Objective: The students will read a short story and analyze its voice and POV.
Monte Cristo Chapter 23 discuss.
1. Chapter 3 Notes on POV and Voice.
2. Close read The Secret Lion
3. Monte Cristo Chapters 24-25. That's 15 pages so don't wait til the last minute. Read it when you have time in other classes and at lunch.
Objective: The students will work on some Monte Cristo.
1. MC Quiz Chapters 21-22
2. Pass back all work in the graded folder. I want it empty!
3. Read MC 23 and complete study guide questions for the chapters read.
Have a great weekend!
Objective: The students will know important vocabulary for next week's stories.
Easy, nice vocabulary day! :)
1. "The Secret Lion" Vocab. Due tomorrow.
2. Read Monte Cristo Chapters 21-22. A mysterious white guy (dressed as an Abbe) visits Caderousse at his Inn. Great chapters!!
3. Study Guide Questions. Quiz tomorrow.
Objective: The students will complete their character sketch.
Turn in MC Study Guide 11-20.
1. Finish writing your character sketch. Make sure that you have each type of indirect characterization in it.
2. Print it out.
3. Use three different colored highlighters to highlight the three types and label on your paper. Remember, if you only have two, then the best grade that you can get is a 66%.
Objective: The students will do a little bit of creative writing.
Discuss Chapters 18-19
1. WP Number _____
2. Go over Direct and Indirect Characterization
3. Creative Writing: Direct to Indirect. On your computer. Open the doc in GC and set up document in proper MLA format. Create a character.
4. Read Chapter 20
Objective: The students will analyze one of the main metaphors/symbols in the novel.
1. MC Quiz Chapters 16-17
2. The Baptism Metaphor Group Work
3. Read MC 18-19: The Isle of Monte Cristo and the Treaure
Objective: The students will complete the analysis of the short story's characters.
1. MC Quiz Chapter 15
2. Discuss Chapter and add to Timeline
3. Complete yesterday's Two Kinds handouts (due Monday)
4. Read Monte Cristo Chapters 16-17 (The Escape!)
5. Pass back all graded work in folder at back of class.
Objective: The students will complete reading of the short story.
1. Get lit books.
2. WP #13
3. Finish story.
4. Read Monte Cristo Chapter 15 (XV) "The Third Attack" I am getting a bit mad at people who are not reading daily! You signed up for this class. So act like an honors student and read 10 pages!
Objective: The students will read 1/2 of the next story.
1. Get the lit books.
2. Monte Cristo Quiz Chapter 13
3. WP Number 12
4. Read 15 minutes of "Two Kinds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-SqvlrnJCk
5. Monte Cristo Chapter 14.
CST Activity: “Two Kinds”
In the story “Two Kinds” a conflict arises in a chinese American family when a strong-willed mother is bent on seeing her daughter become a prodigy. She simply wants to be herself. As the mother pushes the child the young girl becomes de-moralized and angry after several failures. This is an example of an External, Man Versus Man conflict.
Objective: The students will discuss the new character in Monte Cristo and make a timeline.
1. Monte Cristo Quiz 11-12 for Period 5.
2. Discuss Chapter and make Timeline. Add new character to the character page.
3. Two Kinds vocab assignment.
4. Read Chapter 13 of MC.
Two Kinds Vocabulary
1. mesmerizing
2. prodigy
3. betrayal
4. stricken
5. dawdled
6. lamented
7. listlessly
8. nonchalantly
9. fiasco
10. discordant
Denotations on page 98: Follow directions on the exercise sheet.
Objective: The students will learn of their new project.
1. WP #11
2. Monte Cristo Soundtrack Group Project
3. Finish and hand in both papers from "Everyday Use."
4. Read MC 11-12 and complete Study Guide Questions.
WP Number 11: Everyday Use
Alice Walker is an American Novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the 1st African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. She is a modern-day feminist, and her specific brand of feminism includes advocacy of women of color. In 1983, Alice coined the term womanist to mean "a black feminist or feminist of color”.
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