Nov. 8-12

Do Now:*Please take out last week’s HW for me to check and

answer:*In the Epilogue Ram says,

“I realized a long time ago that dreams have power only over your own mind; but with money you can have power over the minds of others” (p. 316).

• What does he mean? • Why does he say this? • Do you agree with him? Why or why not?

Objective: SWBAT…1. Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Homework:*Complete the ‘identifying moments of agency’ chart on

the next page of their Interactive Notebook*Begin studying for Friday’s test on Q & A

Announcements:*Your Unit 2 test on Q & A is this Friday!!*I will be here after school until 4.30pm if you need to

make-up a test, quiz, have questions about grades or HW

Objective: SWBAT…1. Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Homework:*Complete the ‘identifying moments of agency’ chart on

the next page of their Interactive Notebook*Begin studying for Friday’s test on Q & A

Announcements:*Your Unit 2 test on Q & A is this Friday!!*I will be here after school until 4.30pm if you need to

make-up a test, quiz, have questions about grades or HW

Objective: SWBAT…1. Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Citizenship Rubric:• PHA’s administration defined citizenship standards

to us• I realized that I have been grading your citizenship

differently from how the school defines it• So for QUARTER 2; I will be grading your citizenship

as defined as the following

Objective: SWBAT…Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level

three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Citizenship Rubric:• 4= citizenship is exemplary. Not only is the student

regularly prepared, on task and actively participating but s/he helps others to stay focused and on task and positive and helps create a positive classroom culture.

• 3=citizenship is above expectations. Student is rarely unprepared. S/he participates often and actively and positively. No disciplinary issues/incident reports in class.

Objective: SWBAT…Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level

three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Citizenship Rubric:• 2= citizenship meets expectations. Student’s preparation is at

least minimally done always and typically better than minimally done. Student might need reminders and could demonstrate some minor challenges with behavior and focus but not major disciplinary issues in class.

• 1=citizenship does not meet expectations. Student’s preparation is often minimal or missing. Participation is either very minimal or can be negative. Student sometimes influences others to be off-task. Student has had incident reports and/or repeated disciplinary issues in class.

• 0=citizenship is not acceptable. Student is often missing assignments or does not complete homework or class work. Participation and/or behavior interferes with own and/or others’ learning. Students has had repeated and/or serious behavior and discipline issues in this class.

Objective: SWBAT…Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level

three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

*Now we are going over leveled questions (what we did last week…

Objective: SWBAT…1. Reflect on the end of the novel by sharing letters to Ram with a partner and responding in Ram’s voice.2. Describe and illustrate the word “agency”.3. Identify connections between transgress

What is a level one question?

• Definition / explanation…• Example of a level one question

What is a level two question?

• Definition / explanation…• Example of a level two question

What is a level three question?

• Definition / explanation…• Example of a level three question

Level One, Level Two, Level Three Questions

Level Three

Questions: These

kinds of questions transcend the text. They are

deep thinking

questions. They are

inspired by the text,

but ask big picture

questions about life.

Level Two Questions: These questions are still connected to a text,

but have more than one possible answer. Answering these kinds of questions requires

that you analyze a theme, or a character’s motivations or development over time.

Level One Questions: Clarifying questions about the textQuestions that have only one possible right answerQuestions that require you to look back in the text and review or re-read in order to find the answer. These questions help you with reading comprehension– figuring out what is happening in a text.

Learning Goals: SWBATIdentify the characteristics of level one, level two, and level three questions.

Example: Why do women often “suffer in silence” or put up with abuse?

Example: Why does Neelima Kumar want to die young?

Example: Who is Neelima Kumar’s mother?

10th Grade World LiteratureUnit Two: Q & A by Vikas SwarupHomework – due Tuesday, 11/9

Directions: Read “The Thirteenth Questions” and Epilogue. Then complete the following activities based on that chapter for homework.

Objective: SWBAT…Identify the characteristics of level one, level two, and level three questions.

Leveled Questions Your Questions Your Answers to your questions

Quotes that connect to your answers.

Level One Question:

Level Two Question:

Level Three Question:

Q & A by Vikas SwarupFishbowl Preparation Chart

Directions: Tomorrow we will be having a fishbowl discussion about the last two chapters and the Epilogue of Q & A. We will use the level two and three questions that you wrote on Monday as the foundation for this discussion. Complete the following chart in preparation for this discussion.

Objective: SWBATPrepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Level 2 & 3 Questions Your Answer Quote

1. How does Ram’s understanding of love change in ‘A Love Story”? (level two question)

2. Why did Ram give Mr. Chatterjee the four lakh ruppees? What does this decision reveal about Ram? (level two)

3. Why does Ram feel so responsible for Nita? (level two)

4. Why does love take time to develop? (level three)

Q & A by Vikas SwarupFishbowl Preparation Chart

Questions Your Answer Quote

1. Why couldn’t Ram shoot Prem Kumar? (level two)

2. What did Neelima and Nita mean for Ram? Why did he care so much about them?

4. Is revenge ever justified? (level three)

Learning Goal: SWBATPrepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Vocabulary Lesson #2:Agency

• This word has many different meanings. • It can be used as a noun as in “I have to go

to the employment agency to try to get help finding a job.” or “I went to the modeling agency and gave them my headshots.” This is not the version of this word we will be working with in this unit!

Learning Goal: SWBATDescribe and illustrate the word “agency”.

Think like Philosophers! The other way to use this word is very complicated and abstract. It’s okay if you don’t get it right away!

We’ll keep talking about this word throughout the unit.

• The way we’re going to talk about this word in this unit it in relation to power and control.

• Agency is your power to control your own life or to define who you are and not to have others (either people or systems) control and define you.

• Your agency or your group’s agency is always in tension, or in opposition to a structure, or boundaries that exist to control you to some extent.

• To be an agent is to be a person/individual who owns his/her actions– to act knowingly and to take responsibility for actions.

• If you don’t feel like you have agency then you feel like someone else has taken away your power.

• Agency is very fluid from moment to moment, day to day. In some classrooms you might have more agency than in others.

Learning Goal: SWBATDescribe and illustrate the word “agency”.

Examples of Agency

• In the United States, the government and the white ruling majority attempted to strip African-Americans of their agency (ability to control and define their own lives) through restrictive Jim Crow laws.

• The Civil Rights Movement is an example of a collective act of agency– of an attempt to reclaim control from a structure that tried to oppress them.

Learning Goal: SWBATDescribe and illustrate the word “agency”.

More Examples of Agency

• Teenagers often feel like they are denied agency by adults (school, parents) who they think are trying to control them. Teenagers often feel like they need to resist or act out against these adults in order to claim their agency.

Learning Goal: SWBATDescribe and illustrate the word “agency”.

Unit Two Vocabulary Word #2

Describe what you think this word means in your own words:

Word: __________________ My Understanding: 1 2 3 4

Draw/Illustrate this word: Further Understanding: Make connections between this word and “transgress”, between what you think this word means and the novel.

Learning Goal: SWBATDescribe and illustrate the word “agency”.

Agency: Official Definition

• the state of being in action or of exerting power

• a means of exerting power or influence

Learning Goal: SWBAT• Describe and illustrate the word “agency”.

Agency

• A person can have, demonstrate, practice agency

• BUT a person cannot be agency– Agency is a characteristic of a person (attribute)

*A person CAN BE an agent

Analyzing Word Relationships

Directions: Use your notes on “transgress” and “agency” to complete the double bubble graphic organizer with a partner. Describe the words in their own circles, identify similarities or characteristics these two words have in common in the space where they overlap, then on the outside, next to each of the arrows, list words, events, peoeple or ideas that these two words remind you of. If you need additional space you can attach loose-leaf paper.

Transgress: Describe this word in your own words in this

bubble.

Agency: Describe this word in your own words in this

bubble

Learning Goal: SWBATDescribe and illustrate the word “agency” and identify connections between transgress and agency by completing a “double bubble” graphic organizer with a partner.

Identifying Moments of Agency in Q & A by Vikas Swarup

Moment where a character was exerting his/her agency (showing they have control over their own lives and don’t allow others to control him/her)

Explanation of how this moment from the book demonstrates agency.

Quote: a quote from this part of the book.

1.

2.

3.

Directions: For this homework assignment, you will review the first five chapters of the novel (you should refer to your “during reading notes” as well as your post-it notes) to identify three moments when a character was exerting their agency.

• Quickly answer the following questions:1. Did you like the ending of Q & A? Do you think this

was an appropriate ending to the novel?2. Do you think Ram deserved to win the quiz show?

Objective: SWBAT…1. Review the last three chapters of the book.2. Compose level 2 and 3 questions about the last three chapters.

• Answer the following level one questions:A Love Story ---– Where does a love story take place?– What chapter/story is right before this chapter?– Who is Shankar? Why does Ram feel close to Shankar?– What happens to Shankar? How does Ram react to

this?– Who is Nita? How does Ram feel about Nita? How does

Ram

Objective: SWBAT…1. Review the last three chapters of the book.2. Compose level 2 and 3 questions about the last three chapters.

• Answer the following level one questions:The Thirteenth Question---– Where does this chapter take place?– What happens to the 12th question?– Why is a 13th question added?– Why did Ram want to be a contestant on W3B?– How does Ram win the quiz show?

Epilogue---– What does Ram do with his earnings?– Who is Smita? Why does she not tell Ram?– What is so lucky about the lucky coin?

Objective: SWBAT…1. Review the last three chapters of the book.2. Compose level 2 and 3 questions about the last three chapters.

Q & A by Vikas SwarupFishbowl Preparation Chart

Questions Your Answer Quote

1. Why couldn’t Ram shoot Prem Kumar? (level two)

2. What did Neelima and Nita mean for Ram? Why did he care so much about them?

3. Is revenge ever justified? (level three)

Objective: SWBATPrepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

• Write one level 2 question and one level 3 question on the last three novels. Star your favorite question…

Objective: SWBAT…1. Review the last three chapters of the book.2. Compose level 2 and 3 questions about the last three chapters of the novel.

Questions Your Answer Quote

YOUR level two question:

YOUR level three question:

A group member’s level two question:

A group member’s level three question:

You will now be discussing these questions in your group:1. Assign group members a letter, A, B, and C.

2. Member A: read your favorite question you wrote 3. Members B & C: respond to member A’s question 4. Member B: read you

Objective: SWBAT…1. Review the last three chapters of the book.2. Compose level 2 and 3 questions about the last three chapters of the novel.

Homework:*Write your letter to Ram --- due Wednesday!*Begin studying for Friday’s test on Q & A

Announcements:*Your Unit 2 test on Q & A is this Friday!!*I will be here after school until 4.30pm if you need to

make-up a test, quiz, have questions about grades or HW

Objective: SWBAT…1. Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Homework:*Write your letter to Ram --- due Wednesday!*Begin studying for Friday’s test on Q & A

Announcements:*Your Unit 2 test on Q & A is this Friday!!*I will be here after school until 4.30pm if you need to

make-up a test, quiz, have questions about grades or HW

Objective: SWBAT…1. Prepare for a fishbowl discussion on the end of the novel by responding to level two and level three questions and supporting those answers with evidence from the text.

Do Now:Answer the following questions in 1-2 complete sentences each: • What patterns did you notice when you were reading Q & A? • In other words, what kinds of events, or images repeated,

happened over and over again? • Why do you think this might be important? What is the role of

these images throughout the novel?

Homework:• Complete the chart on motif in Q & A (due Friday, at the

beginning of the period).• Explanation of incorrect quiz answers.

Objective: SWBAT…1. Reflect on the end of the novel by exchanging letters to Ram with a partner and responding in Ram’s voice. 2. Describe and illustrate the word motif.

Agenda.*Do Now … 6 minutes*Review objectives and agenda … 2 minutes*Yesterday’s mini-quiz … 4 minutes*Respond to Ram’s Letter (HW) … 12 minutes*Lesson on Motif … 15 minutes*Motif HW Explanation … 5 minutes*Exit Ticket … 4 minutes*Citizenship Grades from Monday … 2 minute

Objective: SWBAT…1. Reflect on the end of the novel by exchanging letters to Ram with a partner and responding in Ram’s voice. 2. Describe and illustrate the word motif.

Quiz on Leveled Questions:*Class average: 76% (4.6 out of 6) This should be 100%!*This tells me who understood this lesson and who didn’t

*For half credit of EACH question please tell me (on a half sheet of paper) – without copying someone else’s work -- due Friday: 1. What the correct answer is. 2. Explain why you got this question wrong.

3. Explain why you now understand this concept (question).

Objective: SWBAT…1. Reflect on the end of the novel by exchanging letters to Ram with a partner and responding in Ram’s voice. 2. Describe and illustrate the word motif.

Your Unit 2 test has been moved to Monday

Objective: SWBAT…1. Reflect on the end of the novel by exchanging letters to Ram with a partner and responding in Ram’s voice. 2. Describe and illustrate the word motif.

Response to the Letter to Ram!

**Write your partner’s name full name as you address the letter.**

Directions: Exchange letters with a partner. Then, on a half sheet of paper, respond to the letter as Ram. When you are finished, staple this response on top of your own letter in your Interactive Notebook.

• Your letter must be at least one paragraph long. • Your letter needs to specifically address the letter your partner

wrote. • Your letter needs to be specific.• Your letter needs to be written in Ram’s voice. • When you are finished, return the original letter and your letter

to your partner. • Both letters will be turned in with your Interactive Notebooks.

Objective: SWBAT…Reflect on the end of the novel by sharing letters to Ram with a partner and responding in Ram’s voice.

Term: Motif

Describe, in your own words:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My Understanding: 1 2 3 4

Draw:

Further Understanding: How does this word relate to the novel? To the other unit two vocab. words (transgress and/or agency)? What can you add to your description to help you understand the meaning of this word?

Objective: SWBAT…Describe and illustrate the word motif.

Motif

• A motif is a pattern. • A motif is a theme or idea that repeats throughout a work of

literature (story, novel).• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc95ndklDYY– Below your vocabulary chart, take notes on this video. You will

earn a grade based on these notes when I check your Interactive Notebook.

• Rachminov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXQCPAR0EHo

• Current song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic5vxw3eijY

Objective: SWBAT…Describe and illustrate the word motif.

The Taj Mahal displays a motif of flowers in its architecture.

There was a motif of the same words throughout the letters

Objective: SWBAT…Describe and illustrate the word motif.

Tracking Motifs in Q & A

Motifs in the novel The significance of each identified motif– why is each motif important? What does it mean? What does it reveal about the characters/themes of the book? What is the author trying to communicate through use of this motif?

Quote: Find a quote that illustrates/exemplifies each of the two motifs you identified.

1.

2.

Homework due Friday,11/12/2010 Objective: SWBAT…

Describe and illustrate the word motif.

Exit Ticket

• On a half sheet of paper please answer the following in complete sentences:– What is a motif? What is a motif in terms of

literature (English class)?– What is an example of a motif? What is an

example of a motif in Q & A?

Citizenship Grades from Monday!