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Gifted English 9 Unit 3
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Unit 3: Decisions and Consequences
Essential Questions:
- What is the relationship between decisions and consequences?
- What principles drive our decision making?
- How can a person’s decisions and actions change his/her life?
- How do the decisions and actions of characters reveal their personalities?
- How do decisions, actions, and consequences vary depending on the different perspectives of the people involved?
Literary Texts:
Week of 3 January
Week of 10 January
Week of 17 January
- introduction to Frankenstein (epistolary novel, frame narrative, vocabulary assignment)
- reading and discussion: Frankenstein letters from Walton (pages 1-14)
- 01/21/11 "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" analysis questions DUE (questions)
- Discovering Voice 1: Diction (assignment)
- Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 9
Week of 24 January
- Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 10
- 01/25/11 Frankenstein vocabulary from frame (Walton's letters) DUE (vocabulary assignment)
- 01/25/11 Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 9 & 10 review activity DUE (instructions)
- reading and discussion: Frankenstein chapters I-VI (pages 14-46)
- 01/27/11 SRI testing in media center
- introduction to Poetry Out Loud recitation and explication (POL website, instructions)
Week of 31 January
- 01/31/11 QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 9 & 10
- Discovering Voice 2: Figurative Language (activity)
- 02/02/11 work on Poetry Out Loud recitation and explication project in media center from 8:50-9:35 (POL website, instructions)
- 02/02/11 Frankenstein chapters I-VI vocabulary DUE (vocabulary assignment)
- 02/04/11 RCPS mock writing test
- reading and discussion: Frankenstein chapters VII-XII (pages 46-81)
Week of 7 February
- group work on Frankenstein frame narrative and chapters I-VI analysis (instructions)
- 2/08/11 introduction to independent reading (instructions, works from which to choose)
- reading and discussion: Frankenstein chapters XIII-XVIII (pages 81-114)
- 02/10/11 RCPS English 9 benchmark for EOCT
- Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 11
- 02/10/11 Frankenstein chapters VII-XII vocabulary DUE (vocabulary assignment)
Week of 14 February
- viewing and discussion of Poetry Out Loud national finalists' performances
- reading and discussion: Frankenstein chapters XIX-XXIV (pages 114-155)
- work on independent reading project (instructions, works from which to choose)
Week of 21 February
- Discovering Voice 3: Symbol (activity)
- 02/23/11 Frankenstein chapters XIII-XVIII vocabulary DUE (vocabulary assignment)
- 02/23/11 Poetry Out Loud recitations DUE (POL website, instructions)
- Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 12
- reading and discussion: Frankenstein letters from Walton (pages 155-166)
- 02/25/11 independent reading characterization assignment DUE (instructions)
- 02/25/11 Frankenstein frame narrative and chapters I-VI analysis DUE (instructions)
Week of 28 February
Week of 7 March
- 03/07/11 Frankenstein chapters XIX-XXIV vocabulary DUE (vocabulary assignment)
- group work on Frankenstein chapters XI-XXI analysis assignment (instructions)
- 03/11/11 Vocabulary Lessons 11 & 12 review activity DUE (instructions)
Week of 14 March
- 03/15/11 Frankenstein chapters XI-XXI analysis DUE at end of class (instructions)
- 03/17/11 independent reading setting assignment DUE (instructions)
Week of 21 March
- 03/22/11 Vocabulary Lessons 11 & 12 QUIZ
- 03/22/11 viewing and analysis of Turner Home Entertainment Frankenstein (1993)
Week of 28 March
- 03/28/11 Vocabulary Lessons 13 & 14 context analysis
- discussion of rhetorical strategies (rhetorical triangle notes), counter argument, and audience awareness
- 03/30/11 GHSGWT persuasive essay (mandatory military service) rewrite; DUE at end of class
- pre-writing of Frankenstein persuasive essay
- 04/01/11 in-class writing; Frankenstein persuasive essay DUE at end of class
Gifted English 9 Unit 3
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