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Language & Literature Class Welcome Activities

Join us for interactive activities in our Language & Literature class! Reflect on your identity, set goals, and explore key literary concepts. Get ready to grow every day and achieve success!

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Language & Literature Class Welcome Activities

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  1. Welcome to Language & Literature 10 Please take a seat wherever you are comfortable. We don’t have assigned seats yet. On your notecard, decorate the background in a way that reflects your style or personality. Use colored pencils for this. Write your name in bold marker OVER your picture.

  2. Think & Reflect • “Who are you? What are you about? What is your most recent evidence? -Principal Baruti Kafele

  3. On the back, answer the 3 questions. • Who are YOU? • What are you ABOUT? (What do you believe in?/What is your goal?/ What values are most important to you?) 3. What is your most recent EVIDENCE? (What have you done lately that proves you are this person? Don’t be afraid to brag. Be proud of who you are.)

  4. Pair and Share • Introduce yourself to anyone you haven’t met at your table yet. • Share your answers with your table. • How are your answers similar? How are they different?

  5. Goal Grow every day!

  6. Syllabus & Procedures • Understanding the expectations and procedures will help us achieve our goals. • We will review some of the syllabus together today. • Your homework is to read the entire syllabus and write a short letter by tomorrow.

  7. I’m excited about our year together! • Baruti Kafele's 5 Key Ingredients for Success 1. Belief 2. Purpose 3. Obligation 4. Determination 5. Vision

  8. August 4, 2016Welcome Back! • Take out the 2nd page of your signed syllabus & letter. Put it in the tray above the bookshelf. • On a post-it note, write one idea you have for the personal project. • For example: I want to learn how to make a wedding dress, or I want to learn more about racial diversity in law enforcement.

  9. Our Goal is to GROW everyday! • Baruti Kafele's 5 Key Ingredients for Success 1. Belief 2. Purpose 3. Obligation 4. Determination 5. Vision

  10. Working Backwards • Now that we have a clear goal, we need to decide on agreements that will make this classroom a place that will help us reach our goal. • Fold a sheet of paper in half and draw this:

  11. An IDEAL Classroom Contains… • What does an IDEAL classroom LOOK like? What do you see happening? What are the students doing? How are they acting? • What does an IDEAL classroom SOUND like? There will be different times for different types of sounds. Who is talking? When do you hear your own voice? What are people talking about? • What does an IDEAL classroom FEEL like? When you walk in, how do you feel? How do you feel after class is over?

  12. Pairing & Sharing • Share your answers with a partner at your table. Listen for SIMILARITIES. • Then draw this— • Pick 3 similarities and turn them into Essential Agreements. “We agree to….”

  13. Homework • Bring a notebook for Monday! • 10X—Summer Reading is due Monday.

  14. August 5, 2016Happy First Week, Everyone! • Welcome! Please find your seat. • At your tables there are essential agreement lists. Work as a table to pick the 3 essential agreements that you ALL believe will create a productive, safe, & meaningful class environment.

  15. Springboard • Sign your name on the roster to acknowledge that you received a copy of Springboard. • Write your name in a Sharpie on your book; also write the class period. We will keep these in the classroom.

  16. Defining Culture

  17. Culture

  18. Thinking • Open up SpringBoard to page 5. • At the bottom of the page is space to build a word web of examples of culture. Write down words or phrases you associate with culture. Culture

  19. Keeping in mind the ideas we have generated about culture, what cultural associations do you make with this image?

  20. August 8, 2016Welcome to class; I’m glad you’re here.Do Now: • Open your NEW notebook. Get your copy of Springboard. • Pick one of the objects or images you wrote down at the end of class on Friday (p.6). Explain how this represents your culture. • What is your favorite movie? Why? • What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?

  21. The Lord of the Flies

  22. August 9, 2016Welcome! Do Now: • Complete the reflection on yesterday’s island activity.

  23. Understanding the SettingLord of the Flies Preview • Background: A plane full of British children is evacuating England. It crashes. • Time: During an un-named nuclear war, comparable to WWII. • Place: An uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

  24. The Island

  25. Key Aspects of the Time Period • We will be working in groups to look at different key images of this time period. Look at the picture in the envelope, then read the informational article connected with each image. • Complete the Observation Matrix for each image.

  26. Journal Prompt • How would this time period influence— Children, and Teenagers? Explain.

  27. Homework • Bring headphones for Thursday.

  28. August 10, 2016Welcome to class! • Take your notebook from the cabinet. • Take out your Matrix handout from last class(finish it quickly). • WRITE: How would this time period influence Children and Teenagers? Explain.

  29. SymbolismT-P-S 1. Symbolism is a way for an author to communicate key ideas to an audience. 2. Write: What is this a symbol of? Explain.

  30. Symbolism • What is this a symbol of? Explain.

  31. Symbolism • What is this a symbol of? Explain.

  32. Annotation • We will read and annotate the first 3 pages in the novel. • When finished, complete the 3 questions and hand in your paper to me (these are due before you leave). • The “fat boy” is named Piggy.

  33. Homework • Bring headphones for next class!

  34. August 11, 2016Welcome! • Do Now— • Take your notebooks from the back cabinets. • Write: What should we be writing when we annotate a text?

  35. Journal Prompt • How do you think the time period of the 1940s-1950s influenced children and teenagers? (Think about the matrix research—nuclear weapons, bomb shelters, gas masks, the mass killings of the Holocaust, the Red Scare)

  36. Figurative Language • You will be given a bookmark on which to take notes on figurative language. • As we go through the slide show, please write down the definitions of each term. • These are your notes for your annotations and for the 9-week exam. Keep them close. Hold them dear.

  37. Homework • Bring headphones! • NWEA on Monday

  38. Symbolism Symbolism in Literature As we begin reading The Lord of the Flies, take note of any objects that stand out to you. Pay attention to these objects as you read. These may become important symbols by the end of the book.

  39. August 12, 2016Happy Friday! • Look over the Annotation Cheat Sheet. • Draw a line under the word “Predictions” to divide the paper in half. Then label the top half “Level 1” • Today is Annotation Day! You will be divided into three groups and rotate stations when I call time.

  40. Homework • NWEA testing Monday and Tuesday!

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