GE 1.4

GE 1.4

Do now: what is one thing that is effective about your hero’s journey story?  what is one weakness?

Objectives:

• give useful feedback for revision;

• use feedback to make good revision choices
• Research in order to obtain historical and cultural information that will help us understand the background of Dickens’ Great Expectations

Agenda:

1. do now
2. peer edit- hero’s journey story
3. Explain Everything! videos
4. summarizer

HW: Final draft of hero’s journey story due FRIDAY

GE 1.2

GE 1.2

Do Now: Name one thing you know about Victorian England

Objectives:

• demonstrate mastery of vocabulary words
• Research in order to obtain historical and cultural information that will help us understand the background of Dickens’ Great Expectations
• Use technology to develop engaging presentations on Victorian England

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Vocab Quiz

3. Work Group Day- watch Explain Everything intro video and create a storyboard for each slide (text/visual/script/music needs)

4. Summarizer: How effectively did your group work today?  Rate your group on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the most effective)

HW: Finish storyboard and assign roles to each member of the group

GE 1.1

Do Now: What do you think is the strongest part of your hero’s journey short story?  Why?

Objectives:

• Research in order to obtain historical and cultural information that will help us understand the background of Dickens’ Great Expectations

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) 1 mod: work on hero’s journey

3) Explain Everything! Victorian England Groups- assignment sheet

HW: Divide and conquer the research questions in your group. Hero's Journey draft due Friday.

Romance 4.3

Do now: Submit the Kindred essay via the Essay Submission Form

Objective:

• demonstrate understanding of the major parts of a plot diagram
• use class time effectively to brainstorm for the creative writing assignment

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. Import the “Plot Diagram” handout from Google Drive into notability
3. Review requirements for the creative writing assignment
4. Work independently

HW: Rough draft of Hero’s Journey writing is due FRIDAY (for peer editing)

Ms. Santiago is out THURSDAY

Please work on your Kindred essay.  The essay is due FRIDAY.

Romance 4.2

Do now: What is a movie that involves a hero’s journey that you have seen recently?

Objectives:

• understand the importance of figurative and descriptive language
• demonstrate how authors build suspense

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Rapid Fire Freewrites- answer on socrative!
3. Mine shaft creative freewrite
4. Overview of Hero’s journey creative writing

HW: Kindred essay due FRIDAY

Romance 4.1

Do now: Review for the exam for 5 minutes

Objectives:

• demonstrate mastery of understand of the four archetypes
• identify key quotations from the selected stories

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. Romance exam
3. If you finish before the end of class, work on Kindred essay

HW: Kindred final draft is due FRIDAY

Romance 3.3

Romance 3.3

Do Now: What are you most concerned about for the test?

Objectives:

• practice effective study skills
• demonstrate mastery of romance unit through a review activity
• demonstrate mastery of the hero's journey by brainstorming a creative writing assignment

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Study with a partner- 7 min

3. Romance Review activity

4. Work on Kindred revisions

5. Summarizer:

HW: Study for test.

Romance 3.2

Romance 3.2

Do now: Madlibs

Objectives:

• demonstrate mastery of understanding the “how, why, and so what” of thesis statements
• understand teacher comments regarding thesis and topic sentences

Agenda:

1. do now
2. read teacher comments
3. draft one “quote sandwich”
4. work on revisions
5. summarizer

HW: study for Romance unit test

Romance 3.1

Do Now: Which archetype did you find most enjoyable to read? Why?

Objectives

• Demonstrate mastery of the 4 archetypes through a Socratic Seminar
• Effectively contribute to a student-lead class discussion

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Vocab #4

3. Romance Unit Socratic Seminar

4. Test Review Sheet ( a copy can be found here)

5. Summarizer: What area do you need to review the most?

HW: Study for test

Romance 2.4

Romance 2.4

Do Now: Review plot points of “YGB”

Objectives:

• Demonstrate understanding of the major themes, allegory, and symbolism of “Young Goodman Brown” in a socratic seminar

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Prep for socratic seminar

3. Socratic Seminar Young Goodman Brown

HW: Prepare for Romance Unit Socratic Seminar

Romance 2.3

Romance 2.3

Do now: Was the story confusing?  Why/why not?

Objective:

• analyze Hawthorne’s use of symbols to present meaning

Agenda:

1. do now
2. in groups: answer study guide questions
3. complete the symbol activity for YGB
4. Class: discuss findings
5. in groups: draft thesis statements
6. summarizer

HW: work on Kindred outline, due FRIDAY

Romance 2.2

Do Now: Could an utopia exist?  Why/why not.

Objectives:

• Demonstrate understanding of Utopia archetype through close reading of El Dorado
• work independently on Kindred essay

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Vocab

3. Discuss El Dorado in groups: what is going on? What is the message of the piece?

4. Kindred independent work

5. Summarizer: What are a few steps our society could take to get us closer to a utopia?

HW: Read "Young Goodman Brown" for THURSDAY

Romance 2.1

Do Now: In your LOTF groups, review my comments and the rubric's "grade"

Today’s Objective:

• to identify the steps of the hero's journey in a work of literature
• to use close reading to examine how and why an author uses the Hero's Journey archetype to reveal meaning

Agenda:

1) Do now

2) In pairs, complete the Hero's Journey chart for "A Worn Path"

4) Class discussion: review findings from chart

5) Summarizer: identify one step of the hero's journey in "A Worn Path" and draw it in Notability

HW: read and annotate "El Dorado"

Ms. Santiago is out Thursday and Friday

Work on your Kindred individual essay.  If you have any questions, please refer to the "9th grade writing manual" in your ibooks.