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 9.28: 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, Coyote Finishes His Work Notes p. 25, Coyote Finishes Dialectical Journal
Homework: Read and Annotate “The Sky Tree” A Huron Narrative
Tuesday 9.29: 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, Coyote Finishes His Work Notes p. 25, Coyote Finishes Dialectical Journal
Homework: Read and Annotate “The Sky Tree” A Huron Narrative
Wednesday 10.1: 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
Thursday 10.2: Introduction to Puritan Writing
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: SWBAT identify how Jonathan Edwards used figurative language and imagery to reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: PRE-READING: Anticipation Guide,Edwards Notes & Tone Words
Homework: N/A
Friday 10.3: Jonathan Edwards
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: SWBAT identify how Jonathan Edwards used figurative language and imagery to reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: PRE-READING: Anticipation Guide,Edwards Notes & Tone Words
Homework: N/A