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 have a guest speaker from the district today to speak about future plans.

 

Tuesday - In class we will read Everything Stuck to Him and annotate for dialect, character traits, and frame story elements.  We will also look at the use of flashbacks and endocentric Compounds.

 

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

 

Thursday - We will go back and re-read and annotate for foreshadowing elements.

Friday - We will complete a short writing assignment where students must retell an event from the story and incorporate factual research information into a rewritten scene from our story.

 

 

Genre Literature 

 

Monday - We will discuss and come up with a grading system for our novel studies.  If time permits we will begin reading our new novel. Tangerine.

 

Tuesday - read the intro and discuss what to expect in the story, make inferences.

Wednesday - Read Tangerine and discuss.

 

Thursday - Read Tangerine and discuss.

 

Friday - Read Tangerine and discuss.