American Literature
8 December 2017
Objective: To
continue the study of Poe, this time analyzing the meaning as well as author’s
craft in “The Raven.” (STANDARD RL.1-2, RL.3-4, W.3)
Success Criteria: Students
will show mastery by summarizing the plot, identifying the rhyme scheme
(internal and external rhyme), alliteration, and consonance.
Agenda:
1.
SSR - 20 min
2.
Chapter Expert Presentations (Chapters 19-21)
3.
Read “The Raven” – 20 min
4.
Watch The Simpson’s version of “The
Raven” – 10 min
5.
Student work time to complete Creative Piece
Part IV, due Monday at the end of the block
Assessment:
Homework: Divergent Chapters
22-24 p. 282-315
AP
English Literature and Composition
8
December 2017
WOD: tumbril (noun): a farmer’s cart, especially one for
hauling manure, that can be tilted to discharge its load; a wheelbarrow; one of
the carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine
EX: “…not even the Doctor’s entreaties could prevent his being carried to his
home on men’s shoulders…he more than once misdoubted his mind being in confusion,
and that he was in the tumbril on his way to the Guillotine” (Dickens 291).
Student Learning Objective: To
discuss the imminent conflict produced by Gabelle’s letter to Charles Darnay
(and to critique the author’s choice in introducing this conflict with a
letter). (STANDARD RL.5)
Success Criteria: Students
will show mastery by debating the effectiveness of introducing a conflict in
this way by making a pro and con chart with a table partner.
Agenda:
1. Discuss Book the
Second, Chapters 22- Book the Third, Chapter 1
2. Introduce Book
the Third, Chapters 2-7
Assessment: Class
Discussion Questions, BTS, Chapters 22 – Book the Third, Chapter 1
1. II, 22: How did
Madame Defarge and the other villagers of St. Antonie treat the prisoner old
Foulon?
2. II, 23: The
road-mender has company along the road. They make some plans. What
is the outcome of these plans?
3. II, 24: How does
Dickens use the letter to the Marquis de Evermonde to generate suspense?
4. II, 24: What
tough decision does Darnay make, and how do you think it will go?
5. III, 1: What is
the full significance of the chapter’s title?
6. III, 1: Of what
is Charles reminded as he paces to and fro in his cell in La Force?
7. III, 1: How does
the readers’ attitude towards Ernest Defarge change in this chapter?
Homework: A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Third Chapters 2-7p. 262-298 (36 pages)
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