Monday 9.30
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Reminder
4. World Lit Field Trip this Friday: Sign up for Travel Groups HERE
5. Silent Reading
6. Book Group Meeting #3: 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 4th Hour: Intro to A Drug Called Tradition. Brainstorm & Discuss References (Huey Lewis News)
HW:
Read "A Drug Called Tradition" for tomorrow pages 12-24
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Tuesday 10.1
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Teaser
4. Silent Reading
5. Drug Called Tradition (4th: Brainstorm Session on Drug Movies / TV shows)
a. Mystery Chart + Discuss
b. Look at film clips HERE (maybe)
c. Discussion of Each "Trip": Character Trip and Reflection (handout?)
d. Overall Message
6. Crazy Horse Dreams Quick Intro
HW:
Finish Drug Called Tradition handout
Read "Crazy Horse Dreams" for tomorrow
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Wednesday 10.2
*Reminder: Field Trip FRIDAY* Sign up for groups, details to come tomorrow.
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Around the World
If Time:
4. Revisit "A Drug Called Tradition." Collect handouts.
5. Crazy Horse Dreams: Discussion
HW:
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Thursday 10.3
1. Silent Reading Time
2. Annotate Poem
3. Read Amusements aloud in small groups. Discussion on Tuesday, 10/8
HW:
Field Trip Tomorrow
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Friday 10.4
Field Trip to U of M
HW:
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday. Bring Book, 5 Quotes, 5 Questions
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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Next Week:
Monday 7 Field Trip Debrief / Thank you note? Book Group Meeting #4 / Takeaways
Tuesday 8 Drug/ Crazy Horse/ Amusements Discussion
Wednesday 9 Traffic Signal
Thursday 10 Phoenix
Friday 11 Current Events / Lone Ranger Tonto
Monday 14 Book Pitch #2?? Finish LRT. 7-11.
Tuesday 15 Discuss Indian Education / Roll Out Indian Education Project
Wednesday 16 Indian Education
Thursday 17 Indian Education
Friday 18 Indian Education
MAYBE:
Monday 21 Danger of a Single Story + Handout
Tuesday 22 Research Nigeria + Background (Webquest?)
Wednesday 23 View Page 1 Slideshow + 3-16 read in class
Thursday 24 Handout on Early Symbols + Read 19-36
Friday 25 Discussion Time at Tables, then read 37-51.
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Do Not Scroll Down: Last Year's Plans
IF time: Literal and Figurative handout
HW:
Book Groups WEDNESDAY this week: Add new post-its / be prepared to discuss book
Finish Crazy Horse Dreams questions if needed
Read “A Drug Called Tradition”
Tuesday 10.2
1. A Drug Called Tradition: Supplemental Reading / Questions
2. Review sheet for Thursday test / in class essay (first four stories.)
HW:
Book Groups tomorrow. Add new post-its / be prepared to discuss book
Wednesday 10.3
HW:
Review for In-class Essay / Writing Assessment on first 4 stories (pages 1-42) tomorrow.
“Every Little Hurricane”
“Because My Father…Hendrix”
“Crazy Horse Dreams”
“A Drug Called Tradition”
Thursday 10.4
HW: Read Book Group Book- Finish book for next Tuesday
Friday 10.5
HW:
Read "Amusements" for Monday
Read book group book - finish for next Tuesday
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2017-8 Plans- do not scroll down.
Monday 10.1
HW:
Book Groups WEDNESDAY this week: Add new post-its / be prepared to discuss book
Finish Crazy Horse Dreams questions
Read “A Drug Called Tradition”
Tuesday 10.4
HW: Finish Cultural Appropriation article and questions
Wednesday 10.5
HW:
Review for In-class Essay / Writing Assessment on first 4 stories (pages 1-42) tomorrow.
“Every Little Hurricane”
“Because My Father…Hendrix”
“Crazy Horse Dreams”
“A Drug Called Tradition”
Thursday 10.6
HW: Read Book Group Book
Friday 10.7 {Assembly}
If time:
Begin Amusements-
Psychology Today article- read / annotate
Laughing Movie Clips
Reading Guide
HW: Prep for Book Group Meeting #4 Tuesday (last one! Finish the book!)
Next Week:
A Drug Called Tradition: Dream montage
Read “Indian Camp”
Mirror as device/ film clips too…
Final Book Group Meeting
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2015 Plans
Crazy Horse Dreams: 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.
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.
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.
Monday 10.5 Book Group Meeting: Day #3
To Start: Read poem at beginning of “Amusements”:
I lower a frayed rope into the depths and hoist
the same old Indian tears to my eyes. The liquid is pure and irresistible -Adrian C. Louis
What do you think this poem is about?
Write 1-2 sentences on notecard.
1. Book Group Meetings
2. “Indian Camp” and “Amusements”- List ways Whites & Indians are portrayed in each story.
Continue partner writing Tuesday
To Finish:
Complete notes about Whites v Indians on back of notecard.
HW: Outside Reading. Find 10 New Vocab words for Friday.
Comparison Chart on 2 Stories:
Indian Camp / Amusements
-What do white people say about Indians in each story?
-How do they perceive Indians?
-How do Indians behave in each story?
-What sorts of things do Indians say and think about?
Indian Camp
Amusements
Tuesday 10.6
To Start:
Why write comparatively? Who does this kind of writing outside of a school setting?
Write 1-2 sentences.
1. “Amusements” Poem interpretations & finish chart(Your notecards from yesterday)
2. Comparing two or more works: A Model (Straight Outta Compton)
3. Partner writing (laptops)- Finish a draft by end of class tomorrow.
Tomorrow: SRI, Share Partner Writing via Google
HW:
Outside Reading, Vocab. **Make up Reading Quiz by end of day today or 0**
Wednesday 10.7
1. SRI
2. Finish Partner Writing. Submit completed writing here.
HW: Outside Reading. Vocab.
Thursday 10.8
1. Finish and Submit Partner Writing (15 minutes)
2. Banned Books Week: View List. ALA site
3. Respond & Discuss: *What is America’s ‘Story’? *How is it recorded or told? *How do we choose which stories to tell?
*What stories do we not want to hear? *How do you get to tell your story as a high school student?
4. What does an American book look like? Vanity Fair Article.
5. Read 1 article, annotate & take notes on handout. Finish at home if you don’t finish in class.
Why Are We Obsessed With the Great American Novel? [NYTimes] Here is a PDF File
Why 'The Great Gatsby' is the Great American Novel [Washington Post] Here is a PDF File
The Great American Novel? What's That? [LA Times] Here is a PDF File
HW: Finish 1 of 3 Articles, Annotation & Notes. Vocab Due Friday.
Friday 10.9
HW: Finish outside reading (15 post-its / annotations)
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Reminder
4. World Lit Field Trip this Friday: Sign up for Travel Groups HERE
5. Silent Reading
6. Book Group Meeting #3: 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 4th Hour: Intro to A Drug Called Tradition. Brainstorm & Discuss References (Huey Lewis News)
HW:
Read "A Drug Called Tradition" for tomorrow pages 12-24
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Tuesday 10.1
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Teaser
4. Silent Reading
5. Drug Called Tradition (4th: Brainstorm Session on Drug Movies / TV shows)
a. Mystery Chart + Discuss
b. Look at film clips HERE (maybe)
c. Discussion of Each "Trip": Character Trip and Reflection (handout?)
d. Overall Message
6. Crazy Horse Dreams Quick Intro
HW:
Finish Drug Called Tradition handout
Read "Crazy Horse Dreams" for tomorrow
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Wednesday 10.2
*Reminder: Field Trip FRIDAY* Sign up for groups, details to come tomorrow.
1. In World News
2. 2 Minute Storytelling
3. Current Events Around the World
If Time:
4. Revisit "A Drug Called Tradition." Collect handouts.
5. Crazy Horse Dreams: Discussion
HW:
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Thursday 10.3
1. Silent Reading Time
2. Annotate Poem
3. Read Amusements aloud in small groups. Discussion on Tuesday, 10/8
HW:
Field Trip Tomorrow
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday
Friday 10.4
Field Trip to U of M
HW:
Read Book Group Book: Finish by next Monday. Bring Book, 5 Quotes, 5 Questions
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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Next Week:
Monday 7 Field Trip Debrief / Thank you note? Book Group Meeting #4 / Takeaways
Tuesday 8 Drug/ Crazy Horse/ Amusements Discussion
Wednesday 9 Traffic Signal
Thursday 10 Phoenix
Friday 11 Current Events / Lone Ranger Tonto
Monday 14 Book Pitch #2?? Finish LRT. 7-11.
Tuesday 15 Discuss Indian Education / Roll Out Indian Education Project
Wednesday 16 Indian Education
Thursday 17 Indian Education
Friday 18 Indian Education
MAYBE:
Monday 21 Danger of a Single Story + Handout
Tuesday 22 Research Nigeria + Background (Webquest?)
Wednesday 23 View Page 1 Slideshow + 3-16 read in class
Thursday 24 Handout on Early Symbols + Read 19-36
Friday 25 Discussion Time at Tables, then read 37-51.
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- World News over the Weekend? Show "Banned Books in Kuwait" image.
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Crazy Horse Dreams: First: Crazy Horse in your notebook- What works come to mind from article? Who has this status in your culture / our world? Racial and Cultural "Idols and Ideals"
- Crazy Horse Slideshow and Discussion
IF time: Literal and Figurative handout
HW:
Book Groups WEDNESDAY this week: Add new post-its / be prepared to discuss book
Finish Crazy Horse Dreams questions if needed
Read “A Drug Called Tradition”
Tuesday 10.2
1. A Drug Called Tradition: Supplemental Reading / Questions
2. Review sheet for Thursday test / in class essay (first four stories.)
HW:
Book Groups tomorrow. Add new post-its / be prepared to discuss book
Wednesday 10.3
- 2 Minute Storytelling
- Current Events Reminder
- A Drug Called Tradition: Mystery Chart / Discussion
- Prepare for tomorrow: Test / in class essay on first four stories.
- Book Group Meetings
HW:
Review for In-class Essay / Writing Assessment on first 4 stories (pages 1-42) tomorrow.
“Every Little Hurricane”
“Because My Father…Hendrix”
“Crazy Horse Dreams”
“A Drug Called Tradition”
Thursday 10.4
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Current Events Teasers: Mimi, Donald, 6th TBA.
- Begin In-Class Writing. Notes first.
HW: Read Book Group Book- Finish book for next Tuesday
Friday 10.5
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Current Events
- Finish In-Class Essay
- Read "Amusements" in Lone Ranger book for Monday
HW:
Read "Amusements" for Monday
Read book group book - finish for next Tuesday
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2017-8 Plans- do not scroll down.
Monday 10.1
- World News over the Weekend?
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Crazy Horse Dreams: Handout and discussion
HW:
Book Groups WEDNESDAY this week: Add new post-its / be prepared to discuss book
Finish Crazy Horse Dreams questions
Read “A Drug Called Tradition”
Tuesday 10.4
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Book Groups
- Crazy Horse Dreams Slideshow Questions
HW: Finish Cultural Appropriation article and questions
Wednesday 10.5
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Book Group Meetings
- Current Events Reminder
- Cultural Appropriation article: Read & Discuss {on iPads?}
- Comments / Questions
- Rachel Dolezal: Thoughts?
- Watch “Don’t Cash crop My Cornrows”
- “A Drug Called Tradition”: Mystery Chart- post document on board.
HW:
Review for In-class Essay / Writing Assessment on first 4 stories (pages 1-42) tomorrow.
“Every Little Hurricane”
“Because My Father…Hendrix”
“Crazy Horse Dreams”
“A Drug Called Tradition”
Thursday 10.6
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Current Events Teaser: Kurt K, Sean L, Michael S
- A Drug Called Tradition: Mystery Chart / Discussion /
- Begin In-Class Writing
HW: Read Book Group Book
Friday 10.7 {Assembly}
- Storytelling- 2 minutes
- Current Events
- Finish In-Class Essay
If time:
Begin Amusements-
Psychology Today article- read / annotate
Laughing Movie Clips
Reading Guide
HW: Prep for Book Group Meeting #4 Tuesday (last one! Finish the book!)
Next Week:
A Drug Called Tradition: Dream montage
Read “Indian Camp”
Mirror as device/ film clips too…
- Native American Stereotypes
- Write 10 on back of “Indian Camp” story
- Examine website on stereotypes
- Intro Partner Hyperlink Project.
Final Book Group Meeting
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2015 Plans
Crazy Horse Dreams: 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.
Monday 10.5 Book Group Meeting: Day #3
To Start: Read poem at beginning of “Amusements”:
I lower a frayed rope into the depths and hoist
the same old Indian tears to my eyes. The liquid is pure and irresistible -Adrian C. Louis
What do you think this poem is about?
Write 1-2 sentences on notecard.
1. Book Group Meetings
2. “Indian Camp” and “Amusements”- List ways Whites & Indians are portrayed in each story.
Continue partner writing Tuesday
To Finish:
Complete notes about Whites v Indians on back of notecard.
HW: Outside Reading. Find 10 New Vocab words for Friday.
Comparison Chart on 2 Stories:
Indian Camp / Amusements
-What do white people say about Indians in each story?
-How do they perceive Indians?
-How do Indians behave in each story?
-What sorts of things do Indians say and think about?
Indian Camp
- Indian woman bites George
- He says “damn squaw bitch”
- White=helpful
- Indian man = weak, not strong, warrior
- Indians=no voice
Amusements
- Guard says "OK Chief"
- Kids made warrior noises
- Dirty Joe looks for half empties - drowning sorrows
- Perceived as reckless
- Behaved poorly
- Seen as drunken forms of entertainment
Tuesday 10.6
To Start:
Why write comparatively? Who does this kind of writing outside of a school setting?
Write 1-2 sentences.
1. “Amusements” Poem interpretations & finish chart(Your notecards from yesterday)
2. Comparing two or more works: A Model (Straight Outta Compton)
3. Partner writing (laptops)- Finish a draft by end of class tomorrow.
Tomorrow: SRI, Share Partner Writing via Google
HW:
Outside Reading, Vocab. **Make up Reading Quiz by end of day today or 0**
Wednesday 10.7
1. SRI
2. Finish Partner Writing. Submit completed writing here.
HW: Outside Reading. Vocab.
Thursday 10.8
1. Finish and Submit Partner Writing (15 minutes)
2. Banned Books Week: View List. ALA site
3. Respond & Discuss: *What is America’s ‘Story’? *How is it recorded or told? *How do we choose which stories to tell?
*What stories do we not want to hear? *How do you get to tell your story as a high school student?
4. What does an American book look like? Vanity Fair Article.
5. Read 1 article, annotate & take notes on handout. Finish at home if you don’t finish in class.
Why Are We Obsessed With the Great American Novel? [NYTimes] Here is a PDF File
Why 'The Great Gatsby' is the Great American Novel [Washington Post] Here is a PDF File
The Great American Novel? What's That? [LA Times] Here is a PDF File
HW: Finish 1 of 3 Articles, Annotation & Notes. Vocab Due Friday.
Friday 10.9
- Collect Vocab
- Jigsaw / Meet with other groups to get notes on all 3 articles.
- Read “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel.”
- How NOT to write? Handout on offensive sayings. Article on how to write African?
- Discuss findings / idea that these articles serve as pre-reading for next chapters of book.
HW: Finish outside reading (15 post-its / annotations)