Lesson Plans Sept 22-26

 Lesson Plans Sept 22-26

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ for 30 minutes every night. 
• Reminder: Conference Night, Tuesday, Sept 30
• Core 1: write a critical essay, read AR books
• Core 2 & 3: complete Chaperone questions page 28, #1-7
• AR Test #2 is Tuesday, Sept 30

Language Arts 

Essential Questions

• How are character traits revealed in literature?
• What way do we use to describe plot in detail?
• What is Close Reading? How to use this skill.
• What is metaphor?

Readings

• Collections Text 8 by HMH, "My Favorite Chaperone"
• Close Reader: Golden Glass. Read and reflect.
• Writers INC:  Literary tools

Plans for Core 1

Writing 
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards website
Critical writing: choose topic, draft
Writers Inc 188-191

Freewriting

Reading
Close reading:  "My Favorite Chaperone"
Evaluation: Summary 

Speaking
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Plans for Cores 2, 3 

Writing 

Writing  summary

Freewriting
Writing about your AR book during Warm-up

Reading

Close reading: "My Favorite Chaperone" 
 Read, reread. Do pg 28 Analyzing the Text, #1-7. Do Performance Task: Writing a Summary.
Essential Questions:

·      How do the character’s interactions help you to understand the challenges of being an immigrant in a new country?

·      What is the turning point that begins to resolve Maya’s conflict?

·      What should a summary include?

Writers Inc "Writing a Book Review" 
 Speaking
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Poetry

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
 
The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom. 

Songs/Poems/Maya Angelou link

Poem copied into Warm-up packet and read to class. Reread and mark the sensory lines in the poem. 

Discussion of 

Literary devices include 

• metaphor - a comparison of two unlike things without like or as
• rhyme  - the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words
• repetition - the repeating of a word, phrase or idea for rhythmic effect

Reflection:

What is the BIG idea here?

What do you think of this poem?


Wednesday and Thursday Warm-Up


Wednesday - Read the four Maya Angelou quotes below. Choose one to copy into your Wednesday warm-up packet and then write an essay on what it means to you and how you can use it in your own life.  
Quotes from Maya Angelou

• What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” 

• “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

• “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

• “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

Thursday - reread the poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Make a four part chart using these words as headings: metaphor, simile, rhyme, alliteration. Then fill in the boxes using examples from the poem.

Social Studies - Core 4

Homework for Social Studies- Core 4

Read, listen to or watch the news for homework.  Be prepared to write about what you heard or saw. 
Complete the Country project for Friday - see below.


CNN Student News 

Watch this special broadcast of news.
Take notes on the graphic organizer and turn it in for a grade.
Discuss the news of the day in small groups and whole class.

History Alive! (brown text) 
Chapter 3 and 4 open book Test: The English Colonies in America - read for review and complete the Review of Text worksheet and the Summary Questions # 1-10.

Chapter 4: Life in the Colonies - read for review and complete the Review of Text worksheet 

HOMEWORK - Country Project: Research information about  Syria.  
2 Flags of Syria
Fill in the information and include the flag, map and worksheet. See the handout and post. Due Friday, September 19.