Monday or Tuesday (A/B)
- Do Now: Take out your Quack! Words and be prepared to review.
- PowerPoint Presentation: Students will then view a PowerPoint presentation with passages from Eliot’s essay “The Tradition and the Individual Talent.” We will discuss this perspective on the past and get students’ opinions on its validity and application to their lives.
- Modern Day Connection: “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning” by The Smashing Pumpkins
- Read and Discuss: Critical Commentary on “The Hollow Men” (p. 1044-1046)
- Listen and Discuss: “The Hollow Men”
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcP3NOCeiE&feature=related (Spoken Verse Reading)
- Small Groups: Students will form five groups. Each group will be assigned a part of “The Hollow Men” for close-reading analysis. They will TP-CASTT their section of the poem and be prepared to share their analyses with the class (15 minutes).
- Discuss: Small group work presentations.
- Individual Assignment: Students will receive the “Identity Collage” project guidelines. They will have the remainder of the block to work on the assignment.
- Closing Activity: With five minutes remaining, we will discuss the students’ progress on their collages thus far.
- Homework: Quack 9.1 Quiz next class!
Wednesday or Thursday (A/B)
- Quiz: Quack! Volume 9 Part 1
- Review: Students will review their notes on Modernism (focus on late Modernism).
- Listen and Discuss: “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H. Auden (p. 1056)
- Partners: With a partner, answer the literary analysis, reading check, and reading strategy questions in the margins next to the poem. Be prepared to share your responses with the class.
- Note-Taking: Poetic Voice and Villanelle (p. 1231)
- Listen and Discuss: “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i12PSzFu5E&feature=youtu.be (Dylan Thomas Reading – poetictouchannel)
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1fTlIsUGks&feature=related (Anthony Hopkins reading)
o Literary Analysis Question (p. 1233)
- Identity Collage Projects: Due at the end of the block!
- Closing Activity: With five minutes remaining, students will have the opportunity to share their identity collages with the rest of the class.
- Homework: Study for the Modern Poetry test! Be sure to study your notes on modernism. You will have to analyze a poem that you have not seen before for elements of Modernism and compare it to at least one of the poems we have read thus far. Bring your textbook to class! You will need it for the test!
Friday or Monday (A/B)
- Test: Modern Poetry -- Analyze a poem that you have not seen before for elements of Modernism and compare it to at least one of the poems we have read thus far. You may use your book, but not your notes.
- Introduction to Curious Incident: We will begin our introduction to the next novel by reading the back cover and the author information page in the front of the book.
- Read and Discuss: Mark Haddon’s Blog Post on Autism and Aspergers. Because Mark Haddon had very little knowledge of autism or aspergers when he wrote the novel (and he didn't intend it to be a novel about autism, but rather one about "difference"), we will be discussing some factual information about autism while reading the novel.
- Here, Haddon explains how he did not intend for Christopher to be identified as autistic, but the way the novel is presented suggests that he has "aspergers."
- http://www.markhaddon.com/aspergers-and-autism
- Watch: Temple Grandin at TEDTalks
- “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_9f5x0f1Q
- Begin Reading and Discuss: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
- Closing Activity: Take out a sheet of paper and be prepared to take down the next set of Quack! words (More Quack! Volume 9.2)
- Homework: Read pages 1-28. Stop at section “59.” Be prepared for a reading check quiz next class!
