Week of November 27-December 1
Thursday 11/30 Is seeing, holding, hiding, sitting on, touching, feeling, looking at, using your cell phone worth losing 25 points? IF I SEE or suspect use of/looking at A CELL PHONE any time during the class period, you'll FORFEIT that day's points. That will be policy on every quiz day. View: Gatsby's American Dream Chapter 1 (5:04) View: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes (JUST through 2:00 Kahoot for Chapters 1-2 View Chapter 1 & 2 ( to 24:19) Take: Chapter 1-2 Quiz at Quia. About the Gatsby quizzes: 1. You will get no feedback until everyone has taken each quiz, so check the following day. 2. IF I SEE A CELL PHONE any time during the class period, you'll FORFEIT that day's points. 3. The quizzes are all set for 15 or 20 minutes. If time runs out, you won't get more. 4. For most quizzes, you will be able to use your book (not each other!), but you WON'T ave time to look up every answer without running out of time. Read carefully! Assignment for Monday: Read Chapter 3 & 4. Answer discussion questions as you read Listen Here: Files that will download to iTunes Listen Here: Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 11/28 Complete Shadow Activities! Write Thank You! Bring $ for stamp! Intro to The Great Gatsby: pick up book and packets Read Preface Read pg. 1 of packet Complete Character Diagram in packet/on board Discuss the 4 settings/posters/map last page of packet Fill in character notes Read to pg. 11 of Chapter 1. Answer first 13 questions. View first few minutes of movie just to get picture of characters in your mind. Assignment for Wednesday: Read Chapter 1-2. Answer discussion questions as you read. Listen Here: Files that will download to iTunes Listen Here! Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen Previous Weeks' Lessons: Week of November 20-22 Wednesday 11/22 Early Dismissal 1:30 Job Shadow Reminders Finish "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" movie Movie Read "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" Summary View: "Bernice" Discussion It is such a popular story that a band wrote a song about it! Read the Lyrics to "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by Divine Comedy (1993) as you LISTEN. In class Assignment: 1. Take "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" quiz at Quia using summary notes. As soon as you finish this quiz, hand me the story summary, then put everything else away and... 2. If time, take closed notes quiz at Quia over 1920s Presentations and Video Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 11/20 Assignment for Wednesday: STUDY!! On Weds, you'll take Closed note quiz over Roaring 20s presentations and 4 short videos over life in the 1920s. Go to your class Google Drive Google Slides presentation and/or notes you took. Also look at the Speaker Notes under the slides. Today: Quickly review F. Scott Fitzgerald's Biography video notes. Take open notes Quiz at Quia over F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Video Have you ever received a bad haircut? Did you ever cut your own hair when you were little? How did you feel? Today we'll look at a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that is almost 100 years old but could just as easily have been written about teenagers today. Teens in ANY era struggle with SOCIAL STATUS & trying to FIT IN. Some go to great lengths to fit in. In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," we see... 1. how young women were regarded in the 1920s, 2. how tempting popularity can be, and 3.how DANGEROUS it is to compromise your values just to fit in. Introduction to "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." We can't underestimate the historical significance and controversy about Bobbed Hair View Henry Fonda's Introduction to the movie (to 2:28), pause to discuss 3 key characters: Bernice, Marjorie and Warren, than view the short story. Questions to think and talk about: 1. Through the character of Marjorie, does Fitzgerald paint a flattering picture of the flapper? Is she a misguided, a superficial flirt or a feminist? 2. Who would you prefer to have as a friend--Marjorie, Bernice, or Warren? What are the most striking character traits of each person? 3. Does Bernice change for the better or for the worse over the course of the story? Was the “sophisticated” environment that Bernice enters corrupting or character building? 4. Does this story have a “happy ending?” Did Marjorie deserve her fate? **We'll also take quiz over this short story on Wednesday! Tune in!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Week of November 13-17 Thursday 11/16 If you were absent Tuesday, get Google Slides presentation notes and Video Listening Guide notes for the videos above. Next Monday, we'll take quizzes over the Slides information, the introductory 1920s videos above and the video we watch today! View: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Take notes on the 50-minute video If you are absent for class, have no fear! The video is also available on YouTube, broken into short 9-minute pieces: Click to access the video online Click to open and take notes on the worksheet that goes with the video; Read Follow up article on F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 11/14 Intro to the Roaring Twenties: Share Info from your Google Slides--We'll go right down the list. Jot down ONE short phrase on your Roaring Twenties 20-minute Research Project notes page as a reminder. View: (fill in this Listening Guide! I'll give you a copy. Keep in folder!) 1. The Roaring 1920s Part 1 (11:56) 2. To Live in the 20s--6 minutes of video clips from the 1920s depicting many aspects of the culture of the decade. 3. Life in the Roaring 1920s--(5:57) a student project 3. Bet You Didn't Know: Prohibition History(2:45) 4. Prohibition in the 1920s from CBS Sunday Morning --video dated out--fill in notes from story 5. Prohibition: The Nobel Experiment Week of November 6-10 Thursday 11/9 Intro to 1920s Roaring Twenties 20-minute Research Project Go to Easybib.com to create Works Cited Entry. Log in first with Google! Expectations for Today: 1. Put phones away 2 Work bell-to-bell 3. Work quietly and independently 4. Ask questions if necessary 5. Remain seated 6. Complete the assignment in class 7. When you finish (and after going through the checklist), ask me to look at your slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 11/7 Assignment: Complete Assessment on "Plainswoman" and O Pioneers at Quia Use notes packets from both works. f you have shadowed, put your Interview Questions and Employer Eval form in folder. If you have shadowed, complete the Quick Topic Post If you have shadowed, pick up a STUDENT Evaluation form off the back counter (far right), complete it, then staple it to your Employer Eval form in your career folder. If you have shadowed, pick up a West Central thank you note & envelope in the box on the back counter. Follow instructions on the Job Shadow Assignments page under more... tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 11/3 Finish Viewing O Pioneers Stopped on Weds. at 1:00:24. If you are absent, movie is on YouTube! "Pioneers, O Pioneers" poem by Walt Whitman was the inspiration for Willa Cather's novel title. Whitman's poem was written as a tribute to the pioneers who had set out in search of a more fulfilling life by settling in the American West. Throughout the poem Whitman pays homage to the pioneers' courage and fearless choice to set out to find a brighter future. View: Levi's Commercial --this is Walt Whitman's poem "O Pioneers" Kahoot and "Plainswoman" Kahoot Assignment: Complete Assessment on "Plainswoman" and O Pioneers at Quia Use notes packets from both works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 11/1 4. Read Willa Cather background 5. Read Chapter 2 of O Pioneers 6.View: Willa Cather (3:40) 7. View O Pioneers (1:40) If you are absent, we will watch the first hour, then watch 40 more minutes on Friday and take quiz. |