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
(special characterization PPT)
- 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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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Short Story Unit Syllabus/ Class Agenda August- September 2011
Wednesday 17 August
- B2: “Most Dangerous Game” Quiz & watch Simpson’s “MDG” clip
- B3 & B4: 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
Homework: Indirect & Direct Characterization Worksheet; Read “Possibility of Evil” pages 11-17
Thursday 18 August
I had a substitute today.
- G1: “Most Dangerous Game” Quiz
- Collect: “On the Bridge” homework
- Read “The Possibility of Evil” pages 11-17 in blue booklet
- Characterization, “The Possibility of Evil” vocabulary & questions worksheets (students may
work in pairs)
Homework: Finish “Possibility of Evil” questions and vocabulary; be prepared for “Possibility of
Evil” quiz next class.
Friday 19 August
- Discuss characterization worksheet (don’t collect)
- Literary Term PPT NOTES: narrator and point of view 25-32
- Point of View practice on PPT
- Handouts: “Possibility of Evil” questions and vocabulary (work on these in pairs)
- QUIZ: “Possibility of Evil” (15 multiple choice questions)
- Pronoun practice (more with demonstrative, indefinite, etc)
Homework: Finish “Possibility of Evil” questions and vocabulary
Monday 22 August
- Watch Simpson’s “Most Dangerous Game” clip
- Pronouns (other pronouns such as indefinite & demonstrative) worksheet with Writer’s Inc.
handout with notes & pronoun chart (pronoun overview PPT first)
- Literary Term PPT NOTES: Irony 22-24; narrator and point of view 25-32
- Discuss “Possibility of Evil” answers to questions (was homework for today)
- Collect: “Possibility of Evil” answers to questions & vocabulary
Homework: none
Mrs. Salona
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Short Story Unit Syllabus/ Class Agenda August- September 2011
Tuesday 22 August/ Wednesday 23 August
- Return past assignments
- Collect: “Possibility of Evil” questions and vocabulary
- QUIZ: “Possibility of Evil” (15 multiple choice questions)
- Pronoun practice (more with demonstrative, indefinite, etc)
- Literary Term PPT Notes: setting- imagery, 33-35
- Writer’s Notebook entry #1: Write about the image on the screen. Use sensory details to
describe what you see, hear, feel, taste and smell. Focus on making the picture come alive
with your words. Afterwards, share with classmates
- Point of View writing exercise (in class writing); share in pairs or groups after 20 minutes
- Time permitting: “Most Dangerous Game” 2001 movie on YouTube (excerpts from 27
minute video)
Homework: Finish point of view writing exercise
Thursday 24 August / Friday 25 August
- Quiz make-ups/ return quizzes
- Share point of view writing exercise with a peer; can your peer discern the point of view in
each scene?; share with class?
- Adjective practice worksheet
- Literary Term PPT Notes: foreshadowing- mood, 36-38
“Story of an Hour” vocabulary (handout & PPT notes)
- Handout of all three stories’ vocabulary and definitions.
- “Build a Story” Exercise in pairs
Homework: Finish “Story of an Hour” vocabulary (don’t do “Story of an Hour” questions); fill-inthe-blank vocabulary quiz over “Most Dangerous Game”, “Possibility of Evil” and “Story of an Hour”
next class (practice vocabulary on Quia, available from my website) (August 29 (blue)/ August 30
(gold); note: you will have a noun, pronoun and adjective quiz on August 31 (blue)/ Sept. 1 (gold)
Monday 29 August/ Tuesday 30 August
- Review “Story of an Hour” vocabulary
- Vocabulary Quiz: “Most Dangerous Game”, “Possibility of Evil” & “Story of an Hour” (fill-inthe-blank)
- Adjectives part 2 worksheet
- Share “Build a Story” exercises from last class
- Listen to “Story of an Hour” (pages 22-23 in blue booklet)
- How to respond to written questions (as in “Story of an Hour” questions)
“Story of an Hour” literary analysis questions (handout)
- Due by end of class: “Story of an Hour” answers to questions (time permitting)
Homework: Finish “The Story of an Hour” questions; Read “The Necklace” (pages 27-33 in blue
booklet); study for noun, pronoun and adjective quiz next class
Mrs. Salona
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Short Story Unit Syllabus/ Class Agenda August- September 2011
Wednesday 31 August/ Thursday 1 September
- QUIZ: Nouns, Pronouns and Adjectives
- Collect: “Story of an Hour” literary responses to questions
- Direct/indirect characterization PPT
- Characterization Worksheet (finding within “The Necklace” examples of all types of
characterization); characterization notes on back side
- “The Necklace” literary analysis questions
- Third person limited, omniscient or objective practice worksheet (blue day)
Homework: Finish work assigned in class today; Read “The False Gems” (pages 34-38 in blue
booklet); Quiz over “The Necklace” and “The False Gems” next class
Friday 2 September/ Tuesday 6 September
- Return past quizzes and assignments
- Grammar: Verbs (Transitive vs. Intransitive & linking) worksheet
- Watch animated Chinese version of “The Necklace”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIZnWyu_8MI
- Discuss examples of characterization from “The Necklace” & “The Necklace” answers to
questions & collect
- Discuss answers to third person worksheet (blue day)
- “False Gems” literary analysis questions (handout: optional/ good quiz review)
Homework: None if you have completed the above work; Be prepared for “The Necklace” and “The
False Gems” quiz next class
Wednesday 7 September/ Thursday 8 September
- QUIZ: “The Necklace” and “False Gems”
- Grammar: Verbs (Action or linking verbs?) worksheet
- Literary Term Notes: tone- genres of literature, 39-45 (finish): Matching quiz over all
literary terms on Tues. 13 Sept/ Wed. 14 Sept ; Quia review games available from my website
- “A Sound of Thunder” & “Butterfly Effect” clips as introductions
- Begin reading Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” in class (pages 48-55 in blue booklet)
- Receive Noun, pronoun, adjective practice for re-take quiz Thurs/ Fri.
Homework: Noun, pronoun, adjective practice worksheet: study for grammar re-test next class
Mrs. Salona
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Short Story Unit Syllabus/ Class Agenda August- September 2011
Friday 9 September/ Monday 12 September
- Display and play as a class: Quia literary terms review games available from my website
(quiz next class)
- Read as a class: “A Sound of Thunder” (pages 48-55 in blue booklet)
- Receive “A Sound of Thunder” questions and vocabulary
- Review answers to noun, pronoun, adjective quiz practice worksheet
- QUIZ Re-take: Noun, pronoun, adjective
Homework: Finish “A Sound of Thunder” questions and vocabulary; study for literary terms
matching quiz (matching terms to definitions); play Quia games for review
Tuesday 13 September/ Wednesday 14 September
- Computer lab H215 first half hour of class to play Quia vocabulary review games
- QUIZ: Literary Terms Matching 35 points(study on Quia games—available from my
website)
- Discuss “A Sound of Thunder” answers
- Vocabulary PPT on “A Sound of Thunder” which corresponds with homework from night
before
- Watch Simpson’s “Time and Punishment” (their “A Sound of Thunder” version) on iTunes
9:04-16:00 (7 mins)
Homework: Read “The Scarlet Ibis” 56-61; be able to apply literary terms to story
Thursday 15 September/ Monday 19 September
On Friday 16 September, you do not need to bring materials to class: Homecoming!
- Return quizzes
- QUIZ: “Scarlet Ibis” 15 reading check questions
- Show “Scarlet Ibis” PPT images
- Imagery activity: “A Sound of Thunder” or “Scarlet Ibis” imagery exercise: Find 5 powerful/
strong images from “A Sound of Thunder” or “Scarlet Ibis” and draw them. Write the image
phrase below the pictures. The best images are from pages 5-8 of the story in “Sound of
Thunder”. For example, you could draw this image: “It’s [the T-Rex’s] armored flesh
glittered like a thousand green coins” (Bradbury 5). Many images exist throughout “Scarlet
Ibis”.
- “Scarlet Ibis” Literary Analysis handout
Homework: Finish “Scarlet Ibis” Literary Analysis (will be graded as an “Assessment”)
Mrs. Salona
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Short Story Unit Syllabus/ Class Agenda August- September 2011
Tuesday 20 September/ Wednesday 21 September
- Collect: “Scarlet Ibis” Literary Analysis (will be graded as an Assessment)
- Introductory PPT to Edgar Allen Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”
o Watch “The Simpson’s” Season 2, Episode 3 Poe’s “The Raven” (16:06 on iTunes)
- Read/ listen to “Cask. . .” (pages 62-66) (Works better to watch movie first)
- Watch video of “Cask. . .” (16 minutes)
- Receive & complete “Cask” foreshadowing and irony activity and questions
- Receive “Cask of Amontillado” practice test
Homework: Finish reading “Cask” and complete practice test. Review literary terms and be able to
apply them to two stories you have not read in preparation for your short story test next class.
Thursday 22 September/ Friday 23 September
On Friday 23 September (gold day), I will not be at school; you will have a substitute.
- Discuss answers to “Cask of Amontillado” practice quiz assigned last class
- TEST: Short Story Unit Test (you will not be tested over particular short stories. You will
read two stories you have not read and answer questions relating to comprehension and
application of literary terms: 75 questions/ 75 points )
Monday 26 Sept/ Tuesday 27 Sept
- Media Center Tour & Book Talks (after “B” lunch for B3)
- Practice literary response essay as a class
- Plan literary response essay (DO NOT write your essay yet)
- Linking verb replacement practice
Wednesday 28 Sept/ Thursday 29 Sept
- Peer check (look for sufficient information to construct strong paragraphs, quotation marks,
page numbers)
- Review MLA formatting (also put on board in lab)
o MLA template on my website
- H215 computer lab last hour of each class to type literary response essay
o Use “Writing Reviser” when finished
Mrs. Salona
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Thursday, September 22, 2011