Extended Text: Bronx Masquerade (9th), Black Jacobins (10th)
Short Text: A Modest Proposal
Monday (9th Grade): LAB DAY (2nd fl. FTA)
1. Read the Bronx Masquerade for Diondra Jordan
2. Visit this website and copy and complete the conflict organizer in notebook for Diondra. What is her conflict in the book. Provide evidence of the conflict by writing the page number you line from text under the "conflict column."
3. Read Miss Jordan's poem called If and complete discussion questions below in notebook.
Discussion Questions:
A. What part of speech is the title If?
B. What is the central conflict of this poem?
C. Find one example from the text that supports what you stated was the central conflict.
D. What is the tone of this poem. (Hint: how does the author feel about the subject If?)
E. What does the line from the poem "would you laugh at me then" reveal about the audience?
4. Create your own If poem. Choose one thing about your self that you do not like or were teased about in school to be the subject of this poem. Turn the negative thing you were teased about into something that could be positive following the same structure as Miss Jordan's poem.
Ex:
1st/2nd Line: "If... (use images/symbols that reveal your issue you are self conscious about in a positive manner)"
Last Line: "...would you still laugh at me then?"
Ex:
1st/2nd Line: "If... (use images/symbols that reveal your issue you are self conscious about in a positive manner)"
Last Line: "...would you still laugh at me then?"
5. Work on satire letter by researching specific examples, facts, stats of the problem around your issue you want to bring attention to. Add this evidence a.k.a. Green to your rough draft.
Monday (10th Grade):
1. Read up to page 26 of The Black Jacobins
2. Complete discussion questions below:
Preface:
a. What is an epic (define)?
b. Look up 3 examples of great epics and list them.
c. What revolutionary struggle/achievement is the focus of this book
d. Who is the hero in this epic?
e. Research the hero in this epic. Find out 3 things he accomplished in his life.
Prologue:
f. what countries did the slave trade get their slaves from in Africa?
3. Create a T-chart to document what effects the slave trade had on Africans
(left side=evidence/right side=how this affected them negatively)
4. Finish Rough Draft of Satire (see example below)
Example:
Dear high school tech experts,
(Focus=Noise created from cell phones)
Your constant attention to staying in touch is a testimony of your great social skills. With every KIK, and Facebook Message you expand your ever growing vocabulary which you use so eloquently in your essays in class. I cannot speak enough about the creative notification alerts that fill the classrooms with pleasant melodies of Rich Homie Quan and Drake. The lyrics from these contemporary artists can help students learn grammar and how to articulate and speak properly which is a bonus because all senior have a written exit exam. Your extensive music knowledge is also something to be admired and creates a much needed break for those nerds that insist on taking notes, completing classwork or studying for quizzes and tests in school.
(Focus=Energy used texting/chatting)
I must also mention the fact that you teen experts are finding a way to burn calories while in class. One study found 90 minutes of using your thumbs to text can burn all of the delicious food you had at lunch, but may have felt guilty. We all know the lengths to which high schoolers will go to watch what they eat, so engaging in social exercise using your cell phone every day several times a day shows your willingness to keep America fit and healthy one thumb at a time.
(Focus=Conclusion)
So next time someone insists you put your cell phones away while in class, remind them of the service and sacrifice you are making to your classroom and to society each time your reply to a text, search the web, or reply to a KIK in class. The world needs more text specialists especially in an ever shrinking economy where technical skills like technology expert can give you a head start and an edge over other applicants.
Sincerely,
Mr. Leu (Your Proud Teacher)
Tuesday: revise satire letter and IF poem
1. Read up to page 26 of The Black Jacobins
2. Complete discussion questions below:
Preface:
a. What is an epic (define)?
b. Look up 3 examples of great epics and list them.
c. What revolutionary struggle/achievement is the focus of this book
d. Who is the hero in this epic?
e. Research the hero in this epic. Find out 3 things he accomplished in his life.
Prologue:
f. what countries did the slave trade get their slaves from in Africa?
3. Create a T-chart to document what effects the slave trade had on Africans
(left side=evidence/right side=how this affected them negatively)
4. Finish Rough Draft of Satire (see example below)
Example:
Dear high school tech experts,
(Focus=Noise created from cell phones)
Your constant attention to staying in touch is a testimony of your great social skills. With every KIK, and Facebook Message you expand your ever growing vocabulary which you use so eloquently in your essays in class. I cannot speak enough about the creative notification alerts that fill the classrooms with pleasant melodies of Rich Homie Quan and Drake. The lyrics from these contemporary artists can help students learn grammar and how to articulate and speak properly which is a bonus because all senior have a written exit exam. Your extensive music knowledge is also something to be admired and creates a much needed break for those nerds that insist on taking notes, completing classwork or studying for quizzes and tests in school.
(Focus=Energy used texting/chatting)
I must also mention the fact that you teen experts are finding a way to burn calories while in class. One study found 90 minutes of using your thumbs to text can burn all of the delicious food you had at lunch, but may have felt guilty. We all know the lengths to which high schoolers will go to watch what they eat, so engaging in social exercise using your cell phone every day several times a day shows your willingness to keep America fit and healthy one thumb at a time.
(Focus=Conclusion)
So next time someone insists you put your cell phones away while in class, remind them of the service and sacrifice you are making to your classroom and to society each time your reply to a text, search the web, or reply to a KIK in class. The world needs more text specialists especially in an ever shrinking economy where technical skills like technology expert can give you a head start and an edge over other applicants.
Sincerely,
Mr. Leu (Your Proud Teacher)
Tuesday: revise satire letter and IF poem
Wednesday:
Agenda
1. Revise Satire letter
2. Type final draft of If poem and satire letter. Save to your lunch number
3. Analyze five satire illustrations by answering the questions below for each picture
A. What is the problem in the illustration?
B. What objects and symbols does the artist used to exaggerate the truth behind the problem?
C. What colors does the artist paint with and what tone do they reveal?
D. Was this illustration effective why or why not?
Thursday: review rubric for performance-based assessment and choose one of three choices illustration recorded letter or parity and begin working on it in class
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