Post date: Aug 27, 2011 7:28:9 PM
Monday:
Welcome/General Introduction: teacher, classroom, unit (Identity!)
Warm Up: "Let Me Tell You..." fill in the blank (share with table and turn in)
Small group activity: Conversation starters.
Introduce unit vocab (quick overview)
Power word: Infer
Reflect on your 1st couple hours of high school. What assumptions have you made? About your teachers? The students? About high school? (Turn in, writing sample). How might high school be different than middle school? Do you think you will feel different? Will you think differently about anything?
Tuesday:
Warm Up: Theme For English B (inference about the speaker)
Classroom protocols/routines/materials
Syllabus & Learning Target overview
Power word: Support
Wednesday:
Check out Absolutely True Diary of A Part Time Indian
Power word: Stereotype (Creative Journaling)
What stereotypes have influenced your life?
Are all stereotypes true?
What stereotypes exist about Native Americans?
Arnold's Dual Worlds Activity (Diagram, Drawing that maps two different worlds: church/school, school/home, friends/home, etc).
Intro to Miller PRIDE (activity)
Thursday:
Warm Up: Lexicon: What is in your lexicon?
Power word: Credibility
How do you know when someone is credible? How do you know if a stereotype or a story is credible?
Patterned Way of Working: "Translated from the American" by Sherman Alexie
Friday:
Warm Up:
Power Word: Pros and Cons
Does a con have to be the opposite of a pro?