Unit Two
Assumption: Your Government Works for You
(Daily instructions are located in the section below and instructional materials are found beneath them.)
Focus Task: Evaluate the degree to which government functions as it should -protecting and providing for its citizens- and examine what kind of abuses it might be committing.
Major Writing: Position paper regarding government abuse
Anchor Text: 1984 by George Orwell
Anchor Documentary:
Day 89 (1/25/2017)
Final Exams for Periods 2,4,5b,6
Day 88 (1/24/2017)
Final Exams 1,3,5a,7)
Day 87 (1/23/2017)
Target: To review and demonstrate and understanding of how ethos, pathos, and logos may be achieved in writing
Target: To connect ideas in literature and film to our current world view
Launch: Pick up a quarter sheet and answer the following:
1) What is ethos? How is it achieved in writing?
2) What is pathos? How is it achieved in writing?
3) What is logos? How is it achieved in writing?
Watch: Finish the film V cor Vendetta.
Write: Use the second side of the quarter sheet to record a meaningful quote from the film that you believe his a implications for our current society to add to our wall of ideas.
Day 86 (1/20/2017)
V for Vendetta Part 3
Day 85 (1/19/2017)
V for Vendetta Part 2
Day 84 (1/18/2017)
Distribute Note sheets for V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta Part 1
Exit Slip:
Day 83 (1/17/2017)
Target: To read, comprehend, and connect current events, texts, and film
Target: To support a claim through evidence and reasoning
Activity:
- Golden Sentence: Read an excerpt from Jefferson's letter and identify meaningful phrases and words; share them
- Discuss Jefferson Questions: When is it right to rebel?
- Introduce Guy Fawkes
- Present purpose of watching V for Vendetta
Day 82 (1/16/2017)
Target: To comprehend and evaluate a non-fiction test
Target: To support a claim with evidence and reasoning
Target: To understand how fake news impacts the media and the citizens
Launch: Pick up a half sheet and "Beyond Fake News." Watch Donald Trump accuse a CNN reporter of being part of fake news, then determine how big the problem of fake news is and place your name in the proper place on the discussion spectrum. On the front side of the half sheet, write a response about why you placed your name where you did. (5 minutes). Share out responses.
Read: "Beyond Fake News" and text-talk the article. Make sure you have 10 quality comments. On the front side of the half sheet, summarize each of the problem areas in a single sentence. (20 minutes)
Activity: Have students number off 1-4. Send all the ones to one area of the class room where they will discuss issue #1 and share their summaries. The other groups will do the same. (5 minutes). When time is up, student groups will share out a summary of the issue for the class.
Exit slip: Students should answer one of the following on the back of the half sheet, expressing their opinion, but also providing reasoning/evidence to support their claim:
A. Are Facebook and Twitter more helpful or hurtful to the spreading of accurate news?
B. How responsible is the media for the rise of Donald Trump?
C. What should the media learn from the experiences of 2016?
D. What should the American public learn from this past presidential election?
Day 81 (1/13/2017) HALF DAY: Students are to check the grade book for any missing assignments
Day 80 (1/12/2017)
Target: To read, comprehend, make inferences from, and connect to a literary text.
Target: To provide a reasoned response to another's idea
Activity: Using yesterday's text (Chapter 8) - Step 1: on the side wall, write one of your complete, thoughtful, and quality comments on the class copy of Chapter 8. Put your name and hour after it. After everyone has completed step 1, move on to step 2: Thoughtfully respond to someone else's entry on the class copy, again put your name and hour after the response.
Activity: While you are waiting your turn on the side wall, read Chapter 9 and text-talk (10 quality annotations minimum) - use your metacognitve sentence starters of necessary.
Day 79 (1/11/2017)
Target: To read, comprehend, and make inferences from the text
Launch: On the half sheet: Winston believes "hope lies in the Proles." Explain why he thinks this. If you had to pin America's hope for the future on one particular group who would it be and why? 5 minutes
Activity: Conduct a Readers' Theater of Chapter 8 in small group. After the reading is complete, return to the text and "talk" to it using metacognitve sentence starters. 25 minutes. Share and discuss your response with your group, then share out with class.
Due: Responses to "The Government isn't the Enemy."
Day 78 (1/10/2017)
Target: To read, comprehend, and make inferences from a literary text
Day 77 (1/9/2017)
Target: To read, comprehend, and make inferences from a literary text
Day 76 (1/7/2017)
Target: To read, comprehend, evaluate and respond to a non-fiction article
Launch: Preview the reading by showing "Oklahoma City" Powerpoint, then haves students review appositive use by combining the sentences on "Intro Pitts' 'Enemy' and the Appositive."
Read: "The Government Isn't the Enemy" by Leonard Pitts, text talk as you read.
When you are finished, deconstruct the essay. On a lined sheet of paper answer:
1) What is Pitts' point?
2) What reasons does he provide to support his point?
3) What evidence does he provide to support his point?
4) How well does Pitts make his point? Explain.
5) Write your own response to the idea that "The Government is the Enemy"
Day 75 (1/6/2017)
Target: To read and comprenhend the role of sex in Oceania's society and contrast it with our own.
Launch: What are American attitudes toward sex?
Read: 1984 Chapter 6 Screen Play and discuss the questions in small group. Record your answers.
Exit Question: After today's discussion, would you rather be a prole or a member of the inner party? Explain.
Day 74 (1/5/2017)
Target:
Share your group responses from Chapter 5
Day 73 (1/4/2017)
Target:
Day 72 (12/20/2016)
Day 71 (12/19/2016)
Day 70 (12/16/2016)
Day 69 (12/15/2016)
Launch: Small group discussions over Guide #2
R/H/A/Text Talk to Article over Edward Snowden
Day 68 (12/14/2016)
Day 67 (12/13/2016)
Day 66 (12/12/2016) SNOW DAY
Day 65 (12/9/2016) SNOW DAY
Day 64 (12/8/2016)
Half day: Students should write in their journals either a "Free Write" or "How to Cure Senioritis"
Day 63 (12/7)
Launch: Pick up "1984 Scene Adaptations" and "1984 Guided Reading 1"
Activity:
Read Scene 1 as Readers' Theater then have students read Scene 2.1 by random calling (Teach Like a Champion "Controlling the Game" strategy)
Student should answer 1-4 on the guide and then be prepared to share.
Day 62 (12/6/2016)
Activity: Pick up your journals and in the Notes and Terms Section, take notes over the lecture - condense each slide of information into a single sentence.
Journal Entry: Which economic system seems better - capitalism or communism? Explain.
Day 61 (12/5/2016)
Activity:
- Finish Drafting the Battle Creek Community Foundation Essay and email it to the instructor.
- If you are done, pick up the Peer Edit checklist and have a peer read and critique your essay.
- Distribute Senioritis Badges and SAFEty Report
Day 60 (12/2/2016)
Activity:
- Discuss Senioritis Awareness Week expecatations.
- Students will assess themselves on the Unit 1 learning targets and write reflective responses about their performances
- The novel 1984 will be distributed.
Day 59 (12/1/2016)
Activity: Using the response to yesterday's final question, write three paragraphs about how the three factors you selected would impact life in 1) The United States 2) Michigan 3) Battle Creek
Day 58 (11/30/2016)
Launch: Pick up your journal, turn to the mentor sentence section, and underneath your entry about appositives, write the definition of "Participial phrase" and one of the examples. Label the parts of the example.
Activity: In your journal, come up with three example of your own participial phrases - one in beginning of the sentence, one in the middle of the sentence, one at the end of the sentence.
Activity: Pick up the handout "Visualizing the Future" and watch the three movie trailers. Identify what is different about life in the future, then speculate about what has caused the world to become this way.
Closure: What are the three factors that you believe will be most responsible for shaping the future and explain your responses.
Day 57 (11/29/2016)
Launch: Students will pick up "Introduction to 1984" and rate themselves according to the directions.
Activity: Students will view "American Idol Worst Auditions" and then discuss the themes of the introduction as a class.
Day 56 (11/28/2016)
Activity: Students are in the computer lab working on their Legacy Scholars Essay