19th January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Read a memoir “Life on the Mississipi
2) Analyze irony and voice
3) Go through Literary analysis questions
18th January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Explore the Key idea of experience
2) Read a memoir
3) Analyze irony and voice
Homework:
Literary analysis questions, page 658
11th January, 2015
Learning objectives:
1) Explore the key ideas of deception, experience and skepticism
2) Analyze characteristics of a tall tale, irony and voice
3) Read an autobiography, a memoir and a tall tale
28th December 2014
Material Covered: Semester One:
Reading Selections:
1) The World On The Turtle’s Back
2) Coyote and the Buffalo
3) Plymouth Plantation
4) Slave Narrative “Equiano”
5) Speech in Virginia Convention
6) The Crisis, Thomas Paine
7) The Mesmerizer, Mark Twain
8) Life On The Mississipi, Mark Twain
SKILLS:
Summarize/ Paraphrase/ Evaluate/ Analyze/ Infer/ Compare and Contrast/ Draw Conclusion
Writing: Literary Analysis
30th November, 2014
Learning Objectives:
1) Analyze Persuasive arguments
2) Analyze main ideas and supporting details
3) Students will be divided into groups to analyze Paine’s case and support and analyze their effectiveness
Tuesday the 18th, 2014:
Learning Objectives:
1) Explore the key idea of LOYALTY.
2) analyze persuasive techniques
3) analyze main ideas and supporting details.
Monday 3rd, November, 2014
Learning Objectives:
1) Understand and analyze basics of an argument:
-Claim
-Evidence/reason
-Warrant
-Counter argument
2) Analyze & Apply Persuasive techniques:
Students read a speech, “Speech in Virginia Convention” and analyze the persuasive techniques in the Speech by Patrick Henry
3) Students identify and analyze rhetorical devices used by Patrick Henry.
Sunday, 2nd November, 2014
Learning objectives:
1) Identify and analyze persuasive techniques
2)Identify and analyze rhetorical devices
3) identify, analyze, evaluate elements of an argument
4) understand inductive and deductive development.
Monday, October 13th, 2014
Learning Objectives:
1) Reinforce Key idea: Hardship
For All Students
Enhancing learning styles: Provide these projects for various learning preferences:
1) VERBAL: Research and present findings about daily life in Europe in the 1600s
2) ANALYTICAL: write a character sketch of William Bradford
3) INQUIRY & RESEARCH: Voyage of the the Mayflower: students work in groups to learn more about the voyage of the Mayflower. What was the ship like? What dangers and problems did the Pilgrims face at the sea? How long did the voyage take them? What was life like for passengers board the Mayflower? How did it differ for the crew?
Sunday October, 12th, 2014
Learning Objectives:
1) Explore the key idea of hardship
2) Analyze cultural characteristics
3) Read a chronicle
4) Read about the author
5) Summarize
Thursday the 25th Sept., 2014
Story Board: Plot and Setting:
Students work in pairs or small groups to create a detailed storyboard depicting a memorable scene from “Coyote and the Buffalo.” Encourage students to use visualization to recall and imagine specific details as they capture on paper the scene’s actions, setting, and atmosphere.
Sept. 24th, 2014
1) Answer the following questions in class: page 49 “textbook,” numbers, 5, 6, 7, & 8 in their copybooks.
2) Students complete the literary analysis worksheet
Sept. 22nd, 2014
Finalize the mini presentations.
Sept. 21, 2014
Learning Objectives:
1) Mini presentations were conducted for their classwork activity that was done on Wednesday.
2) Analyze structure: Cause and Effect: Students analyzed the two level cause and effect structure
3) Improvisation: Tricksters;
Students improvise imagined conversations between Coyote and Buffalo or between Coyote and the old woman.
Sept., 17th, 2014
1st class: students took their quiz
2nd class:
1) We explored the key idea of villains
2) analyze characteristics of a tickster tale
3) read a trickster tale, divided the class into four groups. Groups work together to identify the main idea of the short story, summarize and identify and analyze the moral lesson conveyed by the author.
4) Group work presentations due on Sunday
Sept. 15, 2014
1) Sayed Darwish past history presentation, Performed by Hassan Hamza
2) Synthesize cultural ideas from the text “The world on the Turtle’s Back”
3) Analyze the concept of Good and Evil in the present.
Homework:
Quiz on Wednesday 17th Sept.
Sept. 14, 2014
1) Answer literary analysis worksheets, characteristics of creation myth and examples.
2) Answer worksheets about Creation/Nature, Social Values or Customs, and other cultural details.
3) Collect the homework.
Sept. 11, 2014
1) Students read “The world on the Turtle’s Back” as an example of a creation myth.
2) Students read “Beaowulf” as an example of an epic.
3) Students compare and contrast between the characteristics of a myth and the characteristics of a legend.
4) Develop strategies for reading folk literature.
5) Students analyze and identify cultural similarities between a legend and a myth.
Sept. 8, 2014
Homework Assignment grade 11 Literature Class:
1) Complete the two work sheets of the World on the Turtle’s Back.
2) Answer Literary Analysis questions from 4 to 8 (textbook) (due date Wednesday the 10th Sept.)
3) Search and summarize different accounts of creation- biblical narratives, scientific theories, or stories from other cultures (Due date, Sunday the 14th of Sept.)
Sept. 2nd and the 3rd.
Introduce the study skills:
1) Cornell Notes
2) Summarizing
3) Paraphrasing
Homework: Read the World on the Turtle’s Back, design and use Cornell notes to summarize information.
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