- BE READING, QUIET AND IN A SEAT BEFORE THE BELL RINGS FOR A RAFFLE TICKET! RAFFLE IS FRIDAY!
- Work Due!
- Vocab HW due tomorrow: Sentences and Study Guide
- Do Now: Independent Reading Time
- Read your independent reading book for 15 minutes.
- Start a new DIRT Day Entry and use proper Comp Book Format! See poster.
- Write down at least 10 thoughts as you read!
- Learning Target - I can be a productive member of a group that is working on a role play in order to practice proper courtroom procedures.
- Things to Do:
- 1. Your teacher will assign your team as the prosecutors or the defense. (See handout for cast list)
- 2. Mark the text with all evidence to support your side of the case.
- 3. Help the prosecutor and the defense attorneys write their opening speeches.
- 4. Determine which witnesses you will want to question.
- 5. Help attorney write questions for the witnesses.
- 6. Help attorney write cross-examination questions.
- 7. Help the attorney write their closing remarks.
TUESDAY - Double - ELA
- PLEASE SIT WITH A PARTNER TODAY!
- Reminder: Vocab sentences and study guide due tomorrow!
- Do Now - Copy
- Entry Title: Purgatory
- Learning Target: I can cite strong textual evidence to support my analysis of a text; analyze how complex characters develop throughout a story and propel a discussion by asking & answering questions.
- Read Aloud Paragraph 1 "At first our pack was all..."
- How are the girls acting in this paragraph? Be able to provide textual evidence.
- Refresher: CLOSE READING
- Re-reading text in small chunks.
- Gain new understanding.
- Learn more details and nuances of the text.
- Identifying New Vocabulary
- Read from Paragraphs 2 and 3. Stop before, "Our mothers and fathers were werewolves."
- Draw a box around unfamiliar words.
- Words, Words, Words.... (record answers in Comp Book for a grade)
- 1. How are the girls in Copacabana different from those at St. Lucy's?
- 2. What phrases or descriptions help you determine what languid means in this context? What does it mean?
- 3. What could barbaridad mean and how do you know?
- 4. What do sinewy and hirsute have to do with in this context and how do you know?
- 5. How are the girls showing that they are neither couth nor kempt?
- Period 8
- Marking the Text
- With a partner or independently, mark the parts of the text with a star that support the description of the Stage 1 Epigraph.
- TURN and TALK: Share the parts of the text you marked with your partner. Use the following sentence stems to help you share out your answers when done.
- The quote ________ teaches me about ________ because...
- This part of the text ________ connects to the the Stage 1 epigraph because...
- Class Discussion (record answers in Comp Book for a grade)
- Get out your discussion stem handout.
- 6. Why does sister Josephine use the word backwoods?
- 7. What does the phrase, "We went knuckling along" reveal about the girls?
- 8. From Claudette, the narrator's point of view, what is Stage 1 really like?
- Close Read
- Read the paragraph beginning with, "Our mothers and fathers were werewolves."
- Box any unfamiliar words or phrases.
- Class Discussion (record answers in Comp Book for a grade)
- 9. Who is ostracized in the text and how do you know?
- 10. Why do the farmers ostracize the parents?
- 11. Why do the parents ostracize the local wolves?
- 12. Where is the werewolves purgatory?
- 13. What are the qualities of this purgatory?
- 14. What is the meaning of the word purgatory in this context. How does this compare with the diagram you copied down at the beginning of class?
- 15. Why does Russell, the author, say that the pack grew up in a "purgatory"?
- 16. What important information do we learn about the girls and their parents in this paragraph?
- 17. How will the girls be bilingual and what does the word bilingual mean?
- 18. What offer did the nuns make to the parents? How do you know?
- 19. Why is St. Lucy's culture better?
- Assessment
- Answers to all discussion questions should be recorded in your composition book or on paper and kept in your folder!
- Your grade for today will be determined by the number of questions accurately answered with textual evidence before ht e end of the period.
- You will need these answer and evidence in order to complete an essay next ELA class.
WEDNESDAY - Single - Ramp-up
- Do Now: Independent Reading Time
- Read your independent reading book for 15 minutes.
- Start a new DIRT Day Entry and use proper Comp Book Format! See poster.
- Write down at least 10 thoughts as you read!
- Learning Target - I can be a productive member of a group that is working on a role play in order to practice proper courtroom procedures.
- Today's Goals:
- 1. Write attorney's opening speeches.
- 2. Identify witnesses based on evidence from the story.
- 3. Identify the evidence your team will use to make your case.
- Things to Do:
- 1. Your teacher will assign your team as the prosecutors or the defense. (See handout for cast list)
- 2. Mark the text with all evidence to support your side of the case.
- 3. Help the prosecutor and the defense attorneys write their opening speeches.
- 4. Determine which witnesses you will want to question.
- 5. Help attorney write questions for the witnesses.
- 6. Help attorney write cross-examination questions.
- 7. Help the attorney write their closing remarks.
THURSDAY - Double - ELA
- Writing Workshop / Make Up / Vocab Study Time
- Your participation grade today will be based on handing in the following assignments...
- TWO ESSAYS DUE BY END OF DOUBLE:
- Complete these assignments in this order!
- 1. Already started: Quick Write on the central idea of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves". The question; Write a TREES paragraph that explains the central idea of the story. You must cite at least four pivotal moments in the text that show how the conflict develops throughout the story.
- 2. New Essay: In a TREES essay using textual evidence from the story, explain why the girls' parents accepted the nuns offer. Use the words ostracized and purgatory in your response.
- 3. Vocabulary Sentences, Study Guide, Flash Cards
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