Planning your week:
Mon. 10/18 - Read Chapter 4 “The Moon Lady” by class time Tues. 10/19 - Read your family’s Part 2 and 3 chapters by class time Wednes. 10/20 - Read your family’s Part 4 chapter by class time Thurs. 10/21 and Fri. 10/22 - Family Chapter presentations Fri. 10/22 - Magic Lens Level 2 Quiz Upcoming Due Dates: Wednes. 10/27 and Thurs. 10/28 - Socratic Seminar Thurs. 10/28 - Assignments A and B due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. Mon. Nov. 1 - Assignment D due for peer review Thurs. Nov. 4 - Final draft of Assignment D due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. Links to This Week’s Resources: The Joy Luck Club Unit Packet Family Chapter Presentations Note Sheet (linked here) Monday, October 18 - Early Release Learning Goal(s): Consider the same event told from different mediums and explore the relationship between author's choices and audience. Consider global perspectives on a social issue; consider how an author creates character and cultural perspective. Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment. ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. Agenda: Opener
Tuesday, October 19 Learning Goal(s): Complete an in-depth analysis of a chapter in The Joy Luck Club. Collaborate with peers to enrich your interpretation of the author’s purpose. Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and closely analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Agenda: Opener
Wednesday, October 20 Learning Goal(s): Complete an in-depth analysis of a chapter in The Joy Luck Club. Collaborate with peers to enrich your interpretation of the author’s purpose. Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and closely analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Agenda: Opener
Thursday, October 21 Learning Goal(s): Students complete the jigsaw activity of The Joy Luck Club by presenting their analyses of assigned families. Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. a. Come to discussions prepared having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas. Agenda: Opener
Friday, October 22 Learning Goal(s): Students complete the jigsaw activity of The Joy Luck Club by presenting their analyses of assigned families. Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. a. Come to discussions prepared having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas. Agenda: Opener
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