Bell Ringers for the Week
week of January 7-11
Monday January 7
DLT: 1. I can identify and analyze plot, character development, setting, theme, mood, and point of view as they are used together to create meaning in increasingly challenging texts. (Quality Core A.5.c; Common Core )
2. I can identify and analyze the ways in which the devices the author chooses (irony, imagery, tone, foreshadowing, symbolism, etc.) achieve specific effects and shape meaning in increasingly challenging texts. (Quality Core A.5.e)
Target vocabulary:diction, denotation, connotation, tone, mood, imagery, symbol, foreshadowing, allusion, simile, metaphor, theme
Activity:1. Bell ringer
2. Review pages 168-170 in “The Scarlet Ibis.”
3. Read pages 170-174 (line 180) in the Holt Reader (“The Scarlet Ibis”) and do the margin questions
Formative Assessment: margin questions for “TSI.”
Homework:“The Scarlet Ibis” vocabulary study guide, exercise A; study “Ibis” vocabulary flash cards
Complete the reading to page 174 in the Holt Reader and complete the margin questions
Study the Novel Unit Study Guide for Literary Terms (Tone through Simile)
Tuesday, January 8
DLT: 1. I can identify and analyze plot, character development, setting, theme, mood, and point of view as they are used together to create meaning in increasingly challenging texts. (Quality Core A.5.c; Common Core )
2. I can identify and analyze the ways in which the devices the author chooses (irony, imagery, tone, foreshadowing, symbolism, etc.) achieve specific effects and shape meaning in increasingly challenging texts. (Quality Core A.5.e)
3. I can identify an explicit theme in a text and evaluate its relevance to my life.
Target vocabulary:diction, denotation, connotation, tone, mood, imagery, symbol, foreshadowing, allusion, simile, metaphor, theme
Activity:1. Bell ringer
2.Review homework
3. Review pages 171-174 in “The Scarlet Ibis.”
4. Read pages 174-178 (line 181) in the Holt Reader (“The Scarlet Ibis”) and do the margin questions
Formative Assessment: margin questions for “TSI.” Annotations to the Holt Reader for theme
Homework:“The Scarlet Ibis” vocabulary study guide, exercise C; study “Ibis” vocabulary flash cards
Complete the reading to page 178, line 181, in the Holt Reader and complete the margin questions
Study the Novel Unit Study Guide for Literary Terms (Tone through Simile)
Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10 FLEX DAYS
DLT: 1. I can identify and analyze plot, character development, setting, theme, mood, and point of view as they are used together to create meaning in increasingly challenging texts. (Quality Core A.5.c; Common Core )
2. I can analyze the ways in which symbolism achieves specific effects and shapes meaning in increasingly challenging texts. (Quality Core A.5.e)
Target vocabulary:mood, imagery, symbol, foreshadowing, theme
Activity:1. Bell ringer
2. Review Homework.
3. Read pages 178-183 in the Holt Reader (“The Scarlet Ibis”) and do the margin questions
4. Interpret symbols in “The Scarlet Ibis” (p. 184 in the Holt Reader, discussion about the symbolism of the ibis itself and the theme that it develops)
5. Have students create a symbol for themselves. What represents them to others or the world, what theme does it represent.
Formative Assessment: symbol chart p. 184; drawing and thematic statement
Homework:“The Scarlet Ibis” vocabulary study guide, crossword puzzle; study flashcards for “Ibis” vocabulary; study the Novel Unit Study Guide for Literary Terms (Tone through Simile)
Nominative Case Pronouns, exercise 4
Friday, January 11
DLT:1. I can recall definitions of literary and vocabulary terms.
2. I can compose a paragraph that justifies my ideas about invisibility.
Activity:1. Bell ringer
2. Review Homework
3. Vocabulary quizzes and Story Quiz (over "Ibis")
4. Handout numbers for books, allow students to have PAT time if they are caught up.
Formative Assessment:quizzes
Homework: Purchase The Schwa was Here if possible.