Thursday, August 29, 2019

American Literature Lesson

29 August 2019

PLANBOOK: https://www.planbookedu.com/s/8LFXR

OBJECTIVE: To read closely to determine what the text says. (STANDARD RL.1)

SUCCESS CRITERIA: Students will show mastery by working with a table partner to fill in the Huck Finn graphic organizer.

AGENDA:

1.      Notebook: “I know it like the back of my hand” - 10 min

2.      SSR choice books - 20 min

3.      OPEN NOTES Grammar Quiz #2 - 10 min

4.      With a table partner, continue to fill out the Huck Finn graphic organizer p. 1-70 - 20 min

5.      Begin reading HF p. 70-104 - 30 min

ASSESSMENT: Visual confirmation of a completed graphic organizer

HOMEWORK: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn p. 70-104

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AP English Literature Lesson

29 August 2019

PLANBOOK: https://www.planbookedu.com/s/IVKY2

Day 5 Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: NONE

Student Learning Objective: (1) To prove your knowledge of Literary Theory by using textual evidence to support a claim. (2) To be introduced to the Romantic Literary Period and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. (STANDARDS: RL.1, W.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery of Literary Theory by analyzing “Two Kinds” through the lens of one of the theories studied in class.

  

Agenda:

1.      QUIZ: Write an essay in which you analyze Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” using either the Feminist Literary Theory, Reader’s Response Literary Theory, Marxist Literary Theory, or Deconstruction Literary Theory – Timed quiz, 55 min

2.      Intro to Frankenstein

a.       Draw a picture of the image that comes to your head when you hear the work “Frankenstein” – 5 min

b.      Read intro to “Romantic Poets and Their Successors” – 10 min

c.       Read author bio on Shelley, inside book cover – 5 min

d.      Read “Introduction” by Diane Johnson p. vii-x and “Author’s Introduction” p. xxiii-xxviii – 10 min

Assessment: Literary Theory Quiz

Homework: Frankenstein, Letters I-IV p. 1-16