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 10.6: Jonathan Edwards & The Crucible
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: Puritan Writing: SWBAT compare how Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards used figurative language and imagery to reveal their ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, pp. 44-49, Dialectical Journal
Homework: The Crucible Act 2 Dialectical Journal, Read The Crucible & Anne Bradstreet, “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666″ pp. 28-29 write a SUMMARY & COMPLETE DIALECTICAL JOURNAL
Tuesday 10.7 Puritan Writing 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: Puritan Writing: SWBAT compare how Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards used figurative language and imagery to reveal their ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, pp. 44-49, Dialectical Journal
Homework: Notebooks due Friday
Wednesday 10.8 Introduction to Slave 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: SWBAT compare how Phyllis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano used figurative language and imagery to reveal their ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Objective: AFTER viewing video on the MIDDLE PASSAGE and OLAUDAH EQUIANO’s background, students will be able to write a background paragraph that describes the historical context of “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano.”
Handouts: Olaudah Equiano Notes & Tone Words
Homework: N/A
Thursday 10.9 “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”
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 CLOSE READING, SWBAT identify how Olaudah Equiano used figurative language and imagery to achieve purpose, communicate tone, and reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”
Homework: Phyllis Wheatly
Friday 10.10 “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”
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 CLOSE READING SWBAT to use DIALECTICAL JOURNAL to SUMMARIZE how Olaudah Equiano used figurative language and imagery to achieve purpose, communicate tone, and reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano”
Homework: Phyllis Wheatly