Thursday, December 3, 2015
Post date: Dec 3, 2015 11:37:50 AM
Section 1
Learning Objectives:
December 3, 2015
Today’s Agenda
Students need to wrestle with determining the way they want to organize their discussion of the horror elements in The Monekey's Paw story and video.
Students should be able to write a thesis that states generally what they will prove.
Students should be able to organize examples logically to prove their position.
1. Warm-up: know these two
2. Enter Choosing and Synonyms 6
3. Type up your elements of horror essay.
4. Last 20 minutes for Vocabulary.com
5. FINISH DRAFT OF ESSAY FOR HOMEWORK
Whole Group Lesson
Small Group work and/or Lesson Concept clarification.
Assessment/Important Upcoming dates
MODIFIED Performance Task (page 125)
Our goal is to have the performance task written by winter break.
This collection has given you both experience with and background about the horror genre. In this activity, you will be discussing whether the written form of The Monkey's Paw or The Tell Tale Heart is better at creating tension and suspense when compared to the a video version of the story.
- Use the criteria for horror explained in “What is the Horror Genre?” by Sharon A. Russell to support your analysis.
- Use this chart to explore the written and the video versions.
- Think about the structure of horror fiction and the tools its authors use, such as suspense and plot.
- As you analyze your chosen story or stories, pay attention to setting, events, and details that make the work both believable and entertaining.
Vocabulary
Unit 6 Homework
11/30 Monday- Pictionaries Unit 6
12/1 Tuesday- Choosing the Right Word
12/2 Wednesday- Synonyms and Antonyms
12/3 - Do one Quizlet by Friday
12/7 Monday- Completing the Sentence
12/8 Tuesday- Finish Unit
12/9 Quiz Unit 6
Homework
See schedule above
These are the Common Core Standards discussed throughout the Horror Genre performance task.
"What is the Horror Genre?"
CC.8.R.I.2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
"Monkey's Paw"
CC.8.R.L.2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
CC.8.R.L.3 Key Ideas and Details: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
CC.8.R.L.6 Craft and Structure: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
Sections 2 & 3
Learning Objectives:
December 3, 2015
Today’s Agenda
Students must be able to read the stories themselves.
Students should be able to use reading strategies to plow through the text.
Students should be able to summarize the basic plot of the story.
Students should be able to reread a text looking for the elements of horror.
1. Warm-up: Commas #14
Whole Group Lesson
- Read The Monkey’s Paw
- First read it for the basic plot/series of events.
- Fill in the plot diagram on page 15 of packet
- SHOW US FOR A GRADE
- Go back through the story and identify the elements of horror
- Fill in the chart on page 13 in your packet to prove that this story has all these elements of horror SHOW US FOR A GRADE
- Mark up the text using the margins to note the elements (detailed)
- Fill in the foreshadowing boxes
- SHOW US FOR A GRADE
MODIFIED Performance Task (page 125)
Power Point presentations
Small Group work and/or Lesson Concept clarification.
Activities to practice the skills
Assessment/Important Upcoming dates
This collection has given you both experience with and background about the horror genre. In this activity, you will be discussing whether the written form of The Monkey's Paw or The Tell Tale Heart is better at creating tension and suspense when compared to the a video version of the story.
- Use the criteria for horror explained in “What is the Horror Genre?” by Sharon A. Russell to support your analysis.
- Use this chart to explore the written and the video versions.
- Think about the structure of horror fiction and the tools its authors use, such as suspense and plot.
- As you analyze your chosen story or stories, pay attention to setting, events, and details that make the work both believable and entertaining.
Vocabulary
Coming soon