Lesson Plans Feb. 28th to March 4th

English I
Week 7
Monday
Journal: What is the difference between tone and mood? How can you tell the author’s tone? How does setting affect mood?
Vocab See list from Most Dangerous Game
Lesson
Give students white boards and watch the below. Have students fill in the answer.
Quiz and assignment on THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
Video Version http://ww
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Tuesday
Prompt: Have you ever hurt someone you love? How did you hurt them?
WDJ: acclaim-applaud, great approval
Grammar: Write sentences on the board and label each part of speech and parts of speech work sheet
Tool Box: Protagonist, Antagonist, Dynamic, Static
Listen to The Scarlet Ibis

Wednesday
Lit Circles Friday (you will need your novels in class tomorrow for a character project)
Character project due March 16th
Fiction test March 17th
Prompt: What is the setting of Ibis? What is the mood? Give an example of foreshadowing from the first page.
Vocab: Use acclaimed and indolently in a complete sentence. Lab the parts of speech in the sentence.
Complete the Scarlet Ibis
Complete Ibis Group work

Thursday
prompt: What do you think of when you hear the word fiction? What fiction terms do you know and understand? Place the terms on the yellow sheet hanging on the door.
WDJ: Accessible-easy to approach
Grammar: A complete sentence has a subject verb and complete thought. Share examples.
Character project assignment
Use your novels to create your character project
See video and discuss direct and indirect characterization.
Characterization
Direct characterization: stating traits or telling. He is brave.
Indirect: showing traits from action or dialogue. He saved the baby from the burning building.
What traits did the protagonist in the video have? What traits where direct? What traits were indirect?
Friday
prompt: How does the author of your novel develop characters? Directly or indirectly?
WDJ: morose-gloomy, sullen, and despondent
Grammar: Find the subject and verb
Boys stink.
Girls smell.
The car was red with blue stripes.
Activity: Complete the lit term chart using your novel.
Present your lit circle jobs and discuss your work.
Literary Terms
We will be using these literary terms throughout the school year.

We will use the following terms:
Character Antagonist Protagonist
Diction Denotation Connotation
Imagery Mood Plot
Exposition Rising Action Climax
Falling Action Resolution Conflict
Flashback Foreshadowing Suspense
Point of View Setting Style
Theme Tone Figures of Speech
Metaphor Simile Oxymoron
Personification Alliteration

Lessons for Week Five

Feb 21- Feb 25th

English I
Week Five
Monday and Tuesday
Computer Lab
Writing Conference
Complete Memoir
Class Scape Nonfiction Assessment

Wednesday Honors
Common Fiction Assessment
Honors: Struggle for Perfection
Most Dangerous Game Due Tomorrow with Quiz
Fiction Lecture Tomorrow
Wednesday English I
Tool Box:
Fiction- characters, invented people who experience a series of events, called the plot. Characters always face a conflict, or problem, that sets the plot in motion.
It occurs in a time and place, or setting. The setting may be real or imaginary.
Fiction is told, or narrated, from the point of view of a character who may or may not be part of the story.
It includes a theme, a message or an insight about life.

Wednesday
Plot parts the events of a story. A story must a have an exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action. (Beginning, Middle, and End)

Activity: Power Point on Plot and short stories (guide notes)
Listen to Most Dangerous Game p. 215
Check for understanding (see questions list)

Homework
Most Dangerous Game p. 215 finish quiz Thursday
Memoir Presentation Friday

Thursday
prompt: Summarize Most Dangerous Game
WDJ: condescending- Displaying a patronizingly superior attitude
Grammar: Adverb
Tool Box: Review Parts of Plot

Thursday
Conflict (list all of them and Talk about MDG)
Man against Man - where a character or characters in a story pose a problem to another.- Man against Nature - where natural conditions (calamities and disasters) pose a problem to the character(s).- Man against Himself - where the character's own imperfections pose a problem to the character. Man against Society - where the rules, norms, values, systems and structures of a society pose a problem to the characters.


Thursday
Activity:
MGD Quiz (listen to and talk about the ending first)
Work with assigned pair
Create a Ending and answer the seven critical questions (see me for handout)

Friday
Presentations

Ideas for Lit Circle

Are you the illustrator this week? Try creating a book trailer.

Upcoming due dates

—Draft of Memoir Feb 14th

—The Most Dangerous Game Feb. 24th

—Memoir Presentations Feb 25th

—No lit Circles Feb 25th

—Lit Circles March 4

—Scarlet Ibis due March 9th

—Lab day March 10th

—Character Project Presentations March 14th

—Fiction Test March 17th

Lit Circles March 18th

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