English 3P HONORS: 9/2-5/2014

Period 5

WARNING:  This is a tentative calendar for the week.  I post this to provide my students with an opportuity to preview the week and to help them plan accordingly.  Sometimes things go exactly as planned and it is amazing. Sometimes they don’t because we might finish an objective faster than anticipated.  Sometimes what I believed would take ten minutes at the beginning of class ends up taking an entire class.  Sometimes there are some mornings when I get ideas and decide to change EVERYTHING because something else seems better.  Anyways, you get the picture: TENTATIVE.  As my grandmother used to say, “we make plans and the universe laughs”.

TUESDAY 9.2: 2014.15 Orientation

Unit Goal: N/A

Objective: By the end of the period SWBAT describe and follow classroom guidelines and procedures and will understand grading scales and procedures.

HandoutsOrientation PreziCLASSROOM OBJECTIVES 3P 2013.14

WEDNESDAY 9.3: 2014.15 3P Pre-Assessment

Unit GoalIn a TIMED WRITE ESSAY, SWBAT describe how Early American texts and genres explored and communicated views of human nature through the use of the rhetorical triangle, imagery, and figurative language.

Objective: After completing PREASSESMENT ESSAY students will be able to identify unit concept and identify writing proficiency level.

Handouts: PROMPT, LEARNING SCALE

THURSDAY 9.4: 2014.15 3P Pre-Assessment

Unit GoalIn a TIMED WRITE ESSAY, SWBAT describe how Early American texts and genres explored and communicated views of human nature through the use of the rhetorical triangle, imagery, and figurative language.

Objective: After reading and assessing ANCHOR PAPERS by using class rubrics and learnings scales, students will self-assess proficiency level  and set writing goals using PREASSESMENT ESSAY as evidence.

Handouts: ANCHOR ESSAYS, LEARNING SCALES

FRIDAY 9.5: 2014.15 3P What is America?

Unit GoalIn a TIMED WRITE ESSAY, SWBAT describe how Early American texts and genres explored and communicated views of human nature through the use of the rhetorical triangle, imagery, and figurative language.

ObjectiveStudents will discuss and define concept of AMERICA and AMERICAN IDENTITY by participating in concept attainment activity and FOUR SQUARE discussion.  

Handouts: POWERPOINT

English 3P: 9/2-5/2014 Preview

Periods 1,3,6

WARNING:  This is a tentative calendar for the week.  I post this to provide my students with an opportuity to preview the week and to help them plan accordingly.  Sometimes things go exactly as planned and it is amazing. Sometimes they don’t because we might finish an objective faster than anticipated.  Sometimes what I believed would take ten minutes at the beginning of class ends up taking an entire class.  Sometimes there are some mornings when I get ideas and decide to change EVERYTHING because something else seems better.  Anyways, you get the picture: TENTATIVE.  As my grandmother used to say, “we make plans and the universe laughs”.

TUESDAY 9.2: 2014.15 Orientation

Unit Goal: N/A

Objective: By the end of the period SWBAT describe and follow classroom guidelines and procedures and will understand grading scales and procedures.

Handouts: Orientation PreziCLASSROOM OBJECTIVES 3P 2013.14

WEDNESDAY 9.3: 2014.15 3P Pre-Assessment

Unit GoalIn a TIMED WRITE ESSAY, SWBAT describe how Early American texts and genres explored and communicated views of human nature through the use of the rhetorical triangle, imagery, and figurative language.

Objective: After completing PREASSESMENT ESSAY students will be able to identify unit concept and identify writing proficiency level.

Handouts: PROMPT, LEARNING SCALE

THURSDAY 9.4: 2014.15 3P Pre-Assessment

Unit GoalIn a TIMED WRITE ESSAY, SWBAT describe how Early American texts and genres explored and communicated views of human nature through the use of the rhetorical triangle, imagery, and figurative language.

Objective: After reading and assessing ANCHOR PAPERS by using class rubrics and learnings scales, students will self-assess proficiency level  and set writing goals using PREASSESMENT ESSAY as evidence.

Handouts: ANCHOR ESSAYS, LEARNING SCALES

FRIDAY 9.5: 2014.15 3P What is America?

Unit GoalIn a TIMED WRITE ESSAY, SWBAT describe how Early American texts and genres explored and communicated views of human nature through the use of the rhetorical triangle, imagery, and figurative language.

ObjectiveStudents will discuss and define concept of AMERICA and AMERICAN IDENTITY by participating in concept attainment activity and FOUR SQUARE discussion.  

Handouts: POWERPOINT

On Arthur Miller’s Puritan dilemmas in The Crucible

Many read and assign Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in the context of American Puritanism.  It is a book used to introduce students to the ideas, identity and even historical context of a group of people that inhabited the North East Coast of today’s United States almost 300 years ago, and yet that context and those characters are vessels used to express and explore a crisis that was pricked the mind of the Modern 20th Century American.  The conflict of conscience that the central characters suffer is one inspired by the experiences of Arthur Miller and his creative contemporaries during what we know today as the McCarthy era or the Red Scare.

Check out this short introduction to the real context of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.  

 

Enemies within: Joe McCarthy-Spreading Lies and Ruining Lives by Smithsonian Channel