Essential Questions
- How do a person’s cultural values and sense of identity affect his or her obligation to the community?
- How does a person’s character influence other people’s behavior or the outcome of events?
- What might be some generational differences in how one expresses one’s sense of identity and culture?
- How do you express your identity and culture?
- How do the time and place in which a person lives influence his or her identity?
Parallelism
Wait for instructions for the mini-lesson.
B. Discuss requirements for literary analysis rough draft.
The rough draft will be due Monday, 1/12.
C. Assign Warriors Don't Cry.
Chapters 1-6 need to be completed by Wednesday, 1/14. The questions for 1-6 on the study guide must also be finished by this date.
D. Civil Rights Free-write
E. Photo Analysis
Closing: Class discussion of photos.
Photo 1:
1. What do the facial expressions of the white people suggest?
2. Why are only women in the foreground?
3. What does the African American girl’s body language say?
Photo 2:
1. Describe exactly what you see in the photograph.
2. Summarize what you know about the time and place this photo was taken.
3. Make inferences about what appears to be happening.
E. Discuss what appears to be missing from the photograph.
F. Read "In Plato's Cave."
Conduct a main idea paragraph analysis while you read.
G. Complete the before, during, and after reading guide.
H. Complete mind map of "In Plato's Cave."
Note: Your 3rd literary terms vocabulary quiz will be this Friday, 1/9.
The following words will be covered.
a. couplet
b. hyperbole
c. irony
d. memoir
e. metacognition
f. metaphor
g. motif
h. myth
i. narrative
j. novella
k. onomatopoeia
l. plot
m. oxymoron
n. paradox
o. parallel structure
p. paraphrase