Mon, Feb 6, 2023
ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 12 - Coming to Terms pg 31-32
Discuss Women's suffrage speeches
Assignment:
Build Background, Journal , Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 481
Read "The Story of an Hour" pgs 481-484 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)
Do discussion questions 1-5 pg 477
Do Analyze Literature pg 485
Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to
read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a Regionalist short story.
understand how genter roles of the time period influenced the literature.
analyze and understand irony and reversal.
Tue, Feb 7, 2023
ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 13 - The Harder it Comes pg 33-36
Discuss "The Story of an Hour"
Assignment:
Build Background, Journal , Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 492
Read "We Wear the Mask" pg 493 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)
Do discussion questions 1-5 pg 494
Do Creative Writing 494
Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to
read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a poem.
understand how the post-Civil War period affected this literature.
analyze and understand speaker and metaphor.
Wed, Feb 8, 2023
ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 14 - Reading Fiction pg 37-39
Discuss "We Wear the Mask"
Review Author info - Booker T Washington-pg 495
Review Author Info - W.E.B. DuBois pg 497
Read together in class: "Booker T and W.E.B" Assign M&W and ??? pg 508 & 509
Assignment:
Journal Writing Option #2 page 496
Read "Up from Slavery" in class pgs 495-496 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)
Do discussion questions 1-3 pg 496
Read from "The Souls of Black Folk" pg 497-507 Do M&W
Do discussion questions 1-3 pg 507
Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to
apply reading strategies and skills.
use context clues to understand unfamiliar vocabulary.
analyze literary elements
address critical thinking questions.
Thu, Feb 9, 2023
ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 15 - Come to Your Senses - pg 40-42
Discuss "Up From Slavery" and "The Souls of Black Folk"
Discuss Booker T and W.E.B. Pieces and questions pg 508 - 509
Read Part 3 --Harlem Renaissance Author Focus -- Langston Hughes
Assignment:
Build Background, Journal , Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 641
Read "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Do Mirrors and Windows (M7W) pg 643
Read "I, Too, Sing America" pg 644 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 644
Do discussion questions ??? 1-5 pg 647 In Class
Also do....
Assignment:
Read background Page 645
Read from "The Big Sea" pg 646-647
Do Questions and Text 2 Text page 646
College Students: Do Creative Writing pg 647. Write your own blues poem. Your poem should be infused with a theme that comes from complaint or a lament, suffering, struggle, real life experiences. It meets life head on, no nonsense, often with sarcasm and with humor, a wisdom born from pain. Posted to Google Classroom by Midnight Fri, Feb 10. Post to three classmates by Mon, Feb 13.
Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to
read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate two lyric poems by Hughes.
analyze and understand speaker and tone.
identify common themes and styles in Hughes's writing.
Fri, Feb 10, 2023
ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Strategy 1 - Be The Test Maker pg 45-46
Discuss works of Langston Hughes
Assignment:
Background Page 664
Read "Any Human to Another" pg 664
Do Questions M&W and Questions 1-3 page 665
Journal: Writing Option #2 pg 665