Ms Anderson's Reading & Language Arts Classes
Section outline
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You have to BELIEVE in yourself to SUCCEED!
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Week of October 17 & 24, 2014
1. How is a Utopia portrayed on TV, movies, & in books?
2. Explain in three 7up+ quality sentences what is a society?
3. Write a quality paragraph explaining just what is the difference between a Utopia and a Dystopia? Be specific in your explanation.
4. What would the world as we know it today be like without humans?
Week of October 27-31, 2014 Happy Halloween to you!
1. What do you think of when you think of the lottery?
2. What would you do if you won the lottery? And...list five most important things you would do with your winnings.
3. What are some of the differences between the lottery in the past, and the lottery today?
Week of November 3-7, 2014 Election Day, Tuesday, November 4th
1. Why do..."We the People of the United States" have the privilege to vote?
2. Name the four negative characters in the Lottery, and describe their attitudes as to why they were so mean & boisterous throughout the story?
Week of November 10-14, 2014 Veterans Day November
1. Define the three types of "Irony" and give an example from the story "The Lottery".
Week of November 17-21, 2014
1. Will the Lottery die out?
2. Define the word symbolism and use in a quality sentence.
3. How did this story, the lottery, make you feel overall?
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Table Talk for Parents to
discuss with students.
1. How is this text different from other ones.
2. What do I learn about the topic as I read (view)? Text-specific Questions?
3. What details from the video suggest how difficult it was to survive the journey to the Pole?
4. Why does Amundsen say, "it was like being a boy again" to reach the Pole first?
5. At the end of the video, what does Amundsen suggest when he says, "Victory awaits him, who has everything in order? Luck we call it"?
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California Commonwealth ---Cesar Chavez
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Table Talk for Parents in helping student with Cesar Chavez' speech.
1.What solution does Cesar Chavez discover to the problem the farm workers faced?
2. After a long description of the successes of the UFW, Chavez meets & discusses with Governor Deukmejian. What effect does Chavez say that the governor had on the farm worker's movement?
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1. If you count the frequency of words used in King's "I Have A Dream", very interesting patterns emerge. The most commonly used is freedom, which is used ________ times. Count and see just what I mean.
2. After you've followed along and listened to the speech, complete the following:
Literary Device Definition Examples (cite paragraph number)
Analogy
Personification
Metaphor
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Lesson Plans for this Unit 2.1 Utopia & Dystopia Task 1-12
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U&D
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Lesson Plans
