Lesson Plans November 10-14 with Veteran's Day Nov 11

Lesson Plans Nov 10 - 14      

Blue Week with Veteran's Day off - Library on Thursday, Nov 13 - take AR tests
Gold week  

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ for 30 minutes every night. 
• Core 1, 2, 3:   writing a flash fiction

 

Language Arts 

Read

• Test on Horror Genre
• "The Monkey's Paw"
• Analyze Text: Literary Criticism and Summarize Text, 129
• Analyzing the text, 130 #1-7

Writing and Warm-Ups

Freewriting 

Flash Fiction - Draft and revise an original, flash fictional story. 
Read these for inspiration 

Warm-Ups for Blue week 
Monday - Freewrite 
Tuesday - no school
Wednesday - copy the Poem "Life Is Fine". Reflect on it. 
What is the message? What do you think about this message?
  
Life is Fine
Langston Hughes 

I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered!
I came up twice and cried!
If that water hadn't a-been so cold
I might've sunk and died.

But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator
Sixteen floors above the ground.
I thought about my baby
And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered!
I stood there and I cried!
If it hadn't a-been so high
I might've jumped and died.

But it was High up there! It was high!

So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!

Wednesday Warm-Up
Vocabulary - define these words from the story

1. condole
2. grimace
3. fate
4. credulity
5. prosaic
6. frivolous
7. avaricious
8. compensation
9. resignation
10. fussilade

Thursday - write a meaningful sentence using each word

Terms 

1. Theme - a message about life or human nature 
2. Universal theme - found in literature of different cultures and time periods, can include
3. Foreshadowing -  clues the author gives that hint at what will happen later
4. Author's use of foreshadowing - to prepare the reader for strange or unexpected events
5. Determining theme - sometime the author state the theme, but most times it is inferred from the details

 

U.S History - Core 4

Research Projects: The Founding Fathers
Presentations and discussion. Notes.


Chapter 10: The Bill of Rights
Read the chapter and discuss. Reread (close reading) for details. Complete the Review of the Text and the essay question