Q2 - Week3

Day 1

Monday 10/27/14 (p3, p4) & Tuesday 10/28/14 (p7)

Essential Question:  What can we learn about culture from literature?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #6 - describe what you already know about any cultures in the Middle East - need to fill more space. . . what intrigues you about the Middle East? - 1/2p.

2.   Activities:

• Begin 2.8 on pp. 111-119 
• read the Learning Targets
• complete the During Reading chart
• write your answers to the questions that appear in the My Notes sections
• complete the After Reading question #3
• complete the Writing Prompt - this is homework you can do WITHOUT the book if you do not finish in class - write the directions down to take with you - books stay here!

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now. List 2-4 new ideas you know or still want to know about cultures in the Middle East.

Day 2

Tuesday 10/28/14 (p3) & Wednesday 10/29/14 (p4, p7)

Essential Question:  How are poetic writing techniques similar to narrative writing techniques?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #7 -   Write 2 haiku poems (syllables  5/7/5) about your 2 favorite memories - 1 poem per memory = 2 poems total - 10 minutes.

2.   Activities:

• Begin 2.9 on pp. 120- 123
• read the Learning Targets, Before Reading and During Reading directions
• begin the TP-CASTT graphic Organizer with a prediction about the poem based on the title
• read the poem "Woman with Kite" and write your answers to the questions that appear in the My Notes sections
• complete the TP-CASTT for that poem
• repeat the process for the the poem "Grape Sherbet" 

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now. List 2-4 writing techniques you encountered in the poems.

Day 3

Thursday 10/30/14 (p3) & Friday 10/31/14 (p4, p7)

Essential Question:  Why would a writer shift their persona (personality) in their writing?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #8 -  using 140 characters (same as Twitter), write your friends an invitation to the best party ever.  Now write that same invitation to your great grandparents. (approx. 140 characters in the journal prompt so far) - what changes and why? - 1/2 p.

2.   Activities:

• review allusions, persona, conflict, diction, syntax
• begin 2.10 on pp. 124-127
• read the Learning Targets, Before Reading and During Reading directions
• read the excerpt from the memoir The Hunger of Memory
• prepare for our graded Socratic Seminar discussion 

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now. List 2-4 reasons why a writer would shift their persona.

Q2 - Week 2

Day 1

Monday 10/20/14(p3) - Thursday Schd. --- Tuesday 10/21/14(p4, p7) - Friday Schd.

Essential Question:  How does dialogue impact a story?

1.  Do Now:  Journal # 4:  Respond with +/-/? to the video "Kaffir Culture" - 1/2 page

2.   Activities:

• Reminder: no food, drinks, or electronic devices
• 2.4 Kaffir Boy pp. 98-102, read, annotate (see a sample), and do questions 3 & 4
• Review Topics/Themes of the two pieces we have read this quarter
• Journal Check via Peer Review; Book Check via Teacher Review

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now.  List 3-5 ways that dialogue impacts a story. 
    

Day 2
Wed. 10/22/14(p4, p7) - Friday Schd. --- Thu. 10/23/14(p3) - Thursday Schd.

Essential Question:  How does sentence variety affect narrative pacing?

1.  Do Now:  Journal # 5:  Using indirect and direct (w/tags) dialogue, write a real or imagined conversation that takes place in a high school cafeteria - try to include a cultural issue as the topic - 1/2 page

2.   Activities:

• Types of Sentences and Syntax
• 2.5 "Pick One" pp. 103-104
• 2.6 "If You are What You Eat, Then What Am I?" pp. 106-110

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now.   Use 3-5 different types of sentences to explain how sentence variety impacts pacing.

Q2 - Week 1

Day 1

Monday 10/13/14 (p3, p4) & Tuesday 10/14/14 (p7)

Essential Question:  What skills are necessary to successfully navigate Q2?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #1 - Describe all the cultures you saw or experienced over the break (food/regional/political/artistic/musical/technological/etc. related)  - 1/2 page

3.   Activities:

• What's new in I-101
• tardy bell, food/drink, journal procedures, target practice procedures,weekly journal w/ target practice and book check via partner 
• Independent Reading Required this quarter
• clear and bring to class - Day 3 this week - ask how to earn enrichment
• Intro to Q2 EA1 and Q2 EA2 + Begin Vocabulary Foldables or Flashcards or Tents: anaphora, memoir, narrative, narrative pacing, point of view, sequence of events, dialogue, dialogue tags, sensory details (aka sensory language or sensory images), irony

4.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now.  List 5-8 skills necessary to be successful in Q2.
     

Day 2
Tuesday 10/14/14 (p3) & Wednesday 10/15/14 (p4, p7)

Essential Question:  How and why do we analyze narrative techniques?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #2 - 1/2 page response to the video, "Boarders Without Borders"

3.   Activities:

• 2.3 "Funny in Farsi" on pp. 94-97; do notes and #3 in the book
• Watch "Kaffir Culture" video, begin 2.4 Kaffir Boy pp. 98-102

4.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now.  List 5-8 narrative techniques you could use in your upcoming narrative.

Day 3

Thursday 10/16/14 (p3) &  Friday 10/17/14 (p4, p7)

Essential Question:  How and why do we analyze narrative techniques?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #3 - you will have time to finish after eValuate - Which narrative techniques do you anticipate finding in the eValuate texts and why? 1/2 page

3.   Activities:

• Hold up your Independent Reading Books 
• eValuate
• Finish your Journal if you haven't
• Finish your vocabulary flashcards/foldables/tents if you haven't
• Complete the vocabulary handout and turn it in
• 2.4 Kaffir Boy pp. 98-102, read, annotate and do questions 3 & 4
• If we have time:  journal w/ target practice  - after you do your Target Practice

4.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now.  List any narrative techniques encountered in the eValuate test.