Unit 4 Comparing a Theme Across Genres - Quia



Unit 4 Comparing a Theme Across Genres

Theme 230

Genre: Fiction/Non-fiction (255)

For Day 1--Read short story “And of Clay Are We Created” (256) vocab and newspaper article “Ill-Equipped . . .” (267) See vocab. Look at Q8 and 9.

For Day 2--Answer in a chart Q 10 (270) Give an example for most categories. See the directions for comparison-contrast essay on 283.

Day 2--In class using dictionary, groups do “Mapping a word’s origin” (271) Know word roots (271)

Day 3—Read personal essay (newspaper column) “The Man in the Water” (272), “Parable of the Good Samaritan” and personal essay “A State Championship Versus Runner’s Conscience” (279).

Write in a paragraph Q 11 (281). Use quotes around phrases that are Rosenblatt’s.

Focus on Q 6, 7, 8, 9. See media genre comparison essay (382+).

In class: Vocab and wordiness exercises on 282

Day 4—Read Evaluating Arguments: persuasive essay and evidence (284-85). See vocab on 285 and jargon (292). See also 294-95 for writing persuasive essay.

Read “If Decency” (285) and “Good Samaritans” (288). Look for answers to boxed questions as you read. Write “Test Practice” on (290+). For “Constructed Response,” outline one essay (the one you feel is most effective. Then mark in the margin of the outline, places where the evidence and persuasive techniques are effective and label techniques (like “loaded word”). Write a paragraph summarizing why you found the article convincing.

Day 5—Write sentences for vocab on Practice 2 (292). Read and write answers to practices (306-11)

How can you identify “Ice Storm” as a short story?

Unit 5 Irony and Ambiguity

Agree or disagree: Rosenblatt said, “Everyone is taken at his or her word. Not that people have to mean what they say; they merely have to sound that way . . . . Why does the disappearance of irony matter? Because when people lose their sense of irony, they forfeit their ability to be teased out of adamancy; thus they also lose the change to change their minds.” What are examples to support your position from the news or literature?

Notice picture by Magritte on 312 and by Dali on 392

For Day 1--Read “Irony” (314-15)

For Day 2--Read “Lamb to the Slaughter” (Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) See vocab (316). Focus on Q 6-10 (326).

For Day 3--Passive Voice (327). Read “Words from Mythology” (348) and write examples for “Word Clues: roots (373).

For Day 4—Read “Notes from a Bottle” (374) and vocab. Focus on Q 2-9. See “Word Roots” (380).

Vocab for unit review (394).

Short story ideas--See workshop (602-609)

1. Use a newspaper article as the basis for a short story (Writing: Story Hunter, 270)

2. Deal with an internal conflict a) using omniscient point of view, and showing the person’s actions (like in “Man”) or b) using first person point of view and revealing the conflict through the narrator’s thoughts (like in “State”).

3. “Ice Storm” as a model

4. Write about an initiation (like “Through the Tunnel”).

5. Write the mother’s version of “Through the Tunnel”. (It should stand alone.)

6. Write a “great escape” (431).

7. Write a journal like “Notes from a Bottle”.

Unit 6 Symbolism and Allegory (398)

For Day 5-6 Read “Symbolism and Allegory” (398) and “Through the Tunnel” (400) and vocab.

Focus on all Q (409).

Read selections about initiations across cultures (407, 411-416 and multiple choice questions)Grammar participles (410) Word mapping (417).

Read Vocab context (432) for “Masque”

For Days 7-8 Read “The Masque of the Red Death” (418+). For Q3, draw a floor plan of the seven rooms.

Focus on allegory and Q 7-13.

Plague info (429-30)

For Days 10 Frost poems (433+). See Q on 438.

For Day 11Read “the Blue Stones” and do questions (450)

Write vocab review and test practice (452-53)

Look at “Analyzing a Short Story” (440+) and “Presenting a Literary Response” (448+).

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