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American Literature: Poe and Hawthorne English III **Day ** **90 Min. Block ** **Bellringer ** || **Activities ** || **NCSCOS/ ** **Objectives ** || **Learning Styles ** **Intelligences ** || Correct the following sentence: The Tell Tale Heart written by Edgar allan poe is a mental Thriller. || Think/Pair/Share/ essential question TTYPA Nominate Partner Review of prior learning about life of EAP. Students select a modern-day author or individual who employs the same methods as Edgar Allan Poe. Group activity: The group shares findings on poster board and shares information with class. Exit Slip: What question would you like to ask Mr. Poe. Entrance Slip for tomorrow: share one ‘fun fact’ about EAP ||. Verbal/Linguistic Visual/Spatial Tactile Interpersonal Intrapersonal ||  ||
 * **Essential Question/Reflection **
 * **1 ** Evaluate the reason, or motivation, for an individual to write.
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**2 ** What inspires you to write? Consider an incident that prompted you to text, blog, write, and describe the circumstances. Idiom interpretation: “Everywhere I go, my mother makes me take my bratty little sister. She’s an **//albatross around my neck//**.” Idiom: Think/Pair/Share/ TTYPA: Nominate Partner Read aloud of “The Tell Tale Heart” Students scribe three favorite lines on index cards, work in groups of four, narrow to one ‘wow’ line Literature log entry Exit Slip: Did the detectives ‘flush him out’? Explain. || **//1.01,4.02,//** Visual/Spatial Tactile Interpersonal Intrapersonal Existential ||
 * //Collect entrance slip//
 * //Consider the meaning and create a unique sentence to reflect the intended spirit of the phrase.//** || EQ:Enter thoughts in literature log/journal
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**3 ** Correct the following for spelling, punctuation, and grammar: Above all were the scence of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in earth. I heard many thing in hell. How than am I mad. Hearken? and observe how healthily how calmly I can tell you the hole story. || EQ:Enter thoughts in literature log/journal Warm-up: Think/Pair/Share/ Use SMARTBoard for corrections Media Center Activity: SAS on Hawthorne and Poe Teacher Website: Blog about responses H/W: Select a song that EAP would enjoy and write down the artist, title, and reason for the selection on an index card. This will be collected as an entrance slip tomorrow. One will be chosen as bathroom break song. || **4.02,4.03,** Verbal/Linguistic Musical Tactile Intrapersonal Interpersonal Existential ||
 * Identify one method used by the narrator to defend his sanity in “The Tell Tale Heart” and examine the impact on the reader.
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**Day ** **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Bellringer ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">NCSCOS Objectives ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Learning Styles ** **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Intelligences ** || Idiom: My upstairs neighbors fight a lot and **//air their dirty laundry in public.//** Small Group Discussion about idiom, nominate one response to share with class Introduction to the life of Hawthorne: video clip and discussion through Discovery Education Introduction of new break song from prior exit slip SMARTBoard Venn Diagram of Poe and Hawthorne Personal history, theme, and approach Exit slip: develop one question for Hawthorne about his life || **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//** **//5.01, 5.02,//**  **//6.02//** || Visual/Spatial Verbal/Linguistic Existential Tactile Musical Intrapersonal Intrapersonal ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Correct the following for punctuation and grammar: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter is a wonderful tail of hester Prynne, one of the strongest Woman in literature. || EQ: Think/Pair/Share Nominate your peer’s response Introduction of project: Menu Journal Website Blog Storyboard Creation Rubrics Personal Goals Independent activity: Personal portfolio goals H/W: Entrance slip for tomorrow: consider a question you would like to ask Hawthorne ||. **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//**  **//5.01, 5.02,//**  Intrapersonal Tactile Verbal/Linguistic Existential ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Essential Question/Reflection **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">4 ** EQ: Do events in your life shape your view of the world?
 * //Evaluate the meaning of dirty laundry and create a scenario where the idiom would apply.//** || Journal
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">5 ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Do comic books have a place in literature? Consider whether a meaningful story can be represented for plot, character, and theme in a comic book. Defend your response.
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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; display: block; height: 135.4pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">6 ** Idiom: Alex’s mother was horrified when he started dating a girl from the **//wrong side of the tracks.//** Entrance slip activity to narrow to one question per group for author Author study activity Ask the author activity Project time for group and independent work Exit slip: What did you learn from the author activity? Examine one favorite response from today’s activity. || **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//**  **//5.01, 5.02,//** Verbal/Linguistic Existential Tactile Musical Intrapersonal Intrapersonal ||
 * EQ: Consider whether one significant event in the life of an individual can change his/her view of the world. In your private journal, reflect upon an event in your life that altered your view of the world. If you cannot think of one, create a scenario that might apply.
 * //Discuss the meaning of the phrase with a partner and create a new sentence to reflect the spirit of the idiom.//** || Journal and/or blog
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**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">7 ** Correct this sentence for grammar, spelling, and punctuation: "Of a certainty it is good mr. Hooper", repleid the sexton. "he were to have exchanged pulpits with Parson Shute, of westbury; but Parson Shute sent to excuse himself yesterday, being to preach a funeral sermon". || Journal and/or blog Students illustrate and elaborate meaning for classroom display Read aloud: “The Minister’s Black Veil” Focus: Theme,symbolism, and allegory Literature log entry for meaningful lines, words, and images. Group activity to discuss commonalities/differences Exit slip: Each group selects one song to reflect theme of short story || **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//** **//5.01, 5.02,//** Verbal/Linguistic Existential Tactile Musical Intrapersonal Intrapersonal ||
 * EQ: Create a tattoo that symbolizes a value that you hold dear. Is this meaning transparent to other people? Describe the tattoo in terms of shape, color, and size and evaluate its symbolic meaning.
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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; display: block; height: 135.4pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">8 ** Idiom: “Kelly bought a new can of spray paint the day the graffiti appeared. She must have done it. **Where there’s smoke, there’s fire**.” TTYPA: nominate a response Read aloud: chapter one of The Scarlet Letter Video supplement of books 2-8 Blog time in Media Center Storyboard Menu selections Exit Slip: Develop one question each for Pearl, Hester, Roger, and Arthur. Use the front and back of an index card. || **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//**  **//5.01, 5.02,//** Verbal/Linguistic Existential Tactile Intrapersonal Intrapersonal || Using your knowledge of chapter one, consider the symbolism in this statement: Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil. Enter your thoughts in your literature log/journal. || Journal Group: consolidate exit slip into one question for each of four characters. Read aloud: chapter nine of The Scarlet Letter Video supplement of books 10-16 Blog time in Media Center Storyboard Menu selections H/W: Entrance slip for tomorrow: what motivates Hester to keep her secret? || **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//**  **//5.01, 5.02,//**  **//6.02//** || Visual/Spatial Verbal/Linguistic Existential Tactile Intrapersonal Intrapersonal ||  ||
 * EQ: What two parcels of land would you put aside when creating a new town? How would they be used by the community?
 * //Discuss the meaning of the phrase with a partner and create a new sentence to reflect the spirit of the idiom.//** || Journal
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">9 ** EQ: Consider dramatic irony, or when the audience knows something that the character (s) do not. Evaluate the impact of the unknown person (Pearl’s father) on the townspeople.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; display: block; height: 135.4pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">10 ** Hester Pearl Arthur Respond in at least one sentence per character. Idiom: “The new landlord seems friendly, but he may be **//a wolf in sheep’s clothing//**.” Discuss the meaning of the phrase with a partner and examine the relationship to one of the major characters. || Journal TTYPA: nominate a response Hot Seat: Students take roles and answer student-generated questions. Read aloud: chapter 17 of The Scarlet Letter Video supplement of books 17-23 Storyboard H/W Menu selections || **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//** **//5.01, 5.02,//**  **//6.02//** || Visual/Spatial Verbal/Linguistic Existential Tactile Intrapersonal Intrapersonal || Correct this sentence for grammar, spelling, and punctuation: While the procesion past, the child were uneasy, flutering up and down like a burd on the point of takeing flight. || Journal TTYPA: nominate a response Read aloud: chapter twenty-four of The Scarlet Letter Blog time in Media Center Storyboard Menu selections **H/W final products due tomorrow!** || **//1.01, 4.02,//** **//4.03, 4.04,//** **//5.01, 5.02,//** Verbal/Linguistic Natural Existential Tactile Intrapersonal Intrapersonal ||  ||
 * EQ: Examine the meaning of the scarlet letter to the following characters:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">11 ** EQ: What role does nature and the forest play in the novel? Examine two instances where the forest and/or nature is involved and synthesize the relationship to the theme.
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