Room 7 Edublog

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze persuasive techniques in a speech
To evaluate the persuasive strategies
To apply persuasive strategies to writing a persuasive essay
To interpret the message: what are you being persuaded to do/think/say?
To apply the speaker’s message to personal experience

BELLRINGER:
From yesterday’s video:
1 – 1 way you see you have used a “single story” perception
2 – 2 ways you see the “single story” is part of society
3 – 3 ways your perception of Africa has changed or been challenged

AGENDA:
Discuss “A Single Story”
Hand out articles & explain upcoming assignment
Provide time for students to continue essays

HOMEWORK:

Single Story persuasive essays due Monday, Feb. 3rd
Graffiti project (book report) due March 3rd

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze persuasive techniques in a speech
To evaluate the persuasive strategies
To apply persuasive strategies to writing a persuasive essay
To interpret the message: what are you being persuaded to do/think/say?
To apply the speaker’s message to personal experience

BELLRINGER:
How would you define the term “single story”?
Is it positive or negative?
Consider an immigrant, a foreigner, a disabled person, a garbage collector, or an elderly person. What happens when society holds a “single story” of them?

AGENDA:
Watch about the first 7 minutes of Chimamanda Adichie’s speech, “The Danger of a Single Story”
Note taking/discussion/answer questions
Take notes through the remainder of the film
Write a persuasive essay based on one of the questions/quotes

HOMEWORK:

Persuasive essays due Monday, Feb. 3rd
Graffiti project (book report) due March 3rd

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze satire in literature
To distinguish what is directly stated from what is really meant
To determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text
To cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly

BELLRINGER:
5 minute quickwrite:
There are no school holidays in February.
Use persuasive strategies to convince the school board that President’s Day (Feb. 17th) should be a school holiday. Possible ideas: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a school holiday. In Canada, February 17th is “Family Day.”

AGENDA:
Complete “A Modest Proposal” and turn in.
Discuss next project

HOMEWORK:

Graffiti project (book report) due March 3rd

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze literature through literary perspectives
To apply lenses to reading and explicating text
To assess and critique to construct meaning
To implement persuasive writing to convince
To utilize poetry analyzation process

BELLRINGER:
Scruggs Allusions:
T: Bread & Circuses
W: Deus ex Machina
F: Tabula Rasa

AGENDA:
Read and explicate poems in groups
Class Discussion

HOMEWORK:

Novel Reading and Lesson Plan Project
Persuasive Poetry Papers due Monday, Feb. 3, 2014

OBJECTIVES:
To apply persuasive/satiric knowledge
To complete an assessment

BELLRINGERS:
Celebrity Parodies
Mr. Bean Snores

AGENDA:
Complete tests
Go over character assessments, time permitting

HOMEWORK:

Graffiti project (book report) due March 3rd

OBJECTIVES:
To implement roles and reading strategies
To apply analytical comprehension to test
To cite evidence to support ideas
To construct understanding of vocabulary through context clues, use in sentences, etc.

AGENDA:
Students will divide into novel groups
They will assign roles
Continue reading class novels with teachers’ support
Answer questions as a group and independently

HOMEWORK:

Read 10-15 minutes every night; novel worksheets due Friday the 24th

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze poetry through a process
To assess and critique to establish meaning

AGENDA:
7 Questions in the process of analysis
Analyze poems in groups

HOMEWORK:

12 Sonnet questions due tomorrow
Independent Novel Project

OBJECTIVES:
To evaluate media for satiric strategies
To review for a test

BELLRINGER:
Clampetts and the Dodgers
Move Deer Crossing

AGENDA:
Overview of the week
Review game for test

HOMEWORK:

Study for test tomorrow, 28th of January
Graffiti project (book report) due March 3rd

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze literature through literary perspectives
To apply lenses to reading and explicating text
To assess and critique to construct meaning
To implement notation

AGENDA:
Read and explicate poems in groups

HOMEWORK:

Novel Reading and Lesson Plan Project

OBJECTIVES:
To implement roles and reading strategies
To apply analytical comprehension to test
To cite evidence to support ideas
To construct understanding of vocabulary through context clues, use in sentences, etc.

AGENDA:
Students will divide into novel groups
They will assign roles
Begin reading class novels with teachers’ support
Answer questions as a group and independently

HOMEWORK:

Read 10-15 minutes every night; novel worksheets due Friday the 24th