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 10.13 “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 WRITE A SUMMARY that identifies how Olaudah Equiano used figurative language, imagery, and the rhetorical triangle to achieve purpose, communicate tone, and reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano,” Notes, Summary Template
Homework: Notebooks due 10.31!
Tuesday 10.14 “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 identify how Equiano used rhetorical triangle to achieve purpose, communicate tone, and reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: Dialectical Journal
Homework: Notebooks due Friday
Wednesday 10.15 “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano” 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 CLOSE READING SWBAT to complete a progress check that describes how Equiano used figurative language, imagery, and the rhetorical triangle to achieve purpose, communicate tone, and reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE.
Handouts: N/A
Homework: Notebooks due 10.31
Thursday 10.16 Introduction to The Declaration of Independence
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 viewing video on the The Declaration of Independence and Thomas Jefferson’s background, students will be able to write a background paragraph that describes the historical context of the founding document.
Handouts: The Declaration of Independence Notes
Homework: Notebooks due 10.31
Friday 10.17 “Autobiography of The Declaration of Independence“
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 Thomas Jefferson used rhetorical triangle and parallelism to achieve purpose, communicate tone, and reveal his ideas about HUMAN NATURE in The Declaration of Independence”
Handouts:
Homework: Notebooks due TODAY!