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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Thursday, November 21, 2019


American Literature Lesson
21 November 2019

Objective: To prove your knowledge of Divergent in a well-supported literary analysis. (STANDARD W.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by improving their score from Academic Essay #3, particularly in the “support with textual evidence” category.

Agenda:
1.      Student work time: Literary Analysis #4 due at the end of the block – 90 min

Assessment: Literary Analysis

Homework: Choice Novel readings

AP English Literature Lesson
20 November 2019

WOD: sumptuous (adjective): entailing great expense; costly; luxuriously fine or large; splendid

EX: “A sumptuous man was the Farmer-General. Thirty horses stood in his stables, twenty-four male domestics sat in his hall, six body-women waited on his wife…” (Dickens 106).

Student Learning Objective: To discuss the introduction of one of the most important conflicts in the novel: the alleged crime of Treason by Charles Darnay. (STANDARD RL.1, RL.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by summarizing the trial of Charles Darnay to a table partner,
  
Agenda:
1.      Chapter Expert Presentations, Book the Second, Chapters 1-4
a.       Book the Second, Chapter 1 – Mrs. O’Dell
b.      Book the Second, Chapter 2 – Markus
c.       Book the Second, Chapter 3 – Ryan
d.      Book the Second, Chapter 4 - Abby
2.      Introduce Book the Second, Chapters 5-8

Assessment: Class Discussion Questions BTS, Ch. 1-4
1.      II, 1: How do Jerry’s hands and boots suggest a mystery about his character?
2.      II, 2: Why are the Manettes in court?
3.      II, 2: What punishment is meant by “quartering”?
4.      II, 4: What negative impressions do we get of Sydney Carton?

Homework: A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Second Chapters 5-8 p. 86-119 (33 pages)

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