Day &&Date:
Day
Date:
Monday,
Monday, August
August 31,
31, 2015
2015
Standard:
• Reading complex imaginative literature (fiction, drama, and poetry) appropriate for college-level study1
Essential Question:
What is the difference between Classicism and Romanticism?
Students will learn the differences of Classicism vs. Romanticism
Learning Goal:
Activating Strategy:
Lesson Opener:
Teaching Strategies:
Procedures/Technology/
1. Class kickoff.
2. Discussion of Bradstreet Test (if needed)
1. Brief lecture over Classicism vs. Romanticism
2. TPS- In partners, students will discuss movies and/or books that display signs of Classicism vs. Romanticism
Performance Tasks:
Summarizing Strategy: Closing
Activity:
Airplay pic collages
If time, introduce William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”
Assessment/Evaluation:
Pic Collages over Classicism vs. Romanticism
Materials Needed:
OLC, iPad, Pic collage, notes over Classicism vs. Romanticism
Tuesday, September 1st.
Standard:
• Reading
complex imaginative literature (fiction, drama, and poetry) appropriate for college-level study1
Essential Question:
Learning Goal:
What Romantic traits are found in poetry?
Students will be able to identify literary elements as well as Romantic elements in “Thanatopsis”
Activating Strategy:
Lesson Opener:
3. Class kickoff.
4. Direct instruction- brief notes over William Cullen Bryant
Teaching Strategies:
Procedures/Technology/
Performance Tasks:
3. Jigsaw- Group explication of poem “Thanatopsis” Students will be assigned various parts of the poem to
explicate in small groups. Then, students will come together and explain their part.
Summarizing Strategy:
Closing Activity:
Explication questions over “Thanatopsis”
Assessment/Evaluation:
Jigsaw activity and questions
Materials Needed:
OLC, iPad, “Thanatopsis” questions, TPCASTT model for explication
Wednesday, September 2nd
Standard:
• Reading complex imaginative literature (fiction, drama, and poetry) appropriate for college-level study1
Essential Question:
Learning Goal:
What Romantic traits are found in poetry?
Students will be able to identify literary elements as well as Romantic elements in “The Raven”
Activating Strategy:
Lesson Opener:
5. Class kickoff.
6. Direct instruction- brief notes over Edgar Allan Poe
Teaching Strategies:
Procedures/Technology/
Performance Tasks:
4. Whole group- explication of “The Raven”
Summarizing Strategy:
Closing Activity:
Explication questions over “The Raven”
“The Simpsons” video of “The Raven” to clarify explication
Assessment/Evaluation:
Questions over “The Raven”
Materials Needed:
OLC, iPad, “The Raven” questions, TPCASTT model for explication; “The Simpsons: The Raven”
Thursday, September 3rd.
Standard:
• Reading
complex imaginative literature (fiction, drama, and poetry) appropriate for college-level study1
Essential Question:
Learning Goal:
What are the Romantic traits found in short stories?
Students will be able to identify literary elements as well as Romantic elements in “Hop Frog”
Activating Strategy:
Lesson Opener:
7. Class kickoff
8. TPS- What is the greatest revenge you’ve ever seen or practiced?
9.
Teaching Strategies:
Procedures/Technology/
Performance Tasks:
5. Whole group- read and discuss “Hop Frog”
Summarizing Strategy:
Closing Activity:
Have students write short story questions for exam; this is practice for them to evaluate materials and use literary
elements to analyze a text.
Assessment/Evaluation:
Students will turn in test questions
Materials Needed:
OLC, iPad, test questions, “Hop Frog”
Thursday, September 3rd.
Standard:
• Reading complex imaginative literature (fiction, drama, and poetry) appropriate for college-level study1
Essential Question:
Learning Goal:
How can I analyze complex literature like Huckleberry Finn?
Students will read and analyze Huckleberry Finn.
Activating Strategy:
Lesson Opener:
10. Class kickoff
11. Reminder that Huck Finn does NOT have Romantic Traits
Teaching Strategies:
Procedures/Technology/
Performance Tasks:
6. Individually- students will work on assigned Huck Finn project
Summarizing Strategy:
Closing Activity:
Whole group discussion- questions, concerns, etc.
Assessment/Evaluation:
Students will be graded on Huck Finn project with a rubric.
Materials Needed:
OLC, iPad, copies of Huck Finn