Week 7 Plans March 5-9

English I

Week 7

 This Week’s Focus: 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?

Monday

Prompt: Have you ever hurt someone you love? How did you hurt them?

acclaim-applaud, great approval

Grammar: Write sentences on the board and label each part of speech

Tool Box: Protagonist, Antagonist, Dynamic, Static

Review Quiz

Listen to The Scarlet Ibis

Tuesday 

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 white board at your table.

Accessible-easy to approach

Grammar:  A complete sentence has a subject verb and complete thought. Share examples.

Character project assignment reminder

Use your novels to create your character project

See video and discuss direct and indirect characterization.

Complete Ibis

Wednesday

Lit Circles Friday (you will need your novels in class tomorrow for a character project) 

Character project due Thursday

Fiction test March 14

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 Ibis Group work (with lit circle groups)

On the worksheet on the last two pages, there are a bunch of quotes. Label the quote: imagery, personification, metaphor, or simile, and then tell what the meaning behind the language.

“He collapsed onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack.”

Simile= shows that Doodle is weak and unable to hold himself up 

Thursday 

prompt: How does the author of your novel develop characters? Directly or indirectly? 

Get out your Scarlet Ibis HW

morose-gloomy, sullen, and despondent

Lit circles due tomorrow

Turn in your character project essays and present your visuals to the class

Friday

Free Write

Character Project Presentations

Fiction test Wednesday

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

Character

Antagonist

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Protagonist

Imagery

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MOOD

Plot

PLOTLINE

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Conflict

External Conflict

Internal Conflict

Flashback

The movie Titanic is told almost entirely in a flashback.

What are some other films that contain flashback to help tell stories?

Holes

Willy Wonka

Think of some more…

Foreshadowing

Can you think of an element of foreshadowing?

Suspense

Point of View

Setting

Style

Style is the distinctive way in which an author uses language.

Word choice, phrasing, sentence length, tone, dialogue, purpose, and attitude toward the audience and subject can all contribute to an author’s writing style.

Theme

Tone

Figures of Speech

Metaphor

Simile

Irony

Lesson Plans for Week of Feb. 27

•Monday  

•Free write or read

•Turn in homework on Vocab and review

•Prompt: Why do humans hunt?

•Endangered animals

•Conflict

•Read Most Dangerous Game with quiz tomorrow

•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.

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•Tuesday  

•Create a summary of The Most Dangerous game and be sure to include at least three conflicts from the rising action of the narrative.

•Activity:

•Work with assigned groups to review the plot of Most Dangerous Game

•MDG Quiz

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•Wednesday

•What is the scariest setting you have ever seen in a movie? What made it scary? What is the connection between mood and setting? What is the setting and mood of your novel?

•Irony- the opposite of what is expected to happen. Dramatic, verbal, and situational

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•What are some examples of irony from the Most Dangerous Game?

•What is an interloper?

•Listen to the Interlopers

•Complete visual assignment

•Quiz on Interlopers tomorrow

•Thursday

•What are some words you and your family use that may not be used in other parts of the country?

•What is the difference between dialect and dialogue?

•Why would an author use dialect in a story? What can dialect tell us about a character?

•What is the difference between direct and indirect characterization? Which one is showing and which one is telling?

•She scream, “Ya’ll git in this house.”

•My mother was very country.

•Read Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird 

•Friday

•What is a symbol? Can you find a symbol in Blues and state what idea the object represents.

•Symbol is an object or character that represents an idea

•Complete Blues Packet with group

•Lit circles

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Feb. 21- Feb. 24

Coming up next week....
Tuesday and Wednesday
Memoir Presentations

Thursday
Short Story Notes
Parts of Speech Review

Due Dates for Fiction Unit

Feb. 21 present your memoir to the class

March 12 Character Project presentation

March 14 fiction test March 15 send memoir to publisher

Week 4 Plans

—English I

—Week 4

—Completion of Nonfiction Unit

—Monday

—Prompt: Use these words in a journal: Enthusiastic, zealous, disbelief, infer, critical, arrogant, detached

— Informal-characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary, casual, or familiar use

—Grammar: Adjective a word that describes a noun. Blue, flat, clear

—Kennedy Speech

—Tuesday

—Free Write

—Term Review

—MLK Speech

—Background from history Channel

—Annotate page one of the speech. Focus on rhetorical devices and figurative language

—Speech Audio

—Nonfiction test tomorrow. Be sure to take home story guides

—Please Define Each Term

—Nonfiction

—Expository

—Descriptive

—Narrative

—Persuasive

—Rhetorical Device 

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—Parallelism

—Analogy

—Restatement

—Repetition

—Figurative Language

—Metaphor

—Simile

—Imagery 

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—The rest of the week

—Wednesday test with video

—Thursday draft in lab

—Friday finish draft and lit circles

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Week 3 lesson plans

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—prompt: What is your writing process?

—WDJ: arrogant- Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.

—Grammar: Nouns

—Tool Box: Setting and features of nonfiction

—Activity:

—Chart images, similes, nouns, and verbs in White House Dairy

—Quiz on My English

—Seminar on My English

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Tuesday

—prompt: Free Write

—WDJ: whimsical- Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability

—Grammar:  Concrete noun

—Tool Box: Image

—Activity:

—Review Nonfiction Terms

—Part of speech quiz and notes

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Wenesday

—prompt: What is the most exciting part of your memoir?

—WDJ: detached- Marked by an absence of emotional involvement

—Grammar: Abstract noun

—Tool Box: Hook

—Activity: 

—Hook due at end of class

—Lit Circles are due Friday 

—Remember Draft of your memoir due Feb. 8 (Wednesday) 

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Thursday

—Prompt: Use these words in a journal: Enthusiastic, zealous, disbelief, infer, critical, arrogant, detached

— Informal-characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary, casual, or familiar use

—Grammar: Adjective a word that describes a noun. Blue, flat, clear

—Kennedy Speech

—Please Define Each Term

—Nonfiction

—Expository

—Descriptive

—Narrative

—Persuasive

—Rhetorical Device 

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—Parallelism

—Analogy

—Restatement

—Repetition

—Figurative Language

—Metaphor

—Simile

—Imagery 

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—Friday

—Free Write

—Word of the day quiz

—How many parts of speech can you name

—Darkness at Noon

—Lit circles

—Informal

—LOL

—RU There

—TTYL

—Hey what’s up?

—Hello sir,

—I hope you are well today.

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