Days |
8A/B |
7A |
English III |
Creative Writing |
Monday |
Receive this week’s spelling words, review for Wednesday’s exam, and receive first formal essay prompt - the business letter. Discuss proper outlining procedures for a letter, and begin our prewriting. Once prewriting is complete, students may begin rough draft. Homework: Study for Wednesday’s exam and finish prewriting if unfinished in class. |
Receive this week’s spelling words, copy and discuss week five’s quote, discuss our four-square outlines completed in Buckle Down regarding the “ugliest article of clothing” essay prompt. Examine how sentence structure is vital to the success of a descriptive essay. Review compound sentence structure and coordinating conjunctions. Homework: Study for this week’s quizzes. |
Final discussion of themes in The Jungle. Journal prompt regarding Jurgis’s transformation to be completed. Discussion of the themes and symbolism contained in Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby.” Complete a creative narrative from the perspective of Armand, which discusses the character’s future decisions. Final two sections of Jungle Gold Seal must be completed and submitted to Turn It In before midnight. Homework: Finish Jungle journal to be submitted Wednesday; Armand’s narrative to be submitted by Thursday. |
Continue workshopping diagrammed short stories. Offer advice and suggestions that will strengthen the author’s character development and plot structure. |
Tuesday |
Field trip to Poverty Point. |
Discuss the difference between independent and dependent clauses. Practice changing sentence fragments into independent clauses and fixing the errors in run-on sentences. Homework: Study for this week’s quizzes, complete grammar worksheets not completed in class. |
Review the difference between direct and indirect objects and how to find them in sentences. Use this knowledge to see the differentiation between the use of “who” and “whom” in sentences. Practice using the pronouns correctly. If this concept is quickly understood, we will move to a review of proper comma usage. |
Read, as a class, one of the short tales from J.D. Salenger’s Nine Stories. Discuss character and plot development found in the story. |
Wednesday |
Exam - Ernest Hemingway, the Hemingway hero, and The Old Man and the Sea. Continue drafting business letter when finished with exam. Homework: Study for spelling. |
Using our lessons from the previous day, we will discuss constructing complex sentences and practice composing explosive, complex sentences. Students will receive official descriptive essay prompt. |
Latin/Greek roots exam, submit final Jungle journal entry. Discuss the life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the themes predominantly addressed in her works. Begin reading “The Yellow Wallpaper.” |
Using one of the character’s from the Salenger short story, complete the backstory interview guide distributed in class. Share as a group when complete. |
Thursday |
Spelling quiz, time in class to type or work on Quadrant D OMATS lesson. Homework: Finish OMATS creative writing project. |
Spelling quiz, complete prewriting for descriptive essay prompt. When prewriting is complete, students may begin on rough draft. Homework: Study for tomorrow’s quiz. |
Submit Armand’s narrative (journal entry). Continue with the review of the proper usage for commas and semicolons. Begin discussing issues of redundancy in writing and how to eliminate them in our own writing and in paragraphs to be edited. |
Using our character interview guides, create a prequel to the short story, utilizing the information invented about the character’s life. |
Friday |
Discuss Wednesday’s OMATS exam. Share our OMATS movie posters/book covers with the class and explain the slogans and pictures chosen. Submit marlin/shark creative perspectives. |
Quote quiz, continue working through the descriptive rough draft, including the revising stage and the utilization of thesauruses. |
Finish Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper” and discuss the symbolism and allusions found within it. Quadrant D lesson - create our own version of the yellow wallpaper along with a written defense of the symbolism contained within our drawings. |
Continue working on our Salenger prequels in class (interviewing and prequel activities are derived from an existing Gold Seal lesson). |