Lesson Plans November 17-25 American Education Week and Almost Thanksgiving!

Lesson Plans Nov 17-21   

AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK 

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 "Monkey's Paw" 
• "The Monkey's Paw" skills
• "Monkey" Paw" Film Clip paired lesson 121-123
• Determining Theme 117
• Analyze Stories: Foreshadowing 117
• Man-Made Monsters in Close Reader
• The Quincentenara in Scope: summarizing 

Writing and Warm-Ups

Freewriting 

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

Warm-Ups for Gold week 
Monday - Freewrite and vocabulary - write a definition
Tuesday - copy the poem and reflect
Wednesday -copy the terms below
Thursday - write a sentence for each vocabulary word

  
Vocabulary - "Monkey's Paw"

1. resignation
2. compensation
3. credulity
4. talisman
5. grimace
6. fate
7. bog
8. torrent
9. peril
10. frivolous

Terms  - "Monkey's Paw"

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 in the story
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 

Poem  - copy and reflect

Dreams

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.  

 

U.S History - Core 4

Research Projects: Amendment Research
Presentations and discussion. Notes.


Chapter 10: The Bill of Rights  133-143

1. Project: Sign up for one of the amendments. Research the amendment and then write a blog post to answer the following questions:  Define your amendment. Write about three reasons on why this amendment is important. Link the amendment to a current news story. Post on your blog.  Due Nov 25
2. Quiz on the First Amendment "pie" information. See blog post on Nov 17th.
3. Amendment One - pie drawing with information due Monday.
4. Read the chapter and discuss. Reread (close reading) for details. Complete the Review of the Text and the essay question.
5.  Country Project - Sierra Leone - due Friday, Nov 21 
6. Test on Chapter 10 + comic strip