Overview from 7/11 and Assignment due 7/12

Students clicked on the link below to take there quiz:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHpeYyc3atGJZmncPvE33wj99Jo-XvlOh_V_VglIMT8PoEdA/viewform?usp=sf_link

If the quiz is submitted after 7/11 it will be a zero.

For tomorrow:

Read and annotate pages 1-41 of The Rock and the River.

Overview from 7/10 and Assignment due 7/11

Today we reviewed THEME and how it is a message of the text rather than just one word (like love or revenge). Has to be a message like "love conquers all" or "revenge is a dish best served cold," etc.

We let theme drive the discussions for our books after we took one final look at what will be on tomorrow's quiz.

Students should be studying for their quiz using the information posted on yesterday's post, but they should also be getting reading to dive into their next book. Their next book's reading schedule was also posted yesterday.

I encourage students to bring their next book to FAME tomorrow in case they have some time to read after their quiz or in study hall.

Overview from 7/9 and Assignment due 7/10

For tomorrow students should have finished reading and annotating "A Raisin in the Sun".

Today I presented the monologue requirements for the wax museum. Students should consider these things (and what they will do for a costume) when choosing the character/figure they wish to portray. We will have students pick their characters by the end of class on Monday, July 16.

We also learned/reviewed the Marxist Critical Theory that will be one Wednesday's quiz:

For the quiz, students need to be prepared for open ended questions on the following:

• Characterization (STEAL)
• Psychoanalytic Criticism 
• Fretyag's Plot Triangle 
• Types of Conflict
• Marxist Criticism

Here is the reading schedule for the next book for students that choose to be proactive:

Overview from 7/6 and Assignment due 7/9

Today we reviewed Freytag's Plot Triangle:

Conflict is not generally in the center of the triangle, but established that a plot wouldn't move on without some type of conflict. We also went over the types of conflict this week that tie in to the Psychoanalytic Criticism.

Types of Conflict:

Students are to continue reading and annotating based off of the reading schedule for Monday.

Overview from 7/5 and Assignment due 7/6

Today we reviewed the Psychoanalytic criticism and started to apply it to the book. Students can look for how dreams, desires, and defenses motive the characters in their current book.

Students can follow the reading schedule for what is due tomorrow for reading and annotations from their current book.

Students also started to look at more elements of plot today (Freytag's Plot Triangle), and we will be looking more at that tomorrow along with the types of conflict. These things tie into the Psychoanalytic Criticism.

Overview from 7/3 and Assignment due 7/5

Today I went over the quiz from last week with the students. I then gave the a brief expectations review:

Students can also click this link (click here) if they wish to complete a journal entry for bonus.

With the time left we started to discuss The American Dream, and what we thought it was. We related our idea of The American Dream to the family we are reading about. We then looked at the poem that is a preface for the play:

FOR THURSDAY: Students are to continue reading and annotating by following our reading schedule that has been posted and presented to them each day. Students were also told that they should come with a prepared statement (can be a view sentences) of what they think the Langston Hughes poem is about.

Overview from 7/2 and Assignment due 7/3

Today we talked about possible ways to annotate something that is "tough" to annotate. We learned about Characterization (Direct and Indirect) For indirect Character, students learned to remember the acronym STEAL:

S-speech
T-thoughts
E-effect on others
A-actions
L-looks

Students then tried to come up with traits we could attribute to the characters in our current book using STEAL.

For tomorrow, students are to read and annotate the next scene of our play (and I encourage them to focus their annotations on characterization).