Tuesday, December 3, 2019

American Literature Lesson

3 December 2019

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

Objective: To continue our study of Transcendentalism with excerpts from Walden, focusing on Thoreau’s uses of figurative language. (STANDARD RL.4, RI.9)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by locating and analyzing an example of figurative language in Thoreau’s Walden.

Agenda:

1.      Notebook #24: Slam Poem “Hands” – 15 min

2.      Read Thoreau’s “from Walden” p. 261 – 30 min

3.      EXIT SLIP: p. 269 Literary Concept: Figurative Language – 10 min

4.      Argument Essay: Read Article #1

a.       Highlight claim

b.      Highlight best evidence to support that claim

c.       Write, informally, for 5 minutes (get your thoughts down on paper)

d.      Write about where you stand on this issue today

e.       Fill in note-catcher

Assessment: EXIT SLIP p. 269 Literary Concept: Figurative Language – Find another example of figurative language in Walden.

Homework: Choice Book #4

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AP English Literature Lesson

3 December 2019

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

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

1. Ch 22 – Kaylee
2. Ch 23 – Cayley
3. Ch 24 - ?
4. Ch 1 - Derek

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 2-7 p. 262-298 (36 pages); Also, be ready to discuss “A Modest Proposal” Wednesday