Planning your week:
Thu. Nov. 4 - Assignment D due for peer review
Fri. Nov. 5 - Final draft of Assignment D due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
Fri. Nov. 5 – Magic Lens Level 2 REquiz – complete the Noredink.com exercises before the quiz!!!
Monday, November 1
Learning Goal(s): Make sense of literature by making connections with real life; understand a work’s historical context and how it influences the text.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10.) 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:
Work Session
Tuesday, November 2 - NO SCHOOL: Election Day
Wednesday, November 3
Learning Goal(s): Summarize main points; select only relevant information to answer questions; understand elements of a story.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Agenda:
Opener
Thursday, November 4
Learning Goal(s): Make connections with the characters in the play; understand the elements of fiction from the work.
Targeted Standards: 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.
Agenda:
Opener
Friday, November 5
Learning Goal(s): Understand the author’s use of figures of speech and stylistic devices in a work; recognize author’s style of writing
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create
such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
Opener
Thu. Nov. 4 - Assignment D due for peer review
Fri. Nov. 5 - Final draft of Assignment D due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
Fri. Nov. 5 – Magic Lens Level 2 REquiz – complete the Noredink.com exercises before the quiz!!!
Monday, November 1
Learning Goal(s): Make sense of literature by making connections with real life; understand a work’s historical context and how it influences the text.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10.) 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:
Work Session
- Finish intro to Shakespeare (from slide 31 to end).
- Tone activity.
- Introduce Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
- Ponder and Respond: What do you think the play is going to be about based on the title? Can it really be about “nothing”?
- Discuss real meaning of the title
- “Whodunnit?” - let’s see how good you are at noticing changes in the scene (hint: there are 21)
- Take notes on the Introduction presentation
- Complete the pre-reading activity
- Assign parts for reading Act I
- Review final draft date and submission plan for The Joy Luck Club Assignment D Literary Analysis paragraphs
- Assignment D Literary Analysis Paragraphs - due Thursday, Nov. 4 to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Finish reading 2nd IR book by Thurs., Nov. 18
Tuesday, November 2 - NO SCHOOL: Election Day
Wednesday, November 3
Learning Goal(s): Summarize main points; select only relevant information to answer questions; understand elements of a story.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Agenda:
Opener
- Ponder and Respond: Do you think that opposites attract or is it better for a couple to me like-minded?
- Read Act I and Act II, scene i of Much Ado About Nothing
- Answer the comprehension questions about Acts I and II as we read
- Review today’s concepts
- Assignment D Literary Analysis Paragraphs - due Thursday, Nov. 4 to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Finish reading 2nd IR book by Thurs., Nov. 18
Thursday, November 4
Learning Goal(s): Make connections with the characters in the play; understand the elements of fiction from the work.
Targeted Standards: 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.
Agenda:
Opener
- Complete a peer review for both Assignment D literary analysis paragraphs (setting/mood) (theme) - you have 45 minutes to complete both
- Complete any work from Act I
- Ponder and Respond: Do you think it is better for someone to declare their romantic feelings for someone in person or through a friend? Explain.
- Complete “Who’s Who?” activity (Whos Who in Act I.docx, in the Google drive). Download and open the activity file, type your answers directly in the boxes, and upload your completed answers to Turnitin.com.
- Revise Assignment D Literary Analysis Paragraphs and submit to Turnitin by 11:59 p.m. on Friday (tomorrow).
- Complete Act II.i questions if needed
- Assignment D Literary Analysis Paragraphs - due tomorrow to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Finish reading 2nd IR book by Thurs., Nov. 18
Friday, November 5
Learning Goal(s): Understand the author’s use of figures of speech and stylistic devices in a work; recognize author’s style of writing
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create
such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
Opener
- Magic Lens Magic Lens 2 REquiz
- Ponder and Respond: Can friends always be trusted? Explain.
- Complete the “Literary Devices” activity sheet for Act I and discuss
- Read Act II, scenes ii and iii
- Answer comprehension questions
- Review today’s concepts
- Finish reading 2nd IR book by Thurs., Nov. 18
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