Tuesday, March 4

Objective: Students will be able to evaluate instances of situational and dramatic irony in a story in order to determine whether the irony is being used effectively.  Students will be able to evaluate the first-person narration in a story in order to determine if the narrator is unreliable.

Do-Now: 

Copy New Vocab Words on pg. 172: precluded, impunity, retribution, immolation, connoisseurship, impose, recoiling, endeavored, obstinate, succession

Today: 1) Quiz on Subjects/Verbs

2) Note-taking: Dramatic Irony: When we know something someone in the story doesn't know.  Dramatic irony is used to create suspense.

First-Person Narrator: Someone who is a character in the story and tells what happens from his/her point of view.  WARNING: First-Person narrators can be unreliable!  (You can't believe everything they tell you.)

3) Class will read "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Exit Slip: Describe the situational irony in the ending of "The Tell-Tale Heart."  Describe the dramatic irony in "The Tell-Tale Heart."  How can the story's narrator be viewed as unreliable?  If the story were  told by an omniscient narrator, what information might we learn about the narrator?

Homework: Vocabulary Quiz #3 on Monday, March 10!!!

Friday, February 28

Objective: Students will be able to compare/contrast two stories in order to evaluate the similarities in theme.  Students will be able to identify subjects, verbs, and prepositional phrases in sentences in order to determine how they function together.

Do-Now: FREE WRITE (Write 5-7 sentences about anything you want)

Today: 1) Go over Subject/Verb Test 2 and Test 4

2) Pd. 1/2: Finish outline for compare/contrast essay for "The Sniper" and "Cranes."  Begin writing rough draft.

Pd. 4/5: Begin writing rough draft of compare/contrast essay for "The Sniper" and "Cranes."

3) Make-Up Work

Homework: Quiz on Subjects and Verbs on MONDAY!!!

Thursday, February 27

Objective: Students will be able to compare and contrast two stories in order to evaluate the similarities in theme.

Do-Now: What similarities did you notice between the plot, background, and characters of “The Sniper” and “Cranes?”  How were their themes similar?  Explain.

Today: 1) Subjects and Verbs Practice 3 and Test 1

2) Introduce the Compare/Contrast Essay

3) Complete an outline for a Compare/Contrast Essay on "The Sniper" and "Cranes"

Exit Slip: Describe the purpose of composing a compare-contrast essay and how it can help you analyze literature.

Homework: Practice Quiz for Subjects/Verbs: Test 2 and Test 4

Wednesday, February 26

Objective: Students will be able to analyze the use of flashback in a story in order to determine how it reveals the main character's motivation.  Students will be able to identify subjects, verbs, and prepositional phrases in sentences in order to determine how they function together.

Do-Now: You have TEN minutes to study for your Vocabulary Quiz.

Today: 1) Vocabulary Quiz #2 (You have FIFTEEN minutes to complete the quiz)

2) Go over Mega Exit Slip from Tuesday

3) Note-taking: Flashback: a scene that interrupts the present action in a story to show something that happened at an earlier time.  Flashbacks are used to give the reader more insight/information into the story's characters.

Review: Character Motivation = why a character does what he/she does.

Internal Conflict = a problem a character has within himself (man vs. self)

4) In groups, read "Cranes" on pp. 222-227.  Begin by reading the "Background" section on pg. 221.  As you read, answer the Character Motivation questions #1-5 that appear throughout the story.  Record your answers on the worksheet.  After reading, complete the "Thinking Critically" questions on your worksheet.

Homework: Finish "Thinking Critically" questions from "Cranes."

Tuesday, February 25

Objective: Students will be able to analyze the situational irony in a story to determine if it’s being used effectively.  Students will be able to identify subjects, verbs, and prepositional phrases in sentences in order to determine how they function together.

Do-Now: Vocabulary Practice Quiz #2

Today: 1) Go over Practice Quiz

2) Subjects and Verbs: Practice #2

3) Note-taking: Theme: the main message of a story (what the author wants the reader to learn by reading the story)

Third-Person Narrator: someone who knows something/everything about the characters in the story, but DOES NOT know their thoughts.


Review: situational irony and conflict (man vs. man, man vs.self, mas vs. nature, man vs. machine)

Conflict can be divided into TWO categories: Internal and External.  Man vs. Self conflicts are INTERNAL, and the rest are all EXTERNAL.

4) In groups, read "The Sniper" pp. 211-215 (Make sure to read the Background on pg. 211)

Exit Slip: Mega Exit Slip Handout

Homework: Vocabulary Quiz #2 TOMORROW!!!