Benchmark 12/1

December 1, 2017

Key Ideas and Details:

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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

Craft and Structure:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9

Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foundational works of American literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.

EQ: Demonstrate application of skills based on standards posted above through benchmark testing.

Starter

Free Write Thursday

Write a half page, double spaced response. 

1. Benchmark 12/1

usatestprep.com

Click on the link above.

The school ID is lee59.

Your username and password are both your student ID number.

You will then see the assignment labeled 2 benchmark 12/1.

Complete all the multiple choice questions and free response.

You are required to receive a minimum score of 80%.

If you do not receive this the first time, please take it again.

If you do not receive an 80% the second time, remediation will be offered the following week.

These attempts must be completed by 12/6 and need to be supervised.

Make sure that you schedule time during your lunch or after school if you do not finish today.

Closure: 

Write yourself a positive note about the benchmark!

Act Four

November 29, 2017

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter:

Create a HOT question based on the reading from yesterday.

Write the question on one side of an index card.

This will be used for quiz, quiz, trade.

Vocabulary: 

Word: Theme

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

Your Definition: 

Activity: Determine the theme of the Crucible.

Activity: 

1.  The Crucible Pages 117-1134

Characters: 

Narrator

Parris

Hathorne

Danforth

Hale

Elizabeth

Proctor

Rebecca

Herrick

2.  TPEQEA

Analyze the theme of the Crucible.

Use ideas from your mind map to help identify the theme.

Closure: 

How confident do you feel identifying themes using the learning target?

The Crucible Pages 103-117

November 29,2017

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Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter: 

What does reputation mean to you?

How do you define it?

How do you protect your reputation?

Connect the idea to the play.

Vocabulary: 

Word: Reputation

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: overall quality or character as seen or judged by people in general

Your Definition: 

Activity: Create a word cloud with 10-15 words you associate with reputation.

You can use the link above or make one on paper.

Activity

1.  Mind Mapping

Create a mind map of the main ideas present in each act of the Crucible.

Topic

The Crucible Main Ideas

Branches

Act One Main Idea 

Act Two

Act Three so far

Twigs

One sentence summary.

Topic Word

Main Idea

Quote to Support

Explanation

2.  Crucible Pages 103-117

Characters

Narrator

Danforth

Abigail

Proctor

Parris

Cheever

Elizabeth

Hale

Mercy Lewis

Mary Warren 

Susanna Walcott

Herrick

Sarah Good

Tituba

Hathorne

Discussion Questions

How does fear impact the characters decisions?

How do the characters view their reputation?

Characterize the girls in comparison to the judges.

Identify a main idea created at the beginning of act four.

Closure:

At this point, how confident do you feel identifying main ideas.

Use the learning target to evaluate yourself and explain. 

The Crucible 88-102

November 28, 2017

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter: 

Reflect on the collaborative annotation.

What was one interesting point that was developed in the discussion?

Overall, how effective was it?

Vocabulary: 

Word: Red Scare

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism

Your Definition: 

Activity: Discuss similarities and differences between the Crucible and McCarthyism.

Activity: 

1.  The Crucible

Pages 88-102

Characters

Narrator

Giles

Proctor

Danforth

Hathorne

Putnam

Parris

Hale

Mary Warren

Cheever

Abigail

Mercy Lewis

Susanna Walcott

Discussion Questions

Summarize the reading. 

Analyze the role of fear in Salem.

Connect the ideas in the Crucible to the Milgram Experiment.

Identify main ideas of act three. 

2.  Mind Mapping

Create a mind map of the main ideas present in each act of the Crucible.

Topic

The Crucible Main Ideas

Branches

Act One Main Idea 

Act Two

Act Three so far

Twigs

One sentence summary.

Topic Word

Main Idea

Quote to Support

Explanation

Closure:

At this point, how confident do you feel identifying main ideas.

Use the learning target to evaluate yourself and explain. 

The Crucible pages 77-88

November 27, 2017

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Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter: 

Reflect on your TPEQEQEA.

What similarity did you focus on?

Why was this the major comparison of your paragraph?

Vocabulary: 

Word; Vengeance 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition:   punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense 

Your Definition: 

Context: I'll tell you what's walking Salem- vengeance is walking Salem. 

Activity: Give an example of vengeance.

Activity: 

1.   The Crucible, Act Three 

Pages 77-88

Narrator

Hathorne

Martha Corey

Giles

Herrick

Hale

Danforth

Parris

Francis 

Proctor

Mary Warren 

Cheever

Discussion Director

Reflect on how the characters got to this point.

How has fear shaped their current situations?

Characterize the new judges.  How are they portrayed?

  2.  Collaborative Annotation

Follow the steps below:  

1.  Write 3-4 sentences to share with your group based on the reading.

What did you find interesting?

How does this relate to the major ideas?

2.  Sit in a circle with your group, so you can all see each other. 

3.  Pass your writing to the person on the left. 

4.  Read the writing from your peer and respond to the writing on the same piece of paper, expanding on what previous students wrote.

6. Repeat until you have your original piece of writing.

7. Read through the comments.

8.  Answer the question: What did I learn about the big idea through collaboration?

9.  Share ideas with the class. 

Closure: 

Evaluate how the second try at collaborative annotations went.

End of Act Two

November 21, 2017

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter: 

Free Write Tuesday

This should be a half page, double spaced entry.

Vocabulary: 

Word: Justice

Part of Speech: Noun 

Dictionary Definitions: 

1. the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments 

2.  the quality of being just, impartial, or fair

3. conformity to truth, fact, or reason

Your Definition: 

Activity: Based on the image below what is the difference between justice and revenge?

Activity; 

1.  Finishing Act Two

Narrator

Giles Corey

Proctor

Francis

Elizabeth

Hale

Ezekiel Cheever

Mary Warren 

Discussion Questions

Evaluate the impact the girls have had on society.

Analyze how Proctor has changed.

Predict what will happen with Mary Warren.

Connect the story to hysteria and fear.

2.  Enemies from Within

Read Senator McCarthy's speech from the 1950's.

Then, in a TPEQEQEA paragraph, compare the ideas in The Crucible to the ideas in the speech.

Closure: 

What is one connection between the play and real life?

Homework

Finish the TPEQEQEA paragraph. 

The Crucible Pages 56-67

November 20, 2017

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter:

Summarize the reading of act two from Friday.

This should be approximately 3-5 sentences.

Vocabulary: 

Word: Christian

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Jesus Christ and his teachings.

Your Definition: 

Activity: How are ideas of Christianity presented in the Crucible?

Activity: 

1. The Crucible Act Two 

Pages 56 -67

Characters

Narrator

Elizabeth

Proctor

Mary Warren

Hale 

Discussion Questions

What does Elizabeth and Proctor's conversation reveal about their current relationship?

How has hysteria spread throughout Salem?

Determine your opinion on Proctor, Elizabeth, and Mary Warren.

Connect the big idea of fear to the ideas presented in these pages.

Analyze Elizabeth's and John's responses to Hale's questions.

What does it reveal about their beliefs?

Characterize Hale based on this interaction.

2  Double Entry Journal 

Make a copy of the document above and move to your assignments folder.

Identify FIVE quotes relate to the big idea of fear or another main idea from the act. 

Make sure that you also include a reaction on the right side.

We will share quotes with the class later.

Closure: 

Predict what will happen in the end of act two.

The Crucible Act Two

November 17, 2017

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Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter:

Free Write Friday

 

Create a half page, double spaced free write. 

Vocabulary: 

Term: magistrate

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

Your Definition:

Context: They've sent four judges out of Boston, she says, weighty magistrates of the General Court, and at the head sits the Deputy Governor of the Province.

Activity: Find a picture of a magistrate.

Activity: 

1.  Small Group Presentations

Take turns presenting your one pagers from yesterday.

Give each other feedback on the ideas presented.

2.  The Crucible Act Two 

Pages 47-59

Characters

Narrator

Elizabeth

Proctor

Mary Warren

Discussion Questions

What does Elizabeth and Proctor's conversation reveal about their current relationship?

How has hysteria spread throughout Salem?

Determine your opinion on Proctor, Elizabeth, and Mary Warren.

Connect the big idea of fear to the ideas presented in these pages.

3.  Double Entry Journal 

Make a copy of the document above and move to your assignments folder.

Identify THREE quotes that interest you and are related to the idea of fear.

Make sure that you also include a reaction on the right side.

We will share quotes with the class later.

Closure: 

What is one question that you have based on the reading?