Monday

Quarter 1, Week 5 of 9

Attention Students and Parents:
Mid-quarter grades will be available shortly.  Please check your Edline account frequently for the most up-to-date information.
Thursday study hall sessions in Mr. Fisher's room, F-205, will continue this Thursday from 2-3pm.  All are welcome! Those who are required to be there, please be prompt. Notifications will be made to parents and administration for students who do not attend.
Presentations are just around the corner!  Please begin preparing your powerpoint now!  A template will be available shortly, but many of you are already familiar with Google Presentations and how they work.  Don't wait!  Presentations begin Monday, September 23!
Monday, September 2 (Holiday, No School for Students)
Classwork
  1. None
Homework
  • None
Tuesday and Wednesday, September 3 & 4
Classwork
  1. Learning Objective: W11-12.3- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. W11-12.9- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. RL11-12.3- Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story.
  2. Do Now: Junior Vocabulary Unit 2, Quiz B
  3. After: How might real-life events evolve into a fictional story? Write this question in your journal.  While listening to the audio clip, answer the question as completely as you can.  Give examples from your own life or that you've heard which are better told as stories, rather than 'just the facts.'
  4. Then: Read/Listen to Ernest Hemingway's In Another Country on p. 800 in the textbook. While you listen, write down at least three different situations that seem fictional. Why do you think the author needed to fictionalize this situation from World War I?
  5. Next:  Begin writing a letter home from one of the character's to a loved-one: mother, father, sister, brother, boyfriend, or girlfriend. At least 250 words and must use details learned from the story or from your own knowledge of World War I.
  6. Target Practice: How are the 'Do Now', the story you heard, and the letter you began today all related?  After, predict how you think these activities prepare you for Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Homework
  • Finish Letters begun in class, due Monday, September 9 (hand-written or print only, no electronic)
    • Basic requirements:
      1. Your name, my name, period, and date at the top-left corner
      2. Centered title: World War I Letter Home
      3. Greeting (Dear Mom, Dearest Sister, Good Afternoon Father, etc)
      4. Minimum 250-word essay written from the perspective of one of the characters in the story or a soldier in another real war-time event during World War I.
      5. Reader must be able to see evidence that you have read and understood information given during class about the use of fiction to tell the stories of real events.
      6. Salutation (Yours Truly, Sincerely, All My Hopes, etc.)
      7. Sign the name of the fictional character
  • Independent reading will be accepted until September 27 (you will not have the opportunity to revise)
  • Enrichment: Read/Listen to 'Recollections of a Private' online or on p. 500-501. Complete the 'timed writing' activity on p.505 in the textbook or online by going to 'Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion', then 'Informational texts: Primary Sources', then 'Test Practice: Primary Sources'. Scroll to the bottom of the page and complete the 'timed writing' activity on paper and turn-in by Friday, September 5.
Thursday and Friday, September 5 & 6
Classwork
  1. Learning Objective: RL11-12.3- Analyze the impact of the author's choice regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama. RI.11-12.9- Analyze U.S. documents of historical or literary value.
  2. Do Now: Watch the short video about the things soldiers carried in World War I.  After, write the following question in your journal: What special item(s) do you carry with you at all times?  Why is it meaningful to you? What do you think it reveals about your values?
  3. After: Introduce the Vietnam War (see map here)
  4. Then: Begin Reading Chapter 1 of The Things They Carried (to p. 27)
  5. Next:  (time-permitting) Review information about conscription and reading a collection of short stories
  6. Target Practice: How comfortable would you be talking to people about what you have learned so far in American Literature? +/0/-
Homework:
  • Finish letter for Monday (see directions from last class)
  • Study for Junior Vocabulary Unit 3, Quiz A
  • Independent reading will be accepted until Friday, September 27 (no revision opportunity)
  • Optional: Begin working on your War Literature Presentation
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