Monday 9.23
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Make-Up Current Events
4. Silent Reading
5. Book Group Meetings: Share 5 Quotes and 5 Questions + Discuss Book Themes and Observations.
If absent, write 2-page discussion of book with minimal plot summary.
If Time:
Intro Pulitzer Prize photo website and Intro Pulitzer Photo Writing Assignment
HW:
Select Pulitzer Prize photo for tomorrow's writing assignment and copy into Google Doc.
Work on assignment after RI.
Read Book Group Book: 3/4 by next Monday
Tuesday 9.24
1. RI
2. Pulitzer Photo Writing Assignment. Due Wednesday by 11:59p. Submit on my website.
HW: Read Book Group Book: Finish 3/4 of book by Monday 9/30
Finish Pulitzer Photo Writing Assignment by Thursday at 11:59p
Wednesday 9.25
EARLY RELEASE DAY
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Reminder
4. Silent Reading Time OR Work on Pulitzer Photo Writing Assignment. Models and Examples too.
HW:
Read Book Group Book: Finish 3/4 of book by Monday 9/30
Finish Pulitzer Photo Writing Assignment Thursday by 11:59p
Thursday 9.26
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Silent Reading Time
4. Current Events Teaser
5. Reflect on Because My Father / Jimi Hendrix / Pulitzer Writing
IF TIME:
6. Intro to Cultural Appropriation / Read "Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong?" + Answer Questions at Table.
Explore Dior Finally Says No to Sauvage article.
Exit Ticket Notecard: Because I am....people think I...
HW:
Finish Pulitzer Photo Writing Assignment by tonight at 11:59p
Write anecdote to explain your "Because I am" statement. Write 1/2 - 1 page.
Read Book Group Book
Friday 9.27
**Field Trip next Friday, 10/4!** Stay tuned for details
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Around the World Presentations
4. Silent Reading Time
5. Intro to A Drug Called Tradition. Brainstorm & Discuss References (Huey Lewis News)
HW:
Read / Prep for Book Group Monday: Finish 3/4 of book plus 5 Quotes and 5 Questions
Bring Book Group Book to class Monday!
Read "A Drug Called Tradition" pages 12-24 by Tuesday 10/1
CURRENT EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD:
If you're absent for someone's presentation, you can view all slideshows HERE and follow these instructions
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Do Not Scroll Down: Last Year's Plans
Who is Crazy Horse and how is he important?
Crazy Horse bio (1 page)
View Mt Rushmore
Crazy Horse Monument Pictures· #1 #2 #3 #4
Crazy Horse is Rising in the Black Hills Again --Read and Annotate-
HW:
Read "Crazy Horse Dreams" for MONDAY
Prepare for Book Group Meeting #3 on Tuesday
Don't forget your book, evidence of close reading (annotation / Post-its) and 10 new quotations
Next week:
Monday: Crazy Horse Dreams “Crazy Horse Dreams”: Discussion-- Examine sections & ideas, Complete study guide chart. If time: Crazy Horse Kahoot!/ A Drug
Tuesday: Book Group Meetings / A Drug
Wednesday: Review A Drug/ Reading Quiz (first 4 stories)- In Class Essay?
Thursday: Amusements + Indian Camp
Friday: Current Events / Finish Indian Camp / Intro Partner Hyperlink?
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2015 Plans:
Read and Annotate/Use Post-Its in your Book Group Book. How should I use Post-Its?
Here's a model and another.
3. Crazy Horse Dream: Wrap up
Complete & Discuss Crazy Horse in Groups or Kahoot?
HW:
Read "A Drug Called Tradition" from Lone Ranger and Tonto
To come: Reading Quiz – Perhaps on first 4 stories
Tuesday 9.29 “A Drug Called Tradition”
1. Notecard: -What is happening in this story? -What ideas does it raise? -What do you think the story is about?
Please write 3-5 sentences on your notecard.
2. Mystery Chart
3. Dream Sequences {where, when, why} View Slate.com montage [How many of these movies do you know?]
4. The Story
-Review one vision from mystery chart
• What happens during hallucination?
• What does this hallucination reveal?
• Important symbols, metaphors, quotes?
-The Drug Part – Why use drugs as a device?
-It’s a wrap: Important quotes (p 14) (“It’ll be very fucking Indian” “Hell, he looked around our world...”)
Exit: Read Fellini Quote.
“I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it….It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.”
― Federico Fellini
How do Fellini and his quote relate to Alexie and his story “A Drug Called Tradition”? Write your name and one or two thoughtful sentences on your notecard.
HW:
Reading Quiz tomorrow- first 4 stories (p 1-42)
Wednesday, 9.30
To Start: Read Definition of “Cultural Appropriation”
below. What is your opinion of this idea? Does it bother you? Or are you okay with it? Write 2-3 sentences.
Cultural appropriation is a sociological concept which views the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon.
- Reading Quiz
- Cultural Appropriation: What is your opinion? Why?
- NY Times Article: w/ Advanced Annotation (handout) Discuss. Film Clip too?
To Finish: How is cultural appropriation relevant to one of the Alexie stories you’ve read so far? 2 sentences.
HW: Finish Annotating NY Times “Cultural Appropriation” article
10.1 Thursday
To Start:
When you think of Native Americans, what words and stereotypes come to mind?
Write 10 words or phrases.
- Appropriation: What you said.
- NY Times Article: Review / Discuss.
- Film Clip. Collect annotations.
- If time: Begin reading “Amusements” (p54-8)
To Finish: What did you think of the film clip
“Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows”
HW:
Read “Amusements” (p54-8)
Vocabulary due tomorrow. Share using link.
10.2 Friday
1. Discuss Poem
2. Read / listen to "Indian Camp"
3. Partner Writing with Hyperlinks: Indian Camp, Amusements
If time: Questions on "The Great American Novel": What is the 'Great American Novel'?
HW: Book Group Meeting #3 is Monday
Don't forget your book, evidence of close reading (annotation / Post-its) and 5 new quotations
Read and Annotate/Use Post-Its in your Book Group Book.