18th Week January 5-8, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #18 Week #18
January 5-8, 2010

Topics: Night by Elie Wiesel
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

Vocabulary:
Vocabulary #s 1-20 (handout)
Glossary of terms in Night
Jewish/Herbrew terms in Night

Close Reading:
- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework: View video on the blog at http://terrycloth-march.blogspot.com and write a comment on your viewing. DUE 1/8/2010


Activities
Tuesday
1. Distribute course outline.
2. Distribute GLOSSARY OF TERMS in Night. Discuss.
3. Pre-Reading: Work on Lesson #1 Activity on Stereotypes Handout #1. Discuss.

Wednesday
1. Distribute “Frequently Asked Questions about the Holocaust.”
2. Pre-Reading: Work on Lesson #1 Handout #2. Writing activity.

Thursday
1. Distribute vocabulary words.
2. Work on words using the SAT format.

Friday
1. Pre-Reading: Read excerpt from Black Boy, Lesson #2 Activity on Racism and Scapegoats Handout #4 with an excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright.
2. Work on Lesson #2 Handout #5 Limitations, Feelings, and Defences.