No Membean requirement this week: earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice between 3/27 and 4/9.
Chinese Synthesis Assignment - use handout attached here
Monday, March 27
LG: Compare film adaptations to primary sources, analyzing directors’ choices and the effects they have on an audience’s interpretation of theme. ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop theme. ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentence - quiz Friday!
- Complete analysis of “The Ballad of Mulan” and excerpts from Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior, analyzing the character of Mulan and the thematic elements of each text.
- Read & complete TPFASSTT for “The Ballad of Mulan”
- Complete Source B activity (Kingston/Tan comparison through Venn Diagram)
Tuesday, March 28
LG: Compare film adaptations to primary sources, analyzing directors’ choices and the effects they have on an audience’s interpretation of theme. ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop theme. ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentence - quiz Friday!
- View scenes from Disney’s Mulan, analyzing what is emphasized and what is absent from the film treatment of Mulan.
- Closer—organize your evidence from both films to support analysis of comparison/contrast to the texts we have read.
Wednesday, March 29
LG: Compare film adaptations to primary sources, analyzing directors’ choices and the effects they have on an audience’s interpretation of theme. ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop theme. ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentence - quiz Friday!
- FOOD DAY; finish watching Mulan; taking notes
- Student-led Work Session— Read Source D, an excerpt from “Writing Chinese American into Words and Images: Storytelling and Retelling of The Song of Mu Lan.” Review sources A, B, C, and D and then respond to the following prompt: How do authors use source materials (legends, myths, religious texts, historical figures, etc.) to reflect cultural and/or societal values?
Thursday, March 30
LG: Consider how an author creates character and cultural perspective, drawing on source materials; create an argument to discuss these representations. ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.) ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentences - quiz tomorrow!
- Complete reading Source D: “Writing Chinese America into Words and Images: Storytelling and Retelling of The Song of Mu Lan”
- Begin planning/writing Unit 2 Synthesis essay: Review sources A, B, C, and D and then respond to the following prompt: How do authors use source materials (legends, myths, religious texts, historical figures, etc.) to reflect cultural and/or societal values?
Friday, March 31
LG: Consider how an author creates character and cultural perspective, drawing on source materials; create an argument to discuss these representations. ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.) ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Quiz
- Complete Unit 2 Synthesis Essay - must be completed by the end of the period: Review sources A, B, C, and D and then respond to the following prompt: How do authors use source materials (legends, myths, religious texts, historical figures, etc.) to reflect cultural and/or societal values?
Enjoy your Spring Break!