Lesson plans for Monday, January 5, 2015 to January 9, 2015:

 Bring your literature book all week!

Monday, January 5, 2015:

1.  ACT Prep: Idioms—Page 1266 in lit book
2. Discuss essential questions that are printed on their January calendars.
3. Have students draw from a box. Find out who “wins” the prize.  Have that person sit in the middle of the classroom and give them a prize.
4. Do a Predictogram for “The Lottery”
5. Read/listen to “The Lottery” (I have 20 copies, so students need to look on with a partner.)

Tuesday, January 6, 2015:

1. ACT Prep:  The Hyphen
2. Video of “The Lottery”
3. Questions given out to students regarding “The Lottery”
4. Students form groups to answer questions
5. Discussion/answer the questions as a class  (Standard 15. (RI. 11-12.6)  Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.)  Students will identify the point of view in “The Lottery” and analyze the way in which the work is effective for the reader.
6. PowerPoint on Shirley Jackson and “The Lottery”
7. Discuss: Irony/Morality (Standard 10. (RI. 11-12.7) Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matter uncertain.)
8. ***Also discuss allusions to “The Lottery”—The Simpsons’ “Dog of Death” alludes to it.
9.  Use Draw Inferences Sheet back at desk.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015:

1. ACT PREP: What is Satire?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvhHsRAwDz4&edufilter=vH8ntV7keCE-ZLl5wRMzNg
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn9JRyTqzOQ&spfreload=10
3. The Onion is satire.  Share examples.
4. http://www.theonion.com/articles/george-zimmerman-wins-florida-state-lottery,33139/
5. Video: What is off limits for The Onion when it comes to satire?

4. Finish up anything not done from Tuesday
5. Read page 1116 “Drama”

Thursday, January 8, 2015:

1. ACT PREP: Pg. 1268 ACT reading practice  Prose Fiction
2. Read about  Arthur Miller pg. 1118-1121
3. Critical Reading Questions
4. Lit Analysis—Plot pg 1123 Act I Crucible
5. Vocabulary  1123 Act I

Friday, January 9, 2015:

1. ACT Prep:  Pg. 1270 “Editing in Context”
2. Background 1124 to 1125  The Crucible
3. Read as much of Act I that we can

Monday, December 8, 2014

1. ACT Prep: How to identify and correct pronoun use

2. Practice: Use your Writer’s Choice book under your desk to complete page 646 1-20, answers only

3. Review as class and turn in for bronze classwork grade.

4. Somebody Wanted But So graphic organizer: To review what has happened so far in chapters 1-3 in Of Mice and Men

5. Read chapter 4 Of Mice and Men

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

1. Act Prep: ACT Reading Practice: Inferences/Conclusions

2. Discuss chapter 4, add to Somebody Wanted But So review sheet.

3. Read chapter 5 Of Mice and Men

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

1. Act Prep: ACT Reading Practice: Main Idea

2. Finish the novel (chapter 6) Of Mice and Men

3. Discussion as a class about themes, foreshadowing, and basic elements of the novel.

4. Video recaps via 60 second Recaps—–> found on the right side of links.

5. If time, pass out graded papers/folders.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

1. Act Prep: ACT Reading Practice: Vocabulary in Context

2. Act Prep: ACT Reading Practice: Specific Details

YES, it’s a two-fer! 🙂

3. Review for test tomorrow (it will be multiple choice) on Of Mice and Men.

Friday, December 12, 2014

1. Act Prep: Grammar and Usage

2. Test on Of Mice and Men and table of contents. Multiple Choice. Last gold grade of the 9 weeks.

3. Using butcher-board paper, connect the dots, so to speak. Using all the novels, speeches, short stories, and poems that we have read this semester, connect them to the essential questions that you will have to write about on the exam as well as to anything else they have in common. Do this in groups of three or four. Feel free to illustrate as you review and draw lines to connect the text names. We will continue to work on this on Monday (Dead Day) and will also discuss other items on your review sheet.

TOMORROW IS ACT DAY FOR SOME OF YOU! Good luck!!!!!