Planning your week:
Wed. 10/27 and Thurs. 10/28 - Socratic Seminar
Thurs. 10/28 - Assignments A and B due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
Upcoming Due Dates:
Mon. Nov. 1 - Assignment D due for peer review
Thurs. Nov. 4 - Final draft of Assignment D due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
Links to This Week’s Resources:
The Joy Luck Club Unit Packet
The Joy Luck Club Motif Journal Shell (here)
To-Do List for Socratic Seminar preparation (here)
Monday, October 25
Learning Goal(s): Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Opener
Tuesday, October 26
Learning Goal(s): Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Opener
Wednesday, October 27
Learning Goal: Collaborate effectively in peer discussion over the novel The Joy Luck Club.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate and/or reflect on a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
Opener
Thursday, October 28
Learning Goal: Collaborate effectively in peer discussion over the novel The Joy Luck Club.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate and/or reflect on a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
Opener
Friday, October 29
Learning Goal(s): Complete note taking on introductory materials; examine how tone and inflection impact meaning.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.)
Agenda:
Opener
Wed. 10/27 and Thurs. 10/28 - Socratic Seminar
Thurs. 10/28 - Assignments A and B due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
Upcoming Due Dates:
Mon. Nov. 1 - Assignment D due for peer review
Thurs. Nov. 4 - Final draft of Assignment D due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
Links to This Week’s Resources:
The Joy Luck Club Unit Packet
The Joy Luck Club Motif Journal Shell (here)
To-Do List for Socratic Seminar preparation (here)
Monday, October 25
Learning Goal(s): Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Opener
- Finish presentations and prepare for the Socratic seminar Wednesday!
- Use the To-Do List for Socratic Seminar preparation (here) to make sure you handle all required assignment elements!
- Finish writing your five seminar questions
- When you're finished, print a copy for use in the seminar
- Submit this to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday, 10/28 by 11:59 PM.
- Continue your motif journal on three assigned topics - use the motif journal shell to type yours in!
- Print a copy of this to use during the seminar
- When it's edited and polished, submit to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday, 10/28 by 11:59 PM.
- Make goals for tomorrow’s work day AND you need your devices tomorrow!
- Continue working on your literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D in your packet) - Rough drafts due for a peer review Monday, Nov. 1
- Put finishing touches on all seminar deliverables - submit Motif Journal and Discussion Questions to TurnItIn.com by Thursday, 10/28 at 11:59 p.m.
Tuesday, October 26
Learning Goal(s): Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Opener
- Get out your devices!!
- Use the To-Do List for Socratic Seminar preparation to make sure you handle all required assignment elements!
- Finish writing your five seminar questions
- When you're finished, print a copy for use in the seminar
- Submit this to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday, 10/28 by 11:59 PM.
- Continue your motif journal on three assigned topics - use the motif journal shell to type yours in!
- Print a copy of this to use during the seminar
- When it's edited and polished, submit to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday, 10/28 by 11:59 PM.
- SOCRATIC SEMINAR TOMORROW!!
- Continue working on your literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D in your packet) - Rough drafts due for a peer review Monday, Nov. 1
- Put finishing touches on all seminar deliverables - submit Motif Journal and Discussion Questions to TurnItIn.com by Thursday, 10/28 at 11:59 p.m.
Wednesday, October 27
Learning Goal: Collaborate effectively in peer discussion over the novel The Joy Luck Club.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate and/or reflect on a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
Opener
- Bring your copy of Tan’s text, as well as any notes and printed copies of the following for use in the seminar:
- Motif Reader Response Journal
- Discussion questions
- Establish norms for participation in a seminar setting; review expectations for completing reflection sheet.
- Participate in Socratic Seminar; audience and participants both complete reflection sheet (in packet).
- Introduce Magic Lens Level 3 (notes here)
- Continue working on your literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D in your packet) - Rough drafts due for a peer review Monday, Nov. 1
- Put finishing touches on all seminar deliverables - submit Motif Journal and Discussion Questions to TurnItIn.com by Thursday, 10/28 at 11:59 p.m.
Thursday, October 28
Learning Goal: Collaborate effectively in peer discussion over the novel The Joy Luck Club.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate and/or reflect on a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
Opener
- Bring your copy of Tan’s text, as well as any notes and printed copies of the following for use in the seminar:
- Motif Reader Response Journal
- Discussion questions
- Establish norms for participation in a seminar setting; review expectations for completing reflection sheet.
- Participate in Socratic Seminar; audience and participants both complete reflection sheet (in packet).
- Magic Lens Levels 1-3 practice sentences
- Continue working on your literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D in your packet) - Rough drafts due for a peer review Monday, Nov. 1
- Put finishing touches on all seminar deliverables - submit Motif Journal and Discussion Questions to TurnItIn.com by TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Friday, October 29
Learning Goal(s): Complete note taking on introductory materials; examine how tone and inflection impact meaning.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.)
Agenda:
Opener
- Magic Lens Levels 1-3 practice sentence
- Ponder and Respond: What do you already know about Shakespeare?
- Complete note sheet on the Introduction to Shakespeare powerpoint
- Complete the tone activity before we begin reading.
- Review today’s concepts
- Continue working on your literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D in your packet) - Rough drafts due for a peer review Monday, Nov. 1
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
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