson (Novel Research Synthesis Paper)

Work Block

Task 1: Students work on the New Criticism Assignment

Task 2: Students work on their Community Connections Novel Project

Task 3: Students work on their Novel Synthesis Research Paper

Task 4: Students read and prepare for their final discussion.

Wednesday June 16th 2021

Task #1: Students participate in Discussion #5

Thursday June 17th 2021 and Friday June 18th 2021

Task 1: Students present their Community Connections Novel Project

Work Block

Task 1: Students work on their Community Connections Novel Project

Task 2: Students work on their Novel Synthesis Research Paper

Tuesday June 22nd and Wednesday June 23rd 2021

Task 1: Students present their Community Connections Novel Project

Task 2: Students work on their Novel Synthesis Research Paper

 

Thursday June 24th and Friday June 25th 2021

Task 1: Thank You Letter Assignment