Showing not Telling Writing

Agenda:

• Review yesterday's terms
• Make sure exit ticket is submitted
• Writing Exercise: Showing v. Telling

Homework:

• Read Part V for Friday

Shikata ga nai

Agenda:

• Review: tone, mood, diction
• Stations: inner square--look for these devices in use
• Overview: Shikata ga nai
• Stations: outer square--connections to inner and to shikata ga nai analysis
• Exit Ticket: Explain why Otsuka did not just come out and say Shikata ga nai?  Why did she use tone, mood, and diction to get it across instead?  (unless you disagree and want to argue that she is not doing this)

Homework:

• Finish the book for Thursday w/ reading questions
• Make sure your exit ticket from today is finished

Point of View Practice

Agenda:

• Review discussion points
• Practice point of view with circle story writing

Homework:

• Critical lens final drafts due tomorrow
• Vocab due 6/1

Point of View Review

Agenda:

• Notes on types of point of view
• Reasons for using various POV
• Discussion questions on three sections of the text

Homework:

• Read Part IV for Friday
• final draft of critical lens due Friday

Punctuation and Quotation Post

Agenda:

• Exercise 3 (for those not finished)
• Corrections and post test for other students
• Make sure worksheet is complete

Homework:

• Drafts due Friday
• Vocab 6/1

Racial Profiling

Agenda:

• Journal: How do you feel about how the family was treated in the novel?
• Review--definition of racial profiling
• Pros/cons list + worksheet

Homework:

• Make sure you have read Part 3
• Finish ws from class
• Final drafts due Friday
• 6/1--vocab due

Title Punctuation and Quotation Review

Agenda:

• Review exercises 1 + 2
• Complete exercise 3
• Workshop time for critical lens

Homework:

• 6/1--vocab
• Part 3 reading and questions due Friday

Punctuating Titles and Quotes

Agenda:

• Questions on pacing
• Blue book p. 598--exercises 1 & 2

Homework:

• Exercises due tomorrow
• Part 3 reading will be due Thursday

Reading Workshop

Agenda:

• Vocab site warm-up
• Make sure you have turned in your draft
• Reading workshop w/ questions

Homework:

• Read "Train" and answers questions for Monday

Executive Order 9066

Agenda:

• Vocab
• Packing List Activity
• Executive Order Review
• Author bg

Homework:

• Draft due tomorrow
• Read part 1 for tomorrow

Colon and Semicolon Test +Workshop

Agenda:

• Colon and semicolon test
• Essay workshop

Homework:

• Draft of essay due Friday

Critical Lens: Drafting

Agenda:

• Vocab warm-up
• Workshop for Critical Lens

Homework:

• Draft of Critical Lens due 5/12
• Vocab due (approx 6/1)

Grammar Review and Continuation

Agenda:

• Review colons and semi-colons
• Continue brainstorming sheet #2

Homework:

• Brainstorming due tomorrow
• Colons and semi-colons quiz next week
• Continue working on next vocab list for OMM

Critical Lens: Brainstorming II

Agenda:

• Overview of worksheet
• Directions on thematic statements and finding quotes
• Workshop

Homework:

• Brainstorming part II will be due Friday
• OMM vocab--begin to work on, due date coming

Critical Lens: Brainstorming

Agenda:

• Brainstorming page
• Continue group work from yesterday
• Reading questions if not done with the text
• Wang Lung's end questions otherwise

Homework:

• Wang Lung's end summative questions
• Brainstorming sheet should have been completed before the end of class

Wang Lung's End

Journals:
*In a paragraph explain how or to what extent Wang Lung is a static or a dynamic character. Be sure to consider the 4-square posters.
*Look back at the "About the Good Earth" reading. Answer one of the following: Does Buck illustrate a universal farmer? (last paragraph of the reading) -or- Discuss briefly the extent to which the story is historically accurate. This also should be a paragraph.
*What do you make of the ending of the novel? Why? Will the family be ruined by leaving the land as the old man warns earlier in the text. You need to write in full sentences and support your answer.

-Your work will be graded on the basis of the quality of your writing and the content of your answer. (Your answers should accurately reflect what happens in the text.)


Homework:
Summative Questions Due Wed.