Weekly Plans for 11/4/2018 - 11/8/2018

Weekly Plans

English 10   Link to English 10 Documents

Monday - Wrap-up Introduction to The Great Gatsby/ Vocabulary List 5 
Begin Reading The Great Gatsby

Tuesday - Reading The Great Gatsby Vocabulary activities

Wednesday - Vocabulary Homework due Reading The Great Gatsby

Thursday  Reading The Great Gatsby Vocabulary activities

Friday -  Reading The Great Gatsby Vocabulary activities

CCS Anchor Standards: Reading
CCRA.R.5	Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions, of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
CCRA.R.6	Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
CCS Standards: Reading – Literature
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.
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.
RL.9-10.4	Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
RL.9-10.9	Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how   Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).
CCS Standards: Writing
W.9-10.2.b, d	Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic. d.     Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
W.9-10.9	Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCS Standards: Speaking & Listening
SL.9-10.1	Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
CCS Standards: Language
L.9-10.4.a	Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a.     Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
L.9-10.5	Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Monday  - Hand out notes re: Age of Reason, Jonathan Swift +Gulliver’s Travels books; “Book One: A Voyage to Lilliput” due Tuesday 11/13; “Book Four: A Voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms” due Friday 11/16 (for both books, take notes in reading journal re: satire and rhetorical devices). Read aloud pp. 65-67 of LC: “Close Reading a Visual Text” +small group analysis of advertisement on p. 68 + “Two Scoreboards” and questions 1-3 on p. 256.

Tuesday - Analysis of “The Great GAPsby Society” and questions 1-5 on pp. 471-472, then pair share, then group discussion + New Yorker cover, p. 174

Wednesday - Analysis of Sports Illustrated Cover + questions 1-6 on pp. 669-670; Mike Lester cartoon and questions 1-5 on pp. 767-768.

Thursday - Group writing: analysis of handout cartoon “Rumors, Lies, Innuendo” HW--Swift Book 1

Friday - discussion questions