Seniors Week of January 28 through February 11, 2013

Teacher: Racquel O’Connor-Mesa	Class: Senior  English		Dates: Week of January 28, 2013, Week of February 4, 2013
Learning Development:	Performance Objective:  UW.G12.2R.C2.PO3 Recognize and apply knowledge of the historical and cultural aspects of American, British, and world literature. Learning Objective: Analyze culturally or historically significant literary works of British and world literature that reflect the major literary periods and traditions. Kid-Friendly Language: I can discover significant major literary periods of world literature that affect history and culture. Key Terms: Literary works, Traditions, World literature, Literary periods Essential Questions: 1. What is the importance of history and culture within literature? How does history and culture develop/ influence the literary work? 2. What are the literary movements? How do literary movements develop/ influence traditions in society?
Bloom’s Level	Low  Knowledge  Comprehension	Middle x Application		High x Analysis  Synthesis x Evaluation
Anticipatory Set ·         Congruent ·         Active ·         Past Experience	Students will answer the following question in their journal. Think about a major event in history that has occurred since you have been born (9/11, Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, school shootings, hurricane Sandy, etc).  Describe the event, and then explain how this even has affected the lives of American citizens.  Then discuss how it has affected your life directly. Do you think world events can have an impact on media and literature? Explain.
Instructional Strategies	Student-Led  Identifying Similarities & Differences x Summarizing x Project-Based  Nonlinguistic Representation x Setting Objectives x Peer Feedback  Generating/Testing Hypothesis		Teacher-Led x Lecture x Discussion x Homework x Practice x Cooperative Learning x Instructor Feedback x Questions, Cues, Advanced Organizers
Learning Activities & Modeling the H.O.T.S.	Week of January  28, 2013 Students will finish reading the novel, Animal Farm, while answering comprehension questions throughout the reading.  Animal Farm  was written during the time of the Russian Revolution and directly reflects what was occurring in history during this time. Week of February 4, 2013 Students will view a short film on the Russian Revolution in order to gain background knowledge of this time period. The video can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VldXUyCaeQ.  Students will be required to take extensive notes, consisting of at least 40 facts.  In cooperative learning groups, students will next, compile their facts and create a Venn diagram distinguishing similarities and differences between the Russian Revolution and the novel, Animal Farm.  Students will then match the historical figure in to their satirical character representation in the novel using teacher-made materials.  Using IPADS, students will take a webquest regarding the Russian Revolution found on the following website: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~ksherwoo/russianrevolution.htm.  Students will have a five-paragraph essay assigned to them regarding the parallels between the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm.
Guided Practice
Comprehension Check	The students’ comprehension will be assessed through the successful completion of all assignments.
Active Participation ·         All Students ·         All the Time	All students will be active learners and have a role in the successful mastery of this skill through individual note taking, reading, discussion, observing teacher modeling, processing/meeting rubric requirements, and successful completion of activities.				Covert   Overt x  Combination
Assessment	x Selected Response                                                    x Extended Written Response x Performance Assessment                                          x Personal Communication
Closure ·         Congruent ·         Active ·         Past Experience ·         Student Summary	Students will answer all essential questions and define vocabulary terms on back board.
Independent Practice	Students will take interactive notes, complete writing and reading activities, analyze, assess and gather information through use of social media.

*Students will read a class novel and partake on various curricular assignments, both reviewing and previewing language arts standards; concomitantly, with the above essential standard.