Lesson Plans Oct 6-10 Book Fair Week!

Lesson Plans Oct 6-10
Gold Week!  

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ for 30 minutes every night. 
• Core 1: write a critical essay, read AR books, study vocabulary, finish classwork
• Core 2 & 3: write an essay on Pet Peeve: pre-write, draft, study vocabulary, finish classwork
• AR Test #3, the final test this marking period is Thursday, Oct16

Language Arts 

Essential Questions

• What  is the Point of View and the credibility of the Narrator in a story?
• What techniques do writers use to create suspense?
• What elements do writers use to create an argument?

Readings

• Collections Text 8 by HMH, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
• Close Reader: "The Outsider" by H.P. Lovencraft. Read on your own and fill out the questions and notes.  
• Writers INC:  Literary tools

Plans for Core 1

Writing 
Critical/Argumentative essay peer revision
Writers Inc 188-191

Freewriting

Reading

Close reading:  "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe in Collections
Close reading questions - see other post
Evaluation: Test on Chaperone

Speaking
"The Raven" by Poe
Biography of Poe

Plans for Cores 2, 3 

Writing 

Revising Argumentative Essay: Pet Peeve on Writers Inc 186-187
Use of Graphic organizer 

Freewriting


Reading

Close reading: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe in Collections
Close reading questions - see other post
Writers Inc: Pet Peeve 186-187

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Speaking

Poetry

 

Eldorado

By Edgar Allan Poe
 

Gaily bedight,

   A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,   

   Had journeyed long,   

   Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

   But he grew old—

   This knight so bold—   

And o’er his heart a shadow—   

   Fell as he found

   No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

   And, as his strength   

   Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—   

   ‘Shadow,’ said he,   

   ‘Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?’

   ‘Over the Mountains

   Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,   

   Ride, boldly ride,’

   The shade replied,—

‘If you seek for Eldorado!’ 

Poe Bio 

The Raven Audio 

Poe's Baltimore Museum

Reflection:

What does Poe mean by Eldorado?
What is the theme of the poem? What is the writer's message or idea here?

How can you relate or not to this poem?

Poem copied into Warm-up packet and read to class.

Copy these terms in your LA Composition book and write the definition found in Writers Inc 233-243 . Study for test.

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

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 6 and 6  Test: The Declaration of Independence and Essay

Chapter 8: Read, create poster to teach 

Geo-Country Project: China
 
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 10.