Day: 4 Teacher: Mr. Ealy

Subject: Composition Grade: 11 QCC(s) 31, 38, 39, 45

General Objective: Students will:

· Adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes.

· Use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes.

· Apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.

Introduction: Yesterday we focused on how each character can help to illustrate a theme today we will focus on different events or within a work to see how they may enhance the theme in one way or another. We will be making collages to illustrate different events that have occurred in the two works we have read or are reading. You will show the collage to the class and talk about why the scene is important as it relates to the theme convergence of cultures.

Specific Objectives: Students will:

· Be familiarized with structural elements of literature.

· Analyze explicit and implicit main ideas, details, sequence of events, and cause and effect relationships.

· Make comparisons, predictions, generalizations, and draws conclusions.

· Adapt words and strategies to various situations and audiences.

Procedures: Teacher will:

1. Connect previous lesson with current lesson.

2. Hand out instructions for assignment and review it with the class.

3. Give each student glue scissors poster board and provide magazines for the people that forgot them.

4. Assist students in connecting the assignment with the theme by walking around assisting those that need it.

5. Review with students for the writing assessment and answering questions.

Closing: We have discussed and illustrated how a specific event or chapter in a story can relate theme and reviewed everything that was covered this week. The assessment will cover what we have worked on as it relates to the theme of convergence of cultures. You will be expected to discuss how characterization and events relate to the theme.

Evaluation: See handout.

Materials: Magazines, glue, scissors, and poster board.

Assignments: Study for the test complete readings for the test and review the short story.

Extenders/Back-up Activities: Offer more time for review. Give sample question for the test.

Provisions For Individual Differences:

Teacher Notes: The assignment will be graded by completing it and how effective you are in relating it to the theme. Talk about some of the different events that reinforce theme within the stories. Use the example of the dentist office gathering in “The Sky is Gray” and discuss some of the implications that has. Talk about how the qualities of Atticus or Calpurnia reinforce the theme and what happens as a result. Let the students know there will be no trick questions on the test and all the questions will be short answer or essay. You will be graded on how effectively to answer the questions and tie the answers in with the two works. Review the different changes that take place when cultures converge. Discuss the ending of “The Sky is Gray” and ask the students if the ending leads to a better world for the cultures present in the story. Remind the student that the titles can be related to the themes.

Supplementary Materials: Handout with directions for in class assignment.