Weekly Overview
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How can figures of speech enhance the meaning of a short story?
What can we learn about characters from their speech and from other
characters' speech?
NOTE ON MATERIALS: Students should bring their textbooks to class this week and
leave them in the classroom except for when they have a homework assignment.
Class:
Grade 10 ELA
Date
Teacher: Ms. Falencia
Class Work
Week: 9
11/13– 11/17
Homework
PD Day- No Students
11/13
11/14
SWBAT: Write narratives based on readings that incorporate
imagination and information from the text.
a. Do Now: Write LT in planner. 2 DOL sentences about
grammar on DO NOW Form.
b. Teacher will review “Interview with Chinua Achebe” and
instruct on background of Nigeria after liberation
c. Student pairs will write dialogues incorporating dialect
d. HOTs Question: “What can we learn about characters
from their speech and from other characters' speech?”
Weekly Vocabulary (from the textbook pp. 1274-1290)
Dialect, zeal, eradicate, skeptical, disreputable, imperious,
dissent, monumental, inaudibly
SAT Vocabulary:
Incantation, assuage, insuperable, assiduous, indulgent,
avarice, squander, penurious, debunk, eccentric
11/15
SWBAT: Recognize the structure of a short story's plot and
how that structure guides understanding.
a. Do Now: Questions about Grammar on board.
b. Teacher will preview “Civil Peace” themes and
characters and Achebe’s writing style
Materials Required for Class:
 3-ring binder with 5
dividers for notes. Dividers
should have labels and
pockets
 Bring your World
Literature Textbook every
day!
Grammar Worksheet: Due
11/12
Vocabulary Check In
Notes: Due 11/12
c. Students will read “Civil Peace” aloud in class looking for
clues to characterization
d. Student pairs will read their dialogues aloud to the class
e. HOTs Question: “How can figures of speech enhance the
meaning of a short story?”
11/16
11/17
SWBAT: Complete a quiz on vocabulary, plot, and
characters in African myths and short stories
a. Do Now: Leave all bags in center of room and prepare
for quiz.
b. Students will complete a quiz on grammar, vocabulary
(Nomad, legend, griot, taciturn, imperceptibly, affront,
efface, denigration, pivotal, dialect, zeal, eradicate,
skeptical, disreputable, imperious, dissent, monumental,
inaudibly), SAT vocabulary week 8 and 9, plot of Anansi
tales, “Dead Man’s Path”, “Interview with Chinua Achebe”
and “Civil Peace”
c. Students will work on research papers if time allows
Vocabulary Check In
Notes Due Today
Grammar Worksheet
Due Today
SWBAT: Draw evidence from research about authors and
themes using outside sources
a. Do Now: Questions about Grammar on board.
b. Teacher will preview research project for quarter 2
c. Students will spend time in labs researching characters
and work of Chinua Achebe and will write bibliographies
d. Teacher will check bibliographies at end of lesson
e. Students will watch SAT vocabulary video and record
observations in their binders
Weekly MAP Focus:
 Students will take a quiz with questions similar to those on the MAP exam.