Wednesday Oct. 25/ Thursday Oct. 26, 2017

76 minute class

      1.   Today we will begin/ continue viewing The Pursuit of Happiness. 

      2.   Write your reflection on Viewing Day 1 in your packet 

      3.   Continue viewing (viewing day 2) 

Homework: make sure to complete your Viewing Day 1 notes and reflection (due at the beginning of class next time)

Monday Oct. 23, 2017

92 minute class

      1.   In small groups, share your “I Have a Dream” homework, including your responses to the 3 questions at the end of this speech. 

      2.   Share out to the whole class / discuss how the speech uses metaphor, anaphora, and how it echoes the Declaration of Independence. Hand in your MLK speech packets. 

      3.   Review film terms, including pan, high-key and low-key lighting, side lighting /front lighting, cross-cutting, zoom and eye-line match.

      4.   Today we will begin viewing The Pursuit of Happiness. Directions for viewing handed out and discussed.

      5.   View first portion of The Pursuit of Happyness 

Thursday Oct. 19 / Friday Oct. 20 2017

76 minute class

      1.   Read and discuss “Five Things to Know About the Declaration of Sentiments”  (period 2 already did this, so just do this with periods 3 and 4) 

      2.   Read and take notes on The Declaration of Sentiments: summarize and note parallels to the Declaration of Independence 

      3.   Small groups: share your notes and ideas on The Declaration of Sentiments  

  

      4.   Whip around to share out from small groups 

      5.   Learn about the rhetorical devices Metaphor and Anaphora 

      6.   Hand out copies of “I Have a Dream.” Students read it, highlighting/underlining key passages while considering what we have read and discussed so far this year about the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Sentiments and the writing students have done about the promises of the Declaration of Independence (5th didn't get to # 5 and #6)

Watch the speech as you read (optional)

HOMEWORK: Complete the reading of “I Have a Dream” and respond to the 3 questions at the end of this speech. Bring this with you to class next time.

Tuesday Oct. 17 / Wednesday Oct. 18 2017

92 minute class

     1.   Finish Iron Jawed Angels 

     2.   Discuss film / film notes

     3.   View first 5 minutes of The Women’s Rights Movement video 

     4.   Read and highlight/take notes on background for the Declaration of Sentiments 

     5.   Discuss this background: what did you learn that you didn’t know before? 

Thursday, October 12, 2017

92 minutes

NOTE: Wednesday, Oct. 11 was PSAT day, so we did not have B-day classes. Friday, October 13 is a state-wide inservice day, so we again did not have B-day classes. 

Today: periods 2, 3, and 4 viewed Iron Jawed Angels and took notes on the film. This is an enrichment activity since we are missing B-day classes.

Monday, October 9 / Tuesday, October 10 2017

92 minute class

1. Finish Declaration of Independence paragraph 5 illustrations
2. Groups present illustrations to class
3. Read and summarize Declaration of Independence paragraphs 6, 7, and 8

Period 2 = read background history on The Declaration of Sentiments (1848)

Period 5 did not yet summarize paragraphs 6-8

Friday, October 6/Monday Oct. 9 2017

92 minute class

      1.   Dialogue Journals are due. In your book groups, share your best entry. Then, discuss the mini-essay prompt and generate ideas for writing your mini-essay.

      2.   In Google Classroom, write a mini-essay called “The Promise of the Declaration and My Novel.”   See Google Classroom for Essay Prompt.

Google Classroom codes:

2^nd period = kupv8u

3^rd period = uq1i2e

4^th period = mf458a

5^th period = u7tci1

Wednesday, October 4/Thursday October 5 2017

76 minute class

      1.   SSR You should finish your novel today. 

      2.   3^rd and 4^th period = finish Liberty! 

      3.   Pairs: read your assigned facts from paragraph 5 of The Declaration of Independence and illustrate these facts on index cards. 

      4.   Present your facts/illustrations to the class 

      5.   Hand in your cards

      6.   Read and summarize paragraphs 6, 7, and 8 

HOMEWORK: 10 Dialogue Journal entries are due on Friday, Oct. 6 / Monday October 9.

Monday, October 2/Tuesday Oct. 3 2017

92 minute class

     1.   SSR 

     2.   Groups: discuss your books and share passages that could be good for the dialogue journals

     3.   Review dialogue journal assignment and due date 

     4.   Finish viewing Liberty! and taking notes 

     5.   Pairs: read your assigned facts from paragraph 5 of The Declaration of Independence and illustrate these facts on index cards. 

HOMEWORK for Wednesday, Oct. 4: Finish reading your novel!