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World Lit: Circle 1, Limbo

April 26, 2019 / / No comments

Standards

  • ELAGSE9-10RL6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL2 Determine a theme or central idea of text and closely analyze 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. Georgia ELA

Learning Target
I can understand the Law of Symbolic Retribution in the first circle of Dante’s Inferno.

Opening Session

Let’s review our notes from yesterday!

Work Session:

After we do some background and hear about the poster project, we will start right off with reading Canto III, which describes Circle 1 of Hell (Limbo – The Opportunists). We will also head down to the Auditorium for half an hour to watch a preview of Broadway Night 🙂

Closing Session:

Ticket out the door! Tell me something that surprised you about Circle 1

Assessment: 

Formative – class discussions

Differentiation: 

Process (scaffolding)

 

World Lit: Introducing Dante’s Inferno!

April 25, 2019 / / No comments

Standards

  • ELAGSE9-10RL6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL2 Determine a theme or central idea of text and closely analyze 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. Georgia ELA

Learning Target
I can understand the background and historical context of Dante’s Inferno and the cultural experiences that led Dante to write the story.
Opening Session
This is a trailer for the video game Inferno, which should give you an idea of how cool this upcoming reading will be!

Work Session
We are starting off today by taking a few background notes from this lovely presentation: https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/OePphMtkQZeCRr3HZouX and using this lovely guided notes sheet: https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/HSwiZqXCQ4fG0kig7CKg. The idea here is to give you some background info on the story and who Dante was. When we finish that, we’re going read Canto I!

Closing Session
VOCAB!!! Your quiz will be next Wednesday!!

  1. Flounders
  2. Tremulous
  3. Zeal
  4. Putrid
  5. Despicable
  6. Lamentation
  7. Scorn
  8. Reprimand
  9. Shade (as in, Virgil is a shade)
  10. Incontinence

Assessment
Formative (TOTD, class discussions, note checks)

Differentiation
Process (guided notes); Product (choice of poster activity)

World Lit: Dante Unit Test

October 17, 2018 / / No comments

Standards

  • ELAGSE9-10RL1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL2 Determine a theme or central idea of text and closely analyze 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. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. Georgia ELA

Learning Target
The students will demonstrate their knowledge on a comprehensive unit test.

Opening Session
5 minute review time! Study and ask your last minute questions now!

Work Session
It’s time for the TEST!! You will have the entire class period to complete the test. When you’re finished, read in your Independent Reading book.

Closing Session
STICKY NOTE SURVEY! I’ll give a sticky note to everyone. Please write down any feedback you have for this unit and then stick it to the whiteboard. This is totally anonymous and you won’t get in trouble for what you say! It’s just to help me teach better in the future 🙂

Assessment
Summative (unit test)

Differentiation
Process (scaffolding, annotated text)

World Lit: Dante Review

October 16, 2018 / / No comments

Standards

ELAGSE9-10RL1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Georgia ELA

ELAGSE9-10RL2 Determine a theme or central idea of text and closely analyze 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. Georgia ELA

ELAGSE9-10RL3 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. Georgia ELA

ELAGSE9-10RL4 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 (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.) Georgia ELA

Learning Target
Students will review Dante’s Inferno in preparation for their unit test tomorrow.

Opening Session
Did you miss any days on the poster activity? I’ve got them all around the room! Take ten minutes to finish any you might have missed on the day we did them in class.

Work Session
It’s time for JEOPARDY!!!

Jeopardy Round: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/dantes-inferno-jeopardy-5

Double Jeopardy Round: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/bristow-and-mellmans-dantes-inferno-double-jeopardy

Closing Session
FINAL JEOPARDY!!! Category Is: OSBORNE TRIVIA

Assessment
Formative (jeopardy review)

Differentiation
Learning Style (visual, kinesthetic)

World Lit: Circle 9, Betrayal

October 15, 2018 / / No comments

Standards

  • ELAGSE9-10RL2 Determine a theme or central idea of text and closely analyze 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. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL4 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 (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.) Georgia ELA

Learning Target
Students will be able to analyze a theme of Dante’s Inferno and write a short essay explaining it.

Opening Session
STORY TIME! As we descend into the final circle of Hell, we get to meet Satan and the 3 worst sinners in all of history. Two of them are from a story we didn’t read this semester called Julius Caesar. So let’s take a few minutes during our Opening Session to talk about the story of Julius Caesar’s betrayal by Brutus and Cassius!

Work Session
And now we delve into the deepest reaches of Hell – Circle 9, Canto XXXIV. We’re going to be reading it together out of the textbook today, closely working through the poetry as Dante surmounts the most difficult obstacle of all, Satan himself.

Now that we’ve finished Dante’s Inferno, I want you to consider the two themes we have touched on during this unit. The first theme is the idea of symbolic retribution, the idea that the punishment in Hell should fit the sins committed on Earth. The second theme is the idea that the real punishment in Hell is the absence of hope that the torture will ever end.

Choose one of the two themes and write a short essay where you explain how Dante shows this theme in the Inferno. You should write about 3ish paragraphs and cite evidence from the text (you have canto XXXVII in front of you, and I can give you copies of canto I, III, and V).
This is due at the end of class, and don’t forget the poster activity (last one!!)

Closing Session
Do your LAST poster activity and catch up on any you might have missed along the way!

Assessment
Formative (Poster activity), summative (impromptu essay)

Differentiation
Process (scaffolding), Product (varied essay length as needed)

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