Q3 - week 3/9

Day 1
Monday 01/26/15 (p3, p4) - Tuesday 01/27/15 (p7)
Do Now:  Get your textbook, journal, novel, and writing utensils and be in your desk ready to go in 1 minute!

Essential Questions:
a.  How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
b.  How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about culture? 


CCSS.RL.9-10.3  -  Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
CCSS.RL.9-10.6  -  Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.     

- Homework check while you copy the Lit. Terms and      definitions for: forshadowing, tragic hero, hamartia from the glossary into your journal 

- Audio add re: characterization - round/flat, static/dynamic

- Focus on . . .

- Groups assigned:
    - an aspect of the culture wheel from SB  book p. 181
       to focus on while reading and present in week 9

-  Reading novel

HW = Dialectical Journal for chapters 5 and 6 on the new yellow graphic organizer.


Day 2
Wednesday 01/21 (p7) - Thursday 01/22 (p3, p4)
Do Now:  Get your textbook, journal, novel, and writing utensils and be in your desk ready to go in 1 minute!

Essential Questions:
a.  How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
b.  How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about culture?     

- Homework check while you complete Dialectical Journal for chapters 7 and 8 on the yellow graphic organizer.

- A look at a kola nut

- UPDATE - spread the word - most chapters of TFA are available in audio on Youtube

- Scores on Soc. Sem. then and now

- Dialectical Rubric 
     - do chapters 7 and 8 in class today
     - work on this whenever finished with work in class

- Groups assigned:
    - an aspect of the culture wheel from SB  book p. 181
       to focus on while reading and present in each Soc. Sem. and week 9

 Reading novel - work on this whenever finished with work in class


- If we finish everything: http://youtu.be/p-SQH94Pifc - Fela Kuti performance


HW = Dialectical Journal for chapters 9 and 10 on the yellow graphic organizer.

NOTE:  books, journals, graphic organizers and notes are allowed in the Socratic Seminar




Day 3
Thursday 01/29/15 (p3, p4) - Friday 01/30/15 (p7)
Do Now:  Get your textbook, journal, novel, and writing utensils and be in your desk ready to go in 1 minute!

Essential Questions:
a.  How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
b.  How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about culture?     

Crews divide questions to answer in journal (15)
- Crews prepare 2 questions/answers per level (10)
- ALL IN - 2nd informal Soc. Sem. chapters 5-10

HW = Read chapters 11-14 and be quiz ready

Q3 - week 2/9

Day 1
Tuesday 01/20 (p7, p3) - Wednesday 01/21 (p4)

Do Now:  Get your textbook, journal, novel, and writing utensils and be in your desk ready to go in 1 minute!

Essential Questions:
a.  How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
b.  How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about culture?     

- Homework check while you copy the Lit. Terms and      definitions for: proverb, folk tale, archetype - from 175-    176 blue boxes into your journal 

- Audio add (hero/scapegoat/outcast/villan/etc.)

- pronunciation and glossary pp. 179-180 in SB book

- Reading novel

- Audio add (round/flat, static/dynamic)

- Character Attribute Web for Okonkwo (together 1st then...) 

HW = Notes on Unoka.  Fill in 2 quotes w/ 2 explanations on the Character Traits and Textual Evidence graphic organizer stapled into your journal.


Day 2
Wednesday 01/21 (p7) - Thursday 01/22 (p3, p4)

Do Now:  Get your textbook, journal, novel, and writing utensils and be in your desk ready to go in 1 minute!

Essential Questions:
a.  How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
b.  How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about culture?     

- Homework check while you copy the Lit. Terms and    definitions for: motif, foil, characterization - from 183 &  185 blue boxes into your journal

- Compare/contrast Unoka and Okonkwo in Venn Diagram

- Why do we like/dislike characters? chart+/- characteristics and how does that relate to CCSS RL 9-10.3?

- Reading text 

HW = read (chps. 1-4), prepare notes, questions/answers for Soc. Sem.

NOTE:  books, journals and notes are allowed in the Socratic Seminar


Day 3
Friday 01/23 (periods 1-7 for 43 min. @)

Do Now:  Get your textbook, journal, novel, and writing utensils and be in your desk ready to go in 1 minute!

Essential Questions:
a.  How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
b.  How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about culture?     

- ALL IN - 1st informal Soc. Sem. chapters 1-4

HW = 1/2 page journal summarizing the Socratic Seminar, and read chapters 5 and 6

Q3 - week 1/9

Day 1
Monday 01/12/15 (p3, p4) - Tuesday 01/13/15 (p7)
1.  Welcome Back!
2.  Changes
3.  Book talk - check out your Independent Reading and your class novel
4.  Names on bottom of text book, journal, and ziplocks
5.  Partners/Crews - cards
6.  Grades/Rubrics
7.  Read some art w/ partners!


Day 2
Tuesday 01/13/15 (p3) - Wednesday 01/14/15 (p4, p7)
1.  Library Run - Ziplock Labels - your name, I-101, per. #
2.  Read some art w/ partners!
3.  eValuate     
          1. eValuate/eValuate
          2. student/king 95 --- chrome --- catapultevaluate.com
     b.  SILENTLY read - either Things Fall Apart or Independent Reading Book until we are all finished w/ eV.

Day 3
Thursday 01/15/15 (p3)-Wednesday 01/16/15 (p4, p7)
1.  Finish eValuate
2.  Read some art w/ your posse!
     a.  each person writes one observation on the card
     b.  each posse shares one observation that hasn't been ...
     c.  each posse writes 2-3 interpretations on the card
     d.  each posse shares interpretations  
3.  Compare 2 pieces of art, compare art and book cover and make predictions
4.  Staple 2 items into your journal in this order:
     a.  Journal Rubric   
     b.  Character Graphic Organizer 
5.  Preview Unit 3 (SB) and begin reading Things Fall Apart
4.  Home Work 
     a.  reread p. 14 and draw Okonkwo's household into your journal 
     b.  review what we read and summarize it in your journal (2-4 sentences)

Ben Enwonwu - Nigerian artist