Week 6 ARITS

1. Week 6 ARITS

2. Standards and Objectives • Objectives: Students will be able to determine a theme or central idea in a text • Students will be able to analyze a text for its details • Students will be able to explain how objects are symbols which aid in a deeper meaning to the text • Students will be able to trace a character’s development • Students will be able to analyze a text for its literary elements • Students will be able to write about literature in meaningful ways, comparing and contrasting different texts • Students will be able to write about their version of the American Dream and analyze their future dreams and goals in relevant ways • Standards: RL. 9-10.2, RL. 9-10.4, SL. 9-10.1, W. 9-10.E D, L.9-10.4. B

3. Monday Opener • What are you looking forward to seeing the most in the movie? What do you hope they don’t cut? What could they cut because it’s not 100% necessary to getting the meaning of the play?

4. Monday agenda • Opener • Watch ARITS

5. Tuesday opener • Thinking about A Raisin in the Sun, do you think that Walter learned his lesson and is going to be a changed man from now on? Why or why not? Give examples to back up your opinion. • Relate to your life: what is one lesson you learned, maybe even learned the hard way?

6. Tuesday agenda • Opener • Finish watching movie

7. Wednesday opener • Which character in ARITS do you think is truly searching for a better way of life? Which character wants a better way of life the most and why did you chose that character? • Relate to your life: in what ways are you searching for a better way of life? How do you want your life to be different than it is now?

8. Wednesday Agenda • Opener • Finish watching movie • Vocabulary cards • Missing Work check-in • Tomorrow: • Notes about TKAM • Hand out books and collect ARITS

9. Thursday Opener Boo Radley, an important character in our text, is almost like a ghost in this story. A ghost that our two main child characters (Jem and Scout) are obsessed with. What is something or someone you were obsessed with as a child? Tell the story? OR tell about something you were scared of as a child.

10. Thursday Agenda Opener Vocabulary Notes on TKAM Read TKAM if time permits Homework: read selected chapters from TKAM

11. The Great Depression

12. 1929-1939 • Stock market crash • Didn’t realize the effect it would have • No money to replenish what was borrowed Many found being broke humiliating.

13. The Roaring 20’s • The new concept of “credit” • People were buying: • Automobiles • Appliances • Clothes • Fun times reigned • Dancing • Flappers • Drinking

14. Why was this bad? • Credit system • People didn’t really have the money they were spending • WWI • The U.S. was a major credit loaner to other nations in need • Many of these nations could not pay us back

15. The Stock Market • People bought stocks on margins • If a stock is $100 you can pay $10 now and the rest later when the stock rose • Stocks fall • Now the person has less than $100 and no money to pay back

16. And then…. • With people panicking about their money investors tried to sell their stocks • This leads to a huge decline in stocks • Stocks were worthless now • People who bought on “margins” now could not pay • Investors were average people that were now broke

17. President Hoover • Herbert Hoover was president at the start • Philosophy: We’ll make it! • What He Did: Nothing • The poor were looking for help and no ideas on how to correct or help were coming

18. What about the people? • Farmers were already feeling the effects • Prices of crops went down • Many farms foreclosed • People could not afford luxuries • Factories shut down • Businesses went out • Banks could not pay out money • People could not pay their taxes • Schools shut down due to lack of funds • Many families became homeless and had to live in shanties

20. Many waited in unemployment lines hoping for a job.

21. People in cities would wait in line for bread to bring to their family.

22. Some families were forced to relocate because they had no money.

23. “Hooverville” • Some families were forced to live in shanty towns • A grouping of shacks and tents in vacant lots • They were referred to as “Hooverville” because of President Hoover’s lack of help during the depression.

24. Hooverville

25. Out of the Dust: The South and the Dust Bowl

26. A drought in the South lead to dust storms that destroyed crops. “The Dust Bowl”

27. The South Was Buried • Crops turned to dust=No food to be sent out • Homes buried • Fields blown away • South in state of emergency • Dust Bowl the #1 weather crisis of the 20th century

29. Two Families During the Depression

30. A Farm Foreclosure

31. Some families tried to make money by selling useful crafts like baskets.

32. *FDR* • When he was inaugurated unemployment had increased by 7 million. • Poor sections (like Harlem) had 50% of the pop. unemployed • Instated the “New Deal” • Yea! Frankie!

33. People everywhere were effected by the depression • It wasn’t till President Roosevelt took over and tried to put the economy back together that people even saw a glimmer of hope

34. To Kill a Mockingbird

35. Major Historical Happenings... • Jim Crow Laws • Scottsboro Trials • Recovering from the Great Depression • Racial Injustice • Poor South

36. Jim Crow Laws • After the American Civil War most states in the South passed anti-African American legislation. These became known as Jim Crow laws. • These laws included segregation in… • Schools -- Hospitals • Theaters -- Water fountains • Restaurants • Hotels • Public transportation • Some states forbid inter-racial marriages

37. These laws were instituted in 1896 and were not abolished till the late 1950’s (even then still not completely).

38. Scottsboro Boys Trial • 9 young African-American men (13-20) accused of raping 2 white girls in 1931 • Immediately sentenced to death • Trials went on for nearly 15 years before all the men were dismissed

39. Started on a train bound for Memphis • Several white men boarded and picked a fight with the black men • Whites were forced off train by the 12 black men. The white men reported the the black men had raped two white girls on the train to authorities • They were immediately arrested and tried in front of an all-white jury.

40. The trials caused a huge uproar amongst the black community.

41. Harper Lee

42. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 • Based the story on her life growing up in Monroeville, Alabama • TKAM was the only novel she ever wrote

43. The character of “Dill,” Scout and Jem’s playmate in the novel was based upon Lee’s actual neighbor, Truman Capote • Capote is famous for amongst other things, In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. • It has been said that he gave Lee Mockingbird as a gift.

44. In 1962 the novel was turned into a film starring Gregory Peck. • It received a humanitarian award and several Academy Award nominations

45. The End

46. Thursday Opener • Boo Radley, an important character in our text, is almost like a ghost in this story. A ghost that our two main child characters (Jem and Scout) are obsessed with. What is something or someone you were obsessed with as a child? Tell the story? OR tell about something you were scared of as a child.

47. Thursday Agenda • Opener • Vocabulary • Read TKAM • Homework: read selected chapters from TKAM

48. Friday Opener In Chapter 2, what attitude does the author seem to express toward public schools that use “the new way of teaching”? Support your answer with evidence from the selection and use at least one quotation. In other words, does our author seem to agree that the Dewey Decimal System is a positive change in schools? How do we know this? Use a quote to prove your point.

49. Students will get 5 minutes to write

50. When Quoting from a text • Use the name of the author and the title of the book • Underline the title • Lead in to the quote • Use quotation marks • Give the page number the quote was found on • Lead out of the quote/transition smoothly to the next sentence by giving your scholarly analysis of the quote. NEVER EVER EVER use a quote without explaining it in your own words. You need a “so-what?” Explain what the quote shows about your topic. What new ideas it presents to your reader? How does it prove your point? How does it relate to the prompt you are writing about? • Connect the dots for your reader. • And of course, never use “I” or “you” and other personal pronouns like “us” and “we”.