Category Archives: ELA 11.24

24) Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students will use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity. Students are expected to:

(A) listen responsively to a speaker by framing inquiries that reflect an understanding of the content and by identifying the positions taken and the evidence in support of those positions; and

(B) evaluate the clarity and coherence of a speaker’s message and critique the impact of a speaker’s diction and syntax on an audience.

English III Lesson Plans for April 3 – 7, 2017

Posted on by

The Great Gatsby

M & T: Class discussion and notes on the hallmarks of the Jazz Age: time period, advances for women, Prohibition, urban corruption, 1919 World Series scandal, the “People’s Car,” dancing, backlash from the “decade that roared.”

W: Fine Arts Day

Th: The students will view the Biography Channel production of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer and answer questions about the author of the novel.

F: Chapter One vocabulary. The students will read pages 1 – 10 of the novel, identifying examples of characterization for the characters Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, and Tom & Daisy Buchanan.

A.P. English III Lesson Plans for November 7 – 11, 2016

Posted on by

M: The Crucible – To introduce them to the causes and impact of the Salem Witch Trials, the students will view a Biography Channel documentary on the hysteria that swept Salem, Massachusetts the winter of 1692. Announce test for Thursday, Nov. 10 over the factors influencing that hysteria (notes and discussion from Thursday, Nov. 3).

T: Witch Hunt! Notes and discussion of McCarthyism and its influence on Arthur Miller, playwright of The Crucible.

W: The students will view a History Channel documentary and answer questions about Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

Th: The students will complete a test over the factors influencing the Salem witch hysteria.

F: Notes, discussion, and research assignment over Native American and Anglo influences in American English.

 

English III Lesson Plans for September 26 – 30, 2016

Posted on by

M: Introduction to Gone with the Wind: “It’s not about the Civil War, it’s about people with gumption.”

Margaret Mitchell’s approach to her masterpiece.

T: Due to the simplicity of the Puritan lifestyle, they had few possessions, dressed somberly  and uniformly, and didn’t believe in expressing themselves creatively. Because they have left so little behind, they remain a mystery in many ways. Journal Writing – List five personal possessions that best express your individuality. What would they tell future generations about your lifestyle and personality? Write at least one page and no more than two.

W:  Read Edward Taylor biographical sketch, pg. 88. Define direct address. Read Huswifery, pg. 93. Notes and discussion.

Th: The students will view the first installment of Gone with the Wind, noting examples of Scarlett’s level of maturity and main concerns.

F: The students will read Iron Bird: Cal Ripken’s Work Ethic, to conclude The Puritan Influence unit.

 

A.P. English III Lesson Plans for September 19 – 23, 2016

Posted on by

M – Th: To extend a summer reading assignment, the students will view the play, Our Town, in preparation for writing a comparison paper over 20th-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire and 21st-century White Oak, Texas.

F: The students will be in the computer lab preparing a draft of their summer reading comparison paper.

A.P. English III Lesson Plans for September 12 – 16, 2016

Posted on by

M & T: The students will present their rhetorical analysis of selected editorial cartoons to the class.

W: Mr. Hale will distribute ACT information and STAAR test results to the class.

Th: The students will complete a test on the art of rhetoric.

F: The students will complete their rhetorical analysis of editorial cartoons presentations to the class.

English III Lesson Plans for February 1 – 5, 2016

Posted on by

M: The students will complete a test on sound devices and will read The Raven.

T & W: The students will explicate The Raven.

Th: The students will read and take notes about the biographical sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne and discuss the inherited guilt aspect of his work.

F: The students will view the video of Hawthorne’s life, New England’s Puritan Son, define allegory, and will complete the vocabulary for Young Goodman Brown.

 

A.P. English III Lesson Plans for February 1 – 5, 2016

Posted on by

Gothic Literature

M: The students will complete SAT-based vocabulary Lesson 16 Mystery. Due Friday

T: The students will view a video lecture by Elliot Engel, Ph.D, on how events in the life of Edgar Allan Poe influenced his works and complete its accompanying lesson.

W: The students will discuss and take notes on sound devices and the four recurring themes in the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Th: The students will read and explicate the poem, Annabelle Lee.

F: The students will read The Raven.

English III Lesson Plans for January 25 – 29, 2016

Posted on by

M: The students will complete SAT-based Vocabulary Lesson 16. Raven project and narrative essay explained and assigned (due February 10). The student will research folklore about ravens in different cultures (due Thursday).

T: The students will read and discuss The Tell-Tale Heart.

W: Early Release

Th: The students will report to the class the information they gathered from researching ravens in the folklore of different nations and cultures.

F: The students will discuss and take notes over sound devices and read The Raven.

A.P. English III Lesson Plans for January 25 – 29, 2016

Posted on by

M & T: The students will view the motion picture To Kill a Mockingbird, and note particular statements for later critique of diction and syntax. M: Lesson Learned in TKAM Chart due.

W: Early Release

Th: The students will view Atticus’s closing argument in the motion picture and complete an exercise evaluating the clarity and coherence of its message on the audience.

F: The students will complete the SAT-based vocabulary Lesson 16.