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Lesson Plans September 22-26Monday (Sep. 22):Content Standard: Understand horror as a genre, including its tropes and unique traits.Language Standard: Use the terms “tropes” and “horror” to describe commonalities in horror films.Accountable Team Task: Create a web of knowledge of what we already know about horrorVocab: Horror, tropesMusic Monday: “Evil” by Howlin’ WolfFears PowerpointREV It Up Lesson 2 Day 1 “The Rain Came” by Grace OgotTuesday (Sep. 23):Content Standard: Explore the concept of evil and power in a real-world situationLanguage Standard: Begin discussing the concept of evil in shades of gray rather than in black and whiteAccountable Team Task: TED Tuesdays: “The Psychology of Evil” by Phillip Zimbardo pages 89-91 in “The Tell-Tale Heart”REV It Up Lesson 2 Day 2 “Explain Yourself” questionsWednesday (Sep. 24):Content Standard: Understand how we can relate fictional characters to a real-world conceptLanguage Standard: Apply a layman’s psychological diagnosis to the narrator of the storyAccountable Team Task: Create a criminal psychology profile for the narrator in the storyRead pages 92-94 in “The Tell-Tale Heart”Explore a psychological profile of Ted Bundy creating a psychological profile for the killerREV It Up Lesson 2 Day 3 “Take It Further” questionsThursday (Sep. 25): Content Standard: Understand how we can relate fictional characters to a real-world conceptLanguage Standard: Apply a layman’s psychological diagnosis to the narrator of the storyAccountable Team Task: Create a criminal psychology profile for the narrator in the storyExplore a psychological profile of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold a criminal psychology profile for the narrator of the storyREV It Up Lesson 2 Day 7 “Eco-rific Trip”Friday (Sep. 26):Content Standard: Understand the concept of an unreliable narrator and distinguish what makes a narrator unreliable as opposed to reliableLanguage Standard: Use the terms “reliable” and “unreliable” to describe a narrator and select evidence to support reliability of the narratorAccountable Team Task: Craft a claim/data/warrant-style argument for why the narrator is unreliable, using at least 3 pieces of evidenceThink-Pair-Share: With a shoulder partner, go through the text and find a piece of evidence that supports the narrator being unreliable, then shareWith the evidence shared in class, write a paragraph in claim/data/warrant style supporting the unreliability of the narratorREV It Up Lesson 2 Day 9 “In Your Own Words” prompt ................
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