Goals for this week:
- incorporating blessing feedback into our speeches;
- peer revision through the "read aloud" strategy - NOT copy editing each other's work;
- presenting our speeches to small groups;
- giving each other constructive, specific feedback on the speeches;
- reflecting on the persuasive speech writing / revising / presenting process (at the bottom of p. 168); and
- conducting a review of all that we've covered thus far in our study of America's Promise and The Power of Persuasion.
This week, we'll spend our first class of the week doing the revision and editing of our speeches (Monday/Tuesday).
Wednesday is our first snow/ice day of the school year. :)
The last class of the week (Thursday/Friday) will be spent presenting our speeches to small groups (max. 4 with one speaker and three audience members).
At the end of class on Thursday the 25th /Friday the 26th, you'll write the reflection and conduct a review of what we've covered in the last two units.
Homework due on Monday the 29th/Tuesday the 1st (please note that I've color coded the days...): (UPDATE: This homework is due on Wednesday the 2nd for 2Black)
- Read p. 169 (first page of Unit 3) and do medium annotation.
- Deconstruct the prompt on p. 223 (it's reprinted on p. 172 - Activity 3.1).
- Answer the essential questions in Activity 3.1
- Using the handout I gave you in class (look below for the attachments - just the same pictures of my book that I handed out in class), do light annotations on The Role of the Media in a Democracy, paying close attention to the question: How important is a free press in a democratic society?
- Do the survey on p. 179 of Activity 3.3
- Study the academic vocabulary and literary terms for this unit:
https://quizlet.com/102656886/english-11-springboard-unit-3-academic-vocabulary-literary-terms-flash-cards/
Reminder: Fahrenheit 451 is due on March 7 for 2Green / March 15 for 4Green / March 8 for 2Black.
Do light annotation for the following:
- governmental involvement in free thought / free self-expression (in other words, censorship);
- knowledge vs. ignorance;
- technology vs. nature; and
- characterization of Montag, Mildred, Clarisse, and Captain Beatty.
- We'll spend two-three classes learning about literary analysis in relation to a few essential questions.
- We will accomplish this through carefully reviewing our annotations of F451, having Socratic discussions around these essential questions, and then group drafting our literary analyses.
- We will discuss the importance of objective tone in writing literary analyses.
- I will provide you all with exemplars of literary analyses so that this form will not seem so foreign.