Week at a Glance- 4/13-4/17

Day

 

1

TP: To access and engage in higher level thinking and reading comprehension skills through the beginning of the War unit.

Assessment: Students will hand in their first 4 journal prompts, worth a quiz grade, and discuss the vignette, The Things They Carried, from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.

Strategy: Students will hand in their first 4 journal prompts, worth a quiz grade, and discuss the vignette, The Things They Carried, from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Students will be asked to reflect on what they “carry” with them, and how their carried items vary from those of the soldiers.

Materials: writing utensils, packet, projector, laptops

2

TP: To access and engage in higher level thinking and reading comprehension skills through the beginning of the War unit.

Assessment: Students will discuss their journal responses and reactions to the vignette, Love, from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.

Strategy: Students will discuss the vignette from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. We will break down the importance of word choice in this particular vignette.

Materials: writing utensils, packet, projector, laptops

3

TP: To access and engage in higher level thinking and reading comprehension skills through the beginning of the War unit.

Assessment: Students will discuss their journal responses and reactions to the vignette, Spin, from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.

Strategy: Students will discuss the vignette from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. We will break down the importance of dialect in this particular vignette.

Materials: writing utensils, packet, projector, laptops

4

TP: To access and engage in higher level thinking and reading comprehension skills through the beginning of the War unit.

Assessment: Students will discuss their journal responses and reactions to the vignette, On the Rainy River, from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.

Strategy: Students will discuss the vignette from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. We will break down the importance of the role of the narrator in this particular vignette.

Materials: writing utensils, packet, projector, laptops