Objective: The students will discuss two of the best chapters of Monte Cristo.
1. First Quarter Test 100 points
2. Monte Cristo Chapters 21-22 test.
3. Monte Cristo Soundtrack Project: How is it coming along?
4. Read Chapter 23 and complete study guide questions.
Objective: The students will know the three types of point of view and be able to identify each type used in literature.
1. WP # 16
2. Discuss Monte Cristo Timeline up to Chapter 20.
3. Unit 3 Notes on Point of View and Voice
4. Monte Cristo Chapters 21 and 22 (XXI and XXII) "The Pont du Gard Inn" and "Caderousse's Story."
5. Study Guide Questions. Quiz tomorrow. 100 points
WP:
When authors write an essay where they try to make a convincing argument they will use one or more of three appeals to the reader. These appeals are called ethos pathos and logos. Ethos is where the author creates credibility. Pathos is where they will appeal to the readers emotions. And logos is where they use logic. Good writers will try to use all three in their argument.
Objective: The students will complete their character sketch. Writing Standards 1.4 and 1.7.
Learning Target: Students will be able to create a character.
1. Turn in MC Chapters 11-20 Study Guide
2. Color Code Direct to Indirect using three different colored highlighters. Make a key for me.
Blue: Physical Description Yellow: TWA of Character Pink: TWA of Other Character
Note: If you only have one sentence of one of the methods, it will not get the full credit.
3. Get out Monte Cristo: In a small group, analyze how Dantes escape is a metaphor/symbol of Baptism.
4. Take the night off of reading MC.
Objective: The students will complete their character sketch. Writing Standards 1.4 and 1.7. Learning Target: Students will be able to create a character 6.9. and 321.
1. MC Chapters 18-19 Quiz (worth 25 points)
2. Complete "Direct to Indirect" and print it to be turned in tomorrow.
3. Read Chapter 20 and complete the study guide.
Objective: The students will create a character using indirect characterization.
1. WP #15
2. Note on AI: If I catch you using AI, I will fail you. Period. No more said. You use NO Brain when you have AI do all the thinking for you. I will also talk to your counselor and have you transferred to a regular literature class since Honors is not right for you.
3. Discuss Chapter 17: Dantes is FREE!
4. Direct to Indirect Creative Writing. Open doc in GC, set up the doc in MLA format. Create your character sketch.
5. Read Chapter 18-19 (8 pages). 25 point quiz tomorrow.
Objective: The students will complete more analysis of "Two Kinds."
1. WP # ______
2. MC Chapter 16 Quiz
3. Discuss Chapter 16 Study Guide Questions
4. "Two Kinds" handout II and chart completion.
5. Read MC Chapter 17 (XVII) "The Isle of Tiboulen."
Objective: The students will finish the short story.
1. Get a lit book.
2. WP # ____
3. Finish story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NngmzUv_w54
4. Discuss MC Chapter 15 "The Third Attack."
5. Update Timeline
6. Read Chapter 16 (XVI) "The Cemetary of the Chateau D'if."
CST Activity: “Two Kinds”
In “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 listen to half of our story of the week. That's our target.
Note: Today I am upstairs learning how to teach. Be great for the sub. If you need anything, send an email. I can come downstairs and take care of it.
1. Get the green lit book from the back shelves.
2. Turn to page 99.
3. Read and listen to the first half of the story. Remember, we are focusing on characters and how the author presents them through indirect characterization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEfJSYWR8qM
4. Finish vocabulary if not done.
5. Monte Cristo: Read Chapter 15 (XV) "The Third Attack"
Objective: The students will know important vocabulary for tomorrow's short story. That's our target.
Note: Tomorrow I have to be out all day being trained on how to use AI in the classroom, which I will never use. Be great for the sub. I have no idea who it will be, but I know that you all will be great!
1. MC Chapter 13 Quiz.
2. Add to your timeline the new events.
3. "Two Kinds" vocab.
4. Read Chapter 14 (XIV) "The Treasure"
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 finish all parts of Everyday Use.
1. WP #12
2. Discuss "Everyday Use" questions
3. Finish Chart and staple to questions. Turn in.
4. Discuss MC Chapter 12. Add Character to Chart and update Timeline.
5. Monte Cristo Chapter 13 (XIII) "The Italian Scholar"
Objective: The students will complete a characterization chart.
Happy Friday to you all... not me though.
Get a lit book from the back.
1. WP Number 11. Get a new sheet of paper and put the proper heading on it.
2. MC Quiz 11-12
3. Characterization Chart for "Everyday Use."
No Homework at all this weekend unless you need to catch up in MC.
CAT6 Activity
Everyday Use
An inference is an intelligent guess based on evidence in a story and on what you already know. When making inferences about characters’ readers base many guesses on what characters say and do. In the short story Everyday Use readers find out what type of person Maggie is through the things that she has done and the things that she says.
Objective: The students will finish the short story and complete some analysis questions.
1. Turn in vocabulary.
2. Get the green lit book.
3. Finish reading the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVW7mtjWmKA&t=245s
4. "Everyday Use" Questions Handout
5. MC Reading: Chapters 11-12 (X-XII) It's only 10 pages.
Objective: The students will read half of the next short story.
1. Get the green lit book from the back.
2. No quiz today. Just discuss and fill in character chart and timeline.
3. Turn in MC Study Guide 1-10
4. Go over vocabulary for our story. We will turn it in tomorrow.
5. Chapter 2 Notes continued: Characterization
6. Read 1/2 of "Everyday Use."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVW7mtjWmKA&t=245s
7. No MC Reading tonight.
Objective: The students will discuss Characters and Characterization.
1. MC Quiz 6-7. Use your old quiz paper, just skip a line.
2. Discuss Chapters 6-7 and study guide.
3. Chapter 2 Notes: Character and Characterization
4. Read MC 8-10 (9 pages)
5. Complete the Study Guide. It's due tomorrow.
Objective: The students will discuss their Monte Cristo Project.
1. WP #10 Turn in Packet 1-10
2. Keep vocabulary from yesterday until we do that story next week.
3. Discuss MC Chapters 4-5
4. Discuss Monte Cristo Soundtrack Project
5. Read Monte Cristo Chapters 6-7 (13 pages)
Have a great weekend.
WP: Monte Cristo Chapters 1-5
France during the 1800’s was divided politically with two different partys fighting for control. There were those that supported the king called royalists, and there were those that supported Napoleon called the bonapartists. If Edmond Dantes was found to have a letter on him from Napoleon, he would be considered a traitor and put in prison. That starts the entire conflict in “The Count of Monte Cristo.”Objective: The students will complete a vocab assignment.
Sorry about another vocab so soon, but this was supposed to be for next week's stories, but I have to be out today, so I wanted to give you something that's not just busy-work.
1. "Everyday Use" vocabulary. You know what you have to do. Yes... you have to do sentences.
1. Sidle (v)
2. Furtive (adj.)
3. Doctrines (n)
4. Cowering (v)
5. Rifling (v)
6. Oppress (v)
7. Doleful (adj.)
8. Ignominiously (adv.) ig no min ee ous ly
9. Contempt (n)
10. Irreverent (adj. )
Objective: The students will discuss the first three chapters of Monte Cristo.
Get out your MC Book and your study guide questions. And two sheets of paper.
1. MC Quiz 1-3
2. Discuss Chapters and Study Guide Questions.
3. MC Timeline and Character Chart.
4. Read MC Chapters 4-5 (10 pages)
Objective: The students will read the first three chapters of Monte Cristo.
1. Go over vocab words and turn in.
2. Monte Cristo Intro Notes: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LAGBfuICNY2lgBjGswHsVp7UONKSbrKtUlb23OpmL9w/edit?usp=sharing
3. Elba Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gG_mSduwW0&t=19s
4. Monte CRisto 1-10 Study Guide: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3L_VvieQoSoaHhRTjcxMjI0UjA/edit?resourcekey=0-rFpshMYn51zHaRHVlXQioA
5. Read Chapters 1-3. Quiz tomorrow.
Objective: The students will know important words for the first part of Monte Cristo.
Note: Tomorrow I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled. I hate being out of school and having to miss, so please be great for the sub. Be ON TIME. Be respectful and do the work. If the sub says no phones, then do what he/she says. If your name is left, you will get an automatic ZERO on the assignment.
Put your MC Book on your desk for 10 points.
1. WP #9
2. Monte Cristo Vocab #1
Vocab Words
Objective: The students will write an intro paragraph using the inverted triangle format.
1. WP Number 8
2. Write an Inverted Triangle Format Intro
3. Turn in Long Way Home (Questions, Story, Writing)
4. Hand back all graded work from folders. You now have ONE WEEK FROM TODAY to rewrite your essay.
5. Bring Monte Cristo tomorrow.
WP Activity
“Long Way Home”
Like Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” Charles Waugh writes of what he thinks the future will be like in his story titled Long Way Home. The story has a father thinking, about the day that his son left his home. Jack the son went to become a space explorer. Most fathers would be happy about this profession for there son, but this decision means that he will never see his son again.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
“The Pedestrian” versus “Long Way Home” Essay
Writing Situation: Many authors of science fiction present ideas of what they think the future will be like in their literature. Some of them present a society where its citizens have no control of their everyday lives, while others present a society where the citizens have free will and choice.
Writing Directions: Using “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury and “Long Way Home” by Charles Waugh, explain both authors’ idea of what they feel the future may hold for society. Then, tell which story presents the most likely to happen scenario based upon the world today.
