Week 3- How do cultures change when they encounter new ideas and people?

Day 1- SpringBoard, journal, Things, and writing utensil
Learning Objective:

• Analyze how a complex character interacts with other characters.

1..JOURNAL: Why do you think we like/dislike some characters/people?  Why do our likes/dislikes of others often say so much about ourselves?
2. Character chart
3.Writer's Craft
Target Practice: Affirm/defy/qualify- Okonkwo statement
Sustained Silent Reading

HW: Chapters 7-10 with Socratic Seminar on Thurs/Fri

Day 2-SpringBoard, journal, Things, and writing utensil
Learning Objective:

• Collaborate to prepare for and participate in a discussion using textual evidence to support analysis. 

1. JOURNAL: Consider how Achebe uses foreshadowing in the last two sentences of Chapter 1. Why do you think he tells the reader so early on that Ikemefuna is “doomed” and “ill-fated”?

2.Lit terms: motif, foil, characterization, 

3.Reading, skimming, questioning, and rereading

4.After-Reading Activity, page 187

Target practice: Question asking/answering rehearsal with elbow partner

HW: Socratic Seminar on Thurs/Fri

Day 3- SpringBoard, journal, Things, and writing utensil

Learning Objective:

• Collaborate to prepare for and participate in a discussion using textual evidence to support analysis.
• Predict, question, and begin to research how colonization might affect an aspect of the Ibo culture.

1.JOURNAL: What are the elements of a successful Socratic Seminar?

2.Seminar prep and organization

3.Seminar and then half page

4.Chapter 9-10 activity

Target Practice: What went well? What should happen next time?

HW:Continue reading Things