Drill # 58 11/29/11 Please write the date and drill # on your paper. B-Day

1. Drill # 58 11/29/11Please write the date and drill # on your paper. B-Day Create a sentence about an experience you have had that taught you an important lesson about life. Your sentence must include one word from the Unit 11 Vocab list.

2. Objectives SWBAT: identify and explain theme in a novel or poem. predict vocabulary definitions using context clues. revise sentences for clarity, conciseness, and effectiveness by combining sentences. interpret and analyze poetry for theme using reading strategies. identify necessary historical background in order to better understand a novel.

3. Homework Vocab Unit 11 Synonyms and Antonyms(page 128) Finish Grammar Ex. 7(p.41) OR Ex. 9(p.42-43)

4. Housekeeping Winter Festival Countdown: 4 Weeks Until Winter Break Winter Festival on Friday, 12/23 All students who are referral free from Monday, 11/28-Thursday, 12/22 are eligible to participate.

5. Vocab Unit 11 Group 1: Predict the definition of the underlined words using context clues. Since I missed Amanda’s birthday last week, I gave her a belated birthday card today. Be sure tociteyour sources when you write a research paper. Painted wooden decoys are often used by hunters to fool ducks into thinking they are safe. The archeologists delved deeply into the underground tomb of the pharaoh when they were looking for hidden artifacts. When a car accident happens on the highway, both investigations and lawsuits are certain to ensue.

6. Vocab Unit 11 Group 2: Predict the definition of the underlined words using context clues. Cautious and judicious people consider all their options before making important decisions. An appropriate milieu, complete with necessary plants and animals, is necessary when one is creating an animal sanctuary. An overbearing person has a strong need to be in charge all the time. She has such a pert personality that I often get tired just trying to keep up with her. I always look forward to the regaling that takes place when I go to the Medieval Times dinner and show.

7. Grammar: Combining Sentences Blue Grammar Book-Lesson 3.2-3.3.4 (pages 38-43) Choose your best sentence revision from last night. Write it on the board. We will either complete Exercise 7 on page 41 if we need more practice, or we will move on to lesson 3.4—Combining Sentences by Inserting Phrases (Exercise 9, pages 42-43).

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9. Review: What is Theme? Review the definition of theme from your literary glossary. Our next unit will be, “Author’s Create Theme.” Literature

10. Literature Analyze Poetry for Theme Refer to the handout from yesterday for analyzing poetry using reading strategies. Analyze the poem, “The Meadow Mouse.” What is the theme of this poem?

11. Literature There are certain social rules that indicate politeness, respect, and consideration of others when you are talking to them. Using your white board, rate the following statements on a scale of 1-5 in terms of whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Never state or suggest that a person is lying.

12. Literature There are certain social rules that indicate politeness, respect, and consideration of others when you are talking to them. Using your white board, rate the following statements on a scale of 1-5 in terms of whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Never have bad intentions in your treatment of people.

13. Literature There are certain social rules that indicate politeness, respect, and consideration of others when you are talking to them. Using your white board, rate the following statements on a scale of 1-5 in terms of whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Never suggest that you are superior to a person.

14. Literature There are certain social rules that indicate politeness, respect, and consideration of others when you are talking to them. Using your white board, rate the following statements on a scale of 1-5 in terms of whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Never try to show that you are more intelligent than a person.

15. Literature There are certain social rules that indicate politeness, respect, and consideration of others when you are talking to them. Using your white board, rate the following statements on a scale of 1-5 in terms of whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Never curse at a person.

16. Literature There are certain social rules that indicate politeness, respect, and consideration of others when you are talking to them. Using your white board, rate the following statements on a scale of 1-5 in terms of whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Never laugh insultingly at a person.

17. Literature There are certain social rules that indicate politeness, respect, and consideration of others when you are talking to them. Using your white board, rate the following statements on a scale of 1-5 in terms of whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Never comment on the appearance of a female.

18. The social rules that you just evaluated are modified Jim Crow laws—the word WHITE was taken out of each one. Although these social rules are acceptable and understandable without the word WHITE, they become incredibly derogatory when the social respect is only one way—from African Americans towards White people. 1. Never state or suggest that a WHITE person is lying. 2. Never have bad intentions in your treatment of a WHITE person. 3. Never suggest that you’re superior to a WHITE person. 4. Never try to show that you are more intelligent than a WHITE person. 5. Never curse at a WHITE person. 6. Never laugh insultingly at a WHITE person.7. Never comment upon the appearance of a WHITE female.

19. Jim Crow • Jim Crow was the name of the racial class system that existed in Southern and border between 1877 and the mid-1960s. • Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. • Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-Black racism. • Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that Whites were the Chosen people, Blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation. Craniologists, eugenicists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists, at every educational level, buttressed the belief that Blacks were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to Whites. • Pro-segregation politicians gave eloquent speeches on the great danger of integration: the mongrelization of the White race. • Newspaper and magazine writers routinely referred to Blacks as niggers, coons, and darkies; and worse, their articles reinforced anti-Black stereotypes. Even children's games portrayed Blacks as inferior beings All major societal institutions reflected and supported the oppression of Blacks.

20. Whites were superior to Blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between Blacks and Whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America; treating Blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep Blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy.

21. Plessyv. Ferguson • Plessy vs. Ferguson made the lifestyle of “separate but equal” • Plessy sent this message to southern and border states: Discrimination against Blacks is acceptable. • Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and in front of public facilities. There were separate hospitals for Blacks and Whites, separate prisons, separate public and private schools, separate churches, separate cemeteries, separate public restrooms, and separate public accommodations. In most instances, the Black facilities were grossly inferior -- generally, older, less-well-kept. In other cases, there were no Black facilities -- no Colored public restroom, no public beach, no place to sit or eat. Plessy gave Jim Crow states a legal way to ignore their constitutional obligations to their Black citizens.

31. Closure Based on the information presented, write a prediction about the theme of our next novel. Use one piece of information from today to justify your prediction.

32. Revisit the Objectives SWBAT: identify and explain theme in a novel or poem. predict vocabulary definitions using context clues. revise sentences for clarity, conciseness, and effectiveness by combining sentences. interpret and analyze poetry for theme using reading strategies. identify necessary historical background in order to better understand a novel.