English 3P Honors: 9.8-9.12 Weekly Update

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”.

Monday 9.8: Concept Introduction

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

Handouts: N/A

Homework: Read ACT I: The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller on being inspired by Salem Witch Trials

Tuesday 9.9: Encounters and Foundations

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 participating in a GALLERY WALK, students will be able to explain the effects of European settlements on native populations and compare Rationalist and Puritan views of human nature, God, and government by completing a Gallery Walk Pamphlet.

Handouts: a. Gallery Walk Images and Text b. Gallery Walk Pamphlet

Homework: Read ACT I: The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller on being inspired by Salem Witch Trials

Wednesday 9.10: Encounters and Foundations

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 participating in a GALLERY WALK, students will be able to explain the effects of European settlements on native populations and compare Rationalist and Puritan views of human nature, God, and government by completing a Gallery Walk Pamphlet.

Handouts: a. Gallery Walk Images and Text b. Gallery Walk Pamphlet

Homework: RRead ACT I: The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller on being inspired by Salem Witch Trials

Thursday 9.11: Historical Context

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 the Introduction to “Encounters and Foundations”, students will be able to explain the effects of European settlements on native populations and compare Rationalist and Puritan views of human nature, God, and government by completing an Analytical Summary.

HandoutsAnalytical Summary

Homework: Read ACT I: The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller on being inspired by Salem Witch Trials

Friday 9.12: Human Nature 

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 annotating passages from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and from Jean Jacques Rousseau’sDiscourse on Inequality” students will be able compare and contrast Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “state of nature” in a Socratic Seminar to understand European influence of Early American literature.  

Handouts: a. from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes b. from Discourse on Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Homework: Finish ACT I: The Crucible by Arthur Miller complete Act Analysis Map