We are now in February, and we will be exploring the short story and how characters react to the human conditions in life. 

 

Lesson Plan Link:  https://www.commoncurriculum.com/planbooks/64d05c173aac450001bba8ef/planner/week

 

11th Grade English

 

Monday - We will read The Brief History of the Short Story and annotate the text for active and passive voice, writing style, theme, and sequence of events.

 

Tuesday - In class we will read Everyday Use and annotate for dialect, character traits, and how language functions.  We will also look at the use of flashbacks and exocentric Compounds.

 

Wednesday - We will continue with our learning from yesterday and complete analyzing text questions along with a character chart.

 

Thursday - We will complete a short writing assignment where students must retell an event from the story in another character's perspective.

 

Friday - Narrative notes, class brainstorm about alternate endings to The Old Man at the Bridge, teacher examples and outlines will be passed out to help with the writing.  We will continue this assignment on Monday and Turn it in Tuesday February 6th (subject to change due to weather).

 

 

Genre Literature 

 

Monday - We will begin a three-part story about a family struggling and how the two siblings help each other through called Listening For Crickets. We will begin with background information and discussion about the story and then we will begin to read part one.

 

Tuesday - Finish reading Listening For Crickets part one, complete packet work, turn in for a grade.

 

Wednesday - Begin reading and working on part two of our story.

 

Thursday - Complete part two, turn in for a grade.

 

Friday - Discussion about character traits.  Students are to return to the two previous stories, identify character traits for the two main characters, and tell me what kind of person they think they are base3d on text evidence.