Monday, November 23
Benchmarks
9.9.3.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, intended audience, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
9.4.2.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Activities
- Entrance slip: what is propaganda?
- Finish watching The Wave
- Discuss the movie — mechanisms of control
- 1984 powerpoint — students take notes
- Students check out books
- Distribute chapter 1 study guides
- Explain audio link: 1984 Audio Book
- Students have time to read
Assessment
- discussion of movie
- entrance slip
Tuesday, November 24
Benchmarks
9.4.4.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone
9.4.2.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Activities
- Students turn in chapter 1 study guides
- Read "Involuntary Conversion…The World of Doublespeak" as an introduction to the language of Big Brother.
- Students will come up with two jargon terms in groups.
- Students have time to read chapter 2-3 (pages 20-37) and work on study guide — corresponding study guide due tomorrow
Assessment
- study guides
- discussion
Wednesday, November 25
Benchmarks
9.4.3.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
9.4.2.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
9.4.4.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone
Activities
- Entrance Slip: Define Doublespeak
- Discuss Doublespeak as a review for what we went over yesterday.
- Discuss Edward Snowden and the NSA.
- Edward Snowden videos One and Two
- Check study guides/summaries while watching the interviews.
- Discuss what students think about Edward Snowden, the NSA, and what connections they can make with the book.
- Read 37- 63 for Monday and corresponding study guide due
Assessment
- discussion
- entrance slips
- study guides
Thursday, November 26
NO SCHOOL — THANKSGIVING BREAK
Friday, November 27
NO SCHOOL — THANKSGIVING BREAK
