- Planning Your Week:
Tuesday, Aug. 22 - Read and annotate Antigone article (article here) for the following: identify and label the main claim; label three effective pieces of evidence; consider your position on the claim - do you agree?; prepare to analyze and discuss the tragic hero of the play - use this article as evidence for your own claim.
Wednesday, Aug. 23 - Magic Lens Quiz (level 1)
Friday, Aug. 25 - Typed confidential student reflection due in class.
Sunday, Aug. 27 - Complete 45 minutes of vocabulary practice on Membean.com by 11:59 PM
Monday, August 21
Solar Eclipse Day!
LG: Plan a performance of the play which will communicate your comprehension of the play’s important themes and motifs.
Standards:ELAGSE9-10RL10: By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. 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 the theme. 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.
Agenda:
- PSAT Writing Practice: Add the reading passage and questions to IAN. Answer questions with an elbow partner and add your answers to the Nearpod!
- Collaborate with Greek groups to prepare Antigone performances.
- Choose roles.
- Design masks, props, and (optional) costumes.
- Cut lines for performance. Count the total number of lines within the Episode. Divide by 3. Cut that number of lines from the total scene. Be sure that all important lines are left intact. Be sure all action flows despite missing lines.
- Each member: annotate your script; each group: create a summary of your assigned scenes.
- Homework: For your Antigone article, complete the following:
- Identify/label the main claim/thesis
- Identify/label three pieces of effective evidence the writer presents
- Think about whether you agree with the writer's claims and why
- Be prepared to discuss whether Antigone or Creon is the tragic hero of the play.
- FOURTH PERIOD ONLY - Witness the solar eclipse; compose a narrative of your experience; consider your global and cultural perspective as you narrate this event.
Tuesday, August 22
LG: Perform scenes from Antigone to communicate your comprehension of the play’s themes and motifs.
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.)ELAGSE9-10SL4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.ELAGSE9-10W10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Agenda:
- Complete Magic Lens level 1 practice (last practice before the quiz)
- Show your Antigone article annotations to your teacher for a homework grade
- Present group performances of Antigone
- Compose confidential student reflection. (Evaluate your own performance both on stage and prior to acting, and evaluate each group member’s performance both on stage and prior to acting)
- Homework: Magic Lens level 1 quiz TOMORROW!
Wednesday, August 23
LG: Conduct critical discussions with peers on informational texts; practice analyzing various forms of art through the Feldman Model; Practice description in narrative writing.
Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment; ELAGSE9-10W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. 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. a. Come to discussions prepared having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.
Agenda:
- Take Magic Lens Level 1 quiz
- Complete Antigone performances, as needed
- In your Interactive Notebook, complete the graphic organizer on a tragic hero in Antigone (pg. 23 in IAN) Apply tragic hero notes to Antigone - who is the tragic hero? (Use your article for support!)
- Analyze paintings for their portrayal of characters/scenes from Oedipus/Antigone - Employ the Feldman method of art analysis (add notes to IAN). After we have examined and analyzed several paintings as a class, analyze a piece independently in your IAN.
- Homework: continue to work on your confidential student reflection, due Friday 8/25; continue practicing Membean - 45 minutes due Sunday before 11:59 PM.
Thursday, August 24
Open House tonight!
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:
- Use the Feldman Model to analyze pieces of art from Oedipus/Antigone (art pieces here)
- Read/analyze “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (poem); draw scenes from the poem on your urn (handout) as you listen to the poem
- Use the TPFASSTT model (IAN) and compose a theme statement.
- Homework: continue to work on your confidential student reflection, due Friday 8/25; continue practicing Membean - 45 minutes due Sunday before 11:59 PM.
Friday, August 25
LG: Practice identifying types of irony; consider the use of archetypes in medieval British literature.
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 - Level 2 notes; identifying subjects and predicates in sample sentences
- Turn in typed confidential student reflection.
- Ponder & Respond - Notes on the archetype of 3 and death
- Read “The Pardoner’s Tale” & analyze for different types of irony (handout) in IAN; continue to analyze archetypes and patterns in literature.
- Homework: continue practicing Membean - 45 minutes due Sunday before 11:59 PM.