Week 6 overview: Nov 27-Dec 1

● MAP testing this week (2 days for Young - Mon & Tues)

● Mon: Read chapter 6 (17.25) questions, character chart, summary

● Tues: Read chapter 7 (23.10) questions, character chart, summary

● Wed: Quiz ch. 7 beginning of class / Body Biography● Thurs: Body Biography● Fri: PAP discussion day, ELA reading/work day or Animal

Farm workHandouts: chapter 6 q’s, ch. 7 questions, body biography instructions

Monday, November 27, 2017 ● Pick up Vocab – Chapters 4-7 – tape into your

Writer’s Notebook● QW: With what you know now, is Orwell accurate in

Animal Farm in his portrayal of the Russian Revolution and Stalin era with animals? Explain. (Give 1-2 examples of characters you have connected).

● ELA Book response due in ONE WEEK: 12/4● Pre-AP Book Projects due THIS FRIDAY: 12/1● Read chapter 6 (17.25) questions, character chart,

summary

Tuesday, November 28, 2017•ELA – Remember your book response items are due December 4th!

•PAP - book response #2 due Friday Dec 1st!•Pick up a copy of the chapter 7 questions• QW - “This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who

absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” I connected with this immediately with things that I see within my life and the world. How can you connect this with yours? What is the hidden meaning? How else did Squealer or Napoleon assert and/or confuse the followers? How are they able to do this? Can you see this prevalent within your life here at school? The world?

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017• Listen to / read CHAPTER 7 (23:10) (pg 73-89)• Write summaries for chapters 6 and 7• Answer questions for chapter 7• Work on characterization chart

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

• Log in to a Chromebook and go to Socrative.com for a quiz over chapter 7 of Animal Farm (Room CDEAN)

• QW – Which Animal Farm character is the most important? Why? Use evidence (specific reference to the book – doesn’t have to be a quote) to back it up.

•Characterization of Animal Farm character (handout)

•Example characterization•Teams will randomly be assigned a character: Napoleon, Boxer, Old Major, Squealer, Snowball, Mr. Jones,

•Each team member will write up his/her ideas (see handout)•Remember text evidence (2+ quotes) ☺

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

•Each person will work to analyze the character assigned to your table (need 2+ quotes for all of them) (~10 minutes) (see handout):

• Seat 1 Seat 2● Heart: * Backbone: ● Eyes: * Hands:

Seat 3 Seat 4● Feet: * Virtues and Vices:● The Background: * Six Word Memoir:

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

BODY BIOGRAPHY• Each person will work to analyze the character assigned to your table (need 2+ quotes for all of them)

Seat 1 Seat 2● Heart: * Backbone: ● Eyes: * Hands:

Seat 3 Seat 4● Feet: * Virtues and Vices:● The Background: * Six Word Memoir: • Argue: Why is your character the most important character? You

must thoroughly explain the connection between your character and the Russian Revolution, and defend why it is the most important. You must also predict what would be the best argument against you, and counter why that argument is wrong with your best support. You can do this in a bullet (list) format instead of writing a paragraph.

6 Word Memoir

What First?

Create list of 8-10words or ideas that stood out

to you from this piece.

Pick two or three that stand out to you.

Going FurtherTake those ideas and synthesize

them into a 6 word idea about your character with your table.

Examples:

Truce: Millions died from greed and pride

Dulce: War is brutal, not just patriotic

BODY BIOGRAPHYClean Up process

•Put signs back on Mrs. Dean’s desk•Leave the handouts about the body biography at each table (2)

•Stack body biographies (with your name on it) on the desk in the back of the room.

•Return art supplies to the buckets.

•You will have about 20 minutes tomorrow to finish your body biography.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

•Finish Body Biography (20 minutes?)•Make sure you have all the components on your body biography poster (see handout)

•Debate / discuss / defend•Reflect on group work / discussion:

•What went well?•How could this project be improved?•Best ideas / discussion points?

Friday, December 1, 2017

•ELA - Reading / Work Day•Finish questions, summaries, character chart through chapter 7

•Sit with people who researched the same country you researched.

•(FORM 3 TEAMS: Syria, North Korea, South Sudan)

•Discuss your research about that country.•Move to your teams! ☺•Take out your assignments and your novels (Frederick Douglass or Anne Frank or Malala).

•Be prepared to discuss the reading/research/projects.

PAP - Friday, December 1, 2017

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS DURING LIT CIRCLES:•1. What qualities about the protagonist do you admire?•2. What advice would you give to him/her?•3. If you could ask the protagonist any questions, what would you ask? •4. What themes stand out to you while reading? •5. What predictions can you make about the story? (Later, evaluate whether any of your predictions were right.)•6. What personal connections have you made to the protagonist, other people in the story, or to any situation(s) in the story?•7. What did you find most surprising about this book? Why?•8. Which passages seem really important (powerful quotes that made you think or a situation stood)?•9. Which people (or situations) from this novel can you relate to specific character(s) (or events) in Animal Farm?•10. Make note of literary devices or rhetoric you find.•11. Explain the historical context (time period) of this novel. How did the historical context impact the people?•12. What questions do you have about this book? Make note of any confusing passages or situations that you would like to discuss in class.

Class Share out after Lit Circles:

•1. What is the most surprising fact your learned while researching or heard today about a country?•2. Best questions / ideas you heard?•3. What predictions can you make about the story? (Later, evaluate whether any of your predictions were right.)•4. What personal connections have you made to the protagonist, other people in the story, or to any situation(s) in the story?•5. What did you find most surprising about this book? Why?•6. Which passages seem really important (powerful quotes that made you think or a situation stood)?•7. Other thoughts about the books, research, or discussions so far?

Pre-AP: PAP - Friday, December 1, 2017

▫Class Share out:▫ What did you learn in your discussion

today?▫ Great questions?▫ Thoughts about the book you read?▫ Most eye-opening country you

researched?▫ Are there any lessons that the characters

in Animal Farm, the people in your outside novel, and those living in the 3 countries you researched have in common?