Thursday, February 24, 2011

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
w.youtube.com/watch?v=LBC7Rown13Q
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

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