Lesson Plans - Week Four (September 12 - 16, 2011)
Days |
8A/B |
7A |
English III |
Creative Writing |
Monday |
Receive this week’s spelling words, finish literary circle discussions with OMATS, discuss results as a class, continue with Buckle Down Writing lessons. Homework: Finish reading OMATS and study spelling. |
Receive this week’s spelling words, copy and discuss week four’s quote, discuss and share our Tolstoy diagrams with the class. Begin discussing and completing rewrites of “Biggest Fear” essays. Homework: Study spelling and quote. |
Quiz over Jungle chapters 25 and 26. Discuss this weekend’s reading. Turn in creative and artistic portions of Jungle Gold Seal Lesson. Discuss everyone’s artistic choices. Check and discuss the answers to ACT practice tests completed on Friday. Homework: Read chapters 27, 28 and 29. |
Take character diagrams and plot maps and begin creating our complex short stories (due by Friday). |
Tuesday |
Check Buckle Down Writing lessons completed the previous day, discuss positive and negative traits found so far in student writing and what is expected in a business letter. Begin our concluding discussions of OMATS. Homework: Buckle Down Writing lesson and study spelling. |
Continue discussing do’s and dont’s for essays. Practice writing descriptive hook and thesis statements. Begin working in Buckle Down Writing. Homework: Finish essay corrections, study spelling and quote. |
Quiz over Jungle chapters 27-29. Discuss the previous night’s readings (metaphors, significance to the plot, etc.). Finish any ACT lessons that were not completed the previous day. Begin moving into the suffragette/early Feminist period of literature (notes). Homework: Read chapters 31-33. |
In-class time to work on piecing together complex short stories (Gold Seal Lesson). |
Wednesday |
Check Buckle Down Writing lessons completed the previous day, complete discussions of OMATS (exam to be given next Wednesday over all notes and discussion topics), begin planning for business letters (LEAP practice topic). Homework: Finish business letter outlines and study spelling. |
Submit essay corrections and check Buckle Down Writing lessons completed the previous day. Concentrate on constructing specific topic sentences for body paragraphs followed by descriptive and complex detail sentences. Homework: Buckle Down Writing to be assigned, study spelling and quote. |
Quiz over Jungle chapters 31-33. Discussion of the previous night’s reading (notice how the novel’s themes have shifted from the graphic nature of work to a preaching of the tenets of socialism), begin looking at the work of early-Feminist writer Kate Chopin. Homework: Read chapters 34 and 35. |
Examine short stories and film clips that rely heavily on dreams as a form of confusion and symbolism. Discuss how this is effective and when it can be confusing. |
Thursday |
Spelling quiz, check business letter outlines and answer any questions about the purpose or audience of the letter, begin drafting the letter in class. |
Spelling quiz, check Buckle Down homework, begin outlining process essays (topics must be approved). Process essays will need to be accompanied by an illustrated how-to manual. Students will begin brainstorming in class. Homework: Study quote. |
Quiz over Jungle chapters 34 and 35. Discussion of the previous night’s readings and their effects on the novel’s plot. Continue examining the stories of Kate Chopin (“Desiree’s Baby” and “Story of an Hour.”) Homework: Read chapter 36 and conclusion. |
Brainstorm ways in which we can incorporate dream sequences and heavy symbolism into our own writing. Share ideas and begin the skeleton of a possible story relying on dreams for the plot. |
Friday |
(Quadrant D lesson) Create a collage abstractly representing one of the novella’s major themes and complete a one-two page rewrite of the story from either the marlin’s or the shark’s point-of-view. |
Quote quiz, continue with (Quadrant D) lesson on process essays. Once outline is completed and approved, students will begin rough draft stage. For Monday, students need to bring any markers or supplies they’ll need to begin work on illustrated how-to manuals. |
Quiz over Jungle chapter 36 and conclusion. Discuss the book in its entirety and its literary value during the Progressive Era. The rest of this period will be devoted to students completing part two, the critical analysis section of their Gold Seal lesson regarding the Jungle. Jungle exam will be held on Wednesday of next week. |
Workshop complex short stories. |