WARNING: This is a tentative calendar for the week. I post this to provide my students with an opportunity 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 means maybe, if time allows, perhaps. As my grandmother used to say, “we make plans and the universe laughs”.
Monday 9.22: SOCRATIC SEMINAR Progress Check
Unit Goal: In 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’s“Discourse 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 d. Questioning Guide e. Socratic Seminar Evaluation Guide
Tuesday 9.23: SOCRATIC SEMINAR Assessment & GOOGLE CLASS Set Up
Unit Goal: In 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 self assess objective mastery by completing SOCRATIC SEMINAR FINAL THOUGHTS.
Handouts: N/A
Homework: N/A
Wednesday 9.24: Human Nature & Native American Oral Narratives
Unit Goal: In 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 creation stories of the Americas, students will be able to identify native views of “human nature” completing summaries that include events used to develop moral lesson in the story.
Handouts: Native Voices Video,The Sun Still Risesby Joseph Bruchac, The Sun Still Rises Annotation Guide
Homework: N/A
Thursday 9.25: Human Nature & Native American Oral Narratives
Unit Goal: In 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 creation stories of the Americas, students will be able to identify native views of “human nature” completing DIALECTICAL JOURNALS and Summaries that include events used to develop moral lesson in the story.
Handouts/ Reading: “The Sky Tree” a Huron narrative, “Coyote Finishes his Work” a Nez Perce Story, pp. 21-24 Dialectical Journal
Homework: N/A
Friday 9.26: Introduction to First Literatures Progress Check
Unit Goal: In 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 creation stories of the Americas, students will be able to identify native views of “human nature” completing summaries that include events used to develop moral lesson in the story.
Handouts: a. PREREADING: Native Voices Video b. READING: from “Coyote Finishes His Work” p. 25 & The Big Myth c. POST READING: Summary Template
Homework: N/A