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

Buzzword: Panacea

Buzzword: Pandemonium

2. Enter Choosing and Synonyms 6

3. Quizlet for 5 minutes

3. Type up your elements of horror essay.

4. Last 20 minutes for Vocabulary.com

5. FINISH DRAFT OF ESSAY FOR HOMEWORK

6. WHAT IS YOUR RANK?

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.

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

* Do another Quizlet by Wednesday

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

Buzzword: Pandemonium

Whole Group Lesson

  1. Read The Monkey’s Paw
    1. First read it for the basic plot/series of events.
    2. Fill in the plot diagram on page 15 of packet
    3. SHOW US FOR A GRADE
  2. Go back through the story and identify the elements of horror
    1. 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
  3. Mark up the text using the margins to note the elements (detailed)
    1. Fill in the foreshadowing boxes
    2. 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.

Vocabulary

Coming soon