Tuesday, October 3, 2017

American Literature

3 October 2017

http://www.planbookedu.com/s/JVEHF

  

Objective: To understand the desperation of the colonists fighting in the American Revolution, and how T. Paine’s speech inspired deserting soldiers to keep fighting. (STANDARD RI.9)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by explaining their decision about joining Washington’s army in a letter that uses two examples from “The Crisis.”

Agenda:

1. Notebook (Invitation to Notice) = 15 min
2. Grammar Quiz (OPEN NOTES) #5 and Optional #4C – 20 min
3. Read “The Crisis” p. 161 – 15 min
4. EXIT SLIP p. 167 #1: Imagine that you are a teenager living in the colonies at the time of the Revolution.  Write a letter to Thomas Paine, explaining why you will not join Washington’s army – or why reading The Crisis has convinced you to join. – 10 min
5. Choice novel reading OR study individually for Unit Test – 25 min

Assessment: EXIT SLIP p. 167 #1

Homework: Choice Novel reading; prepare for upcoming UNIT TEST (THURSDAY)

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AP English Literature and Composition

3 October 2017

http://www.planbookedu.com/s/R8BKS

Student Learning Objective: To draw parallels between the novel and the poem. (STANDARD RL.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by analyzing a similar theme between the novel and the poem.

  

Agenda:

Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: corpulent (adj): large or bulky of body; stout; fat

“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more” (Golding 146). 

1.     Read/Discuss/Analyze Chapters 7-8. – 15 min

2.     Read supporting literature “I Stood upon a High Place.” – 15 min

3.     EXIT SLIP – 15 min

4.     Continue reading Chapters 9-10 – 45 min

STUDENT WORK DAY (catch up on reading, Nicenet posts).  Test is still on Thursday.

Assessment: Exit Slip - Analyze the theme of “high places” in the poem and the novel. 

Homework: Chapters 9-10 “A View to a Death” and “The Shell and the Glasses” p. 145-168