Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Post date: Mar 8, 2016 11:55:48 AM

Section 1

Learning Objectives:

We will finish our unit on the Civil War literature by the end of this week.

March 8, 2016

Today’s Agenda

1. Warm-up:

Inferencing 5-4

Draw Pictionaries 10

2. Explain the imagery notes assignment

3. Close-Read lines 40-60 "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh."

4. Quiet reading time to finish the chart.

Vocabulary

    • Students should now have some background about what battles were like during the Civil War.
    • Students will bring that knowledge to their close reading of two short stories to analyze how the writers created mood through setting, imagery, symbols, and allusions.

Whole Group Lesson

Small Group work and/or Lesson Concept clarification.

Vocab Homework Schedule:

Monday 3/7 - Pictionaries Unit 10

Tuesday 3/8 - Choosing the Right Word Unit 10

Wednesday 3/9 Synonyms and Antonyms Unit 10

Be sure to have finished one Quizlet for Unit 10

Monday 3/14 Completing the Sentence Unit 10

Tuesday 3/15 Finish the Unit

Wednesday 3/16 Be sure to have finished one Quizlet for Unit 10

Thursday 3/17 QUIZ UNIT 10

In groups, students will discuss and later present how changes in setting, imagery, symbols, and allusions would create a different mood.

Assessment/Important Upcoming dates

In groups, students will present a different version of "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh."

Options include...

Series of drawings

Poem

Play

Short story

Due Friday

Homework

See vocab schedule above.

These are the Common Core Standards addressed throughout Historical Fiction literature study.

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.I.3 Key Ideas and Details: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

CC.8.R.I.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

Sections 2 & 3

Learning Objectives:

We will finish our unit on the Civil War literature by the end of this week.

March 8, 2016

Today’s Agenda

1. Warm-up:

Inferencing 5-4

2. Finish watching Gettysburg excerpts.

2. Discuss the Theme and mood.

3. Mood words sheet to describe characters.

4. Collect the notes sheet from the movie.

    • Students should now have some background about what battles were like during the Civil War.
    • Students will bring that knowledge to their close reading of "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" to analyze how the writers created mood through setting, imagery, symbols, and allusions.

Whole Group Lesson

Small Group work and/or Lesson Concept clarification.

Assessment/Important Upcoming dates

Vocabulary

Coming soon

Please check HAC for updated grades.