Sun. 9/4—Membean practice due (make sure your accuracy is 85% or greater to earn full credit).
Wed. 9/7--Bring your 2 poems from the Poetry Out Loud site; the class competition will be Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Membean vocabulary assessment (must be completed Wednesday afternoon).
Wed. 9/7 - Submit your synthesis essay to TurnItIn.com
Thurs. 9/8 - Peer review 3 synthesis essays
Thurs. 9/8 - Take Membean Assessment
Mon. 9/12--Bring a hard copy of your revised, typed essay to class along with your rough draft and editing notes. You should also submit your file to Turnitin.com before class.
**Our next unit is on The Joy Luck Club, a novel by Amy Tan. Please obtain a copy (Amazon or Barnes and Noble are similarly priced at $9.52). Contact me if you have any issues with obtaining the book.**
*Vocab. Study Plan: Complete Membean practice in 15 minute increments or less.
Monday, September 5—Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday, September 6
LG: Formulate and share opinions about the immigrant experience and the idea of game play. 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.
- IAN: Expand the analogy of the experience of the Uno game to the immigrant experience. Explain the social and cultural importance of games. Use at least three Membean words in your response; highlight each word.
- Review reading schedule and dialectical journal assignment for reading.
- Mini Persuasive speeches
- Continue working on synthesis essay revisions. For homework tonight, type up your essay and submit to TurnItIn.com for peer editing.
- Read The Joy Luck Club opening prologue and chapter 1: “The Joy Luck Club”; examine the structure of the novel and complete dialectical journal entries.
Wednesday, September 7
LG: Apply skills for close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences to poems. 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. ELAGSE9-19RL2: 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. ELAGSE9-10L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
- IAN: Return to your TPFASST for “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; review analysis of the poem and the TPFASST structure.
- Analyze Chinese poetry for cultural and thematic concepts.
- Apply TPFASTT method for analyzing to your Poetry Out Loud poems (mark hard stop punctuation; identify nouns, verbs, modifiers; differentiate between concrete & abstract ideas; look up unfamiliar words; begin analyzing theme).
Thursday, September 8
LG: Develop understanding of another culture’s beliefs and values. ELAGSERL6: 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.
- PSAT skills review: read the article “World War II and San Francisco” and answer the questions; review strategies for Reading: Information and Ideas.
- Analyze illustrations from Chinese Fables using the Feldman Method of Art Criticism.
- Read Chinese myths from Chinese Fables and analyze.
- What do you learn about Chinese customs?
- What is the position of or attitude towards women?
- What beliefs or morals are put forth?
- What mystical or enigmatic elements does each have?
- Read/analyze The Joy Luck Club chapters 2-3: “Scar” and “The Red Candle”; complete dialectical journal entries. Consider how emigrating to the United States from China affected people’s values.
Friday, September 9
LG: Understand author’s rhetorical strategies in literary works, focusing on word choices and how they create meaning/tone. ELAGSERL7: 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.)
- Mrs. van Bohemen out today for CCSD content adoption.
- IAN: List ways in which parents and children embarrass one another. How do cultural and generational differences affect parent/child relationships?
- PSAT skills review: read the short story/prose poem “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and answer the questions; review strategies for answering Reading: Rhetoric.
- Discuss the parent/child relationship in Kincaid’s “Girl,” making connections to other cultures: compare/contrast which elements seem to be universal vs. those that seem to be cultural.
- Read/analyze The Joy Luck Club chapter 4: “The Moon Lady”; complete dialectical journal entries.
Homework: Review your peer review feedback, finish your essay revisions and submit new draft to Turnitin.com; bring a printed copy to turn in during class tomorrow.