Week of November 27-December 1
Wednesday 11/29 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 and Chapter 2 (to 27:20) 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 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 have time to look up every answer without running out of time. Read carefully BEFORE class! Take: Chapter 1-2 Quiz at Quia. Go to your webmail and get link to Google Classroom Assignment Assignment for Friday: 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 11/27 If you have job shadow activities done, leave them in career folder. Bring $ for a stamp for thank you note! Turn in "Winter Dreams" quiz. Remember these F. Scott & Dexter Similarities Finish marking up "Winter Dreams" Literary Analysis. Store in career folder for easy access. Intro to The Great Gatsby: pick up book and packets Read Preface Read pg. 1 of packet Complete Character Diagram in packet Discuss the 4 settings/posters/map on pg. 206 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! Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previous Weeks' Lessons: Week of November 20-22 Tuesday 11/21 If you have job shadow activities done, leave them in folder. I'll try to do some grading this weekend. Bring $ for a stamp for thank you note! Finish F. Scott Fitzgerald video--#4, #5 segments Click to access the video online Click to open the worksheet that goes with the video Follow up article on F. Scott Fitzgerald White 3=Part 4 (8:55) White 4=Part 4 (3:53) Today we examine a Fitzgerald work with the theme of social status. How are Dexter's two ambitions--achieving material success and winning Judy's hand--tied together? Why can't Dexter fully escape from Judy's magnetic charms? 1. Winter Dreams Video Review 2. Chronological ordering of "Winter Dreams" events in groups 3. View: Winter Dreams Analysis 4. Go thru Close Reading worksheet F. Scott & Dexter Similarities Review literary analysis structure. See this site. See a visual representation here. Read and label lit analysis of "Winter Dreams" Take Quiz over "Winter Dreams" (if no time, take it home to finish!) Assignment: Take Quiz at Quia over F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Video Quiz will turn on at 5:00 today and off at midnight tonight. Quiz will turn on at 2:00 Wednesday and off at midnight Friday. Finish Quiz over "Winter Dreams" (if no time, take it home to finish!) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 11/27 "Winter Dreams" wrap up if necessary Intro to The Great Gatsby, notes on characters, settings, etc. Read Preface, first few pages of Chapter 1. Answer first 13 questions. View first few minutes of movie. Assignment for next Monday Read Chapter 1-2. Answer discussion questions as you read. Listen Here! Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Week of November 13-17 Friday 11/17 If you have 49 cents, I have a stamp for your job shadow thank you note! Spend 15 minutes reviewing notes from Google Slides and 4 short videos on the 1920s. Take quiz at Quia over 1920s Presentations and Video Clips Finish F. Scott Fitzgerald video-#3 #4, #5 segments Next week, Take Quiz at Quia over F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Video Today we'll introduce a Fitzgerald work with the theme of social status. Social status was a key theme in all of Fitzgerald's works. You'll meet Dexter Green and read about those dreams destined never to come true. From the first sentences of "Winter Dreams," Fitzgerald examined social classes. Assignment: Read "Winter Dreams" in lit book and complete reading guide as you read! Be prepared for discussion and quiz on Tuesday. Sorry, you'll have to take heavy book with you :-( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 11/15 Share info from Google Slides--take notes on your handout with list on it 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 the worksheet that goes with the video Follow up article on F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 11/13 Intro to 1920s View: (fill in 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 Many of the topics from these video clips are rolled into F. Scott Fitzgerald's works. Roaring Twenties 20-minute Research Project Go to Easybib.com to create Works Cited Entry. Log in first with Google! Toe-tapping Twenties Tunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Week of November 6-10 Friday 11/10: No School-Veteran's Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 11/8 Early American Literature Unit Test Part 2--please write name on test! Last part of test is at Newsela. Log in to open article. Reading Level should be grade 12; the next lowest is grade 6. The questions are identified as ELA Common Core grades 11-12. After test, go to More Tab above and choose Job Shadow Assignments) Below is a start: If 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 11/6--1:30 Dismissal for P/T Conferences Early American Literature Unit Test Part 1 If 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. Week of October 30-Nov 3 Thursday 11/2 Continue study of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" 1. : Learn to 'live deliberately' with 'Walden' game on Thoreau's birthday 2. Turn to pg. 381. Read EVERYTHING on this page as an introduction. Also please use the packet as your own READER'S NOTEBOOK to jot down some of Thoreau's aphorisms. As you work your way through reading the text, record thoughtful responses. Come and show me completed packet and check answers. 3. Finally, return here AFTER you finish the close reading activity and read this article about a Real-World Application of Thoreau's philosophy: Read this first! What are tiny houses? The tiny house movement? Tiny living? Simply put, it is a social movement where people are choosing to downsize the space they live in. The typical American home is around 2,600 square feet, whereas the typical small or tiny house is between 100 and 400 square feet. Tiny houses come in all shapes, sizes, and forms, but they enable simpler living in a smaller, more efficient space. People are joining this movement for many reasons, but the most popular reasons include environmental concerns, financial concerns, and the desire for more time and freedom. Look at these tiny house photos! Now read: Story #1 The last lines of Walden: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." Explanation? Every morning a new day dawns, the sun comes up--but you don't see that dawn, or experience that light, unless you are out of bed and awake to see it. In the same way, there are many opportunities to become an enlightened person, to "see the light" of truth, to grow in learning and wisdom -- but we will receive that "light" only to the extent that we are awake to it, that is, open to receiving it, ready to hear or see. Transcendentalism tells us that. For instance, in "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote that "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." In that line, he is saying that we must trust our own thoughts, we must see and hear our own wisdom. We should not dismiss our own thoughts and replace them with the words of poets and people that society calls wise. The "luster of the firmament" would be like the reference in your quote to "the light which puts out our eyes." That light, the wisdom offered by the words of others, can be so bright that it blinds us -- and here I think he is saying that if we take someone else's words IN PLACE OF our own thoughts and in-ward knowing, we will not be able to be enlightened, but will suffer a different kind of darkness. It takes more than "the mere lapse of time" to bring us enlightenment. It takes our own attendance to the matter; it takes trusting our inward thoughts and experiences. For more on how Thoreau INSPIRES, read Story #2 Be sure to click thru the photos--the very last one is the cabin and Thoreau statue Assignment: Respond to 2 questions in Google Classroom Click to Access Notes for Literature Unit test Monday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |