Extraordinary Eighths

Language Arts

Homework- Read AR Book for 30 minutes each night. Take 3 AR tests per marking period. All students must have taken three AR tests by Jan 13

Essential Questions  – How do we understand and appreciate drama? What tools do writers use to enhance the plot?

OBJECTIVES

• understand and appreciate a drama
• understand author’s use of flashback
• understand plot
• understand and appreciate the author’s use of exposition, conflict, rising action, and climax
• understand an appreciate author’s use of conflict resolution
• use story mapping to enhance understanding of the plot

This unit that includes the Diary of Anne Frank is in the McDougall/Littell text pages 438-533

Day 1

• The Diary of Anne Frank text 438-443 preparing to read: flashback, foreshadowing
• Conflict: minor, complications, external, internal, character change
• Endings
• Story mapping

Day 2

• Who Was Anne Frank? 444-445
• The Life and Times 446
• Background/Connect to your life, 447
• Vocabulary: Appalled, conspicuous, disgruntled, foreboding, inarticulate, indignantly, jubilation, loathe, oppression, ostentatiously, pandemonium, remorse, vile, wallow, zeal

Days 3-6

• Drama -Act 1 Scenes, 1,2,3  The Diary of Anne Frank 448-474. Read by volunteer students. Discussion and reflection on student blogs. Story mapping #55, plot #56, flashback #57, conflict #58, conflict resolution #59, subplot #60.

Days 7-8

• Drama – Scene 4, 5. Pages 476-487
• 488 – Connect to literature questions  and think critically- answer on your blog.

Days 9-12

• Act Two – Scene 1, pages 489-497
• Act Two – Scene 2, pages 497-502
• Act Two – Scene 3, pages 502-507
• Act Two – Scene 4, pages 507-512