English 11, Gottlieb, CHS

1. English 11, Gottlieb, CHS Grading Period 2, Semester 1

2. Monday, 10/22/12 • Journal: • 1. Go through your journal and read your writing up until now. • 2. Read my comments/questions. • 3. Write a reflection on your writing. What do you like (be specific)? What do you want to work on? • 4. Comment on/answer my comments/questions. Vocabulary • Quick review of study guide • “Into the Wild” • Test tomorrow!

3. exemplary: Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kindpeculiar: Strange or odd.bough: A main branch of a tree.pious: Devoutly religiouscommunion: The sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings.auditor: A person who conducts an auditmultitude: A large numbereloquence: Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.hoary: gray or white with age; ancient or venerable • Revere • Blasphemy

4. Tuesday, 10/23/12 • Clear desks for test • Protest letters – exchange and comment on rhetorical appeals • If time: Dark Romanticism and Nathanial Hawthorne – Yay! • If just a little time, inspiring video and journal response.

5. Identify the three rhetorical devices in the letter. • Describe the effectiveness of the letter. Were you persuaded? Why or why not? What would have persuaded you more.

6. Thursday, 10/25/12 • Grammar Challenge • Protest letters – exchange and comment on rhetorical appeals • If time: Dark Romanticism (just in time for Halloween) • Return Nature Writing – Revision Rules

7. Friday, 10/26/12 • Vocabulary Quiz • Dark Romanticism • Return Nature Writing – Revision Rules

8. Word, Part of Speech, Definition, Sentence 1. Communion 2. Eloquence 3. Revere 4. Pious 5. peculiar Bonus: Hoary

9. Monday, 10/29/12 • Journal: Write about something scary. What has scared you when you were little? What scares you now, if anything. • Turn in Corrections with Essays • Vocabulary • Dark Romanticism • Concepts, Authors and Literary Focus • Excerpt from “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Poe

10. Tuesday, 10/30/12 • What are you thoughts about Halloween? Will you dress up? As what? What will you do? If nothing, why? What have your past experiences of Halloween been? • Finish Dark Romanticism lecture • Fall of the House of Usher excerpt. • Writing exercise • Begin “Young Goodman Brown” HW: Read YGB and annotate

11. Thursday, 11/1/12 • Journal: Describe a nightmare: what are the emotions and images you experience? Why do you think we have nightmares? • Identifying Dark Romanticism in Poetry • Connecting to Young Goodman Brown • A Tupac poem

12. Friday, 11/2/12 • Share out and Turn in Paragraphs • Praise: how does writing express Dark Romanticism? • Vocabulary Quiz postponed to Monday • Continue Dark Romanticism and poetry • Connect to Young Goodman Brown • SSR

13. Monday, 11/5/12 • Vocabulary Quiz: Once complete, transition to the Journal below: • Considering Young Goodman Brown and the dark romantic poetry we read, what are some characteristics of dark romanticism that are demonstrated in those texts? Use specific examples from the text. (Hint: Look at how the use of symbols suggest dark romantic themes.) • Discuss YGB and poems • Benchmark exam tomorrow – suggestions for Attacking The Prompt

14. Tuesday, 11/6/12 • Benchmark • Clear desks. Have a pencil and pen out. • For the essay, write in pen on one side of the paper. • Note: Please return your Nature Writing pieces for portfolio collection. • When done with test, read or work quietly. Do not disturb others! • Turn in your Dark Romanticism packets at the end. If everyone finishes testing we will discuss/review packet and exam.

15. Thursday, 11/8/12 • Journal: How would you describe this region? Think of culture: language (slang/everyday talk), fashion, lifestyle, issues. • Beginning Huckleberry Finn • Context: Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism • Bio of Mark Twain

16. Friday, 11/9/12 • Introducing Huck Finn controversies. • Should we read the N-word out loud. • 60 minutes Story • Research and Socratic Seminar • SSR

17. Tuesday, 11/13/12 • Socratic Seminar • Journal: Write a response to the Socratic Seminar • Begin reading Huckleberry Finn • HW: read until page 22

18. Socratic Seminar • Why is Huck Finn Controversial? • How does knowing the history of the controversy make you feel about reading it? • Do schools have the right to ban this book? • What is the history of the “N-word”? • Why is this word so powerful for some? • Are there “rules” behind the use of “N-word”? • How do you feel about the word? When do you hear it used? Does it make you uncomfortable? • Does knowing the history behind the word change the word for you? • Should we read the N-word aloud in Huck Finn? • Race is a huge issue in Huck Finn, set in pre civil war time. So, what about now: is race a big issue still? Do you see racism in your community? Is racism an issue that we should all care about?

19. Thursday, 11/15/12 • Journal: What questions do you have for the first five chapters of the book? What do you think the answers might be? • Ken Burns Biography of Mark Twain continued. As you watch, continue notes from last week: • Two columns (have at least 10): • 1) Interesting info. From movie (fact, event, quote) • 2) My Interpretation: why do you think this might be important? What does it reveal about Twain’s life, beliefs, personality, writing etc.. • After: 5 questions you have about Mark Twain - Due Tomorrow/Fri • Read and Annotate Chapters 6 and 7 tonight. • Introducing a reading strategy: Dialectical Journals • Reading assignment over break: read to end of chapter 15 • Continue Annotating • Double Entry Journals: 6 Entries Homework

20. Friday, 11/16/12 • Introducing a reading strategy: Dialectical Journals • Reading assignment over break: read to end of chapter 15 • Continue Annotating • Double Entry Journals: 6 Entries • HF questions/discussion • SSR Have a fantastic Thanksgiving Break!!!!! With Huck Finn… Homework

21. 1. Huck calls himself “ignorant” and “low-down and ornery.”  Do you agree with this description?  Why or why not? • 2.            How would you compare the characters of the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson?  Who seems to be presented in a more favorable light? • 3.            Where and when is the novel set?  Why is the time period in which the novel is set important? • 4.            How would you contrast the characters of Huck and Tom? • 5.            How does Twain satirize—or ridicule—“do-gooders” in his description of Pap’s “reform”? • 6.            How does the physical description of Pap in Chapter five also serve to describe his character? • 7.            When Pap criticizes the “govment,” what does Twain want the reader to feel about these issues? • 8.            Why does Huck make it appear that he has been murdered instead of simply running away from Pap? • 9.            What do you think Twain believed about slavery?  Support your response with examples from the novel.

22. Monday, November 26 • Welcome Back! • Journal: Free write. Focus: Thanksgiving break. • Quiz on chapters 1-17 tomorrow. • Share double entry journals – turn in. • Shared reading Chapter 16 + 17 • HW: Read up to the end of Ch. 17

23. Tuesday, 11/27/12 • Quiz on Chapters 1-17 • Journal: What words have you heard used to describe you, or used yourself? • Make a 3-column chart • In the left hand column, make a list of both positive and negative words. • In the middle column write about how that word makes you feel and why. • In the right hand column write a few notes about the context of that word. When did you hear that word? Describe the situation. • Essay Assignment: Background, Brainstorm, Instructions • HW: • 1. Due Thursday: Pick the word you will write your essay on. Write 1 paragraph on your word including the dictionary definition and the connotations of the word you have experienced. • 2. Due Thursday: Read to the end of Chapter 19. Two journal entries per week. • 3. Due Friday: Find, print and annotate two articles about your word. Note what you have learned (web, bullets, chart)

24. Quiz 1. What are Huck and Jim talking about when Jim says: “Well, den, deyaint no sense in a cat talkin like a man. Is a cow a man? Er is a cow a cat?” 2. How does Jim figure out that Huck was playing a trick on him? 3. What is the significance of the snake skin?

25. My Words

26. Huckleberry Finn and the POWER of words • Twain once remarked, "The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is . . . the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." • Huck Finn was (and probably will remain) a lesson in the use of language, of epithets, of slurs and how they can change (or not) over time. • “There is power in words, great power. But they aren’t so powerful that they can sprout from us bounties of good or evil. Those are seeds we sow ourselves, watered by our own choices” from blog post by author Billy Coffey

27. Connotation vs. Denotation Denotation: dictionary definition of the word Connotation: the emotions, feelings you have surrounding the word (could be based on context or how it is used) Connotations can be Positive, Negative or Neutral

28. Positive We bought inexpensive souvenirs at the amusement park. I ate a moist sandwich. I am a bargain shopper. Negative We bought cheap souvenirs at the amusement park. I ate a soggy sandwich. I am a cheapskate. Connotation

29. Article Discussions • What is the author’s argument? • List the ways in which the author describes the word being used. • For each, note the examples she uses to illustrate that usage. • If the author’s needed to back up their claims with research, what kind of research might they look for and use?

30. Thursday, 11/29 WE GO TO 2ND ASSEMBLY. Class, then break, then meet here for attendance again, then assembly. • Journal: Free write. • Round robin with paragraphs. • Reader’s responsibility: make notes/comments • Discuss each word offering suggestions on examples. • Take notes on paragraph AND on another sheet of paper list any ideas you want to follow up on as you research. • Shared Reading

31. Friday 11/30 – See you in December. • Have articles out for me to check throughout period. • Reading and Essay Calendar for next two weeks. • Review mentor texts • Purdue Site Review • Thesis statements • SSR HW: By Tuesday – two paragraphs and a working thesis statement By Tuesday, Read to end of Ch. 22. (If time we will read some in class on Monday.)

32. Monday, 12/3/12 • Journal:

33. Monday, 12/3/12 • Journal: What is funny? What examples in popular media and literature convey humor? Describe. Do any of these use humor for another purpose? Why? • Satire and Mark Twain HW: • Embedded quotes practice due Thursday • Tomorrow: Thesis and two paragraphs of essay • 2 Double Entry Journals this week focused on: Satire

34. Satire: use of wit to criticize behavior: the use of wit, especially irony, sarcasm, and ridicule, to criticize faults

35. Types of Satire/Satirical Techniques • Exaggeration/hyperbole • Incongruity • Parody • Caricature • Yarn • Irony • malapropism

36. Tuesday, 12/4/12 • Journal: “Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own, which is the chief reason so few are offended by it.” Jonathan Swift (wrote Satire in the 1700s) What does Swift mean? Can you describe an example from contemporary humor? Think about The Simpsons or Family Guy or even some of the characters in The Hunger Games. • Vocabulary for final: 20 new words plus all sets from beginning of semester. • Have essay paragraph drafts out for Round Robin. • Shared read of chapter 23 with focus on Satire HW: Read up to ch. 26 by Thursday Double entry journals (2) due Friday Full draft of essay due Friday WITH Works Cited page

37. Central forces of humor/ themes • The undercurrent of human limitations • Human foibles • Our inability to control the physical environment • Exaggeration of experience and personality • Manipulation of language • The irony of the unexpected • The juxtaposition of the logical and the illogical (incongruity)