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Weekly Overview:

Unit Description:

This unit focuses on responding to the primary genres of the National Period of American Literature to discover how the literature relates to the historical context of the time.

Essential Questions: Can students identify the primary characteristics of the national period and how they are reflected in the literature of the time?

Can students demonstrate how the basic elements of short stories by writers like Washington Irving contribute to discovery of meaning in their works?

Resources/Materials: Text, Resource Manager, Journals

Standards/Benchmarks/GLEs: 01a-c, 07e, 09a, 09c,09d, 16a-g,18, 25, 26c, 27a-d, 30a-c, 31b

Objectives:

To explore the key idea of consequences.

To identify and analyze satire and imagery.

To read a short story.

To build vocabulary for reading and writing.

To explore the key idea of consequences.

To identify and analyze satire and imagery.

To read a short story.

To build vocabulary for

reading and writing.

To explore the key idea of consequences.

To identify and analyze satire and imagery.

To read a short story.

To build

vocabulary for reading and writing.

To explore the key idea of consequences.

To identify and analyze satire and imagery.

To read a short story.

To build vocabulary for reading and writing.

Student Learning Activities:

Bellwork

Exam Review

Exam Review

1st and 2nd period exams

Exam Review

3rd and 4th period exams

Exam Review

5th and 6th period exam

Exam Review

7th period exam

Homework:

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Write an obituary (using at lest 5 of the voc. words from Voc. Practice) that might have been published after the death of Tom Walker.

Attachments:

Assessments: Discussion Prompts, Guided Questions