Sunday, May 6 - 45 minutes of Membean practice due before midnight; Julius Caesar choice board assessment
due to TurnItIn.com before midnight
Monday, May 7 - Julius Caesar choice board assessment due in class (hard copy); Caesar Extra Credit
presentations due today!
Sunday, May 13 - FINAL MEMBEAN PRACTICE due before midnight
Upcoming Due Dates:
5/14 - Final Exam Exmption Forms for underclassmen due to teachers
5/21 - Final exam essay composed in class
5/22 - 5/23 - Final exams
Helpful Resource:
Night (digital copy here)
Monday, May 7
Learning Goal: Read and analyze seminal documents pertaining to human rights.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RI9: Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington’s Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Nelson Mandela’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights), including how they address related themes and concepts.
Agenda:
- Submit Caesar Choice Board assignments & complete extra credit presentations in class.
- Translate the Preamble of the “United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights” into modern language as a class (handout here)
- In groups, split up all articles and translate to modern language, pick one article the United States upholds well and one they could improve on, share findings with class
- Determine which articles are in need of enforcing in the United States and provide solutions as to how to improve the implementation
- Ponder and Respond: Based on your understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and your own personal opinions and beliefs, what is the role of other countries when genocide occurs? Discuss your opinions, then place a mark on the continuum to answer the following question: From 0-100%, how responsible is the United States for the Holocaust?
- Read Immigration/Emmigration policies and documentation for WWII (handout here) and discuss.
- Membean: LAST 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 13th before midnight
Tuesday, May 8
Learning Goal: Rhetorically analyze a war-time speech. Consider the larger historical context of a literary text.
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. ELAGSE9-10RI3: 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:
- Intro to Magic Lens, level 4
- Finish extra credit presentations, as needed
- Read Winston Churchill’s “We Shall Fight On The Beaches” (full text here), and complete the “Analyze This” activity (handout here).
- Membean: LAST 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 13th before midnight
Wednesday, May 9
Learning Goal: Analyze World War I poetry for literary elements
Targeted Standards: 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.)
Agenda:
- Magic Lens practice - level 4
- Read the Wilfred Owen poem (handout here) “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (1921), and complete TP-FASSTT analysis (handout here) (Use the this resource for links to audio recordings)
- Ponder and Respond: After the losses of World War I - how is The United States feeling about other countries? How might this affect the United States’s policies on immigration?
- View the video on The Voyage of the St. Louis (video here).
- Ponder and Respond: What details were SIMILAR between the written account and this one? What details were DIFFERENT?
- Create a Venn Diagram in your IAN to demonstrate your thinking
- What seems to be the PURPOSE of each text? How do the details help you to understand the purpose?
- Membean: LAST 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 13th before midnight
Thursday, May 10
Learning Goal: Begin reading Night, considering Wiesel’s choice in tone and diction and their effects on the audience.
Targeted Standards: 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. ELAGSE9-10RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. ELAGSE9-10RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Agenda:
- Magic Lens practice - level 4
- Begin reading Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Independently, choose 15 questions to write developed answers to for chapters 1-3 (handout here). When ready, continue reading Wiesel’s text, and choose 15 questions to answer for chapters 4-9 (handout here).
- Membean: LAST 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 13th before midnight
Friday, May 11
Learning Goal: Continue reading Night, considering Wiesel’s choice in tone and diction and their effects on the audience.
Targeted Standards: 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. ELAGSE9-10RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. ELAGSE9-10RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Agenda:
- Mrs. Vanbo out for 4th period
- Continue reading Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Independently, choose 15 questions to write developed answers to for chapters 1-3 (handout here). When ready, continue reading Wiesel’s text, and choose 15 questions to answer for chapters 4-9 (handout here).
- Membean: LAST 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 13th before midnight