Lesson Plans Happy New Year! Jan 5-9

Lesson Plans Jan 5-9
   

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night. Next AR Test is second week in January
• Core 1: Read The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. 
• Library and AR Final test on Thursday, Jan 15.

 

Language Arts 

Read

• PENGUINS:  Cores 1, 2 and 3. SCOPE read "The Amazing Penguin Rescue" and ""Saving Penguins One Sweater at a Time" 15 - 19.  Skills include synthesis/comparison: author' craft, mood, supporting evidence. Paired test Quiz.
• EQs: What is the value of hope?  How are problems solved?  How to synthesize key ideas about problem solving from two non-fiction texts.   
• CIVIL WAR JOURNAL:  Cores 1,2,3.  Close Reader: "Civil War Journal" by Louisa May Alcott. Read the journal excerpts carefully all the way through. Close-reading questions at the bottom of the pages. Jot down questions about the journal in the margins.  PAY ATTENTION TO SHIFTS IN TONE AND CONTENT. When can you identify Alcott's mood? Compare and contrast the two journals: 1861/62 and 1863. Tone and mood handout.

Writing and Warm-Ups 

Freewrite, poem, vocabulary, word work

Blog Posts

1. Holiday personal narrative short story that was real for you 
2. Book writing to tell what you like about your current AR book
3. Respond to two classmates' posts with a relevant comment or question.
4. Post your symbolism poem.

Vocabulary for Penguins

1. contaminate
2. decimate
3. dote
4. elated
5. enduring
6. lash
7. monumental
8. permeates
9. preen
10. surplus
11. vulnerable

 Poem 

"Quilt"
Janet S. Wong


Our family
is a quilt

of odd remnants
patched together

in a strange
pattern,

threads fraying
fabric wearing thin-

but made to keep
its warmth

even in bitter 
cold.

1. Copy the poem.
2. Symbolism uses an object to stand for something larger than itself.
3. What does she use as a symbol and why?
4. Write your own symbol poem.  Due tomorrow.  Print and post on your blog.
   

 

 

EQ: What role does wealth and poverty play in the creation of the industrialization in the 1900's?  How did the rise of industry change the nation? What was learned from The Triangle Shirt Factory?

Chapter 25: The Rise of Industry 353-369
 
A Nation Transformed 354
Improved Technology 356
Triangle Shirt 358, 362
The Rise of Big Business 359
The Growth of Cities
Working Conditions
Labor Unions
Summary 369

Text notes and outline. Essay/comic.
Test