Sunday, 4/7 - Extra Credit Sadlier Connect assignment (review on units 1-3) due before midnight
Thursday, 4/11 - Assignment A (motif journal) and Assignment B (seminar questions) due to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday, 4/10 - 4/11 - Socratic seminar (Assignment E)
Friday, 4/12 - Complete your reading your IR #2 by today. Create and post your Flipgrid video (handout here; access Flipgrid here).
Sunday, 4/14 - Unit 5 activities due on Sadlier Connect
Upcoming Due Dates:
Monday, 4/15 - JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due in class for peer review
Thursday, 4/18 - JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
Friday, 4/19 - Unit 5 vocabulary quiz; IR# book check
Resources:
The Joy Luck Club reading/activity calendar (here)
The Joy Luck Club Assignment Packet (here)
The Joy Luck Club full text PDF (here)
The Joy Luck Club Motif Journal Shell (here)
The Joy Luck Club - Optional Motif Topics (here)
Monday, April 8
Learning Goal(s): Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: 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:
- Meet in the computer lab (Riley: 9234; Vanbo: 113) to prepare for the Socratic seminar Wednesday!
- Finish writing your five seminar questions (assignment B)
- When you're finished, print a copy for use in the seminar
- Submit this to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday by 11:59 PM.
- Continue your motif journal on three assigned topics (assignment A) - use the motif journal shell to type yours in!
- Print a copy of this to use during the seminar
- When it's edited and polished, submit to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday by 11:59 PM
- Begin/Continue your two literary analysis paragraphs (assignment D)
- Prepare BOTH paragraphs for peer review on Monday, April 15th.
- Setting/Mood paragraph MUST be from either part 1 or part 2 of the novel, and your MAY NOT write about chapter 1 ("The Joy Luck Club") because we analyzed this chapter for setting/mood in class.
- Theme paragraph MUST be from parts 3 and/or 4. You should refer to earlier in the novel to trace the development of theme throughout the novel, but you must also draw from later chapters.
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your assigned family, due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Socratic seminar questions (Assignment B) needed for Socratic seminar on Wednesday, 4/10, and due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
- Complete the unit 5 activities on Sadlier Connect, due Sunday 4/14.
- JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due in class Monday, 4/15 for peer review
Tuesday, April 9
Learning Goal(s): Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: 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:
- Meet in the computer lab (Riley: 816; Vanbo: 113) to prepare for the Socratic seminar Wednesday!
- Finish writing your five seminar questions (assignment B)
- When you're finished, print a copy for use in the seminar
- Submit this to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday by 11:59 PM.
- Continue your motif journal on three assigned topics (assignment A) - use the motif journal shell to type yours in!
- Print a copy of this to use during the seminar
- When it's edited and polished, submit to TurnItIn.com - due Thursday by 11:59 PM
- Begin/Continue your two literary analysis paragraphs (assignment D)
- Prepare BOTH paragraphs for peer review on Monday, April 15th.
- Setting/Mood paragraph MUST be from either part 1 or part 2 of the novel, and your MAY NOT write about chapter 1 ("The Joy Luck Club") because we analyzed this chapter for setting/mood in class.
- Theme paragraph MUST be from parts 3 and/or 4. You should refer to earlier in the novel to trace the development of theme throughout the novel, but you must also draw from later chapters.
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your assigned family, due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Socratic seminar questions (Assignment B) needed for Socratic seminar on Wednesday, 4/10, and due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
- Complete the unit 5 activities on Sadlier Connect, due Sunday 4/14.
- JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due in class Monday, 4/15 for peer review
Wednesday, April 10
Learning Goal: Collaborate effectively in peer discussion over the novel The Joy Luck Club.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate and/or reflect on a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
- Bring a printed copy of your Motif Reader Response Journal and discussion questions for use in the seminar.
- Establish norms for participation in a seminar setting; review expectations for completing reflection sheet.
- Participate in Socratic Seminar; audience and participants both complete reflection sheet (in packet).
- If time, continue planning/drafting your literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D), due for peer review on Monday, April 15th.
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your assigned family, due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Socratic seminar questions (Assignment B) needed for Socratic seminar on Wednesday, 4/10, and due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
- Complete the unit 5 activities on Sadlier Connect, due Sunday 4/14.
- JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due in class Monday, 4/15 for peer review
Thursday, April 11
Learning Goal: Collaborate effectively in peer discussion over the novel The Joy Luck Club.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate and/or reflect on a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
- Participate in Socratic Seminar; audience and participants both complete reflection sheet (in packet).
- If time, continue planning/drafting your literary analysis paragraphs (assignment D), due for peer review Monday, April 15th.
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your assigned family, due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Socratic seminar questions (Assignment B) needed for Socratic seminar on Wednesday, 4/10, and due Thursday, 4/11 to TurnItIn.com by 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
- Complete the unit 5 activities on Sadlier Connect, due Sunday 4/14.
- JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due in class Monday, 4/15 for peer review
Friday, April 12
Learning Goal(s): Understand authors’ rhetorical strategies in nonfiction works, focusing on how stories are adapted for different mediums and purposes.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RI7: Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account. ELAGSE9-10RI5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter). ELAGSE9-10RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Agenda:
- Flipgrid video DUE online today!
- IAN: Add the SMELL graphic organizer for analyzing rhetoric to your IAN.
- Student Work Session--Read Malala Yousafazi’s speech at the United Nations. Identify and cite examples of anecdotes, proverbs, and historical examples in her text. In the graphic organizer, explain the intended effect on the audience for each of these rhetorical examples. (Pearson, My Perspectives)
- View Diane Sawyer’s interview with Malala Yousafazi (under 7 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-jPT5M9cU). Learn the media vocabulary lead-in, close-up shot,and slant, then answer the “Media Vocabulary” questions provided.
- Submit your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
- Complete the unit 5 activities on Sadlier Connect, due Sunday 4/14.
- JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due in class Monday, 4/15 for peer review