Sunday, 2/12 - 45 minutes of Membean practice due before midnight
Thursday, 2/16 - copy of The Joy Luck Club due in class
Friday, 2/17 - typed synthesis essay due (in-class writing assignment); "Three is a Magic Number" (article) Analyze This assignment (handout) due in class
No Membean requirement this week or over the break; earn extra credit (10 points) if you complete 45 minutes between 2/13 and 2/26.
Monday, February 13
LP: Synthesize understanding of how authors draw from source texts and use similar patterns (archetypes, motifs, themes). 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 (identifying parts of speech, subjects and predicates)
- 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 - notes in IAN
- Continue working on "Three is a Magic Number" (article) Analyze This assignment (handout) (from Friday) - 30 minutes. Anything not completed in class will be homework, due Friday.
Tuesday, February 14 - Happy Valentine's Day!
LP: Synthesize understanding of how authors draw from source texts and use similar patterns (archetypes, motifs, themes). 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 Practice - level 2
- 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)
- HOMEWORK: type your synthesis (archetype summative) essay and bring in printed copy Friday morning. "Three is a Magic Number" (article) Analyze This assignment (handout) due Friday.
Wednesday, February 15
LP: Synthesize understanding of how authors draw from source texts and use similar patterns (archetypes, motifs, themes). 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:
- Meet in computer lab to take "YouScience" Assessment
- Mrs. van Bohemen's 2nd block: Media Center
- Mrs. van Bohemen's 4th block: LAB 516
- IAN - Add Unit 2 Table of Contents to IAN (handout) ; add and complete JLC anticipation guide (handout) & written response on one topic.
- Begin discussing other JLC assignments
- HOMEWORK: type your synthesis (archetype summative) essay and bring in printed copy Friday morning. Bring copies of The Joy Luck Club to class tomorrow. "Three is a Magic Number" (article) Analyze This assignment (handout) due Friday.
Thursday, February 16
LP: Analyze the connection between a prologue and a larger work; analyze for symbolism; learn and apply the literary term "motif" to an analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. 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. ELAGSE9-10RL6: 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
Agenda:
- Meet in computer lab to take "YouScience" Assessment
- Mrs. van Bohemen's 2nd block: Media Center
- Mrs. van Bohemen's 4th block: LAB 516
- Copies of The Joy Luck Club due today
- Introduce to all JLC long-term assignments (scholar's journal & Socratic seminar assignment; literary analysis paragraphs; scholar's journal and Socratic seminar rubric), & reading schedule.
- Read the prologue for Part 1: "Feathers from a Thousand Li Away"; participate in whole-class analysis and discussion.
- Pick your motif (sign-up sheet); find quotes to begin your scholar’s journal as we begin reading chapter 1, "The Joy Luck Club"; examine the structure of the novel and complete scholar's journal entries.
- HOMEWORK: Type your synthesis (archetype summative) essay and bring in printed copy tomorrow for peer review. "Three is a Magic Number" (article) Analyze This assignment (handout) due Friday.
Friday, February 17
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.
- Submit "Analyze This" (handout) for "Three is a Magic Number" (article) if you have not yet turned this in.
- Farewell to your Greek family! Conduct a round of positive notes for your family and share.
- Meet your new Chinese family and play a card game.
- Discuss the implications of the card game in terms of immigration (how was your experience similar to being an immigrant in a new country?); discuss the social and cultural importance of games.
- Continue reading chapter 1, "The Joy Luck Club"; examine the symbol of game play in the chapter as it relates to your own experiences and complete scholar's journal entries.
- HW: Read chapter 2 "Scar" and take notes on setting and tone.