Where Do I Fit In?
Exploring Identity and Culture Through Literature
Focus Text: The Awakening
Essential Questions:
1. How does your culture shape your identity?
2. How does literature teach us about our identities?
A. Opening Assignment: Grammar Book
The Principal Parts of a Verb
Read pages 130-132 in your grammar book. Then, complete exercise A on page 133. Follow the directions as they are written.
B. Watch “Strangers” (directed and created by Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv).
Complete viewing guide.
Read Palestinian-Israeli Relations article.
C. Conduct a gallery walk that examines the characteristics of various literary forms.
D. Model New American Notebook for chapter 1 of The Awakening (think-aloud).
Exploring Identity and Culture Through Literature
Focus Text: The Awakening
Essential Questions:
1. How does your culture shape your identity?
2. How does literature teach us about our identities?
A. Opening Assignment: Grammar Book
The Principal Parts of a Verb
Read pages 130-132 in your grammar book. Then, complete exercise A on page 133. Follow the directions as they are written.
B. Watch “Strangers” (directed and created by Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv).
Complete viewing guide.
Read Palestinian-Israeli Relations article.
C. Conduct a gallery walk that examines the characteristics of various literary forms.
D. Model New American Notebook for chapter 1 of The Awakening (think-aloud).