12 th Standards

1. 12th Standards 1. Oral Expression and Listening 1. Effective speaking in formal and informal settings requires appropriate use of methods and audience awareness 2. Effective collaborative groups accomplish goals 2. Reading for All Purposes 1. Literary criticism of complex texts requires the use of analysis, interpretive, and evaluative strategies 2. Interpreting and evaluating complex informational texts require the understanding of rhetoric, critical reading, and analysis skills 3. Writing and Composition 1. Style, detail, expressive language, and genre create a well-crafted statement directed at an intended audience and purpose 2. Ideas, evidence, structure, and style create persuasive, academic, and technical texts for particular audiences and specific purposes 3. Standard English conventions effectively communicate to targeted audiences and purposes 4. Research and Reasoning 1. Independent research designs articulate and defend information, conclusions, and solutions that address specific contexts and purposes 2. Logical arguments distinguish facts from opinions; and evidence defines reasoned judgment

2. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Monday While you wait, read from your choice novel! Truth is stranger than fiction: 2 Truths, 1 Lie Which is the lie about this week’s author, Flannery O’Connor? • She was a Southern Orthodox Catholic. • She lived from 1960 to 1998. • She died of lupus (an autoimmune disease where the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue) Did you turn in your creative imitation with the peer feedback sheet?

3. Past, Present, Future Monday • Creative imitation writing time • Peer feedback • TCAP = “A Good Man IS Hard to Find” assignment • Fishbowl discussion based on “A Good Man IS Hard to Find” assignment

4. What is Modern Fiction? Short Stories Monday Standard 2 Reading for All Purposes Objective: you will be able to… • read and respond to a work of modern fiction • To evaluate how an author’s use of literary techniques (such as imagery, mood, tone, symbolism, irony, extended metaphor, hyperbole, stream of consciousness, minimalism, text/plot structure, characters & narrative perspective) impact meaning and create theme. • To evaluate the influence of historical context on the form, style, and perspective of a work of modern fiction • to evaluate how an author’s work represents modern fiction Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works?

5. Instruction: Obtain Monday • Who is Flannery O’Connor? • http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=170488 • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2009/11/20/november-20-2009-flannery-oconnor/5043/ Quick Facts • NAME: Flannery O'Connor • OCCUPATION: Author • BIRTH DATE: March 25, 1925 • DEATH DATE: August 03, 1964 • EDUCATION: University of Iowa • PLACE OF BIRTH: Savannah, Georgia • PLACE OF DEATH: Milledgeville, Georgia Best Known For • Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the best short story authors of the 20th century. She wrote about religious themes and southern life. Handout

6. Activity: Develop Monday Assignment Tasks: • Read the short story • What is your initial/gut reaction? • Additional Reading Questions • Internet: A Visual Journey with Questions to Consider! Outcome: be prepared for a meaningful discussion

7. TCAP Tuesday - Thursday No School for Seniors! Assignment Tasks: • Read the short story “A Good Man…” • What is your initial/gut reaction? • Additional Reading Questions • Internet: A Visual Journey with Questions to Consider! Outcome: be prepared for a meaningful discussion Friday

8. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Friday While you wait, read from your choice novel! Returns Be prepared for a fishbowl discussion of “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Have out the story and your homework notes! Homework: Make sure you are reading your choice modern novel! You will have an assignment on it soon, and you will be expected to start a new, post-modern/contemporary novel (1950-2013) directly after spring break.

9. Past, Present, Future Friday • TCAP = “A Good Man IS Hard to Find” assignment • Fishbowl discussion based on “A Good Man IS Hard to Find” assignment • “Cat in the Rain” AND “Little Things” OR an excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God – Order TBD

10. What is Modern Fiction? Short StoriesFriday Standard 1 Oral Communication and Listening Standard 2 Reading for All Purposes Objective: you will be able • To respond to a work of modern fiction • To evaluate how an author’s use of literary techniques (such as imagery, mood, tone, symbolism, irony, extended metaphor, hyperbole, stream of consciousness, minimalism, text/plot structure, characters & narrative perspective) impact meaning and create theme. • To evaluate how an author’s work represents modern fiction • To evaluate the influence of historical context on the form, style, and perspective of a work of modern fiction Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? • How does my own writing mimic the characteristics of modern literature?

11. Effective Discussions… Friday What criteria could be used to measure the effectiveness of a group? • Everyone contributes • Nothing to contribute, ask a question • Respect each other, no bashing • Stay on topic • Let others finish thought • No side tracks, side conversations • Academic vocabulary • Prepared – novel, notes, paper etc • Know what you’re talking about

12. Activities: Develop & ApplyWe Do – You Do Friday Purpose: to come to a better understanding of the short story “The Lottery” as a modernist short story and practice our large group discussion skills Tasks: • Form into a fishbowl discussion group – sit where you can see and hear your partner (typically across the bowl from him/her) • Make sure you have appropriate materials out (short story, writing utensil, other notes, Observation Form) • Observer – use the Observation Form to document how often your partner is on or off task with the discussion and record reflection notes • Speaker – participate in the conversation by posing and responding (with supporting evidence) to questions that analyze the components of the story (characters, setting, point of view, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and theme) - REFER TO THE TEXT WHEN RESPONDING • Switch! • Turn in the completed Observation Form at the end of the discussions Outcome: a better understanding of the story and of the expectations for large group discussions

13. What do we talk about?! - Discussion Prompts • What do you know about the author that may have shaped this story? • What do you know about the time period and/or setting of the story that may have shaped this sotry? • Why/How is this a work of modern fiction? • What modern fiction themes does it represent? • What does the grandmother's use of these words (pickaninny) suggest about the racial views she holds? • What does the grandmother mean when she says, "In my time" at the beginning of this passage? • How does the grandmother represent the South's earlier times by using this word? • How does O'Connor use the grandmother to distinguish between the "Old" and "New South"? • What is symbolic about the fact that the "phantom" plantation is just a figment of the grandmother's bad memory? • Bailey's family literally sets out on a journey, the family vacation. How does the road trip function as a metaphor or symbol of this journey? • What might the road trip (and the specific images of the country road) symbolize based on what you have learned from the story at large • How is the grandmother characterized in the early pages of the story? What kinds of values does she seem to represent? • How are June Star and John Wesley characterized in the early pages of the story? • In what ways does the scene at Red Sammy’s contribute to the overall mood and meaning of the story? • What role does the grandmother play in the car accident, and how do the grandchildren react to it? • Consider the character of The Misfit and the interaction between him and the grandmother. In what ways are their views of the world in conflict with each other? • Consider the meaning (and the ambiguities?) of the grandmother’s statement to The Misfit that “. . . you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” • Interpret The Misfit’s comment at the end of the story that the grandmother “would have been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

14. What is Modern Fiction? Short StoriesFriday Standard 1 Oral Communication & Listening Standard 2 Reading For All Purposes Objective: you will be able • To describe characteristics of a modernist writing • To determine how an author’s work represents modern fiction • Develop clear and coherent story that imitates the characteristics of modern fiction Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? • How does my own writing mimic the characteristics of modern literature? Turn in your Observation Form!