Essential Questions
How do writers use stylistic devices and literary techniques to create meaning?
How do writers use language to create a personal and emotional response in their readers?
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Course Components Addressed in this Unit
Concepts: Creativity + Perspective
AOE: Intertextuality, Readers, writers, texts
Possible Global Issue fields of inquiry: Power, Politics and Justice + Beliefs, Values and Community + Art, Creativity, Imagination + Culture, Identity, and Community
Assessment Overview
Various formative paragraph responses and analyses
Poem annotations (formative)
Group presentations and responses (formative)
Guided portfolio entries (formative and summative)
Independent portfolio entries (formative and summative)
Creative task (portfolio entry)
Formal poem analysis (summative)
Week VII
Week VII
Wednesday, December 2
Wednesday, December 2
Carol Ann Duffy - Background and Contextual Information - Speed PPTs
Presentations!
HW: Read "The Diet" by Carol Ann Duffy - you may begin annotations digitally, but you will be adding to these after our lessons next week.
Week VIII
Week VIII
Monday, December 7 - Face-to-face
Monday, December 7 - Face-to-face
Lessons 5-6
Global Issues presentation - Jayen
HW: Poetic Devices presentations will take place in our online lesson tomorrow.
Tuesday, December 8
Tuesday, December 8
Lessons 3-4
Poetic Devices presentations
"The Diet" by Carol Ann Duffy
HW: Complete your "The Diet" annotations and initial response questions for Monday - submit both to ManageBac by 8 AM
Wednesday, December 9 - Election Day, no school!
Wednesday, December 9 - Election Day, no school!
Week IX
Week IX
Monday, December 14 - face-to-face
Monday, December 14 - face-to-face
Lessons 5-6
Discuss "The Diet" Initial Response questions
Global Issues Written Task
Common Errors - Class of 2022
Exploring imagery in Duffy's "The Diet" presentations
HW: Submit your headline to the What's going on in the world? Padlet; submit your GI WT reflection to the ManageBac dropbox by 8 AM tomorrow.
Tuesday, December 15
Tuesday, December 15
Lessons 3-4
Students who are not in conferences can work on their "The Diet" imagery assignment OR Term 2 Learner Portfolio submission
HW: Prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for tomorrow's holiday-themed Kahoot!
Wednesday, December 16 - Last day of Semester I!
Wednesday, December 16 - Last day of Semester I!
Christmas Kahoot!
HW: Read The Things They Carried
Semester II!
Semester II!
Week I
Week I
Thursday, January 7 - double lesson
Thursday, January 7 - double lesson
Lesson 1
What's going on in the world?
"The Diet"
Imagery posters and Flipgrid presentations - feedback on Flipgrid
Annotations - Feedback on MB
External resources
Including purpose/effect
Lesson 2
"Beautiful" reading and annotations
HW: Your Learner Portfolios are due Thursday, January 14 at 8:15 AM.
Week II
Week II
Thursday, January 14 - double lesson
Thursday, January 14 - double lesson
Lesson 1
Learner Portfolios
Lesson 2
Debrief questions on stanzas 1-2 "Beautiful"
20 minutes in breakout rooms: work on questions for assigned stanza
Debrief answers back in main meet room
Read and annotate Section 2 - Cleopatra (stanzas 10 - 15)
HW: Finish reading and annotating the second section of "Beautiful", answer Cleopatra questions on the final slide of the PPT.
Recording from today's lesson!
Recording from today's lesson!
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Week III
Monday, January 18 - Holiday, no school!
Monday, January 18 - Holiday, no school!
Continue debriefing Helen of Troy analysis
Debrief Section 2 - Cleopatra questions
Prepare notes and questions for Thursday's Harkness session on the third section of the poem (Stanzas 16-19 on Marilyn Monroe)
HW: What's going on in the world? Padlet submissions are due the morning of Thursday's lesson; read, annotate, and prepare notes for the Marilyn Monroe Harkness Discussion in Thursday's lesson
If you click on Cleopatra and Marilyn Monroe's images, they are linked to these women's histories outlined on Britannica's website.
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Lesson 1
Term III schedule
Lesson 2
Harkness Discussion: "Beautiful" section 3, stanzas 16-19 on Marilyn Monroe
HW: Read, annotate, and prepare Harkness Discussion notes on the fourth and final section of "Beautiful
Recording from today's lesson is below!
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Week IV
Monday, January 25
Monday, January 25
Discuss Cleopatra questions!
Read, annotate, and fill out the Big 5 graphic organizer on "The Woman Who Shopped"
HW: Complete "TWWS" annotations and Big 5 graphic organizer (submit the graphic organizer to the dropbox on ManageBac) for Thursday's class
Recording from Monday's lesson -->
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If time, add articles to the What's going on in the world? Padlet
HW: What's going on in the world? Padlet submissions are due the morning of Thursday's lesson
Princess Diana's history is linked to her photo -->
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Lesson 1
Global Issues Presentation - Nathan
Lesson 2
The recording from Thursday's lesson:
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Click on the photograph for a link to an article about this infamous shot of Princess Diana in front of the Taj Mahal (left)
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Princess Kate and Prince William are pictured on the right in the same spot, many years later
Week V
Week V
Finish presenting "TWWS" Jamboard stanza annotations
Stanzas 11-12: Jayen and Eliza
Stanzas 13-14: Sydney and Ni Luh
HW: Exploring Global Issues in Duffy's Poetry is due Friday at 8 AM
Tuesday, February 2
Tuesday, February 2
Continue working on Exploring Global Issues in Duffy's Poetry
HW: Exploring Global Issues in Duffy's Poetry is due Thursday at 8 AM; as is your What is going on in the world? Padlet submission
Thursday, February 4
Thursday, February 4
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
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