Week 8! Multicultrual and World Literature

Multicultural Literature 

9.19. Monday's Lesson - About Russell + Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

9.20 Tuesday's Lesson - Family - African American Museum. Direct and Indirect Objects

African American Museum Article

9.21 Wednesday's Lesson - Continuation - 

9.22 Thursday's Lesson - Socratic Seminar

Mexican Children Falling Behind in Native Language - Article 

9.23 Friday's Lesson - Continuation ... 



















World Literature 

Monday's Lesson Psalms 

Week 7! Multicultural and World Literature!

I want to congratulate everyone who has gotten through 6 weeks with not only a passing grade, but with a grade worthy of praise! There are many of you... and I am very proud!


Multicultural Literature

Monday-Tuesday's Lesson 

Wednesday's Lesson 

Thursday's Lesson 

Friday

We finished our lessons! So... we viewed the International Film - Duktar in keeping with our theme of Families in Conflict .
World Literature

Monday's Lesson

Tuesday's Lesson 

Wednesday's Lesson 

Thursday's Lesson 

Friday... we finished our lessons! So... we viewed the International Film - Difret - in keeping with our current theme of strong women in World Literature.

Week 6 Already! Multicultural and World Literature with Dr. O!

I hope everyone had an awesome Labor Day weekend!   


Bye Bye Summer! 

Multicultural Literature 

Tuesday's PPT Lesson 

Wednesday and Thursday PPT Lesson

Passive vs Active Voice to edit (see ppt)





Friday - Pep Rally --- really crazy day and maybe a movie for 3rd... a place to stop and drop for 2nd and 4th.... pretty much.

World Literature

Tuesday's PPT Lesson 

Wednesday's PPT Lesson

Thursday's PPT Lesson 

Friday.... Pep Rally -  just enough time in class to make up missed assignments! Yay you!

Week 5! Multicultural and World Literature

Multicultural Literature

Monday

Essay Test for The Other Wes Moore

Tuesday 

Introduction to Multicultural Literature Text 


Informational Text: Trump's Deportation Plan 

Wednesday

Lesson

Thursday

Lesson

Patriotism- Should it be blind?

World Literature  

Monday 

Origins and Traditions Day 1


Tuesday 

Origins and Traditions Day 2 

Informational Text - The Rise and Fall of the Aksum Empire - Africa

Wednesday

The Epic of Gilgamesh - Lesson 

Thursday

The Epic of Gilgamesh - Lesson

Guiding Questions

Multicultural and World Literature Week 4! Closing out The Other Wes Moore, Meeting Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Thinking about Justice, and Finishing a Search for Treasure and Personal Legends.

Multicultural Literature

Monday - Wednesday

This week we are closing out the memoir, The Other Wes Moore 

with a look at the flipside of the story into the wrongful conviction rate of African-American males we will listen to a series of Ted Talks on the phenomena of wrongful convictions, and view the biographical film of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. 

We will also explore music selections by Bob Dylan and 

Sam Cooke's haunting song "A Change is Gonna Come". 


We have covered the dual and reciprocal evolution of Hip Hop, drugs, and violence, and all that has been shared in class should be used as supporting evidence for our essay test on key themes from The Other Wes Moore. See previous posts for those lessons.

Lessons - Monday - Wednesday

Lesson Tuesday - Friday

The Hurricane Study Guide

Use past posts (ppts, videos, etc) to study for Monday's essay test. The more notes you have... the better you will do. We are covering themes from Wes Moore... you will draw upon all resources... not just the novel. 


World Literature

Monday - Wednesday 

This week we close out the novel/parable The Alchemist. We will finish today with a test over key themes and events in the novel as well as grammar concepts introduced during the past 3 1/2 weeks.

Monday Lesson

Tuesday Lesson

Wednesday Lesson 

Thursday Lesson / Test Day

Friday Lesson

Multicultural and World Literature - Week 3!

Multicultural Literature 

Monday - August 15, 2016

The Other Wes Moore -Chapter 6 Lesson

Materials: 

Chapter 6 Questions

More Questions...

Tuesday - August 16, 2016

The Other Wes Moore- Chapter 7 Lesson

Materials

Chapter 7 Study Guide

Wednesday- August 17, 2016

The Other Wes Moore- Chapter 7 Continued

Materials:

6-word Memoir Project

Thursday- August 18, 2016

Chapters 7/8 Lesson 

Friday- August 19, 2016 

Chapter 8 Lesson

Materials: 

Chapter 7 Themes - Writing Assignment




World Literature 

The Alchemist - Day 6 Lesson

Tuesday - August 16, 2016

The Alchemist - Day 7 Lesson

Materials 

"The Road Not Taken"

Wednesday - August 17, 2016

The Alchemist- Day 8 Lesson

The Alchemist: Day 9 Lesson

The Alchemist: Day 10 Lesson

Materials:

Map

Personal Legends Performance Task

Multicultural and World Literature Week Two

Multicultural Literature




Monday and Tuesday - Chapters 1-2 The Other Wes Moore

Materials: 

Chapters 1 and 2 Study Guide and Activities

****Read chapter 2 tonight. 

Wednesday - Thursday - Chapters 3-4 Lesson  (read chapter 3, part II Wed. Night. Chapter 4 part II Thursday night)

Thursday- Chapter 4 Lesson (read part II of C. 4 tonight) 


Materials: 

Chapters 3-4 Study Guide and Activities 

Friday- Chapter 5 Lesson (finish reading chapter 5 over the weekend). 
Study Guide Checks on Monday. 

Materials:

Chapter 5 Reading Guide

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost 





World Literature

World Literature Novel -E-Text  The Alchemist  by Paulo_Coelho

Reading Guide 

The Audiobook to AID reading. 

Monday - We continued Friday's Lesson 

Tuesday's Lesson - (now homework - due to poor participation : ( 

Materials: 

Close Read - Chapter One with Teacher Led Instructions

Silent Reading Response Sheet 

Wednesday's Lesson 

Thursday's Lesson 


Friday's Lesson 

Materials:

Elements of the Epic Hero Cycle