TFA read Chapters 6-9 – 1-7 Questions and discussion Focus Questions: What literary elements and stylistic choices does Achebe make and how does it affect the overall work? Tuesday/ Wednesday: Vocabulary 4 : alliteration, consonance, Block assonance, personification, apostrophe, abstract language, Focus Questions: caesura, polysyndenton, asyndenton (draw, define, example). TFA chapter 11-13, discuss folktales in the novel, View Prezi What is a folktale? What – characteristics of a folktale. Proverb activity is a proverb? 1-7 Thursday: TFA- chapters 14-16. Write our own folk tale MYP – assignment. Go over rubric. Rough Draft due 9/26 and Final draft Focus Questions: due 9/29 What qualities does Okonkwo represent? Pep Assembly Friday: TFA- Chapters 17-22, public vs. private self and Okwonko, review of Bloom’s Focus Questions: What is the difference between public self and private self? What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? Unit--African Literature: The Danger of a Single Story (MYP Global Context: orientation in time Special notes: and space) Inquiry questions: What is the danger of a single story? What is community? How should communities with different values resolve disagreements and conflicts when they come into contact with one another? Lesson Plans Mrs. Waugh September 22-26, 2014 BTW High school Pre-AP English II MYP
1-7 Focus Questions: What literary elements and stylistic choices does Achebe make and how does it affect the overall work? TFA – read Chapters 6-9 Questions and discussion Block Focus Questions: What is a folktale? What is a proverb? Tuesday/ Wednesday: Vocabulary 4 : alliteration, consonance, assonance, personification, apostrophe, abstract language, caesura, polysyndenton, asyndenton (draw, define, example). TFA – chapter 11-13, discuss folktales in the novel, View Prezi characteristics of a folktale. Proverb activity 1-7 Focus Questions: What qualities does Okonkwo represent? Thursday: TFA- chapters 14-16. Write our own folk tale – MYP assignment. Go over rubric. Rough Draft due 9/26 and Final draft due 9/29 Pep Assembly Focus Questions: What is the difference between public self and private self? What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? Friday: TFA- Chapters 17-22, public vs. private self and Okwonko, review of Bloom’s Special notes: Unit--African Literature: The Danger of a Single Story (MYP Global Context: orientation in time and space) Inquiry questions: What is the danger of a single story? What is community? How should communities with different values resolve disagreements and conflicts when they come into contact with one another? Lesson Plans Mrs. Waugh September 22-26, 2014 BTW High school Pre-AP English II MYP