Week 2 English I assignments

Week Two Fall 09 Lesson Plans

Monday

First period will have character education lesson. Skip the lecture on nonfiction and go to the store. Talk about the ways to tell a good story and comparisons. They do not have to write summary

 

WDJ: zealous-ardently active, devoted, or diligent.

 

Grammar: Verb- a verb is an action anything you can do is called a verb.

Find the verbs

I spoke to your parents.

Please finish your homework.

 

Tool Box: Figurative language- comparisons. Language that is not meant to be taken literally.

She was as big as a house. She smelled like a dog. Her hair glowed like fire.

 

Review characteristics of nonfiction and fill out notes

 

Activities

• Listen to Mike Birbiglia memoir on sleep walking
  

  http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=361
  

  
   

• As you listen create a list of comparisons you hear and underline the verbs in those comparisons (may have to listen to more than once)
  
• Create a summary of the memoir be sure to include:
  

  -Beginning, middle, and end
  

  -important details
  

  -what the author learned about denial (help and hurt you)
  

  -what is the value of this memoir why should other people hear it?
  

  
   

Homework

English I Complete summary on Birbiglia due Tuesday 30 points

 

Tuesday

prompt- What are some of the ways memoirs of others are important to the rest of us?

 

WDJ- disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing.

 

Grammar- Being verb- is a state of being. Being means the words be, been, being, is, are, was, were

 

Tool Box- Metaphor is a direct comparison

If dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly

 

Activities

• Go over memoir assignment sheet (will start drafting tomorrow)
  
• Go over seminar rules
  
• Discuss Mike B. story (see fall 08 plans for questions)
  
• Revise summary
  

  
   

Homework

Read My English Pages 107-114 due Friday with quiz

Memoir Draft Due Feb 12^th

 

Wednesday

Prompt- What are some of the problems you are having coming up with an idea for your memoir?

WDJ: infer- to hint; imply; suggest.

 

grammar : Helping verb-when being verbs are next to action verbs they are called helping verbs. Helping verbs help complete the action. Be, been, being, is, are, was, were, had, been, might, do, did, does, shall, should, will, would, could

She is planning a surprise party.

 

Tool Box: Review Rhetorical devices and Plot- the events in a story

 

 

Activities

 

• Activity on rhetorical devices and group work on how to structure and argument
  
• Read and answer questions on Amy Tan's Fish cheeks (see handout)
  
• Drafting for memoirs and talk about how Tan's story telling could influence their own
  
• List events, free write, outline, or start draft
  

 

Homework

Memoir draft Feb 12^th points 75 points

Final due Feb 18^th

Thursday

prompt: Free write and talk about memoirs

WDJ: critical-
Inclined to judge severely and find fault.

Grammar: define action and helping verbs (on note card)

Tool Box: Simile

Review Nonfiction and rhetorical devices

Activity: Read/listen to White House Dairy page 97 textbook and listen to online

 

 

Homework

Read My English Pages 107-114 due Friday with quiz

Memoir Draft Due Feb 12^th

 

Friday

prompt: What is your writing process?

WDJ: arrogant- Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.

Grammar: Nouns

Tool Box: Setting and features of nonfiction

Activity:

Chart images, similes, nouns, and verbs in White House Dairy

Quiz on My English and Seminar on My English