Tuesday, October 1, 2019

American Literature Lesson

1 October 2019

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

Objective: To recognize the foreshadowed climax in Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby. (STANDARD RL.5)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by drawing a character web, noting the man versus man conflicts between the numerous characters.

  

Agenda:

1.      SSR – 20 min

2.      Grammar Notes #6 with practice quiz – 20 min

3.      Writing Lesson: Framing Quotations in essays – 20 min

a.       Read from They Say/I Say Chapter 3, “As He Himself Puts It: The Art of Quoting”

4.      Discuss the ending of The Great Gatsby Chapter 7 – 10 min

5.      Continue reading GG – 20 min

Assessment: Class Discussion of the novel

Homework: Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby

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AP English Literature Lesson

1 October 2019

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

Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: sodden (adj): soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated; bloated

“She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgement” (Hurston 1).

Student Learning Objective: To note the bildungsroman characteristics of the main character in the first two chapters. (STANDARD RL.1, RL.2, RL.5)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by listing three bildungsroman traits noticeable in Janie Crawford in the first three chapters.

  

Agenda:

1.      Go over answers to LF Test – 10 min

2.      Complete LF Data Sheet – 10 min

3.      Bildungsroman Notes/Frame Story review – 10 min

4.      Read poem “Janie Crawford” by Alice Walker – 10 min

5.      Listen to audio of chapter 1 (https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-their-eyes-were-watching-god/) – 10 min

6.      Continue reading novel Chapters 1-3 – 30 min

Assessment: Discussion of Janie as a bildungsroman character.

Homework: Chapters 1-3, p. 1-25