Week 3

Day 1 of 3

Monday 10/27/14 (p3, p4) & Tuesday 10/28/14 (p7)

Essential Question:  What can we learn about culture from literature?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #6 - describe what you already know about any cultures in the Middle East - need to fill more space. . . what intrigues you about the Middle East? - 1/2p.

2.   Activities:

• Begin 2.8 on pp. 111-119 
• read the Learning Targets and look at this
• complete the During Reading chart
• write your answers to the questions that appear in the My Notes sections
• watch and complete the After Reading question #3
• complete the Writing Prompt - this is homework you can do WITHOUTthe book if you do not finish in class - write the directions down to take with you - books stay here!

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now. List 2-4 new ideas you know or still want to know about cultures in the Middle East.

Day 2 of 3

Tuesday 10/28/14 (p3) & Wednesday 10/29/14 (p4, p7)

Essential Question:  How are poetic writing techniques similar to narrative writing techniques?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #7 -   Write 2 haiku poems (syllables  5/7/5) about your 2 favorite memories - 1 poem per memory = 2 poems total - 10 minutes.

2.   Activities:

• Begin 2.9 on pp. 120- 123
• read the Learning Targets, Before Reading and During Reading directions
• begin the TP-CASTT graphic Organizer with a prediction about the poem based on the title
• read the poem "Woman with Kite" and write your answers to the questions that appear in the My Notes sections
• complete the TP-CASTT for that poem
• repeat the process for the the poem "Grape Sherbet" 

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now. List 2-4 writing techniques you encountered in the poems.

Day 3 of 3
Thursday 10/30/14 (p3) & Friday 10/31/14 (p6)
Essential Question: Why would a writer shift their persona (personality) in their writing?

1.  Do Now:  Journal #5 -  using 140 characters (same as Twitter), write your friends an invitation to the best party ever.  Now write that same invitation to your great grandparents. (approx. 140 characters in the journal prompt so far) - what changes and why? - 1/2 p.

"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." --Kurt Vonnegut
2.   Activities:

• review allusions, persona, conflict, diction, syntax
• begin 2.10 on pp. 124-127
• read the Learning Targets, Before Reading and During Reading directions
• read the excerpt from the memoir The Hunger of Memory
• do the After Reading Qs in groups
• prepare for our graded Socratic Seminar discussion 

3.  Target Practice:  skip 2 lines below your Do Now. List 2-4 reasons why a writer would shift their persona.