IC: Dual-interpretation performances
SWBAT:
1) Develop alternative interpretations of the scene and the work as a whole
2) Discuss character motivation, attitudes and emotional states and the competing interpretations they suggest
3) Discuss artistic choices and blocking (including movement on stage)
4) Rehearse your dramatic interpretations
Homework: Annotate three scenes that you think are especially important for understanding the role of gender in Othello. Hint: using your book may be an option for the essay the following week.
IC: Othello Performances
SWBAT: perform two performances of a scene from Othello and explain how their artistic choices (movements, speaking rhythm, tone, pauses).
Barracuda News: Mock AP World & Mock AP Micro this weekend. Go get it!
HW: Read p. 3-4 of Gatsby by tomorrow. Take a picture of the annotations below and upload them to Teams.
Underline one phrase or sentence that best helps you understand how Nick (the narrator) sees himself & circle one word that best helps you understand him. p. 3
Underline a sentence on p. 4 that suggests how Nick has strong mixed feelings about
Gatsby.
IC: Othello Performances
SWBAT: perform two performances of a scene from Othello and explain how their artistic choices (movements, speaking rhythm, tone, pauses).
Barracuda News: Mock AP World & Mock AP Micro this weekend. Go get it!
HW: Complete "What Happened During the Night Storm" on Quill by Sunday. Minor
Grade ETC: 20 min.
Read p. 5-7 from Gatsby by tomorrow and complete the annotations, take picture to submit to Teams assignment. Annotation instructions in Teams assignment.
IC: Planning an Argument Essay
SWBAT:
1) Pair quotes to use in a literary argument essay about justifying terrible acts in Othello.
2) Explain how the way character's justify terrible acts contributes to an interpretation of the play as a whole.
3) Review thesis statement format
Homework: Read p. 7-10. Underline two descriptive sentences or phrases that show the contrast between descriptions of Tom and the women in the room on p. 10.
IC: Write a Thesis/ Write a Paragraph
SWBAT:
1) Write a thesis and body paragraph that includes both textual analysis and literary argumentation.
2) Explain how the way character's justify terrible acts contributes to an interpretation of the play as a whole.
3) Write a thesis as a class.
Homework: Read to p. 13 by Monday. Expect a Quiz next week.
Don't forget to finish the "What Happened During the Night Storm" on Quill by Sunday. Minor Grade ETC: 20 min.
IC: Revise a paragraph
SWBAT: revise a paragraph, contextualizing evidence, combining summary of key plot events with quote and using cause/ effect language as part of a line of reasoning
IC: MCQ & Write a poem
SWBAT: answer MCQ questions about a poem as well as write a one-sentence poem on the topic of dependence in the style of William Carlos William's The Red
IC: Act 3
SWBAT: identify examples of repetition, animal imagery, and other techniques in lago's machinations/ evil plan.
Open the Othello 3.3 assignment in Teams, download the questions, find relevant quotes from Othello and answer the Q's in your document.
IC: Man & Camel MCQ on Albert.io
SWBAT:
1) work with partners to answer MCQ's about a poem
Prepare for your Othello performance for Thursday in case I am able to return to school.IC: Man & Camel MCQ on Albert.io
SWBAT:
1) work with partners to answer MCQ's about a poem
Prepare for your Othello performance for Thursday in case I am able to return to school.
IC: Interpret Desdemona's Response
SWBAT:
1) Interpret Desdemona's response to Othello's story about the origin of the handkerchief.
2) Perform a one-minute interaction between Othello and Desdemona in which you interpret Desdemona's response to Othello.
HW: Read to p. 181 from act 4, scene 1. Expect reading quizzes this week.
IC: Fall into a Trance
SWBAT:
1) Interpret Shakespeare's use of the word "lie".
2) Perform a one-minute interaction in which you emphasize the word "lie" as part of a performance of the scene in which O' falls into a trance.
Elements: The poet employs connotation >>> connotative diction
Congratulations to the BIBSCAL competitors! Another crown for BARRY!
Come check out the art show this weekend.
HW: Read to p. 193, finishing Act 4, scene 1. Expect reading quizzes this week. Complete "Exit Ticket" Response in Exit-ticket Channel if unfinished.
IC: Direct Othello's Fall
SWBAT:
1) Prepare a one-minute interaction for another group in which you emphasize Othello's psychological transformation following the trance.
2) Explain how Othello's mental state has deteriorated after he awakes from the trance.
Barracuda News: Come check out the art show this weekend.
HW: Read to p. 199, Act 4, scene 2 by tomorrow. Expect reading quizzes this week.
IC: Direct Othello's Fall Performances & Arc of Heroic Figure
SWBAT:
1) Prepare a one-minute interaction for another group in which you emphasize Othello's psychological transformation following the trance.
2) Track Othello's changing state of mind and explain how a group's artistic choices show the deterioration of Othello's psychological state.
Barracuda News: Art Show this Weekend. Check it out at SeaWorld
HW: Read to p. 235, Finishing Act 5, scene 1 by Monday. Expect reading quizzes!
IC: PETAL "Plants" & Model Essay
SWBAT:
1) identify a "implied audience" in Olive Senior's Plants, explain how specific techniques are used to develop the relationship between the speaker, audience, and plants.
2) Use "model" phrases and verbs as part of your analysis sentences
HW: Read Othello to p. 93 by tomorrow. Expect Quizzes this week.
IC: Perform a scene
SWBAT: explain how character's motivations in a scene contribute to the action of Act 2, scene iii
You may use the litcharts translation to add your comprehension
A: Poetry Reading on Friday, March 28
Who's interested?
HW: Read Othello to p. 93-107 by tomorrow. Expect Quizzes this week.
IC: Albert.io Othello Quiz/ Performance Preparation
1) Complete the MCQ's for Act 1, Scene iii by the end of class that are assigned in ALBERT.IO
-You may work together to answer the questions, although you will only have 15 minutes to complete the quiz.
2) Prepare for your presentation
Due to an ongoing medical situation, it is possible that I will not be in class tomorrow. If this happens, we will present next week.
IC: Reconstruct an Essay
SWBAT: reconstruct an essay that is missing key context, evidence, analysis and commentary
News: HS basketball games tonight. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
HW: Bring your previous essay tomorrow. I will collect them Tuesday in preparation for Thursday's essay.
Finish Essay reconstruction if unfinished. Due Wednesday
IC: Tell-Tale Heart: Misunderstanding
SWBAT: collaborate with partners to discuss misunderstanding in TTHeart
-identify evidence that a narrator is unreliable and explain the connection between misunderstanding and reliability
Essential Questions: What is the connection between misunderstanding of self and reliability for a narrator?
HW: Read the first two pages of Othello. Highlight examples of characters distrusting or misunderstanding other characters. 15-25 min.
Quill: complete the remainder of your assigned activities by Saturday and
11:59
IC: Reading Shakespeare
SWBAT: collaborate with partners to delight, lago's motivation to "poison his
-familiarize yourself with Elizabethan language by writing insults that would enrage a teacher.
Essential Questions:
HW: Read pg. 11, 13, 15: highlight the insulting language that is meant to anger
Brabantio
Quill: complete 20 minutes on Quill by
Saturday night
IC: Literary Argument Essay Reflection
SWBAT: set goals to improve their next literary-argument essay score
Ce: Emma should pass out the essays. Please complete the reflection assignment on Teams.
Ho: Eric should pass out the essays. Everyone should complete the reflection assignment on Teams.
HW: complete the reflection by 11:59 pm tonight
IC: Presentations; Music across texts
SWBAT:
1) Combine Al-generated images and lines of poetry to convey the experience of the blues musician from Langston Hughes poem, "The
Weary Blues"
2) If time: What do A Raisin in the Sun and "The Weary Blues" suggest about the emotional impact of music?
Homework: Review p. 113-119, Underline most meaningful line from
"Who Do You Call," and write a sentence about what that line helps you understand about the man that the speaker describes. 10+ minutes
IC: Dramatic Interpretation Preparation
SWBAT:
-identify a central message of their scene and explain how it contributes to their understanding of the play
-Decide what acting choices they will make.
Take out your annotations from last night so I can check them.
HW: Reread your scene, highlight phrases and words that will guide your acting.
Tonight's homework: prepare for presentation: 10 mins +
IC: Finish Performances
SWBAT:
-develop a character through movement, voice, facial expressions, dialogue...
-demonstrate evidence of understanding of the play, a debatable interpretation (play's message) and evidence of preparation.
HW: Finish Reflection Forms
BRING OF MICE AND MEN & RAISIN to SCHOOL NEXT WEEK for Whole-book Study in preparation for Literary Argument Essays
IC: Finish Symbol Essay Posters
SWBAT: present an argument to a debatable thesis
postersete another grouyour symbol essay umplete anis voster decorame sion
HW: Eat, sleep, and be merry as you play LOL!
Complete activity pack by Tuesday night. (10-mins) if not done today.
IC: The Story of an Hour
SWBAT: explain how justaposition develops a character's shifting attitudes; begin identifying structural features in The Story of an Hour.
HW: Upload photo of annotations of The Story of an Hour to Teams; Read to p. 64 of A Raisin in the Sun by Monday.
IC: Group Paragraph
SWBAT: write A-but-also-B thesis statements with phrases, incorporate short quotes, transitions refer to the previous paragraph
HW: Read to p. 64 of A Raisin in the Sun by Monday. Read and Annnotate The Flowers by Alice Walker for tomorrow.
Annotate the beginning, end, shifts in POV, tone, or mood
IC: Finish Planning Essay, Peer Review
SWBAT: plan an essay w/ thesis, transition, evidence and analysis
Essential Questions: How does Alice Walker use the conventions of the Bildungsroman genre to develop Myop's complex response to her journey into the woods?
News: Benchmark on Wednesday
HW: Read and annotate "Sticks" using SPLAT by tomorrow: 10-15
minutes
IC: "Fighting for Home"
SWBAT:
1) Locate background information from a primary source
Assignment: Download & read "Fighting for Home: The Roots of A Raisin in the Sun" and answer the questions that follow the text in word document. Upload to Teams assignments. 10-point minor assignment.
HW: Finish reading through Act 1, Scene two by tomorrow. p.75
Quiz on "portrait of an artist" postponed until Friday
IC: Revising a paragraph
SWBAT: 1) Revise & annotate a rewrite of a paragraph from their benchmark essay.
2) Edit a peer's essay to include
HW: Review p. 80-86 for tomorrow. (15 minst depending of reading)
HW: Finish writing and highlighting paragraph if unfinished.
Ho Only: Complete one set of assigned Quill activities: 10 minutes
IC: Presentation (15-points) & Beneatha's Suitor Chart (10 points)
SWBAT: how does Beneatha's response to Asagai and George's values reflect her complex discovery of her personal values
Homework: Review p. 90-95 for tomorrow.
Prepare for your presentation tomorrow. YOU DO NOT NEED TO SUBMIT THE CHART UNTIL AFTER CLASS
IC: Review your essay
SWBAT: revise a paragraph based on feedback
A: Write a goal for improving one paragraph from your essay and rewrite one paragraph. 50-point minor
HW: Choose a scene from Of Mice and Men that you would like to perform with classmates. Decide how you would perform/ interpret the scene. Your next major assignment will be to perform a scene from the novel and explain your artistic choices in performing the scene.
IC: Meet the Okies
SWBAT: apply historical context to explain how authors use symbolism to convey their messages
HW: Read p. 12-24 tonight. Expect pop reading quizzes or a skill quiz at the end of the week.
A: major writing assessment next Tuesday. Please come to student hours tomorrow or Wednesday to discuss your writing diagnostic
IC: Debate an interpretation of a Poem
SWBAT: apply knowledge of techniques/ elements
HW: Read to p. 38-49 by Monday. Expect pop reading quizzes at all times.
-Quiz today
-Major writing assessment next Tuesday. Please come to student hours today or next Monday to discuss your writing diagnostic.
-Come see me after school if you're having trouble with OneNote. Hint: Try opening through Teams and OneNote.