Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

COURSE COMPONENTS ADDRESSED IN THIS UNIT

Concepts: Perspective + Culture

AOE: Writers, Readers, and Texts; Time and Space; Intertextuality: Connecting Texts

Possible Global Issue fields of inquiry: Power, Politics and Justice; Beliefs, Values and Community; Culture, Identity, and Community

ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

• Comprehension and analysis questions (formative)

• Various formative paragraph responses and analyses (formative)

• Guided portfolio entries (formative and summative)

• Creative task (portfolio entry)

• Independent portfolio entries (formative and summative)

• The Individual Oral (summative)

Monday, April 26

• Global Issues Presentation - Ni Luh

• Documentary Film Conventions - Collaborative PPT assignments

• HW: Documentary Film Convention presentations will take place in tomorrow's lesson.

Tuesday, April 27

• Global Issues Presentation - Eliza

• Documentary Film Conventions - Collaborative PPT presentations`

• Initial reactions to the film

• HW: Be prepared to discuss initial reaction discussion questions in Thursday's lesson.

Monday, May 3

• Global Issues Presentation - Dorka and Jonathan

  • Zhabi & Kilian's planners are due

• Documentary Film Conventions - Collaborative PPT assignments

  • Jonathan, Eliza, Jayen - Midshot

  • Zhabi, Finn G - Pan

  • Dorka, Kilian, Jayen - Diegetic Sound

• Discuss Dear America Questions (if time)

Monday, May 10

• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Harkness Discussion overview and preparation

• View "Writing About Anguish Beyond Words" (embedded to the right) and read "Tim O’Brien's Problematic Truth: Traumatic Experience Through Storytelling in 'How to Tell a True War Story'"

• HW: Complete the Links between Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam and The Things They Carried for tomorrow's lesson

Tuesday, May 18

• Paper 1 Prep

  • Paper 1 Assessment page

  • Paper 1 Top 10 Tips

  • Paper 1 Criteria

  • Narrated PPT

• Big 5 Scavenger Hunt

Thursday, May 20

Lessons 1-2

• Global Issues Presentation - Badai, Rigel, and Jaden

• Harkness Discussion - Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

• Self-reports

  • Google form for submission

• Paper 1 Outline

• HW: Submit your Big 5 Scavenger Hunt to ManageBac by Monday morning

Monday, May 24

• Global Issues Presentation: Maea, Badai

  • Finn G's planner is due!

• View and debrief Paper 1 Guidance Pt. 2

• Paper 1 Outline

• Exemplar Paper 1

  • Stimulus

  • Paper

  • Paper 1 Criteria

• HW: Read and assess the exemplar Paper 1 for tomorrow's class.

Tuesday, May 25

• Missing self-reports:

  • Zhabi, Ryan, Finn W.

• Assess exemplar paper

  • Google form results

• View and debrief Paper 1 Guidance Pt. 3

• Discuss specimen paper

Thursday, May 27

Lessons 1-2

• In-class Paper 1 assessment

Useful Documents on Persuasive Writing Techniques & Analyzing Persuasive Texts

Persuasive Writing Techniques

Effective Phrases When Discussing Persuasive Techniques and...

Things to Avoid

Sample Guiding Questions

Monday, May 31

• Global Issues Presentation: Finn G, Finn W

  • Dustin, Nathan, and Kilian's planners are due!

• Debrief Paper 1

• Learner Portfolio Semester II

Tuesday, June 1 - No school, Pancasila Day

Monday, June 7

• Paper 1

  • Whole-class feedback

  • ATL & Criteria

• GI Presentations/IO Prep Plan conferences

• Learner Portfolio Semester II

  • Check folders

Tuesday, June 8

• GI Presentation and Paper 1 Conferences

• IO Plans