Monday, 9/9 - Bring in a revised draft of your Antigone essay for our second peer review.
Tuesday, 9/10 - With your partner, complete the online research for background context on Things Fall Apart; one partner must bring in a PRINTED copy (Copy the document from here.)
Thursday, 9/12 - Antigone essay final draft due to TurnItIn.com before midnight.
Sunday, 9/15 - Complete all Unit 2 activities on Sadlier Connect before midnight.
Upcoming Due Dates:
Friday, 9/20 - Complete your IR novel and bring in your still life items to present (handout here)
Resources:
Sadlier Unit 2 vocabulary words (here)
Antigone - full-text PDF from SpringBoard (here)
SpringBoard Direct Login (here)
Antigone Works Cited page (here)
Antigone Essay Packet (here)
Things Fall Apart Researching Context (Copy the document from here.)
Things Fall Apart - novel PDF (here).
Things Fall Apart - Audiobook (here; hint: view the pinned comment for chapter start times)
SpringBoard Things Fall Apart Unit PDF (here)
Monday, September 9
Learning Goal(s): Practice role as a “peer editor” to improve revision skills and help create polished pieces.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10.) 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.
Agenda:
- Introduce the Unit 2 vocabulary words (here) - all vocabulary activities (on Sadlier Connect) due Sunday before midnight.
- With a partner, complete the “style” peer review activity for your Antigone essay (peer review here); complete mini-lessons on literary present tense and scholarly diction.
- When finished with peer review, continue introductory activities for Things Fall Apart.
- As a class, add the literary terms from SpringBoard page 218 to a QHT chart.
- For your "Q" terms, look up and define each term in the Ponder and Respond section of your IAN
- Answer the “Essential Questions” on page 220 of the Introduction to Things Fall Apart in your SpringBoard textbook.
- Begin activities with Things Fall Apart in Springboard textbook - complete activity 3.2 on proverbs and folktales; read, discuss, and analyze the Nigerian folktales “Why the Bat Flies at Night” and “The Lucky Fisherman.”
- Complete the culture wheel activity on pages 226-7, and create your Ibo pronunciation bookmark.
- As a class, add the literary terms from SpringBoard page 218 to a QHT chart.
- Continue to revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback (packet here) - your final draft is due to TurnItIn.com Thursday, September 12th before midnight. (You are not required to submit this essay in hard copy.)
- Complete the Unit 2 vocabulary activities on Sadlier Connect by Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your independent reading novel - you need to have your novel read by Friday, September 20th. Plan the items you will bring for your Still Life project (handout here).
Tuesday, September 10
Learning Goal(s): Analyze how a complex character interacts with other characters. Write a short expository essay to compare and contrast.
Targeted Standards: 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. ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Agenda:
- Turn in your printed copy of Ibo “Researching Context.”
- PSAT Practice - Take notes on strategies for completing the writing section; practice by reading a passage and completing questions.
- Begin introduction to Magic Lens Level 2 - take notes on parts of the sentence! Use the presentation (here) and the guided notes handouts (here). Add the parts of the sentence flowchart (here) to IAN.
- Complete remaining introductory activities for Things Fall Apart as necessary.
- Read and complete activities for chapters 1-4 in Things Fall Apart:
- Read chapters 1-4 of Things Fall Apart, tracking character traits between Okonkwo and his father to compare and contrast Achebe’s characterization.
- Consider cultural elements of the novel: are there any cultural aspects that strike your interest so far? Remember that you will be creating a research presentation on one element of tribal culture before and after British colonization.
- Complete active and passive voice activity in SpringBoard, page 229. Write your own sentences in both active and passive voice.
- Create a double-entry journal to analyze the first four chapters of Things Fall Apart - consider Achebe’s use of motif and foil.
- Analyze the character faults of Okonkwo - discuss the first four chapters and consider how Achebe presents Okonkwo’s character. Complete the graphic organizer on page 231, then answer the ponder and respond.
- Ponder and Respond (SB pg. 232): Take a position on the question: Is it common for powerful leaders to have flawed characters? Why? How might this affect the community? Write an argumentative paragraph, using at least two pieces of text evidence, to support your position and explain how it relates to Okonkwo’s character.
- Continue to revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback (packet here) - your final draft is due to TurnItIn.com Thursday, September 12th before midnight. (You are not required to submit this essay in hard copy.)
- Complete the Unit 2 vocabulary activities on Sadlier Connect by Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your independent reading novel - you need to have your novel read by Friday, September 20th. Plan the items you will bring for your Still Life project (handout here).
Wednesday, September 11
Learning Goal(s): Analyze how a complex character interacts with other characters. Write a short expository essay to compare and contrast.
Targeted Standards: 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. ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for levels one and two.
- Complete reading and activities for chapters 1-4 in Things Fall Apart:
- Continue reading chapters 1-4 of Things Fall Apart, tracking character traits between Okonkwo and his father to compare and contrast Achebe’s characterization.
- Consider cultural elements of the novel: are there any cultural aspects that strike your interest so far? Remember that you will be creating a research presentation on one element of tribal culture before and after British colonization.
- Complete active and passive voice activity in SpringBoard, page 229. Write your own sentences in both active and passive voice.
- Create a double-entry journal to analyze the first four chapters of Things Fall Apart - consider Achebe’s use of motif and foil.
- Analyze the character faults of Okonkwo - discuss the first four chapters and consider how Achebe presents Okonkwo’s character. Complete the graphic organizer on page 231, then answer the ponder and respond.
- Ponder and Respond (SB pg. 232): Take a position on the question: Is it common for powerful leaders to have flawed characters? Why? How might this affect the community? Write an argumentative paragraph, using at least two pieces of text evidence, to support your position and explain how it relates to Okonkwo’s character.
- If time, begin reading chapters 5-6.
- Continue to revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback (packet here) - your final draft is due to TurnItIn.com Thursday, September 12th before midnight. (You are not required to submit this essay in hard copy.)
- Complete the Unit 2 vocabulary activities on Sadlier Connect by Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your independent reading novel - you need to have your novel read by Friday, September 20th. Plan the items you will bring for your Still Life project (handout here).
Thursday, September 12
Learning Goal(s): Analyze how a complex character interacts with other characters. Write a short expository essay to compare and contrast.
Targeted Standards: 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. ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Agenda:
- Submit your Antigone essay to TurnItIn.com before midnight tonight!
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for levels one and two.
- Read chapters 5-6 of Things Fall Apart; track character relationships on a chart (use SB, page 233 to model the graphic organizer you create in your IAN).
- Create a written response to the “Writing to Sources: Explanatory Text” on SB page 234 in the Ponder and Respond section of your IAN. Based on your response, be prepared to have a mini-debate to explain your position.
- As a class, participate in a debate on the following question: How do Okonkwo’s family relationships make him a sympathetic or unsympathetic character?
- Continue to revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback (packet here) - your final draft is due to TurnItIn.com Thursday, September 12th before midnight. (You are not required to submit this essay in hard copy.)
- Complete the Unit 2 vocabulary activities on Sadlier Connect by Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your independent reading novel - you need to have your novel read by Friday, September 20th. Plan the items you will bring for your Still Life project (handout here).
Friday, September 13
Learning Goal(s): Analyze how a complex character interacts with other characters. Write a short expository essay to compare and contrast.
Targeted Standards: 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. ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for levels one and two.
- As needed, complete yesterday’s mini-debate on the following question: How do Okonkwo’s family relationships make him a sympathetic or an unsympathetic character?
- On page 235 in SB, answer question 1 on foreshadowing.
- Read chapters 7-8 in Things Fall Apart - be ready to discuss each chapter in small groups.
- Complete the Unit 2 vocabulary activities on Sadlier Connect by Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
- Continue reading your independent reading novel - you need to have your novel read by Friday, September 20th. Plan the items you will bring for your Still Life project (handout here).