Mon, Aug 24, 2020

• Discuss Native American creation myths

• Review Reading Assessment questions pg 14

Assignment: Tribal Song

• List Objectives at the top of your questions

• Review Build Background (BB) + Set Purpose (SP) + Analyze Lit (AL) pg 15

• Journal: Reader's Context pg 15

• Read pg 16, "Song of the Sky Loom" 

• Do Mirrors & Windows (M&W), Do Questions ??? 1-5, a & b, pg 19

• Read pg 17-18 "Prayer to the Pacific " do Review Questions and Text 2 Text pg 18

Objectives: After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a poem that describes life as a weaving whose threads incorporate elements of nature.

• analyze and understand metaphor and repetition.

• infer features of Tewa culture from elements of the song.

Tue, Aug 25, 2020

• Discuss "Song of the Sky Loom" and Prayer to the Pacific"

• Listen to "Song of the Sky Loom"

• Review Reading Assessment questions pg 20

Assignment: Trickster Tales

• List Objectives at the top of your questions

• Review Background pg 21

• Read and do questions over "Coyote and the Buffalo"

• Journal: Mirrors and Windows pg 23

• Read pg 21-23, "Coyote and the Earth Monster" Do Questions ??? 1-3 pg 23

Objectives: After reading this selection, students will be able to

• apply active reading strategies: Predict, Visualize, Connect, Question, Clarify and Evaluate

• analyze literary elements

• use context clues to understand unfamiliar words. (List words with your questions.)

• address critical thinking questions

• Use writing options to assess understanding of the text (Writing an original regional (WY) trickster tale.

Wed, Aug 26, 2020

• Discuss Trickster Tales

Assignment: Writing Option #1 pg 23 Trickster Tale Rubric

Turn in document in Google Classroom

Objectives: After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• write an introduction that presents the trickster in an intriguing way.

• organize a body that includes elements of a trickster tale (magic, violence, deceit).

• create a conclusion that gives an explanation for something in the world and gives the story closure.

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

• Assignment: 

• Typing trickster tales Due Mon.

• See Objectives above.

Fri, Aug 28, 2020

• Teacher In-service