On this page REGULAR ENG. III students will find directions and page numbers for all daily work and homework. HONORS STUDENTS find your assignments
highlighted in BLUE.
Mon. 1/29: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. Oral presentations on a famous person from Unit 5. Turn in Works Cited page and biography or powerpoint.
Tues., 1/30: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. Oral presentations on a famous person from Unit 5. Turn in Works Cited page and biography or powerpoint.
Wed., 1/31: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. The students will note the characteristics of naturalism from a teacher-facilitated overview that includes the following:
- focus on the lives of ordinary people in realistic situations
- contrast with romantic view of nature as a maternal and healing force
- view of nature and the universe as cold indifferent forces
- individuals as victims of forces they could not control
- Begin watching the film version of London’s story: “To Build a Fire” NOTE: STUDENTS WHO ARE ABSENT SHOULD READ THE STORY IN THEIR BOOKS,
Powerpoint notes on naturalism and realism; Literature books, pp. 498-509
- Homework: Complete l Journal: Discuss three facts mentioned in the story that make it seem realistic and true. (You may use your textbook for this assignment).
Thurs., 2/1: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby.
Complete the film version of the story, supplementing with the story in the book for follow up and notes.
. Then in small groups, students should identify and analyze the important literary elements:
a. setting, b. conflict, c. foreshadowing .
Then students skim and scan the story to identify examples of
d. naturalism e. realism
Using their notes, students participate in a whole class discussion of each concept. Homework: Students rewrite the incident as a modern-day journalist might record it,( a newspaper article). SEE POWERPOINT DIRECTIONS
Fri. 2/2: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. If you have not already done so, finish your journalistic version of the story. Using ONE STRAY (a Kagan classroom structure) students share their journalistic versions of the story with a neighboring team. Turn in journalistic account for 50 pts.
Mon. 2/5: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. Teacher returns papers. Students file finished work.
read pp. 546-548. Students set up a note page on Edgar Lee Masters. Students Review the meaning of the term eulogy and monologue, note the format and purpose of Masters’ work, Spoon River Anthology, including the following components:
- characters from the same fictional town
- characters are dead, so they have nothing to lose in being honest
- characters discuss relationships in their epitaphs
- poems meant to create realistic picture of small Midwestern town just before turn of the century
Students read poems in the book and point out the characteristics noted above.
Handout of individual poems (see DOCUMENTS LIBRARY on this website for all the poems.
Homework: Read ONE POEM (assigned by the teacher) and figure out what kind of person your poem is about.
Tues., 2/6: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. Following yesterday’s work on SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, in a whole-class setting, each student should complete for the one poem which he was assigned to analyze, a graphic organizer that outlines the characteristics of the speaker, the focus of the speaker’s life, the truth about how the character died, and the student’s personal view of the character. (See powerpoint on Masters for an example of the organizer.
Homework: Complete your organizer for your assigned poem. Using your organizer, write a paragraph describing your resident of Spoon River.
Wed. 2/7: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. Kate Chopin and THE STORY OF AN HOUR, p. 523
Instruction: Students will read about Kate Chopin, noting and reviewing research about women’s rights during this period. Students will then follow the reading, using the video of the story. If time permits, students see one story version on the video. Homework: Students write down at least 3 problems which they see Mrs. Mallard had with her marriage.
Thurs., 2/8: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby.
Kate Chopin and THE STORY OF AN HOUR, p. 523
Instruction: Create a simple organizer like the one you did for Spoon River Anthology. Include:
Mrs. Mallard’s characteristics, two limitations which her marriage placed on her, how she felt about her limiting marriage, how her life reflected the life of most women during this period
Fri., 2/9: HONORS: Read from The Great Gatsby. WRITING PROMPT:
Using what you have learned about the eulogies in Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, write a eulogy or short poem for Mrs. Mallard in Kate Chopin’s story. Include comments, concepts .or lines which you infer from
your organizer notes. 50 pts.
Homework: If you do not turn in the assignment at the end of the period, you must submit the final draft on Monday., Tues., if typed.
