Lesson Plans Oct 13-17

Lesson Plans Oct 13-17
Blue Week! Library and final AR tests on Thursday, Oct 16!   

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ for 30 minutes every night. 
• Core 1:Finish Argumentative Essay, "Call of Duty" Close read
• Core 2 & 3: Finish Argumentative Essay, "Call of Duty" Close read
• AR Test #3, the final test this marking period is Thursday, Oct 16

Language Arts 

Essential Questions

• What  is the relationship between handlers and their dogs?
• Is it fair to ask animals to perform dangerous jobs?
• What does it mean to be loyal? 
• How can animals heal us?

Readings

• Scope magazine, "Call of Duty" pages 4-9 and 
• Choice read: one article in the Scope
• Close Read the article above
• Writers INC:  Literary tools

Plans for Core 1, 2, 3

Writing 
Critical/Argumentative essay peer revision, edit, publish
Writers Inc 188-191 
Letter to Congress: Write a letter to Congress arguing that veterans should be given the chance to adopt the military dogs they worked with. Use the information in the article to support your ideas. See other post and handout.  

Freewriting

Reading

Close reading:  "Call of Duty" Scope magazine non-fiction by Michael Paterniti
Close reading questions - see handout
Evaluation: Test on "Tell-Tale Heart"

Speaking
Team discussion on EQ's

Poem for the Weekly Warm-Up

Annabel Lee

By Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,

   In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

   By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

   Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

   In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

   I and my Annabel Lee—

With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

   Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

   In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

   My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

   And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

   In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

   Went envying her and me—

Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,

   In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

   Of those who were older than we—

   Of many far wiser than we—

And neither the angels in Heaven above

   Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

   Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

   In her sepulchre there by the sea—

   In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Audio Annabel

Reflection Questions:

1. What is the theme of this poem?

2. How did this poem reflect the Poe' life?

    

Terms

1. Theme - the statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing, in most cases the theme will be implied rather than spelled out
2. Refrain - the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals especially at the end of each stanza
3. Rhyme- the similarity or likeness of a sound existing between two words
4. Narrator - is the person who's telling the story
5. Suspense - the sense of growing fear, tension and excitement felt by the reader

Wednesday Warm-Up
Flocabulary Vocabulary Work in packet
Core 1: SAT  list, Unit 1
Cores 2 & 3: The Great Escape, Unit 1

Thursday Warm-Up
Do exercise in packet

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 8  Test: The Declaration of Independence and Essay

Chapter 9:

Geo-Country Project:

HOMEWORK - Country Project: Research information about China.  
Fill in the information and include the flag, map and worksheet. See the handout and post. Due Friday, Oct 17.