Lesson Plans for Brenda J. Moses

October 5-16, 2009

English IV College Preparatory and Honors

Element of Language and Element of Literature Sixth Course Textbooks (HRW)

Note to Students and Parents: Students should be prepared daily for an assessment on the previous day’s assignment in addition to completing activities in grammar.

	The Student Will	Materials	Assessment	Standards	Homework
Monday, October 5, 2009	Turn in Typed Frame Stories (Modern Day Prologue) and Watch the movie Becket	Typed Stories, TV, DVD, and copy of Becket	Questions and Answers	E4-1.6, E4-1.1, E4-1.2, E4-1.4, E4-1.5, E4-1.7, E4-4.3	Review content of movie
Tuesday, October 6, 2009	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above
Wednesday, October 7, 2009	Take Quiz on Becket and Read pp. 184-191 (Ballads)	Teacher Made Test, Textbook for Discussion on Ballads	Grade the Test, Guide students in analyzing the characteristics of the ballads	Same as Above	Review class notes on Ballads
Thursday, October 8, 2009	Identify the characteristics of the Medieval Romance, the author’s purpose, and use of Irony (pp.194-202)	Textbook	Questions and Answers	Same as Above	Review notes on Medieval Romance
Friday, October 9, 2009	Identify the characteristics of romance and analyze Cause and Effect (pp.206-213)	Textbook and CD	Questions and Answers	Same as Above	Review notes on “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Monday, October 12, 2009	Write a paragraph about a time when you or someone you know faced a challenge. Use imagery to make the description come alive for the readers.	Textbook	Grade Paragraphs	Same as Above	Same as Above/ Research King Arthur’s Death
Tuesday, October 13, 2009	Analyze the archetype of the Romance Hero/ King Arthur	Textbook	Discuss literary heroes who stand for love or valor in ancient epics	Same as Above	Review notes on the romance hero/Le Mort d’Arthur
Wednesday, October 14, 2009	Identify the use of allegory and make critical judgments (pp.216-230)	Textbook	Read and discuss Everyman	Same as Above	Review notes on Everyman
Thursday, October 15, 2009	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above
Friday, October 16, 2009	Write a short allegory in which you personify abstract concepts to teach a lesson	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Complete the Literary Skills Review (pp. 244-246)

Lesson Plans for Brenda J. Moses

African American Literature

October 5- 16, 2009

African American Literature Voices in a Tradition Series

Note to Students and Parents: Be prepared daily for an assessment (written or oral).

	The Students Will	Materials	Assessment	Homework
Monday, October 5, 2009	Read Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Selected Poetry	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Design a mask that accurately depicts their disguises
Tuesday, October 6, 2009	Share their masks and the story behind the mask	Masks	Grade Masks	Read pp. 258-260
Wednesday, October 7, 2009	Discuss the folk ballad “John Henry” and its importance in literature	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Research The Black Codes, The Freedmen’s Bureau, The Niagara Movement, The NAACP, Civil Rights Acts in the Nineteenth Century, Ida B. Wells’s Campaign Against Lynching, Early African American Newspapers, The Importance of African American Newspapers in the Antislavery Crusade
Thursday, October 8, 2009	Discuss researched topics	Internet Sources	Grade Research	Read pp. 267-278
Friday, October 9, 2009	Discuss The Harlem Renaissance and the New Identity of the Post World War I Negro	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Review notes on The Harlem Renaissance
Monday, October 12, 2009	Read selected works of James Weldon Johnson (pp. 279-293)	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Review notes on James Weldon Johnson
Tuesday, October 13, 2009	Read selected poems of Claude McKay	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Review notes on Claude McKay
Wednesday, October 14, 2009	Read biographical information about Jean Toomer in addition to selected poems (pp. 303-309) and write about a special place where you feel the most comfortable	Textbook	Grade Students’ Responses	Review and selected poems of Jean Toomer
Thursday, October 15, 2009	Read selected works of Langston Hughes (pp. 312-327)	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Read pp. 331-333 and create s contemporary of Langston Hughes’s Jesse B. Simple
Friday, October 16, 2009	Read selected poems of Countee Cullen (pp. 335-343)	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Complete the Writer’s Journal Response on p. 344 of the Textbook

Lesson Plans for Brenda J. Moses

September 21-October 2, 2009

English IV College Preparatory and Honors

Element of Language and Element of Literature Sixth Course Textbooks (HRW)

	The Student Will	Materials	Assessment	Standards	Homework
Monday, September 21, 2009	Identify Chaucer’s methods of characterizations in selected Pilgrims	Textbook	Questions/Answers, Notes, Chart	E4-1.6, E4-1.1, E4-1.2, E4-1.4, E4-1.5, E4-1.7, E4-4.3	Review notes and textbook selections for Anglo-Saxon Unit Test
Tuesday, September 22, 2009	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Review notes and textbook selections for Anglo-Saxon Unit Test
Wednesday, September 23, 2009	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Review notes and textbook selections for Anglo-Saxon Unit Test
Thursday, September 24, 2009	Take an Anglo-Saxon Unit Test		Prepare the test, give directions, monitor the test taking and grade the test	Same as Above	Write a stanza in the introduction that describes the narrator
Friday, September 25, 2009	Present their introductions about the Narrator	Textbook and Students generated Introductions	Grade the Introductions	Same as Above	Write a modern frame story
Monday, September 28, 2009	Present their modern frame stories	Textbook and Students generated modern frame stories	Grade the Modern Frame Stories	Same as Above	Write an entertaining story for entry in a Competition
Tuesday, September 29, 2009	Watch the Movie Becket	TV, VCR, Large Screen TV, Movie Becket	Provide the students with background material about Thomas a’ Becket	Same as Above	Same as Above
Wednesday, September 30, 2009	Same as Above	Same as Above	Review the key ideas presented in Day 1’s Viewing of Becket	Same as Above	Same as Above
Thursday, October 1, 2009	Discuss Chaucer’s use of Irony in Selected Tales	Textbook	Questions, Answers	Same as Above	Same as Above
Friday, October 2, 2009	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above	Same as Above

Lesson Plans for Brenda J. Moses

African American Literature

September 21- October 2, 2009

African American Literature Voices in a Tradition Series

	The Students Will	Materials	Assessment	Homework
Monday, September 21, 2009	Rewrite Frederick Douglass’s Narrative as a Play or Poem	Textbook	Grade the Play or Poem	Read pp. 181-185
Tuesday, September 22, 2009	Discuss African American Folk Tales	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Write a story that exaggerates the truth
Wednesday, September 23, 2009	Share their exaggerated stories	Stories	Grade the Stories	Read pp. 187-190
Thursday, September 24, 2009	Listen to Selected Spirituals	CD	Questions/Answers	Read pp. 197-199
Friday, September 25, 2009	Write a postscript to Jacob’s Narrative	Students Generated Responses	Grade Responses	Research Black Codes
Monday, September 28, 2009	Discuss Black Codes	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Read pp. 201-211
Tuesday, September 29, 2009	Discuss Southern Reconstruction and its impact on the Renaissance	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Read pp. 212-222
Wednesday, September 30, 2009	Discuss Booker T. Washington’s Autobiography	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Read pp. 226-235
Thursday, October 1, 2009	Discuss “The Bouquet”	Textbook	Questions/Answers	Read pp. 238-241
Friday, October 2, 2009	Discuss Crusade for Justice	Textbook	Questions/ Answers