Engl 12 1/23/23

Mon, Jan 23, 2023

• An Overview on Swift's motivation for A Modest Proposal 

• Discuss "A Modest Proposal"

• Read and discuss "Understanding Literary Criticism - Political Criticism, Do all analyze questions pg 538-539.

Assignment:

• Review Author info pg 540

• Assign journal ~ Mirrors and Windows pg 545

• Read pg 540 - 545 from "Candide"

• Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-3 on pg 545.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• apply reading strategies and skills.

• analyze literary elements.

• make inferences to read between the lines of a text.

• address critical reading questions.

Tue, Jan 24, 2023

• Discuss "Candide" in class

Assignment: Oroonoko

• Review Author info pg 562

• Assign journal ~ Mirrors and Windows pg 566

• Read pg 562 - 566 from "Oroonoko"

• Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-3 on pg 566.

• Complete Writing Option #2 with your questions.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• apply reading strategies and skills.

• analyze literary elements.

• use content clues to understand unfamiliar vocabulary words.

• address critical thinking questions.

Wed, Jan 25, 2023

Discuss "Oroonoko"

• Read 567- 569 in class

• Part 2 of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries literature

Assignment:

• Read and discuss Build Background, Compare Literature, Set Purpose, Meet the Authors pg 570

• Assign journal ~ Reader's Context pg 570

• Review literary terms satire and irony.

• Read pg 571-578 from "The Diary of Samuel Pepys" Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 578

• Complete Refer and Reason questions 1a/b & 3a/b, 5a first question on pg 587.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a diary extract and an excerpt from a fictional journal.

• analyze and understand diction and narrator.

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

• Discuss "The Diary of Samuel Pepys"

Watch a reenactment of Pepys's account of the Great Fire.

• Read and discuss Build Background paragraph 2 "Plague Year"

• Read pg 579 - 586 from "A Journal of the Plague Year" Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 586

• Complete Refer and Reason questions 2a/b & 4a/b & 5a/b (second question on 5a) on pg 587.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a diary extract and an excerpt from a fictional journal.

• analyze and understand diction and narrator.

Fri, Jan 27, 2023

• Purple Day - Student Intervention and Enrichment