Mon, Jan 11, 2021

• Discuss "Jumping Frog"

• Complete narrative writing in small groups to share with the class.

Assignment "Life on the Mississippi"

• Build Background, Journal, Analyze Literature pg 393

• Read "Life" pg 394-398 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W) and ??? 1-5 pg 399

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate Mark Twain's memoir about his days as a steamboat pilot.

• analyze and understand memoir as a genre, including the author's use of descriptive detail..

• compare the styles Twain uses in fiction, essay, and memoir.

Tue, Jan 12, 2021

• Discuss "Life on the Mississippi" pg 399

Assignment:"The Outcasts of Poker Flats"

• Build Background, Journal , Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 402

• Set Purpose -- Use a 3 column chart from page 402. The third column should include motiviation of each character. Chart while reading!

• Read "The Outcasts of Poker Flats" pgs 403-411 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

• Do discussion questions 1-5 pg 412

Google Classroom: (College Students) Creative Writing at the bottom of page 403. Post in the stream your response to the Creative Writing. Respond to three of your classmates by Friday. Due Wed by 11:59 pm. Responses due Fri.

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

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a short story about a conflict between a community and its outcasts.

  • understand how Regionalism influenced this literature.

  • analyze and understand character and motivation.

Wed, Jan 13, 2021

• Discuss "The Outcasts of Poker Flats"

Assignment: "To Build a Fire"

• Build Background, journal, Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 418

• Read "To Build a Fire" pgs 419-430 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

• Do discussion questions 1-5 pg 433

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a naturalistic story about a man trying to survive in the Yukon.

• understand how Naturalism influenced this literature.

• analyze and understand setting, plot and conflict.

Thu, Jan 14, 2021

• Discuss "To Build a Fire"

Begin Unit 4 Part 2 - The Native American Experience

Read pg 439 in class -- The Native American Experience

Assignment: "I Will Fight No More Forever" & I Am the Last of my Family

• Build Background, Journal, Meet the Authors, Analyze Literature pg 440

• Read "I Will Fight No More Forever" pg 441 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

• Read History Connection "Broken Promises" pg 442

• Read "I Am the Last of My Family" pg 443-444 Do (M&W)

• Do discussion questions 1-5 pg 445

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a two selections of Native American Oral Literature

• compare the tones and purposes of two speeches.

• analyze and understand the Oral tradition and a speaker's purpose.

Fri, Jan 15, 2021

• Teacher In-service