Room 7 Edublog

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