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…otherwise known as maybe, perhaps, we will see. As my grandmother used to say, “we make plans and the universe laughs”.
Monday 10.6: Perspectives of the Conquest
UNIT GOAL: After investigating and analyzing perspectives of Early American encounters through texts which include Spanish account, Aztec poetry, 20th Century art and poetry, students will write an expository essay which evaluates the impact of European arrival to the continent on Native populations and compares perspectives of encounters between native populations and Europeans.
Objective: After participating in Learning Stations, students will be able to compare perspectives of the conquest depicted by IMAGERY by completing Dialectical Journal
Handouts: Dialectical Journal, Learning Stations
Homework: Notebooks due Friday
Tuesday 10.7: Perspectives of the Conquest
UNIT GOAL: After investigating and analyzing perspectives of Early American encounters through texts which include Spanish account, Aztec poetry, 20th Century art and poetry, students will write an expository essay which evaluates the impact of European arrival to the continent on Native populations and compares perspectives of encounters between native populations and Europeans.
Objective: After participating in Learning Stations, students will be able to compare perspectives of the conquest depicted by IMAGERY by completing Dialectical Journal
Handouts: Dialectical Journal,Learning Stations
Homework: Notebooks due Friday
Wednesday 10.8: Poetry of Perspective
UNIT GOAL: After investigating and analyzing perspectives of Early American encounters through texts which include Spanish account, Aztec poetry, 20th Century art and poetry, students will write an expository essay which evaluates the impact of European arrival to the continent on Native populations and compares perspectives of encounters between native populations and Europeans.
Objective: After completing Dialectical Journals in Learning Stations, students will be able to compare perspectives of conquest by writing, BioPoems, Found Poems, and Dialogue Poems
Handouts: Debrief Poems, Dialectical Journal, Learning Stations,
Homework: Notebooks due Friday
Thursday 10.9: Poetry of Perspective
UNIT GOAL: After investigating and analyzing perspectives of Early American encounters through texts which include Spanish account, Aztec poetry, 20th Century art and poetry, students will write an expository essay which evaluates the impact of European arrival to the continent on Native populations and compares perspectives of encounters between native populations and Europeans.
Objective: After completing Dialectical Journals in Learning Stations, students will be able to compare perspectives of conquest by PERFORMING Dialogue Poems
Handouts: Debrief Poems, Dialectical Journal, Learning Stations,
Homework: Notebooks due Friday
Friday 10.10: “Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone”
UNIT GOAL: After investigating and analyzing perspectives of Early American encounters through texts which include Spanish account, Aztec poetry, 20th Century art and poetry, students will write an expository essay which evaluates the impact of European arrival to the continent on Native populations and compares perspectives of encounters between native populations and Europeans.
Objective: After a close reading Rosario Castellanos‘s poem “Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone” students will be able to evaluate how the author utilizes imagery to communicate her perspective on the “conquest.”
Handouts: Making Sense of Poetry for Rosario Castellanos’ poem “Silence Concerning and Ancient Stone”
Homework: Notebooks due TODAY!