Language Arts III Assignments

Instructors
Term
Fall 2013
Department
Language Arts
Description

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Labor Day – No school

 

 

 

Locators, Syllabus, Online Textbooks, pass out and discuss V-1, Pictographic Writing,

HW: V-1front, parent signature

Collect parent signature, V-1front & adverb openers, JOTT Unit 1 INTRO (p.10-11,18)

HW: V-1back, Unit 1 INTRO Summary

V-1back, Mythology Vocab & Myth Elements, Read “How the World Was Made” (22)

HW: review archetype, Myth examples

Step Up Paragraph (Archetypes), Read “Sky Tree” (35)

HW: V-1T w/adverb openers (9/9), Myth examples

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Collect vocab, V-1T w/adverb openers, pass out V-2 and adjective+adjective openers, Voice Lesson

HW: V-2front (9/11)

Read “How the Leopard Got His Claws” (38) and “Prayer to the Pacific” (44)

HW: V-2front, Myth examples

V-2front, Introduce Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth,  discuss dialogue, brainstorm myth ideas

HW: V-2back, Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth (9/19)

V-2back, Create A Myth In-class Writing

HW: Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth (due 9/22)

Introduce Myth Group Project (organize groups, begin reading myths)

HW: V-2T w/adj+adj openers, Bring Myth Group supplies for next week, Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth (9/19)

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Collect vocab, V2T w/adj+adj openers, pass out V-3 and prepositional openers, work in Myth Groups

HW: V-3front (9/18), Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth (9/19)

Myth Group Project In-class work time

HW: V-3front, Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth (9/19)

V-3front, Myth Group Project

HW: V-3back, Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth

Collect Writing Assignment #1—Create A Myth, V-3back, Begin Myth Group Performances

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Continue Myth Group Performances

HW: V-3T w/prepositional opners

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Collect vocab, V-3T w/prepositional openers, pass out V-4 and conjunctions/compound sentences), Begin “Life in the New World” Intro (14) & The Rhetoric of Revolution vocab

HW: V-4front

V-4front, Discuss POV, Read “From the Life of Olaudah Equiano” (70) #1-7, POV#1-2 (77-78)

HW: finish Olaudah ?s, V-4back

V-4back, “The Rhetoric of Revolution” (112-113), The art of persuasion in-class activity

HW: Grammar front

Grammar front, Discuss the art of persuasion, Discuss Jeremiad, Listen to “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (95)

HW: Grammar back, finish “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (95) WS

 

Grammar back, Discuss “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (95) WS, Introduce PSA and work time

HW: V-4T w/ conjunctions/compound sentences, PSA (10/4)

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Oct. 1

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Collect vocab, V-4T w/ conjunctions/compound sentences, PSA work time

HW: PSA (due 10/4)

Discuss/collect “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” WS, Begin The Crucible background (1026), discuss The Crucible packet

HW: PSA (10/4)

Begin reading The Crucible ACT I

HW: ACT I Packet (10/7), PSA (10/4)

Continue reading The Crucible ACT I

HW: ACT I Packet (10/7), PSA

Collect PSA, watch The Crucible movie ACT I/ work on ACT I packet

HW: ACT I Packet (10/7)

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V-4 Worksheet & Test
WS Front stamped 9/24
WS Back stamped 9/25
WS will be turned in and Test is on 9/30

Created: Friday, September 20 3:19 PM

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V-2 Worksheet & Test
WS Front stamped 9/10
WS Back stamped 9/11
WS will be turned in and Test is on 9/16
Created: Monday, September 16 11:58 AM

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V-3 Worksheet & Test
WS Front stamped 9/17
WS Back stamped 9/18
WS will be turned in and Test is on 9/23
Created: Monday, September 16 11:58 AM

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Writing Assignment #1 - A New Myth
See attached assignment sheet for details. Final draft must be typed according to the YLHS Style Guide. Brainstorming will be turned in with final draft; however, no rough draft is required. Remember our discussion on dialogue and how to puncuate it properly. If you need a visual on proper dialogue, look at "How the Leopard Got His Claws" in the LA3 textbook.
Created: Monday, September 16 11:49 AM

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Group Myth Interpretation
In groups of 4-5, students will take a written Native American Myth and "bring it to life" with pictographs and performance in the oral tradition of the earliest American "authors."

All students will also be answering Oral Interpretation Questions based on the performances. Attached to this assignment are the questions worksheet and all the possible myths (8 total). Students may make additional copies and/or read myths to answer required questions if they are absent during a performance day (Thursday 9/19 & Friday 9/20).
Created: Monday, September 16 11:55 AM

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Mythology Vocabulary & Myth Elements Worksheet
Using the textbook and lecture, find the definitions to the mythology vocabulary. In addition, as we read the various Native American origin myths and trickster tales, fill in examples of the myth elements found in each myth/tale. Use MLA format (parenthetical citations) in citing examples.
Created: Thursday, September 5 3:51 PM

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V-1 Worksheet & Test
WS Front stamped 9/4
WS Back stamped 9/5
WS will be turned in and Test is on 9/9

Created: Wednesday, September 4 11:24 AM

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Intro to Early America (Beginnings - 1800) Notes
Using the JOTT (Just One Two or Three) method we discussed in class, read and take notes on pages 10-11 and 18 (you do not need to include Cultural & Literary Links). These notes will be used in an assignment later in the unit.
Created: Wednesday, September 4 11:28 AM

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Syllabus Signatures
Read through the course syllabus with your parent/guardian and return the signature page filled out.
Created: Wednesday, September 4 11:22 AM