March 21-24 Friday is Vacation Day!

Monday (periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.       Extended metaphors are due

2.       Author’s style

3.       “Beat, Beat Drums!” by Walt Whitman

4.       Evaluating style

Hw:  I.R. 3/29 and Civil War letter due Wednesday

(periods 2 and 5)

1.       Author’s style:  What is unique about Sharon Draper’s writing style?  How does her style compare to The Glory Field’s author?  What is different about the sentence structure?

2.       Look at song lyrics of various types of music to compare style.  What is unique about rap?  Country?  Heavy metal? 

3.       Begin the next story during Jim Crow laws era.  What do you know about this era?

Hw:  Bring in a clean (PG rated) copy of your favorite song lyrics.  Write chapter summary guides for chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10  (reading quiz on FBF tomorrow)

(periods 3, 4, and 7)

Tuesday and Wednesday

1.       Look at President Lincoln’s second inaugural speech and discuss style

2.       Compare and contrast Ambrose Bierce’s style to Walt Whitman in groups

3.       Distribute two pieces and have students identify the writer as either Ambrose Bierce or Walt Whitman based on each author’s style of writing

4.       Leading questions:  Why is this an example of X’s writing?  How do you know this? What specifically suggested that?

5.      

      We’ll look at:  style: diction, syntax, tone, imagery, language (What does each author do that’s unique)  How does style establish tone, mood, setting

Hw:  I.R.  and Civil war letter (due Wednesday); Respond to the following in a couple of paragraphs:  Are Americans more angry today?

(periods 2 and 5)

1.       Review style

2.       Reading quiz (10 questions, opened book)

3.       Compare song lyrics, after sharing some aloud.

4.       Work with a partner.  What’s unique about the songs?  Genre?

Hw:  Read in your I.R. book (chapters 13-15 due Thursday);

Wednesday (periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.       Finishing what we didn’t finish on Tuesday

2.       Partner activity:  students will take out last night’s freewrite, so a classmate can do a style analysis on it. 

3.       Exchange Civil war letters

Hw:  Final letter due on Monday; Respond to your classmate’s piece of writing.  What type of writer is he/she?  How do you know this?  What specifically suggested this?  Is there anything unique about the vocabulary used?  Tone?  Figurative language used? 

(periods 2 and 5)

1.        Jim Crow laws

2.       Read in TGF

3.       Hw:  Read in your I.R. book

Thursday (periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.       Making inferences

2.       Hand in response to classmate’s writing.  We’ll reveal the owners, after students have had a chance to share their responses

3.       Blue Diamond #7

4.       25 word story rubric.  Assignment due Monday with Rubric

Hw:  25 word story with rubric.  Bring on Monday, so we can share.

(periods 2 and 5)

1.        Making inferences

2.       Blue Diamond #7

3.       Graphic organizer for 25 word stories already developed.

Hw:  Read in your I.R. book

(periods 3, 4, and 7)

Friday:  Vacation Day! (next week we will begin research on Jim Crow laws in America and anti-semitism in Europe)

(periods 2 and 5)
Vacation Day!

March 13-17

Monday  (periods 3,4, and 7)

"O Captain!  My Captatin!"
Extended Metaphor
Homework:  "O Captain! My Captain!"  analysis

(period 2 and 5)
TGF finish Lizzie story

Hw:  chapter summary guides 1-6 FBF

Tuesday (3, 4, and 7)
"O captain!  My Captain!"
extended metaphor project due 3/21
Walt Whitman
"Beware of the Ides of March"
Hw:  extended metaphor project (more condense rubric tomorrow)
journal entry tomorrow due

(periods 2 and 5)
"O Captain!  My Captain!"
Walt Whitman intro.
Hw:  chapter summary guides; rewrite poem inserting historical events for metaphors; poem triangel

Wednesday (3, 4, and 7)
"The Horseman in the Sky"

Extended

Hw:  extended metaphor project due Monday; read I.R. book (due 3/29);  Civil War Letter due Thursday

(periods 2 and 5)

Extended metaphor project
"Beat Beat Drums!"  Walt Whitman
Poetic devices

Hw:  read in FBF;

Thursday (3, 4, and 7)
"The Horseman in the Sky"  Ambrose Bierce
writing piece

In a paragraph, discuss whether Carter Druse did the right and noble thing or not.  would you have been able to do what he did?  Explain.  "Whatever may occur, do what you conceive to be your duty."- Ambrose Bierce

Hw:  I.R.; civil war letter; writing piece on short story

(periods 2 and 5)

Extended metaphor project due Monday.

Friday (3, 4, and 7)

Workday
work on:
extended metaphor, or I.R., or letter 4/5, or read in your I.R. book



(periods 2 and 5)
Work day
work on:
Reading FBF
reading quiz

Period 7 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Write an analysis that describes what you think Ambrose Bierce might have been trying to communicate to the reader about his views on the military.  Use textual evidence to support your analysis.  At least 3 direct quotes from the text are required.

Select at least 3 literary devices used by the author to create and maintain suspense in the story from the beginning to the end.  Use textual evidence to support your selection.

Period 4 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Write an analysis that describes what you think Ambrose Bierce might have been trying to communicate to the reader about his views on the military.  Use textual evidence to support your analysis.  At least 3 direct quotes from the text are required.

Select at least 3 literary devices used by the author to create and maintain suspense in the story from the beginning to the end.  Use textual evidence to support your selection.

Period 3 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Write an analysis that describes what you think Ambrose Bierce might have been trying to communicate to the reader about his views on the military.  Use textual evidence to support your analysis.  At least 3 direct quotes from the text are required.

Select at least 3 literary devices used by the author to create and maintain suspense in the story from the beginning to the end.  Use textual evidence to support your selection.

March 7-March 11

Hi there,

The following items are on this week’s schedule.  It is very likely that things will move around from time to time to accommodate you all.  The best way to stay up-to-date is by recording nightly homework in your agenda.  INTERIMS go home tomorrow!!  They need to be returned by Thursday for a homework grade.  If you need to see me about your interim, see me during activity time.

Monday (periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.        Letter #1 due

2.       Biographical sketch due

3.       Discuss “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

4.       Sticky note activity (when did you realize what was happening?)

5.       Look at lit elements (flashback, foreshadowing, and conflict)

6.       Capital Punishment (What are your feelings?  Did the punishment fit the crime?)

7.       Points of Discussion:  Summarize what you think this story reveals about the psychology of a person in a life or death situation.  How does the author prepare the reader for the final outcome of the story?  Provide textual support.

Hw:  Letter #2 due Thursday; diagram the plot of the short story due Wednesday;

Select one of the following writing prompts:  Write an analysis that describes what you think Ambrose Bierce might have been trying to communicate to the reader about his views on the military.  Use textual evidence to support your analysis.  At least 3 direct quotes from the text are required.

Select at least 3 literary devices used by the author to create and maintain suspense in the story from the beginning to the end.  Use textual evidence to support your selection.

(Periods 2 and 5)

1.       Finish reading in The Glory Field

2.       Jeopardy review game

3.       Illustrate a scene from the text

4.       Make connections to the text in the form of a one pager (Make real connections to the following events:  Muhammad captured from Africa and brought to S.C.; the slaves being made to work on their only day off, the Sabbath; the way Miss Julia talks to Lizzy about how horrible Joshua and Lem are for running away;

Hw:  character mandala “textual evidence” due Thursday; finish your illustration/one pager - -due Thursday  (Ex:  The way Muhammad is captured from is homeland and taken to a foreign land is similar to… Then, illustrate using clipart, hand drawings, magazine cutouts, )

Tuesday (periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.  I.R. signature due Monday (historical fiction- -Civil War genre)    

     Watch the short film “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” 28 minutes long

2.       8 steps of characterization

3.       The “unreliable narrator”

4.       Character Frame for “An Occurrence at owl Creek Bridge”

Trait                       Actions                 Evidence

 The author wrote with an intention of creating an intense effect in you.  I know he accomplished his job because at the very end, some of you made comments or your facial expressions spoke volumes to me about what you were thinking. 

1.      

       Characterize the effect you believe the author intended for the short story.

2.       What evidence supports your idea?

3.       Describe two ways in which the author blurs the lines between normal and fantasy.

4.       Ambrose Bierce plays with the reader through the text by slowly changing the narrative stance from one type to another, setting up for the twist in the end. 

Periods (2 and 5)

1.  Slave Auction Venn Diagram (real auctions and livestock auctions)      
     Nonfiction News and Observer article “How 3 American families blurred the lines of race”

2.  SOAPSTONE and livestock auctions compared with slave auctions



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3.    Work on outline for children’s slave narrative book due Friday (Final product due Friday!)
       Hw:  soapstone review sheet due tomorrow; slave narrative outline

Wednesday (periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.        Diagram of plot due

2.       1 page analysis due

3.       Continue characterization frame and share

Hw:  Letter #2 due Thursday

(periods 2 and 5)

1.       Slave narrative children’s book

 Discuss article

3.       Focus question:  Why would anyone want to hide their race to pass as another race? Brainstorm situations where this could be essential in survival.

4.       Poetry (civil war)

Thursday (periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.      

Letter #2 due

2.       Get rubric for letter 3, due Monday

3.       “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce

(Finish reading at home, online)

Hw:  letter #3 due Monday; I.R. signature due Monday (civil war novel- -historical fiction genre!  If you need some recommendations, please ask!)

(periods 2 and 5)
1. Check out I.R. novel, Forged by Fire
2.  Read in the text.
3.  Reading quiz on text in The Glory Field
4.  Share mandalas and one pagers (outside connections)

Friday (Periods 3, 4, and 7)

1.       EARLY RELEASE

(PERIODS 2 AND 5)

1.       EARLY RELEASE