Power: Day 12a
Do Now: What are places a times when you witness someone public speaking?
Homework: Study vocabulary! Test Tomorrow!
Inquiry: Why is public speaking an important skill?
Objective: SWBAT say their speeches in front of the class and critique each other.
Agenda:
- Do now.
- Speeches and critiquing.
- Pearl Video.
- Reading the Pearl.
- Everynone Video.
- Decorating the room.
Power: Day 11a
Do Now: Who is a great speaker? What do they do effectively in their speeches?
Homework: 1) Finish Pearl Speech. 2) Write out vocabulary into sentences.
Inquiry: How can rhetoric enhance our persuasion skills? How does literacy relate to your life? How does it give you power?
Objective: SWBAT give speeches to their class using effective speech strategies like enunciation, speaking up, and using emotion.
Agenda:
- Research Paper + Works Cited Completed.
- (1 Book, 1 Website, + 1 Periodical/Newspaper)
- Senior Project Wikispace Completed.
- PowerPoint Presentation (Googledoc Presentation or PowerPoint)
- 16 Slides
- Introduction Slide (Name, Topic, Picture) + Conclusion Slide
- Each slide should have a picture and be responding to your research questions.
Power: Day 11a
Do Now: Make revisions to your Pearl Speech: As a character from the book, you are convincing an audience that you deserve to own the pearl. In this revision, make sure to use Ethos (Ethics and Fairness), Pathos (Emotion and Drama), and Logos (Truth and Logic).
Homework: 1) Finish Pearl Speech. 2) Write out vocabulary into sentences.
Inquiry: How can rhetoric enhance our persuasion skills? How does literacy relate to your life? How does it give you power?
Objective: SWBAT make substantive revisions to their Pearl Speech using ethos, logos, and pathos.
Agenda:
- 30 minutes to make a revision to the Pearl Speech using rhetorical strategies.
- With a partner, discuss what you think are the most fundamental human rights of being an American. What do you think it means to be an American? What are American values?
- Read voter ID article and respond to reflection questions.
- Read The Pearl
March: Senior Project Agenda
Do Now: View agenda on zellerenglish.blogspot.com.
Homework: 1) Research Paper 2) Senior Project completed on Wikispace.
Objective: SWBAT complete their research paper and senior project wikispace page.
Agenda:
- Mini-Lesson: How to make a Works Cited page.
- Complete Research Paper
- Tell Mr. Zeller when Research Paper is complete. (6-8 pages, works cited page, in-text citations, student voice/analysis)
- Transfer all Senior Project Essays to your Wikispace page.
- Tell Mr. Zeller when Wikispace page is complete. (You will get a 3rd quarter grade for it.)
- Begin working on powerpoint presentation. (16 slides, Intro Slide, Conclusion Slide, + 14 other slides responding to your research questions. Picture on each slide.)
Anti-Street Harassment Lesson
Do Now: What does it take to change your reality? (To change the world?)
Homework: Compare and Contrast Racism Essay due tomorrow!
Inquiry: Why are people harassed? How can we change our reality? What does it take to change our world?
Objective: SWBAT read and interpret their world by developing skits related to harassment and reflecting on ways to change that reality.
Agenda:
- Announcements - Essay Due + Peer Review.
- Peer Review explanation.
- Watch video as a class; students generate personal responses to the video where they work in groups to re-enact a part of the video that they related to or stood out to them.
- Theatre of the oppressed activity:
- A group acts out their skit once in front of the room.
- As the group acts out the same skit a second time, any student can pause the skit, jump in, and change the course of the events.
- Class discussion and writing reflection: What did it take for reality to be changed? What personal values and actions did it require for someone change the world? Are you someone who could change the world?
Power: Day 8a
Do Now: How many different ways do you know to say “Hi”?
Homework: Go to zellerenglish.blogspot.com and catch up on missing homework assignments.
Inquiry: What does it mean for language to be a socially constructed process? Who gets to decide what language is right and wrong? How does the social construction of literacy affect our experience in the world?
Objective: SWBAT understand and explain what it means for language to be a socially constructed process and relate this understanding to The Pearl. Students will construct their own words.
Agenda:
- Do Now.
- NPR: How Language Evolved
- In partners, construct your own word evolution with a picture of your word. Try to construct a new word!
- Define Language as a socially constructed process.
- Read The Pearl.
- Discussion: How is literacy and language talked about in this story?
- Complete Reading Logs for finished chapter.
Revolutionaries: Day 13a
Do Now: How is essay writing different from poetic writing? How is it similar?
Homework: Compare and Contrast Racism Essay due Wednesday. (Graded by completeness and writing process.)
Inquiry: How do we learn new vocabulary? Why do we learn and know vocabulary? Why do different people have different vocabularies?
Objective: SWBAT prepare their own essays, especially body paragraphs and do peer reviews.
Agenda:
- Class Announcements - What’s Due? - Returning Work.
- Explanation of new seating set-up.
- Do Now.
- Compare and Contrast Body Paragraphs worksheet.
- Writing and Peer Review: Is the essay clear? Does it make sense? Does my information match my thesis?
- Choosing Vocabulary from WDC.
Power: Day 8
Do Now: When and where are you the most comfortable speaking? Is it at school? Why or why not?
Homework: Chance for makeup work.
Critical Thinking Question: What are the implications of people speaking differently? Do people who speak non-standard English have less power? Who does not speak “standard English”?
Content: Quiz on Chapters 1-4, PSAT Packets, NPR: How Language Evolved, Everynone word puzzle, The Pearl Video
Class Activities: Grammar and Punctuation Review, Word Puzzle, Practice Test and Collaboration
Revolutionaries: Day 11a
Do Now: In an essay or a speech, why is it important to have a thesis?
Homework: Write vocabulary words into sentences. Prepare for test on Friday!
Critical Thinking Questions: How do you synthesize information from multiple sources and experiences to support a thesis?
Content: Former Student Essay, Articles and research from class, Student Writing
Objective: SWBAT synthesize information from multiple sources to use as support in their essays.
Class Activities: Reading and annotating former student essay, Uncover the thesis exercise, Thesis and introduction writing
Revolutionaries: Day 12a
Do Now: Punctuate the following sentence:
As the day began the baby was feeling better but the doctor gave him a pill that made him sick.
Homework: Study! Vocabulary test tomorrow.
Collaborative Classroom Inquiry: How do I connect my body paragraphs to my thesis?
Content: Warriors Don’t Cry, Compare and Contrast Cell phone example
Objective: SWBAT plan their introductions and body paragraphs.
Class Activities: Modeling and discussing a sample compare and contrast essay, planning thesis and body paragraphs, and reading.
Power: Day 7
Do Now: After the night attack, who would you side with: Juana, who wants to get rid of the pearl OR Kino, who wants to travel to the capitol city and sell it?
Homework: Study Vocabulary! Test tomorrow.
Critical Thinking Question: Can wealth buy happiness? Who are the most trustworthy people in our lives? Why do some people who have so much take advantage of those who have little? Why would it be difficult for native cultures and greedy colonial cultures to communicate? What is grammar?
Content: Critical Incidents of chapter 4, Reflective Writing, Grammar lesson,
Class Activities: Review importance of literacy, Grammar time!
Revolutionaries: Day 11a
Do Now: In an essay or a speech, why is it important to have a thesis?
Homework: Write vocabulary words into sentences. Prepare for test on Friday!
Critical Thinking Questions: How do you synthesize information from multiple sources and experiences to support a thesis?
Content: Former Student Essay, Articles and research from class, Student Writing
Objective: SWBAT synthesize information from multiple sources to use as support in their essays.
Class Activities: Reading and annotating former student essay, Uncover the thesis exercise, Thesis and introduction writing
