Monday, 3/13 - Media Center work day to look for articles - annotated motif article due at the time of the Socratic seminar
Thursday, 3/16 - Computer Lab work day for Socratic seminar preparation
Sunday, 3/19 - 45 minutes of Membean due by 11:59pm
*Please continue to follow the Joy Luck Club reading calendar and prepare your motif scholar’s journal!
Monday, March 13
LG: Use Cobb Digital Library resources to participate in a larger dialogue about your Joy Luck Club motif. ELAGSE9-10W7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. ELAGSE9-10W8: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentences
- Meet in the Media Center (first ½ period) to research articles for scholars’ journals. Email sources to yourself as you find them to further investigate later. Your ONE required article must be printed and annotated for the Socratic seminar. (You may bring more than one article, but only one is required.)
- Use the “To Do List” to help you get started preparing these documents
- Also begin your Works Cited page - required for the Socratic seminar. You must include the novel itself and the article(s) you’ve prepared for the seminar.
- Justify Your Thinking graphic organizer - Consider a problem that one of the characters experiences, then analyze it in greater detail through completing each box on the graphic organizer.
Tuesday, March 14
LG: Consider rhetorical strategies that authors use to achieve a purpose. Identify and examine parallelism in various texts. 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.) ELAGSE9-10L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentences
- Parallelism mini-lesson in IAN
- Ponder and Respond for Chapter 13 “Magpies”: List ways in which children and parents embarrass one another (in general; personal experience). How do cultural and generational differences affect parent/child relationships? Include two different mother/daughter relationships from the novel as well as personal experience to support your response.
Wednesday, March 15
LG: Consider the overall structure of the novel and analyze Tan’s decisions for text structure to reveal intended impact on audience. ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentences
- 10th Grade Core Curriculum Day
- Ponder and Respond for Chapter 14 “Waiting between the Trees”: Consider the conclusion of the St. Clair story line. Why does Tan leave the characters where she does? What effect does this have on you as a reader?
- Work time - star three of your favorite ponder and respond entries for potential grading.
Thursday, March 16
LG: Demonstrate your analysis of your chosen motif by creating scholar’s journal and annotating your article. 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. ELAGSE9-10W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. ELAGSE9-10L3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening, and to write and to edit so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (e.g., MLA Handbook, APA Handbook, Turabian’s Manual for Writers) appropriate for the discipline and writing type.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentences
- In computer lab work-time for Socratic seminar/Scholar’s Journal preparation. (9234 2nd - 4th) (113 - 4th)
- To Do List for Socratic seminar preparation
Friday, March 17 - Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
LG: Using chapters from one family’s story, complete a narrative that completes the family’s story. ELAGSE9-10W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. a. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events. b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. c. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole. d. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 3 Practice Sentences
- Introduction to "Scene vs. Summary" in Narrative Writing
- Complete What? So What? Now What? graphic organizer for one of the three unresolved families in The Joy Luck Club.
- From your findings, create a narrative in which you resolve one family’s situations. This should read like a continuation of the chapter.