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Quarter 2, Week 2 of 10

Cry of the Banshee Enrichment Opportunity:  
Check your e-mail for directions about how to complete this enrichment activity. I still have discounted tickets available!
Monday, October 19
Learning Goal: L.11-12.6 Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Attach Quarter 2, Week 2 of 10 to the next Left Page of your notebook. Read and Annotate the document.
  2. After: Title the Right Page of your notebook Script Writing QHT Chart.  Fold the page into 4 columns. label the columns: Question, Heard, Teach, Target Practice.  Copy the target practice into the last column, but wait until the end of class to score yourself.  Discuss each of the following words with an elbow partner and place into one of the first three columns:
    • script, plot, conflict, complications, climax, resolution, theme, setting, sensory details, characterization, dialogue, narrator, diction, syntax, voice, mood, tone, soliloquy, motif, irony
  3. Then: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 1 on p. 92 (Socratic Question/Answer Session) and choosing production teams
  4. Next: Watch this Background video on Arthur Miller's time
Target Practice: I can identify and analyze the skills and knowledge necessary for success in completing the Dramatic Script Performance on a Contemporary Social Conflict. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Choose production team and select a person to e-mail Mr. Fisher the group's names AND A PROPOSED TOPIC. This person should copy/CC the message to all of the group members. IF YOU HAVE NOT CHOSEN A GROUP BY CLASS TIME ON WEDNESDAY, ONE WILL BE ASSIGNED.
  • Choose IR book and bring with you to class on Friday
Wednesday, October 21
Learning Goal: RL.11-12.9 Demonstrate knowledge of foundational works of American Literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Attach the blue Dramatic Script Performance on a Contemporary Social Conflict document to the next Left Page.  Read and annotate the document. Make a decision with your production team to conduct a live performance or a filmed one. Star your choice in the margin. Place an X on the other.
  2. After: Preparing to Read The Crucible: Setting the Context, WB. pp. 93-95
  3. Then: Watch the opening the scene of The Crucible (Film, 1996)
  4. Next: Production Team response to the Planning and Prewriting prompts on WB p. 144
Target Practice: Examine informational and literary non-fiction texts to set the historical context for reading.
Homework
  • Begin group prewriting of the script with your group (in Google Doc)
  • Choose IR book and bring with you to class on Friday
Friday, October 23
Learning Goal: RL.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence in support of analysis. SL.11-12.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: 20 minutes of silence to complete independent reading and dialectical journal page 1.
  2. After: Staple the Script Writing document to the next Left Page of your notebook. Title the Right Page Salem Society: Meet the Characters. Write today's date at the top-right of the page. Copy the Target Practice below the title.
  3. Then: In your notebook, create the Character Note-Taking Chart on WB pp. 103-4. Complete the chart while participating in the Drama Game activity.
  4. Next: Watch the next segment of The Crucible (Film, 1996) While watching the film, complete the chart on WB p.105 (question 2).
Target Practice: I can collaborate with the group to analyze lines from The Crucible for appropriate tone, generate predictions, and use textual evidence for support. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Group completion of the Planning and Prewriting prompts on WB p. 144 for next class
  • Group revision of the script and submit through the blog submission link
  • Continue reading IR book and bring with you to class next Friday
  • Looking Ahead: We will complete the Script Writing Document from today on Monday.  If your group wants to benefit from it earlier, you should write the definitions BEFORE Monday's class.
Enrichment Vocabulary:
This is an enrichment activity ONLY. If you wish to complete these units, they will support your vocabulary learning and your grade in English Class.You may complete each activity at the following website:
This Quarter's Units are: 5-8.
Choose ONE of the tests for each unit! Make sure to type your name in the box on the 'Results' page, and type my e-mail in the box at the bottom: wfisher@kkhs.k12.hi.us. You may complete them all at the same time, or one every two weeks.
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