Journal New Vocab Unit(Distribute Copies) New Seats Reading Strategies Activity

7 Reading Strategies Handout What strategies do you use to “Determine

Importance”Brainstorm on your post-it notes and place on

board.News Article/”You’ve Read it, Now What?”2nd Marking Period SSR explanation

Journal:What do you consider the words ‘courage’ and

‘empathy’ to mean? (At least 4 lines). Return papers/writing folders Discuss Background Videos

Great Depression Introduction Jim Crow LawsScottsboro Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4tf7NAeSyI&feature=related

HW: Vocab Due Thursday

Journal: Students will comprehend background

information necessary to understanding To Kill a Mockingbird

Background Presentation

HW: Weekly Quiz and SSR tomorrow

Journal: Free Write Friday Weekly Quiz on Monday! SSR

Early Dismissal

Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system that operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.

More than just a series of rigid anti-Black laws. It was a way of life.

African-Americans were second-class citizens.

People who advocated Jim Crow Laws believed that Whites were superior to Blacks in all important ways—intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior.

They believed that violence should be used in order to keep Blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy.

A Black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a White male because it implied being socially equal.

A Black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a White woman, because he risked being accused of rape.

Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, Whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them.

If a Black person rode in a car driven by a White person, the Black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truck.

White motorists had the right-of-way at all intersections.

Never assert that a White person is lying.

Never suggest that a White person is from an inferior class.

Never demonstrate superior knowledge or intelligence.

Never curse a White person.

Never laugh at a White person, or comment about his appearance.

Violence was a method of social control Most extreme form was lynching Lynchings were Public, sadistic, and carried out by mobs Lynchings were viewed as distasteful,

but necessary

No other crime in history produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials

Involved nine black teenage boys and two white girls on a Southern Railroad freight train run on March 25, 1931

Hoboeing was a common pastime in Depression era

A bunch of white and black teens hopped the rail cars; a fight broke out. Nine black teens on the train were arrested and taken to Scottsboro.

Two millworkers from Huntsville, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates were also on the train

Victoria told officials that she had been raped by six of the nine boys.

Officials concluded that the others had raped Ruby

Clarence Norris, one of the accused, called the girls liars and was struck by a bayonet

Defense lawyers were incompetent—they wanted all boys tried together. The cross-examination of Victoria Price was only a few minutes long, and the examining doctors weren’t even cross-examined.

Guilty verdicts were announced in the first trial

Four trials were over, eight of the nine Scottsboro Boys were convicted and sent to death. Mistrial declared for Roy Wright, just twelve years old at the time.

The NAACP, concerned about its image, stayed out of trial

Communist Party supported the boys’ perspetive—it wanted to unite southern blacks and northern liberals

Seven of the nine were held in jail for over six years without trial

Either through parole or escapes all of the Scottsboro Boys eventually found their way out of Alabama

On January 23, 1989, the last of the Scottsboro Boys died

Case is considered one of the most shameful examples of injustice in our history. The accused were presumed guilty unless they could prove their innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.

To jurors, black lives didn’t count for much.

Born as Nelle in Monroeville, Alabama , August 28, 1926.

Father was a newspaper editor, then a lawyer

Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader Enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate

and neighbor, famous writer Truman Capote Lee was five years old when in Scottsboro,

Alabama, the first trials began surrounding the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men

The defendants were nearly lynched before being brought to court

Lee pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama, but did not finish.

She moved to New York City in 1950 Worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern

Air Lines Her friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams

Brown funded her dream to become a writer. On Christmas in1956, they wrote Lee a note “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.”

Within a year she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

The novel was published in 1960; an immediate success

Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in1961. In 1999, the novel was voted “Best Novel of the

Century” in a poll conducted by the Library Journal On October 30, 2007, President Bush has presented

the nation's highest civilian award to eight people, including Harper Lee

In a letter published to Oprah Winfrey, Lee wrote about her life, “Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.”

She’s also been recorded to say, “it’s better to be silent than to be a fool.”

Journal: Clips of “The Help”

Journal: Continue viewing “The Help” Distribute books Introduction sheet (On Display)

Journal: The Help Distribute next Vocab Unit

HW: Assign Homework over break and distribute books.

Journal: (Put your homework out on your desk.)List the 3 most important parts of the chapter you read over break. Do this SILENTLY

Put maps on deskDiscussFill in

Discuss book so far (guided questions will facilitate discussion.)

Discuss Vocab Unit 8 Begin Ch.2 as a class.

Journal: Read Ch. 2 independently and answer

guided questions in COMPLETE sentences in your journals as you read. You may need to add additional notes aside

from the questions.

Journal: Collect Vocabulary Review upcoming schedule Review Chapters 1 and 2 of TKAM Review Game

Weekly Quiz and SSR tomorrow!

Journal: Weekly Quiz SSR

Journal: New Vocab Unit Students will listen to the audio of Ch.3

and will answer questions in complete sentences in their notes.

HW: Vocab due Thursday Finish Ch. 3 and 4 by Thursday and answer questions/update notes

No Journal: Keystone Schedule Time to read Ch.3 and 4 for THURSDAY Work on Vocab

Me Out Time to read Ch.3 and 4 for tomorrow. Work on Vocab

Journal: Collect Vocab HW Check Guided Questions Students will demonstrate

comprehension of Ch. 3 and 4 through class discussion of questions.

HW: Quiz and SSR tomorrow!

Journal: Free write Friday Weekly Quiz SSR

Journal New Vocab Unit Begin audio of CH. 5.

HW: Vocab HW due ThursdayFinish reading CH 5 and answer guided

questions.

Journal Check CH. 5 Q’s. Break into groups to read

Ch. 6 and answer Q’s together. Students will demonstrate comprehension

through completing 10 word recap as a group….It’s harder than you think!!Summary must be EXACTLY 10 WordsBest summary wins an extra credit point

HW: Vocab Sentences due Thursday

Journal: Discuss Static and Dynamic Characters Students will listen to the audio of Ch. 7

and will update questions as they read.

HW: Vocabulary Due tomorrow

Characters experience varying amounts of change over the course of a story. Two types of characters are Static characters that do not experience

basic character changes during the course of the story.

Dynamic characters that experience changes throughout the plot of a story. Although the change may be sudden, it is expected based on the story’s events.

A story’s characters fall within a range—from very static characters that experience no change to very dynamic characters that undergo one or more major changes.

Journal: Collect/Discuss Vocabulary Review Ch. 7 Students will complete Ch. 8 Lit Circle in

their groups and will pause to complete guided questions.

HW: Weekly Quiz and SSR tomorrow!

Journal: Free write Friday Weekly Quiz SSR

Journal: NO VOCAB THIS WEEK! Happy Holidays

10 minutes to finish lit. circle Students will demonstrate

comprehension through discussion and completion of “A Change is Gonna Come” worksheet in their groups.

HW: Finish back of worksheet

NO Journal: Collecting for Nov/Dec grade Review “A Change in Gonna Come”

Worksheet. Students will listen to the audio of Ch. 9

and will update notes.

HW: Finish Ch.9 and questions.

Journal: Review CH. 9 and questions Students will read Ch. 10 aloud as a

class and will update notes.

HW: Finish Ch.10 and questions.

Journal:NO JOURNAL…COLLECT JOURNALS!

Review CH. 10 and questions Distribute Part 1 Test Review Sheet

Test on Tuesday 1/8/13 Students will read Ch. 11 independently

HW: Finish Ch.11 and questions and complete study guide over break.

KEEP UP WITH SSR book!

Holiday Holla

Journal: Check/Discuss Ch.11 Distribute Study Guides Discuss Irony Begin viewing TKAM Part 1 Movie. Test on TUESDAY 1/8/13!

Verbal irony (also called sarcasm) -- a writer makes a statement in which the actual meaning differs from the meaning that the words appear to express.

Situational irony -- accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as the poetic justice of a TV weather presenter getting caught in a surprise rainstorm.

Dramatic irony -- a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that a character in the story does not know.

Journal: TKAM Movie Review for test.

HW:SSR tomorrow! No weekly Quiz

Journal SSR

(Shortened periods) Pep Rally 1.7 MAP TESTING Part 1 Test 1/8

MAP TESTING

TKAM Part 1 Test

Each person in your group will choose a number from 1-4. For your assigned word you will write down one fact you know about the word that relates to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” When I say so, you will pass your sheet to the right, and then next person has to add onto what you have written. (The information added on has to be completely new information.

Clear your desk of everything except a pencil.

TKAM Part 1 Test

You will have One period to complete.

Journal Discuss the SHIFT that takes place in Part 2 of

the novel. Listen to Ch. 12 Audio, discuss questions.

HW: Finish Ch. 12 and questions

Journal: Put Completed Ch. 12 Questions on your

desk. Students will demonstrate

comprehension through discussion. Students will begin reading Ch. 13

through popcorning. SSR tomorrow

SSR POSTERS DUE TOMORROWFinish Ch.13 by MONDAY

Journal: Free Write Friday COLLECT SSR POSTERS

Get a RubricPut your name on inStaple to your CHART (don’t staple to your

poster) I WILL COLLECT IT FROM YOU

SSR

Journal. New Vocab Unit (11) Return Part 1 Test and Discuss

Writing Literary in Present Tense handoutPut tests in writing folders

HW: Vocab due Thursday

Journal: Students will listen to the audio for Ch.

14Complete questions

HW: Vocab due ThursdayFinish Ch. 14 and complete questions

Journal: Discuss Ch. 14 Review Plans for rest of week Complete “Courtside” Worksheet

HW: Vocabulary due tomorrow

Collect Vocabulary Review Words with students Complete Ch. 15 Literature Circle

Weekly Quiz and complete Ch.15 on Friday

Read Ch. 16 independently and update notes

Journal: Check/Discuss Ch.15 Literature Circle

and Ch. 16 questions. Return Papers Review SSR requirements

HW: SSR tomorrow!Bring your new books

Journal: Review 3rd MP SSR Project SSR

HW: Read Ch. 17 and update notes/questions

Journal: Check Ch.17 Questions/Discuss Vocab Unit 12 Begin viewing movie of Ch. 11-17

HW: Vocab due Thursday!

Journal: View Movie portion of TKAM Ch. 11-17

Students will demonstrate comprehension through class discussion.

HW: Read Ch. 18 and update notesVocab due Thursday

Journal: View movie portion of Trial

Watch Ch.18 in place of reading Distribute “Eyewitness” Begin Ch. 19 audio in class and discuss

“Eyewitness.”Complete the chart as each character

testifies in court.

HW: Vocab due tomorrowDo not finish Ch. 19 we will finish it together tomorrow

Journal: Collect/Discuss Vocab Continue reading Ch. 19-20 aloud

(audio), completing “Eyewitness” chart along with guided questions. Students will demonstrate comprehension

through class discussion.

HW: Weekly Quiz andSSR tomorrow!

Journal: Weekly Quiz SSR

HW: Read Ch. 20 and update notes

Special Notes: You “Eyewitness” Chart can serve as the notes for Ch. 19 and 20 so keep it with the rest

of your notes!

Journal: Summarize the Tom Robinson trial using FIVE vocabulary words appropriately. (It should be about 2 paragraphs.) Underline the words.

Check/Discuss Ch.20 New Vocab Unit (13) Students will independently read Ch. 21

and update notes.

HW: Finish reading Ch. 21 and update notes

NO JOURNAL Check/Discuss Ch. 21 Questions GUIDANCE PRESENTATION ON COURSE

SELECTION

HW: Vocab due ThursdayRead Ch. 22 and update notes

Journal: Check/Discuss Ch. 22

Winning 12 word sentence Begin Audio of Ch. 23

Pause to discuss/Update notes

HW: Vocab due tomorrowFinish Ch. 23 and update notes

Journal: Collect/Discuss Vocabulary Review Ch. 23 Students will read Ch.24 in partners and

will update notes.

HW: Weekly Quiz and SSRtomorrow

Journal: Weekly Quiz (Unit 13) SSR

Journal: Vocabulary Unit 14 Students will listen to the audio of Ch.

25 Students will demonstrate comprehension

through answering guided reading questions in their notes

HW: Vocab due Thursday

Finish Ch. 25 and 26 and update notes

Journal: Check/Discuss Ch. 26 Students will read Ch. 27 in groups and

will update notes.

HW: Vocab due ThursdayFinish Ch. 27 if your group did not finish

Journal: Check/Review Ch.27 Students will listen to Ch. 28 audio and

update notes

HW: Vocab due tomorrowFinish Ch. 28 and update notes

Journal: Collect/Discuss Vocab Students will read Ch. 29 as a class

(popcorn) and will each illustrate a scene from the chapter. Students will share illustrations

HW: Weekly Quiz and SSR tomorrow

Journal: Weekly Quiz SSR

HW: Read Ch. 30 by TUESDAY and update notes

Journal: No Vocab (Short Week) Check/Discuss Ch. 30 Students will listen to the audio of Ch.

31Update notes/discuss as we go along

HW: FINISH the book and update notes!!

Journal: Distribute Study Guide for Exam

Exam date: Wednesday 2/27 Students will view movie portion of

TKAM

HW: Compile ALL of your notes/handouts and organize them. You should have

notes for Ch. 1-31

Journal Around the World Review Game

HW: SSR tomorrow

Work in your groups and make way around room to seven different stations.

First, Read the question and discuss it with each other.

Then, agree on the response you will record on the paper at each station. You will have about 3 minutes at each station and you MUST record something. **I must see ALL group members contributing in order for you to earn participation points for today’s activity**

When you get to station with answers recorded already, read others’ responses and discuss. You must ADD to their responses with additional support (an example or quote from the book, an additional real life example, etc).

Simply writing “I agree” is not adequate.

I will ring the bell when it is time to move to the next station

Journal: SSR

Test on Wednesday 2/27

Journal: Vocab Unit 15 Further review for TKAM? Begin discussing research paper

HW: TKAM Exam on WednesdayVocabulary due Thursday

Me out Time to complete Vocab Review Questions handout

HW: Vocabulary due tomorrow

No Journal TKAM Exam

Journal: What is something you now understand about the importance of courage   and empathy after reading "To Kill a Mockingbird"? 

Collect/Discuss Vocabulary Collect TKAM books Continue Discussion on Research paper

HW: Weekly Quiz and SSR tomorrowQuiz only on vocabulary

Journal: Weekly Quiz SSR