Ms. Oing English 3

1. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

2. Agenda: 1/7/13 • DOL Warmup • Pickup Books • Thematic Focus

3. Reminders • this week • AoW15 Friday

4. Thematic Focus • Working in your table groups, answer 5 questions for the Timeline on p430-431 of your textbook • Staple half-sheet of questions to top of paper and turn in • If finished today, +5 extra credit • If not finished, finish tomorrow before doing “The Story of the Times” activity

5. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

6. Agenda: 1/8/13 • SUB • Finish Thematic Focus: Timeline • Thematic Focus: The Story of Our Times

7. Reminders • this week • AoW15 Friday

8. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

9. Agenda: 1/9/13 • DOL Warmup • Review Thematic Focus • “An Episode of War” • Grammar: Like vs. As • Elements of Realism & Naturalism

10. Reminders • this week • AoW15 Friday

11. Thematic Focus Review • What is Realism? • shows people and lives realistically • emphasize harsh realities of daily life • ordinary people • What is Naturalism? • deeply affected by natural forces • heredity, environment, chance • cannot be controlled, must carry on • What’s the difference? • Naturalism emphasizes lack of control characters have over life changes

12. Grammar: Like vs. As • as,as if, as though • conjunction • Subordinate conjunctions used to introduce subordinate clause • The lights on the tree twinkled, as if they were tiny stars come down from the heavens. • like • preposition • Preposition that takes noun/pronoun as its object and is used to intro a prepositional phrase • The cart raced down the hill like a speeding bullet.

13. Grammar: Like vs. As • Use “like” when no verb follows, use “as” when verb follows • My cousin looks like Batman. • It’s as if my cousin were Batman. • My neighbor yelled like a maniac. • My neighbor yelled as though he were a maniac.

14. Grammar & Style Practice • …contemplated the distant forest as if their minds were fixed upon the mystery… • He looked at it in a kind of stupefaction, as if he had been endowed with a trident… • …It is as if the wounded man’s hand is upon the curtain… • It was, for a wonder, precisely like a historical painting. • …where the shooting sometimes crackled like bush-fires…

15. “An Episode of War” • Open TB to p443 • Follow along with audio reading

16. “An Episode of War” • He was on the verge of a great triumph in mathematics, and the corporals were thronging forward, each to reap a little square [of coffee], when suddenly the lieutenant cried out and looked quickly at a man near him as if he suspected it was a case of personal assault. The others cried out also when they saw blood upon the lieutenant’s sleeve • Naturalism • The event of being shot is a force beyond the lieutenant’s control

17. “An Episode of War” • One, seeing his arm, began to scold. “Why, man, that’s no way to do. You want to fix that thing.” He appropriated the lieutenant and the lieutenant’s wound. He cut the sleeve and laid bare the arm, every nerve of which softly fluttered under his touch. He bound his handkerchief over the wound, scolding away in the meantime. • Realism • This is the way one person might realistically react to the situation

18. “An Episode of War” • When he reached home, his sisters, his mother, his wife, sobbed for a long time at the sight of the flat sleeve. “Oh, well,” he said, standing shamefaced amid these tears. “I don’t suppose it matters so much as all that.” • Both • Naturalism: This passage emphasizes the lieutenant’s and the women’s reactions to an event outside their control • Realism: The reaction reflects realistic responses to the lieutenant’s injury

19. “An Episode of War” • Extra Credit: On the back of the worksheet in a reframed sentence: • According to the Naturalists, humans are weak and ineffectual beings at the mercy of deterministic forces. Defend this statement using examples from “An Episode of War.” • Story is available online, I can post a link

20. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

21. Agenda: 1/10/13 • DOL Warmup • Spirituals • Grammar: Direct Address • Slave Spirituals

22. Reminders • today • Grammar: Like vs. As • tomorrow • AoW15 Friday

23. Grammar: Direct Address • the addressing of something or someone by name • sometimes by phrase (“my child,” “my dear”) • name set off by one or more commas, depending on placement • Anne, sing this spiritual. • Sing the words more clearly, Anne. • One goal of a spiritual, Anne, is to arouse strong emotion.

24. Slave Spirituals • Open TB to p450

25. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

26. Agenda: 1/11/13 • DOL Warmup • Turn ‘n’ Talk • Reading Circles: First Meeting

27. Reminders • today • Spirituals Worksheet • AoW 15 • next week • DOL & Reflection Wednesday • Vocabulary Definitions Thursday • AoW 16 Friday

28. Turn ‘n’ Talk • Get out your AoW • Turn to someone at your table who also did it • If no one at your table did it, find someone who has • Odd man out? Find a pair and make a 3some • Write down on the back of your reflection the name of your TnT partner • Share 3. Three things you found interesting 2. Two questions you have after reading 1. One new thing you learned

29. Reading Circles • Smart readers: • Visualize • Connect • Question • Infer • Evaluate • Analyze • Recall • Self-monitor

30. Reading Circles: Assessment • Role Sheets • Teacher Observation • Group Assessments • Self Assessments • Individual Portfolio

31. First Meeting Business • Reading Schedule • What pages/chapters should be read by each day? • 9 20-minute meetings (Tuesdays & Fridays) • Suggestion: Start slowly with smaller assignments for next week, then build up • Can adjust/change assignments if necessary later

32. First Meeting Business • Group Policies • How will your group ensure good book discussion, comprehension, and participation from everyone? • Expectations • Work done on time • Reading completed • Good social/conversational skills (eye contact, wait your turn, etc) • Ask follow up questions

33. First Meeting Business • Liability • What is the consequence if someone comes unprepared? • Has to leave group till caught up on reading? • Sits and listens but cannot participate in discussion? • Sits in and can participate in discussion? • Loss of points?

34. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

35. Agenda: 1/14/13 • DOL Warmup • Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions • My Bondage and My Freedom

36. Reminders • tomorrow • Reading Circles Meeting • Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions • this week • DOL & Reflection Wednesday • Vocabulary Definitions Thursday • AoW 16 Friday

37. Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions • conjunctions link up words, phrases, and clauses • correlative conjunctions are pairs of connectors that link words and phrases that are grammatically similar • either…or • neither...nor • whether…or • not only…but also • just as…so • She either thought it unnecessary, or she lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.

38. Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions • Practice

39. Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions • HW: Copy the following 5 sentence starters • Complete each sentence so that the final version contains a pair of correlative conjunctions • Just as soldiers must obey their superiors, ___ • Neither the general ______________________ • We didn’t know whether we should visit the battlefield _____________________________ • Not only did soldiers fight each other, _______ • The armies must either march through the forest _________________________________

40. My Bondage and My Freedom • Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Support your opinion • Both slaves and slaveholders were victims of slavery. • What evidence might Douglass offer to support his point? • TB p456: Background for Understanding

41. My Bondage and My Freedom • TB p458 • As you read, look for • details about the author’s special qualities • details that expand your understanding of what it was like to be a slave • Complete the following chart on your paper

42. My Bondage and My Freedom • Based on the details in your chart • Answer in reframed sentences • Which of Douglass’ special qualities are conveyed through this section of his autobiography? Explain. • How did reading this section add to your understanding of the effects of slavery? Extra Credit: Critical Thinking #4, p464

43. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

44. Agenda: 1/15/13 • DOL Warmup • Vocabulary 4-1 Definitions • Reading Circles Meeting

45. Reminders • today • Reading Circles Meeting • Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions • tomorrow • DOL & Reflection • My Bondage and My Freedom Questions • this week • Vocabulary 4-1 Definitions Thursday • AoW 16 Friday

46. Vocabulary Definitions • Teacher reads word • Class repeats word • Teacher reads sentence • Students individually guess word’s meaning • Repeat 1-4 to end • Students get definitions for HW • Do NOT use word as part of definition • Definitions must be 3 words or more long • Definition must match both part of speech and way word is used in sample sentence

47. Reading Circle Meetings • Use as much of the meeting time for book-related discussion as possible • Any time at the end should be for completing assessments or getting a start on reading Friday’s assignment • Use role sheets only if needed • If you can generate book-related discussion without using them, go for it • Complete self-assessment • Complete group assessment

48. Ms. Oing English 3 Unit 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

49. Agenda: 1/16/13 • DOL Warmup • “Gettysburg Address”

50. Reminders • today • Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions • My Bondage and My Freedom Questions • DOL & Reflection • tomorrow • Vocabulary 4-1 Definitions • this week • AoW 16 Friday • Reading Circles Friday