Wednesday, 8/30 - Early Release
Thursday, 8/31 - Archetype Synthesis
Sunday, 9/3 - 45 minutes of Membean practice due by 11:59
Monday, August 28
LG: Analyze the pattern of "three" in literature and make connections.
Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL9: Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare). ELAGSE9-10RI3: Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
Agenda:
- PSAT Mondays - add PSAT practice 2 to IAN
- Magic Lens Level 2 Notes and Parts of the Sentence map in IAN; complete practice sentence
- Read and view “The Tale of Three Brothers” by J.K. Rowling - discuss archetypes we have reviewed in the story
- Complete “Analyze This!” for “Three is the Magic Number” article
Tuesday, August 29
LG: Synthesize understanding of how authors draw from source texts and use similar patterns (archetypes, motifs, themes).
Standards: ELAGSE9-10W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. ELAGSE9-10L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 2 practice sentence: identify subject and predicate
- Ponder & Respond: Read the following from Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor: “Here’s what I think we do: we want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity, too. We want a new novel to be not quite like anything we’ve read before. At the same time, we look for it to be sufficiently like other things we’ve read so that we can use those to make sense of it. If it manages both things at once, strangeness and familiarity, it sets up vibrations, harmonies to go with the melody of the main story line. And those harmonies are where a sense of depth, solidity, resonance comes from. Those harmonies may come from the Bible, from Shakespeare, from Dante or Milton, but also from humbler, more familiar texts." Based on this passage and your own thinking, what is the significance of an archetype? What is its connection to theme? What do archetypes teach us about humanity/the human condition?
- Review CEI structure - add notes to IAN
- Continue working on "Three is a Magic Number" (article) “Analyze This” assignment (handout)
Wednesday, August 30 - Early Release
LG: Synthesize understanding of how authors draw from source texts and use similar patterns (archetypes, motifs, themes).
Standards: ELAGSE9-10W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. ELAGSE9-10L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 2 practice sentence: identify subject and predicate
- Continue completing "Three is a Magic Number" (article) Analyze This assignment (handout)
Thursday, August 31
LG: Synthesize understanding of how authors draw from source texts and use similar patterns (archetypes, motifs, themes).
Standards: ELAGSE9-10W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. ELAGSE9-10L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 2 practice sentence: identify subject and predicate
- Archetype Summative Assessment: Compose an essay response to the following prompt: How do authors across time draw on source materials to create patterns which deepen our understanding of texts? Cite evidence from at least three of the texts to support your response.Introduce synthesis essay assignment
- Read “An Appointment in Samarra” - cold passage; independent reading
- Continue completing "Three is a Magic Number" (article) Analyze This assignment (handout)
Friday, September 1
LG: Apply skills for close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences to poems.
Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and closely analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. ELACC9-10L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 2 practice sentence: identify subject and predicate
- Introduce Poetry Out Loud; read the NEA interview with 2016 champion Ahkei Togun
- View Poetry Out Loud videos (exceptional performances & memorization techniques) - 2016 champion Ahkei Togun's performance and “Why Poetry Out Loud?”.
- View other great performances if time: