Thursday, October 11, 2018

American Literature

11 October 2018

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/olivetstudent.org/odell/home

Planbook: https://www.planbookedu.com/s/6ERFJ

Objective: To compose an objective summary stating the key points of Chapters 1-3 of The Great Gatsby without adding personal opinions or feelings. (STANDARD RL.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by writing a one-ish page summary of the main events of Chapters 1-3 and comparing summaries with a table partner.

  

Agenda:

1. Notebook #14: Slam Poem “Hands” – 15 min
2. Grammar Notes #6– 20 min
3. Discuss Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby – 15 min
4. Read aloud half of Chapter 4 – 25 min
5. Continue Gatsby

Assessment: Pair share Chapter 1-3 summaries

Homework: Finish The Great Gatsby Chapter 4

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AP English Literature and Composition

11 October 2018

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/room321odell/

Planbook: https://www.planbookedu.com/s/PCDJX

Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: coquetry (noun): the behavior or arts of flirtation

“Mrs. Bogle who was many times a grandmother, but had a blushing air of coquetry about her that cloaked her sunken cheeks” (Hurston 69). 

Student Learning Objective: To draw parallels between Janie’s experiences and those observed in the Rita Dove poems. (STANDARD RL.1, RL.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by locating and analyzing three common traits between Janie and the speaker in the poems.

  

Agenda:

1. Quickly, individually, re-read the Rita Dove Poems – 10 min
2. Class Discussion, based on the poems you chose to consider
   for a close reading – 30 min
3. Discuss/Analyze Chapters 4-5 – 30 min

Assessment: A critical analysis of one poem – class discussion

Homework: Chapter 6 p. 51-75; Google Classroom Questions due by Friday