Goals for the week
- use a review of eight parts of speech and critical thinking to determine how one would create essential questions for any intellectually complex assignment / work task
- 2Black - finish the embedded assessment presentation
- begin planning work for our next unit: American Forums - The Marketplace of Ideas
Monday's 2Black class
- We'll present our speeches to one another in small groups.
- You'll assess one another with a sheet that I've prepared.
- We'll get a head start on the homework that was to have been assigned last Thursday: Here
Wednesday: snow day
Tuesday's 2Green class / Thursday's 4Green class / Friday's 2Black class
- pre-test on eight parts of speech > please take notes, place in your "notes" section of your notebooks, and be ready *at any time* for a definition and application quiz
- terms / definitions / "tacky cheats" for all eight parts of speech (as well as etymology, where applicable)
- using noun / verbs to come up with essential questions for our next embedded assessment - done in groups - pass in essential questions
- Challenge: How many verbs are there in the assignment on p. 223?
- looking back at our former embedded assessments to determine how I used textual evidence to create essential questions (U1EA2 & U2EA2)
- checking our hypotheses about essential questions for the assignment
- class discussion about essential questions
QuickWrite:
- How are parts of speech important, in relation to critical thinking?
- How are essential questions important, in relation to critical thinking?
Please pass the QuickWrites into the appropriate inbox.
Reminder: Fahrenheit 451 has to be read and annotated by 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.