MONDAY 5-20-19 A-Day: Read Chapter 20-21
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- Reminder: Click here to check the TKMB Reading Assignment Sheet. You are responsible for reading chapters NOT listed on your own outside of class time.
DO Now - Copy
Entry Title: Developing a Theme or Not?
Directions: Copy the statements below into a new entry. Read each statement and highlight it green if it is the author developing the theme of self-discovery (knowing who you are). If not, color it red.
- The song How Far I'll Go! in the film Moana, is used as a metaphor to establish the idea that Moana has an internal conflict about her purpose in life.
- Moana's grandmother introduces the film by telling a folk tale about how Maui stole the heart of Tefiti.
- The director uses the death of Moana's grandmother as a catalyst for Moana to make the decision to follow "the voice inside."
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Learning Target(s)
- I can explain how Harper Lee further develops the theme of prejudice in chapter 20 by tracking specific details.
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Mini-Lesson: Developing a Theme
- Authors use characters, setting (time and place) and plot (what happens) to develop their theme (message to the reader).
- Watch this Adobe Spark presentation on Developing Theme
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Work Time
- Use your theme tracker to identify examples of how Harper Lee develops the theme of racism in Chapter 20.
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Assessment / Homework
- TBD
TUESDAY 5-21-19 B-Day: Summarize Chapters 22-27, Read 28
DO Now - Copy
Entry Title: Developing a Theme or Not Part II?
Directions: Copy the statements below into a new entry. Read each statement and highlight it green if it is the author developing a theme. If not, color it red.
- Thahhna Lai uses the symbolism of Ha's mother's ring to establish her mother's joy.
- Thahhna Lai uses the character of Pink Boy to establish the theme of bullying once Ha arrives in Alabama.
- Thahhna Lai uses the symbol of the papaya tree to develop the theme of homesickness in Ha throughout the novel.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can explain how Harper Lee further develops the theme of prejudice in chapter 21 by tracking specific details.
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Mini-Lesson: Summarizing Chapters 22-27
Read the Summary for each of these chapters. You are responsible for reading these chapters on your own! You will have a test on chapters 18-31 once we are done reading the novel.
- Summary of Chapters 22 - 26:
- Chapter 22 Summary
- Chapter 23 Summary
- Chapter 24 Summary
- Chapter 25 Summary
- Chapter 26 Summary
- Chapter 27 Summary
Work Time
Have your SGQs and Theme Trackers out so you can fill them out as we read.
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Assessment / Homework
- Use theme tracker to identify examples of how Harper Lee develops the theme of racism in Chapter 22-27.
WEDNESDAY 5-23-19 D-Day: Finish Chapter 28, SGQs and Theme Tracker
Announcements
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- Reminder: Click here to check the TKMB Reading Assignment Sheet. You are responsible for reading chapters NOT listed on your own outside of class time.
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DO Now - Developing a Theme Using Language
Entry Title: Example of How Harper Lee Develops the Theme of Compassion Using Language
- Example from the Novel: Compassion
Atticus stood up and walked to the end of the porch. When he completed his examination of the wisteria vine he strolled back to me. “First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-” “Sir?” “-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
- Explanation of how the author develops the theme of compassion using language spoken by a character...
For your presentations, you want to show how the author establishes your theme (the first time it is mentioned in the novel) and then show how the author uses language (or any other literary device) to build on the theme as the novel progresses.
TRY THIS ONE ON YOUR OWN
Theme Being Tracked: Taking a Stand
Directions:
- Find the example of Taking a Stand in the excerpt below.
- Decide if the author is establishing this theme for the first in the novel or is developing it further (making it more complex).
- Figure out how the author uses language to understand how the theme is established or further developed.
- Explain number 3.
- EXCERPT
- I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. “Teach me?” I said in surprise. “He hasn’t taught me anything, Miss Caroline. Atticus ain’t got time to teach me anything,” I added, when Miss Caroline smiled and shook her head. “Why, he’s so tired at night he just sits in the livingroom and reads.” “If he didn’t teach you, who did?” Miss Caroline asked good-naturedly. “Somebody did. You weren’t born reading The Mobile Register .” “Jem says I was. He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch. Jem says my name’s really Jean Louise Bullfinch, that I got swapped when I was born and I’m really a-” Miss Caroline apparently thought I was lying. “Let’s not let our imaginations run away with us, dear,” she said. “Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage-” “Ma’am?” “Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now.”
Complete Your EXPLANATION HERE... (USE TREES)
In the excerpt above, the author uses language to establish the theme of taking a stand. This is done through the language Scout uses to defend herself when Miss Caroline accuses Atticus of teaching Scout to read. This is the first time the author introduces the idea of taking a stand. Scout takes a stand by saying, " ________ ." This establishes the theme of taking a stand by...
Learning Target(s)
- I can explain how an author uses language to establish and develop a major theme in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Mini-Lesson: Explaining How Authors Develop Themes
- Using Do Now Above review the steps.
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Work Time
- Read chapter 28
- Update theme tracker
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Assessment / Homework
- None
THURSDAY 5-23-19 D-Day: Read 29
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- Reminder: Click here to check the TKMB Reading Assignment Sheet. You are responsible for reading chapters NOT listed on your own outside of class time.
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DO Now - Practice Identifying a Themes
Entry Title: Practice Identifying a Theme
Directions:
- Find the example of Prejudice in the excerpt below.
- Decide if the author is establishing this theme for the first in the novel or is developing it further (making it more complex).
- Figure out how the author uses language to understand how the theme is established or further developed.
- Explain number 3.
- EXCERPT
Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson’s upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days. Miss Caroline printed her name on the blackboard and said, “This says I am Miss Caroline Fisher. I am from North Alabama, from Winston County.” The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region. (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.
Complete Your EXPLANATION HERE... (USE TREES)
In the excerpt above, the author uses language to <establish or develop> the theme of prejudice. This is because...
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Learning Target(s)
- I can identifying themes in the novel and explain how the author either establishes or develops them.
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Mini-Lesson: Review Do Now
- Share out Do Now
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Work Time
- Read Chapter 29, finish over break.
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Assessment / Homework
- Finish 29 if necessary.
- Test on Chapters 18-31 on Tuesday after break.
TODAY'S WORK 5-23-19
- Complete Assignment 72.0 in Google Classroom by the end of the period!
- Complete your SGQs and Theme Trackers - Due MONDAY 11:59 PM. NOTE: These are very important and must be turned in on time or you will not receive full credit for the assignments.
- Finish any ReadWorks Assignments you may not have completed.
- Work on your 20% Time Project
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