Short Story Unit Syllabus/ Class Agenda August- September 2011
Tues. 9 August/ Wed. 10 August
- Class guidelines & my website
- Trivia game
- Student survey (turn in)
- Grammar game
- Receive “Sunday in the Park” handout
Homework: read “Sunday in the Park” and complete reader’s response (handout)
Thurs. 11 August/ Fri. 12 August
- Seating chart (assigned seats)
- Discuss & collect “Sunday in the Park” reader’s response
- Nouns: parts of speech worksheet
- “The Dinner Party” (put story in order activity)
- Receive: Literary Terms (students write down definitions on handouts)
- Literary Term PowerPoint Notes: Parts of Plot (terms 1-7)
- Receive: blue short story booklets
- Receive: “Most Dangerous Game” vocabulary worksheet
- Begin reading “The Most Dangerous Game” for homework
Homework: Read “The Most Dangerous Game” (pages 1-10 in blue booklet); “Most Dangerous
Game” vocabulary worksheet; prepare for “Most Dangerous Game” reading/ literary terms
application quiz (no vocabulary on 15 question multiple choice quiz)
Mon. 15 August/ Tues. 16 August
- Pronouns (personal, possessive and antecedents): parts of speech worksheet
- Literary Term PowerPoint Notes: Flashback 8, Conflict 9-10, Characterization 11- 21
- Review: “Most Dangerous Game” vocabulary worksheet
- Write 7 good questions on “Most Dangerous Game” in pairs or groups of three. Provide the
answers or ask peers or me for help.
o Examples: Why did Rainsford fall off the boat?; What does Rainsford hunt?; How
does Rainsford’s hunting differ from what General Zaroff hunts?
- Draw plot line for “The Most Dangerous Game” (find at least 3 incidences of rising action)
- QUIZ: “The Most Dangerous Game” (if absent, make up next class or in SRT)
- Watch: Simpson’s “Tree-house of Horror XVI: Survival of the Fattest” (Season 17, episode 4
on my iTunes begin at 9:40- 15:00)
Homework: Read “On the Bridge” (pages 18-21 in blue booklet); “On the Bridge” plot line and
reader’s response (handout)
Mrs. Salona
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Short Story Unit Syllabus/ Class Agenda August- September 2011
Wed. 17 August/ Thurs. 18 August
- B2: “Most Dangerous Game” Quiz & watch Simpson’s “MDG” clip
- B3 & B4: watch Simpson’s “MDG” clip
- G1: “Most Dangerous Game” Quiz & watch Simpson’s “MDG” clip
- G4: watch Simpson’s “MDG” clip
- Pronouns (other pronouns such as indefinite & demonstrative) worksheet with Writer’s Inc.
handout with notes & pronoun chart.
- Discuss “On the Bridge” plot-line (was homework)
- Collect: “On the Bridge” homework
- Literary Term PowerPoint Notes: Irony 22-24
- Direct & Indirect Characterization Worksheet (student-focused & “On the Bridge”); share
examples when finished
- Collect: Indirect & Direct Characterization Worksheet
- Read “The Possibility of Evil” pages 11-17 in blue booklet
- “The Possibility of Evil” vocabulary & questions worksheets
Homework: Finish “Possibility of Evil” vocabulary and questions worksheets; prepare for reading
quiz over “Possibility of Evil”; be able to apply the literary terms studied thus far to “Possibility of
Evil”
Mrs. Salona
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