Testing

At the end of this lesson, click here to write your why question.

Independent Reading Projects

Remember your independent reading book(s)? Here is a list of suggestions for your project. These are only suggestions. If you have another idea, run it past me.

If you are planning to take the ELA Regents, it is strongly suggested you write a critical lens essay, using your independent reading book and one other novel, play, poem, or short story that you have read. Here are more directions and some quotations to choose from.

Please turn in the Literature Circle worksheet with the grading rubric when you turn in your project. Also, please plan to present your project to the class.

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Standards

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.10 By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
  
  By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.
  
  
  

Aim: How do we evaluate the function of the witches in Macbeth?

Do Now: Sit down THOU MAMMERING, TOAD-SPOTTED SKAINSMATES!!!!!!

Do you believe in witches? Put your thoughts in at least one well-organized paragraph.

Today we begin our reading and staging of Macbeth. Make sure you have drawn a theme, completed the "First Look" at your theme, and have a line collection sheet so that you may begin collecting lines related to your theme.

What's Due

• First Look 
• Argument essay
• Thematic essay
• Independent reading projects!!!!!!

Seasons Greetings!

Anticipating Macbeth

Aim: How do we familiarize ourselves with Shakespearean England?

Do Now: Sit down THOU MAMMERING, TOAD-SPOTTED SKAINSMATES!!!!!!

Complete this Shakespeare Web Quest to familiarize yourself with Shakespearean England.


What's Due

• Argument essay
• Thematic essay
• Independent reading projects!!!!!!

Meaning in Bodega Dreams

Socrates

Aim: How do we conduct a Socratic Seminar?   

Journal Prompt: Complete the Friday self-assessment.

The photo to the right is a sculpture of Socrates, the father of Greek philosophy. Socratic seminars are inspired by Socrates' belief in the power of questions to learn. In his view, questions are more important than information, and discussion is more productive than debate.

This week we completed reading Bodega Dreams. We’ve been analyzing the complex characters and the ways in which these characters helped develop major themes in the novel. Did the end justify the means as far as Willie Bodega was concerned? Did Bodega achieve his dreams? If so, why? If not, why not? How has Julio’s character developed over the course of the events? These are just a few important questions you should think about. There are no easy answers. Below are the English Language Arts standards that have been addressed through these lessons.

To bring closure to our reading and interpretation of the novel, we'll hold a Socratic seminar. The best way to prepare for a Socratic seminar is to have questions--open-ended questions that begin with why or how. Think of at least two questions you can ask at the seminar. You may use questions you asked for any of the 3-2-1 you completed after each day's read aloud.

Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)

Rising Rising Action

Aim: How do we identify the climax in Bodega Dreams?  

Journal Prompt #21: Conflict = Plot
Identify what, in your opinion, is the major conflict in Bodega Dreams and explain why. Don't forget to identify its type as well. (e.g. Person vs Person, Society, Nature, or Self)

Journal Prompt #22: Thanksgiving
Give thanks!

By Monday, you should have read to page 183 of Bodega Dreams.

What's Due

• Thematic Essay (worth 100 points)
• Independent reading projects should be completed.
• Journals will be collected for 2nd marking period grade.