The Great Gatsby 1.3 GREEN ONLY

The Great Gatsby 1.3

Do now: What does it mean to be great?  Make a prediction: why is Gatsby so Great?

Objectives:

• understand the expectations of the unit
• practice close reading skills by listening to chapter 1

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. Continue discussion of Vote with your Feet
3. Table groups: webhunt

4. Download the "Great Gatsby Survival Guide" to notability. Define vocab words for week #1 (in survival guide)

5. Review essential questions for unit/Cover Close Reading

6. Listen to chapter 1

7. Summarizer

HW: Finish reading chapter 1. Make a list of all the colors mentioned in this chapter.

The Great Gatsby 1.2

Do now: Describe one piece of advice that your parents or older members of your family have given you during your life. What is it? How have you followed it? Do you think it's good advice?

Objectives:

• voice their opinion on the essential questions of the unit
• use technology to research historical context of the novel

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Vote with your feet!

3. Webhunt
4. Download "The Great Gatsby Survival Guide" to notability

5. Vocab Week #1 (in survival guide)

HW: Finish webhunt and define week one vocab words (in survival guide)

Edgar Allan Poe 3.1

Do now: Review your brainstorming sheet.  Check to make sure you have included all components of the brainstorming sheet in your story.

Objectives:

• work effectively in groups to edit and revise a draft of the creative writing story

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Group work: last day to work on the story:
1. edit for clarity
2. edit for cohesion of writing style
3. identify TWO Poe literary devices
4. create a jazzy title
3. Summarizer

HW: Final draft of story is due TOMORROW (PURPLE- TUESDAY, GREEN- WEDNESDAY)

Edgar Allan Poe 2.4

Do now: What is a one-sentence synopsis of your story?

Objectives:

• use class time effectively 
• work effectively as a group to draft a short story
• identify Poe's literary techniques and include them in a short story

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Review assignment/task/group 

3. Group work: 

           1) brainstorming sheet, 

           2) draft story, 

           3) edit story

4. Summarizer

HW: Draft of full story due for editing PURPLE: MONDAY, GREEN: TUESDAY

Edgar Allan Poe 2.3

Do Now:  It has been 50 years since the narrator buried Fortunato alive. Why might the narrator be telling his story now?

Objectives:

• identify the use of suspense, imagery, and unreliable narration in Poe's story
• brainstorm topics for creative writing

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Table groups:
Discussion: "The Cask of Amontillado" uses a first-person narrator (a narrator      that is a character in the story), and, sometimes, first-person narrators can be unreliable.

• How reliable or unreliable do you regard the narrator?

• Are there any ways that the narrator might be manipulating the truth?
• How would you describe the narrator's attitude toward himself and his actions?

3) Introduce the Poe short story assignment

4) Brainstorm topics/complete graphic organizer

5) If time, begin drafting

5) Summarizer:

HW: Complete graphic organizer

Edgar Allan Poe 2.2- PURPLE

Edgar Allan Poe 2.2- PURPLE

Do now: take out your “Pit and the Pendulum” study guide questions

Objectives:

• identify major plot points of “The Pit and the Pendulum”
• analyze which literary methods Poe uses to build suspense
• identify Poe’s meaning about human psychology

Agenda:

1. do now
2. In table groups: review the study guide questions
3. In table groups: discuss “how does Poe build suspense in the story?” (locate textual evidence to support and “What is the most basic human fear?”
4. In table groups: create an assertion statement connecting a literary device to a meaning about human psychology
5. Upload the study guide questions to Google Drive Student Folder (as a PDF)
6. Silently read “The Cask of Amontillado”
7. Review the Poe Creative short story assignment
8. Summarizer

HW: Finish reading “The Cask of Amontillado”

Edgar Allan Poe 2.1- GREEN

Do Now: Which of the various tortures is most horrifying- darkness, rats, falling down well, pendulum? Explain your reasoning.

Objectives:

• identify elements of suspense
• analyze Poe's use of human psychology to produce horror

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) In Pairs: complete study guide questions

3) Review answers

4) In table groups: complete an assertion statement connecting a method to a meaning about human psychology

4) Summarizer: What is the most basic human fear? Explain

HW: Read "Cask of Amontillado" for Thursday