Lesson Plans Jan 12-16

Lesson Plans Jan 12-16
   

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night. Write a poem about butterflies.
• Core 1: Read The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
• Library and AR Final test on Thursday, Jan 15.

 

Language Arts 

Read

• 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. 
• "SHATTERED LIVES": Scope Jan 2015.  EQs: How does war affect children? What hardships come with being displaced from your home? How can humanitarian efforts help refugees? SKILLS: central ideas and details, inference, text evidence, expository writing

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. 
5. Core 1 - Pittman book review: see other post guide.  Print and post.
6.   "Civil War Journal" Short response from page 68.
7. Poem using the word butterfly.
8.  Something about snow.  

 

Vocabulary for "Shattered Lives"

1. refugee 
2. humanitarian
3. haven
4. displaced
5. persecution
6. nongovernmental  
7. dire
8. commodities
9. daunted
10. erupt
    

 Poem 

 

Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924. Emily Cartoon Poem Video

Part Two: Nature XVIII

TWO butterflies went out at noon
And waltzed above a stream,
Then stepped straight through the firmament
And rested on a beam;
And then together bore away	5
Upon a shining sea,—
Though never yet, in any port,
Their coming mentioned be.
If spoken by the distant bird,
If met in ether sea	10
By frigate or by merchantman,
Report was not to me.

1. Copy the poem.
2. What is the poem's theme?
3. What do you think of this poem?
4. Write your own butterfly poem.  Due tomorrow.  Print and post on your blog.

 Reclusive definition, a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation

 

 

EQ: How did the Industrial Revolution push the United States forward?  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.
Research project - see other blog post. 
Test