Start-up & General
Grammar Review
ELOs: I can identify nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and conjunctions.
- PowerPoint (PDF)
- Grammar Review Handout (PDF)
- Adjectives in Ads Handout (PDF)
Unit 1: Music & Lyrics
Lesson 1: Music and Life Lesson 2: Analyzing Lyrics Lesson 3: Determining Theme/Message |
Lesson 4: The Power of Music Lesson 5: Allusions & Metaphors
Lesson 6: Responding to Music |
Unit 2: Global Conflicts
Throughout this unit, we will be viewing and reading a variety of texts related to the theme of global conflict. These texts will help us to answer our unit question: what is the cost of war?
Lesson 1 (Oct 8, 9, 13, 14)
We started off this unit by watching the movie "Hotel Rwanda," and completing a movie review about it
- PowerPoint (PDF)
- Unit Question: The Cost of War Chart (PDF)
- Vocabulary Handout (PDF)
- Movie Review Assignment (PDF)
- Movie Review Criteria
Lesson 2 (Oct 15-16): The Impacts of War
Task: Complete this handout The Impacts of War: PTSD
We read this together as a class:
- Excerpt from Soldier's Heart
- The Forever War of the Mind
- A Soldier's Letter Home from WWII
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Daddy's Home
Lesson 3 (Oct 19, 20, 21): Characterization in The Sniper
PowerPoint (PDF)
Read the short story The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty (audio here)
Handout: The Sniper (PDF)
Quiz on Characterization (definition, direct/indirect, STEAL)
Lesson 4 (Oct 27-28): Literary Devices + Poem: What Do I Remember of the Evacuation?
Literary Devices: PowerPoint (PDF)
Literary Devices Graphic Organizer (PDF)
Identifying Literary Devices Handout (PDF)
Poem: What Do I Remember of the Evacuation by Joy Kogawa
Poem Handout (PDF)
Lesson 5: Sentences
Recognizing Sentences (PDF)
Complete Sentences (PDF)
Run-on Sentences (PDF)
Lesson 6: Paragraphs- Main Idea, Supporting Details
Recreation in Burns Lake Brainstorm
- Directions
- Graphic Organizer
Paragraphs: Topic/Support/Conclusion (PDF)
Lesson 7: Child Soldier Paragraphs
PowerPoint (PDF)
Child Soldier Paragraphs
- Choose one labeled with "a" to read. Fill out graphic organizer (PDF) with main idea + supporting details.
- Choose one labeled with "b" to read. Figure out main idea, and write it in provided space.
Lesson 8: Transition words, Writing a Paragraph
PowerPoint (PDF)
Transition WordsWriting a paragraph
- Use your main idea + supporting details from last week (recreation in Burns Lake)
- Include at least THREE transition words
Unit Project
Unit 3: Media & Technology
Lesson 1: Intro
Lesson 2: Documentaries
Lesson 3: Bowling for Columbine
- PowerPoint (PDF) (Thursday double block- review, and watch documentary)
- Handout (PDF)
- Completed "Before Viewing" on Wednesday
- Completed "Comprehension Questions" while viewing on Thursday double block
- Causes of Violence & Expository Paragraph completed Mon/Tues and due on Wednesday
Lesson 4: Graffiti Analysis & Persuasive Paragraph