COURSE: English 12A
UNIT OF STUDY: Unit 5 – Fiction revealing personal and social issues
Date
3/23 (A) /
3/24 (B)
3/25 (A) /
3/28 (B)
3/29 (A) /
3/30 (B)
3/31 (A) /
4/1 (B)
4/5 (A) /
4/6 (B)
4/7 (A) /
4/8 (B)
Bellringer and agenda
1. BR: How is a memoir different from
fiction? How can fiction still be
personal?
2. Present book trailers for memoirs
3. Final memoir timed write
4. Metamorphosis intro notes (with
vocabulary from study guide)
1. BR: What is shocking about Grgor
Samsa at the beginning of The
Metamorphosis? How do you think
his condition could be considered
symbolic?
2. Metamorphosis vocabulary notecards
3. Metamorphosis work in groups – Is
Gregor insane?
4. Continue Metamorphosis reading
1. BR: How has Gregor become a
burden to his family?
2. Metamorphosis vocabulary bingo
3. Metamorphosis work in groups –
discussion questions and
internal/external characteristics chart
4. Continue Metamorphosis reading
1. BR: Review and discuss questions on
p. 1148
2. Metamorphosis open-book quiz and
vocabulary quiz
3. Middle Ages intro with videos
4. Begin Inferno
1. BR: Describe Dante’s problem at the
beginning of The Inferno.
2. Inferno vocabulary
3. Continue Inferno reading
4. Introduce Inferno project
5. Begin work on Inferno project
1. BR: Share 5-10 lines of Canto 1 from
project with a partner
2. Canto presentations
3. Presentation skills review
4. Inferno review and reading
5. Work on Inferno projects
Homework
Objectives
Metamorphosis
Part I and study
questions
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Use vocabulary
correctly in
context
Metamorphosis
Part II and study
questions
Finish vocabulary
notecards
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Use vocabulary
correctly in
context
Metamorphosis
Part III and study
questions
Review
vocabulary for
quiz
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Use vocabulary
correctly in
context
Inferno – Canto 1
Questions 1-3 on
p. 741
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Use vocabulary
correctly in
context
Inferno – Cantos
2-3
Questions 1-3 on
p. 747
Canto 1 of project
/ Prepare to
present 5-10 lines
Finish reading
Inferno
Questions 1-5 on
p. 759
Inferno worksheet
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Write creative
response to
personal events
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Write creative
response to
personal events
4/11 (A) /
4/12 (B)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
4/13 (A) /
4/14 (B)
1. BR: Share 5-10 lines of project with a Finish Inferno
partner
project / Prepare to
2. Canto presentations
present 5-10 lines
3. Inferno quiz
4. Work on Inferno projects
4/15 (A) /
4/25 (B)
1. BR: Submit Inferno projects
2. Read “Perceval” and answer
questions
3. Begin “Lay of the Werewolf”
1. BR: Review for Middle Ages quiz
2. Middle Ages quiz
3. Intro to modern fiction with social
commentary: Harrison Bergeron
4. Reading and analysis assignment:
“Harrison Bergeron”
“Werewolf”
questions
Middle ages
review packet
Finish “Harrison
Bergeron”
assignment
1. BR: “Harrison Bergeron” review
questions
2. “Harrison Bergeron” video with
comparative notes
3. Introduce presentation assignment
4. Work on presentation
Presentation
4/26 (A) /
4/27 (B)
4/28 (A) /
4/29 (B)
5/2 (A) /
5/3 (B)
5/4 (A) /
5/5 (B)
5/6 (A) /
5/9 (B)
5/10 (A) /
5/11 (B)
BR: Review Inferno
Inferno worksheet
Presentation skills review
Canto presentations
Work on Inferno projects
1. BR: What is a sonnet?
2. Sonnet review/introduction and
analysis
3. Work on presentations
1. BR: Sonnet analysis practice
2. Sonnets
3. Work on presentations
1. BR: Review for quiz
2. Sonnet quiz
3. Work on presentations
SENIOR PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Cantos 2-3 of
project / Prepare to
present 5-10 lines
Presentation
Sonnet analysis
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Write creative
response to
personal events
-Practice skills
for formal
presentation
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Write creative
response to
personal events
-Practice skills
for formal
presentation
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Understand
social and
historical
context for
fiction
-Read and
analyze fiction
-Understand
social and
historical
context for
fiction
-Read and
analyze poetry
Presentation
Sonnet analysis –
review for quiz
Presentations
-Read and
analyze poetry
Presentations
-Formally
present
-Read and
analyze poetry
5/12 (A) /
5/13 (B)
SENIOR PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Presentations
5/16 (A) /
5/17 (B)
SENIOR PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Presentations
5/18 (A) /
5/19 (B)
SENIOR PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Presentations
5/20 (A) /
5/23 (B)
SENIOR PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Presentations
5/24 (A) /
5/25 (B)
SENIOR PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Presentations
individual,
year-long
learning
experience
-Formally
present
individual,
year-long
learning
experience
-Formally
present
individual,
year-long
learning
experience
-Formally
present
individual,
year-long
learning
experience
-Formally
present
individual,
year-long
learning
experience
-Formally
present
individual,
year-long
learning
experience