ENGLISH 10 WEEK 16: 12/20/10-12/23/10Introducing The Tempest (unit three) and continuing MCAS prep

MONDAY 12/20/10LEARNING GOALS: SWBAT1. MAKE PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE UNIT THREE TEXT (THE TEMPEST) BY LOOKING AT ART AND COMPOSING A SHORT POEM OR STORY USING WORDS FROM THE PLAY.

Describe your experiences with reading Shakespeare last year.

What was difficult about reading Romeo and Juliet?

What did you enjoy about reading that play?

What reading strategies did you use to understand difficult language?

1. Do Now 2. Preview learning goals3. Review Friday– anticipation

guide and essential questions--- how do they connect?

4. Collect HW5. Why do we make predictions

about a text and do pre-reading activities? How do these kinds of activities help us understand what we read?

6. Preview/pre-reading activity #2

Do Now: Agenda:

TUESDAY 12/21/10LEARNING GOALS: SWBAT1. DESCRIBE THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE TEMPEST BY MAKING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS DESCRIPTION NOTES AND THE PICTURE ACTIVITY FROM YESTERDAY. 2. EXPLAIN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE PLAY.

Review: Think back to the two pre-reading activities we’ve done so far (the anticipation guide activity and yesterday’s picture activity)

Make a prediction: what do you think this play is going to be about? Explain your prediction in at least four complete sentences.

1. Do Now2. Preview the unit: what are

we going to be doing while we read? What kind of work will we do? What will the big assessments be?

3. Character description and matching characters from notes to pictures from yesterday’s activity.

4. Notes on historical context5. http://www.youtube.com/wa

tch?v=DDyGl2uIQ-Q

Do Now: Agenda:

EXIT TICKET! 1. In your own words, describe three

characters from The Tempest and describe their relationship to each other.

2. What was happening in the world when Shakespeare wrote this play?

Tuesday 12/21/10Learning Goals: SWBAT1. Describe the main characters in The Tempest by making connections between the characters description notes and the picture activity from yesterday. 2. Explain the historical context of the play.

WEDNESDAY 12/22/10 (DOUBLE BLOCK)LEARNING GOALS: SWBAT1. DESCRIBE THE CHARACTERS AND SUMMARIZE THE MAIN EVENTS IN ACT ONE OF THE TEMPEST. 2. COLLABORATE TO DRAMATIZE ONE OF THE NARRATIVE THREADS BY PARTICIPATING IN A TABLEAU.

In your own words, describe three characters from The Tempest and describe their relationship to each other.

What was happening in the world when Shakespeare wrote this play?

Homework: Due Monday January 3, 2011

1. Analysis chart for Act One 2. Test Prep Packet

1. Do Now2. Read and act out Act I, scene

i. 3. Pass out Act One, scene 2

reading comprehension questions

4. Continue reading (acting out) Act I, scene ii.

5. Partner work– go over reading comprehension questions

6. Exit Ticket

Do Now: Review from yesterday Agenda:

PREVIEW O

F: THE TEM

PEST AC T I, SCENE

1 The play begins with a tempest– a storm created by Prospero and Ariel as a way to disorient Prospero’s enemies who happen to be sailing by his island on their way back to Itlaly from Africa, where King Alonso ‘s daughter was just married. Prospero wants them to be frightened and stranded on his island. This storm sets up all of the important action in the entire play.

SUMMARY OF 1.1 The scene takes place on a ship in the middle

of a storm. Boatswain and Master and Mariners are

trying to control the ship but the noblemen are bossing them around.

The ship appears to be sinking. Gonzalo says that they want to hang the

boatswain when they get back to land.

THE TEMPEST ACT I, SCENE I POST-READING Return to your interactive notebooks–

underneath your Do Now for today, draw a line and write “Summary of Act One, scene 1”. Summarize this scene by answering the following questions: 1. Who? Who is involved in this scene and how are they involved? 2. What? What happens? 3. Where? Where does this scene take place?4. Why? Why do you think this might be an important scene?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZ091CEgNU&feature=related

THE TEMPEST ACT ONE, SCENE 2 GUIDED READING ASSIGNMENTReading Comprehension: Answer the following questions as we read Act One, scene 2 (we’ll stop together to answer these). Write your answers on page 86 of your interactive notebook.

1. Describe the setting: where does the action in this scene take place? 2. How does Miranda feel about the shipwreck she witnessed off the coast of the

island? 3. What does Ariel ask Prospero for on page 29 and how does Prospero react? 4. What was life like for Ariel before Prospero arrived? 5. What does Prospero tell his daughter about the shipwreck in lines 33-41? 6. How old was Miranda when they came to the island and how long have they

been there? 7. What does Miranda tell her father she remembers about life in Milan before

they came to the island? 8. What does Prospero tell Miranda about his past? How does Miranda react to

what he tells her? 9. How did Gonzalo help Prospero? 10. How does Prospero describe Caliban? 11. Summarize the conversation between Caliban and Prospero on pages 35-39. 12. What happens when Ferdinand and Miranda meet? 13. How does Prospero treat Ferdinand?

LG/SWBAT: Describe the characters and Summarize the main events in act one of the tempest.

IMAG

ES FROM

ACT ON

E, SCENE 2

Prospero and Miranda talk about the past and he tells her the real story about who she is and how she ended up on the island and why he created the storm she saw.

ACT ON

E SCENE 2

Ariel and Prospero talk about the storm– Ariel asks for his freedom and Prospero gets angry. Prospero’s plans are revealed through this conversation.

ACT ON

E, SCENE 2

Prospero and Miranda go and speak with Caliban, who is ordered to work for them and they argue. Through this scene we learn more about the past– what happened when Prospero and Miranda first arrived on the island.

ACT ON

E, SCENE 2

Ariel carries out the next part of Prosepro’s plans and leads Ferdinand to Miranda where they fall in love at first sight.

THURSDAY 12/23/10LEARNING GOALS: SWBAT1. REVIEW MCAS READING STRATEGIES FOR ANSWERING LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY QUESTIONS.

What questions do you have about act one of The Tempest?

Do Now Review vacation

homework assignments Mini-lesson on active

reading strategies. Pass back and go over

graded MCAS vocab./language assignment #1

Pass back and go over MCAS vocab./language assignment #2.

Do Now: Agenda:

MCAS STRATEGIES: 1. Preview the questions2. Read Actively (annotate the text– margin

summary notes, underline key words/phrases, paraphrase).

3. Use process of elimination when answering multiple choice questions

4. Re-read short passages5. Look back at the text as you answer

questions.

THURSDAY 12/23/10LEARNING GOALS: SWBAT1. REVIEW MCAS READING STRATEGIES FOR ANSWERING LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY QUESTIONS.

OPEN RESPONSE QUESTIONS Open response questions are connected to a

reading passage. You must write one-two well, written and

organized paragraphs. You need to include specific and direct

quotes from the passage to support your answer to the open response question.

You need to include a topic sentence, two pieces of evidence, contextualization and analysis.

THURSDAY 12/23/10LEARNING GOALS: SWBAT1. REVIEW MCAS READING STRATEGIES FOR ANSWERING LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY QUESTIONS.

STEPS FOR ANSWERING OPEN RESPONSE QUESTIONS ON THE MCAS

1. Turn the promt/ORQ into a question in your own words Example MCAS ORQ: “Based on the poem, explain how the

poet shows that he feels guilty about killing the man. Use relevant and specific information from the poem to support your answer.”

Example KFQ (kid-friendly-question): How does the poet show that he feels guilty about killing the man?

2. Your answer to the questions becomes your topic sentence. Make sure you include the title and author in the topic sentence as well.

Example: In the poem “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy, the poet shows his guilt over killing the man in several ways.

3. Make sure you answer the question completely and you use at least two pieces of evidence to support your answer and you analyze how your evidence supports your answer to the prompt.

THURSDAY 12/23/10LEARNING GOALS: SWBAT1. REVIEW MCAS READING STRATEGIES FOR ANSWERING LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY QUESTIONS.