Linking Lessons to Unit Themes through Texts English I - II

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Linking Lessons to Unit Themes through
Texts English I - II
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Presenters
Sara Ranzau - Center Point HS and Del Rio
MS Janda Castillo - Center Point HS and Sid
Peterson MS
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English I

• Beginning the Journey with Literary Texts
• The Journey through Poetry
• The Journey through Drama
• Analyzing Informational Text

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Literary Texts

• Book Clubs
• Readers Notebooks
• Book Trailers
• Reading Nonfiction - Night by Elie Weisel
• Real Life Heroes Paper
• Research Project
• Visual Creations - graphic novel/comic strip

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The Journey thru Poetry

• Where Im From Poems
• Poetry breakdowns

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The Journey thru Drama

• Readers Theatre Scripting
• Organizing the lines of a play

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Analyzing Informational Text

• Research Articles - Buddy Reading
• Grammar Games

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English I Book Suggestions

• Mexican Whiteboy - Matt de la Pena
• Whirligig - Paul Fleischman
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson
• The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
• Anthem - Ayn Rand
• Same Kind of Different as Me - Ron Hall and
  Denver Moore (nonfiction)
• Night - Elie Weisel (nonfiction)
• Hot Zone - Richard Preson(nonfiction)
• Call of the Wild - Jack London
• Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian -
  Sherman Alexie
• Ironman - Chris Crutcher

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Classroom Strategies

• 5 Steps
• Scales
• It Says - I Say - So
• Probable Passage
• Vocabulary Game
• Somebody Wanted But So

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English II

• Evaluating Effects in Literary Nonfiction
• Evaluating Informational Texts
• Synthesizing Personal Ideas and Factual
  Information

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Evaluating Effects in Literary Nonfiction

• Sold - Patricia McCormick
• A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• Cultural Connections to Nonfiction
• UNICEF
• Readers Notebooks
• Conflicts/Solutions

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Evaluating Informational Texts

• History of the Town
• The Daily Show
• What information is shared for what purpose?
• How - to/Robot papers

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Synthesizing Personal Ideas and Factual
Information

• Informational Narrative
• Truth vs. Fiction
• Making connections to the past
• Depression Era Newspaper
• Creating a PSA

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English II Book Suggestions

• Sold - Patricia McCormick
• Meet Me at the Gates, Marcus James - Chris
  Crutcher
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Fallen Angels and Sunrise Over Fallujah - Walter
  Dean Myers
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Devils Teeth - Susan Casey
• The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernest Che Guevara

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Readers Notebook

• Title Page with genre, author, title and visual
• Author information and story background in
  paragraph form Write a few paragraphs about the
  author and the period the book was written
• Characters and their relationships Describe the
  relationships of the main characters in the
  novel. Connect the characters appropriately in
  whichever way you would like, i.e. family tree
  style or paragraph form.
• Plot breakdown in a table or roller coaster
  breakdown describe each of the following
  exposition, inciting incident, rising action,
  climax, denouement, solution
• Vocabulary Words list and define all the words,
  including places, in the novel you do not know
  There should be at least 20
• Somebody Wanted But So complete the reading
  strategy for the whole novel
• Important Quotations write down the quotes you
  believe are important to the novel and explain
  why they are important Find at least 10
  quotations
• Questions for Discussion what questions arose
  during your reading that you would like to
  discuss You should have 3-5 per chapter
• Reading Response as you read each night write
  your response or thoughts to what you read Your
  response should be at least one paragraph
• Real World Connections how do you see similar
  issues in our world that are in the book You
  should have at least 15 real world connections
• Character Adjectives find 8 adjectives that
  describe all of the main characters, write the
  characters name in the center and connect all of
  your adjectives to the characters name
• Character Sketch Sketch should be at least 1.5
  pages in length

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Book Trailers
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Where Im From
I am from homemade, Flour tortillas and the smell
of Mexican rice I am from checker games on the
front porch (green and black like a big frog) I
am from my favorite tree by my dads car The
peach tree my dad loved Whose fruit I would eat
every year Like it was the first time ever I am
from refried beans and tiny books, From Mom and
Dad I am from my dads shaking legs From my
sisters yell to calm down I am from my dads car
pretending being chased And turning on the car by
accident and being spanked I am from Luciano and
Maurilias Branch Oreo cookies and Dr.
Pepper From Abuelito who left too soon And my
lost dog I am still looking for Up in the closet
where the pictures of Dad are And now he is
gone My dads face I will never forget I am from
blurry memories- Old and faded- A peach tree
growing near Dads tree
Where Im From (original) By George Ella Lyon I
am from clothespins, ?from Clorox and
carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under
the back porch. (Black, glistening, ?it tasted
like beets.) ? I am from the forsythia bush?the
Dutch elm? whose long-gone limbs I remember?as if
they were my own. I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,
?           from Imogene and Alafair. ? I'm from
the know-it-alls?          and the pass-it-ons,
? from Perk up! and Pipe down! ? I'm from He
restoreth my soul?          with a cottonball
lamb?          and ten verses I can say
myself. I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,
? fried corn and strong coffee. ? From the finger
my grandfather lost to the auger, ? the eye my
father shut to keep his sight. Under my bed was
a dress box?spilling old pictures, ? a sift of
lost faces?to drift beneath my dreams. ? I am
from those moments--?snapped before I budded
--? leaf-fall from the family tree.
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Poetry Breakdown

• Help students learn the value and fun in words
• Give each a cut up version of the same poem

• Ask them to create their own new poems - focus on
  alliteration, imagery, etc.
• Have students share their new poems then read the
  original - class discussion!

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Poetry Breakdown
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein Whosever room this
is should be ashamed! His underwear is hanging on
the lamp. His raincoat is there in the
overstuffed chair, And the chair is becoming
quite mucky and damp. His workbook is wedged in
the window, His sweater's been thrown on the
floor. His scarf and one ski are beneath the
TV, And his pants have been carelessly hung on
the door. His books are all jammed in the
closet, His vest has been left in the hall. A
lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed, And his
smelly old sock has been stuck to the
wall. Whosever room this is should be
ashamed! Donald or Robert or Willie or-- Huh? You
say it's mine? Oh, dear,I knew it looked
familiar!
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Poetry Breakdown
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Organizing Lines of a Play

• "O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
• "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by
  any other name would smell as sweet
• "A plague o' both your houses!
• "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
• "For never was a story of more woe?Than this of
  Juliet and her Romeo."

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Grammar Games
Students create their own grammar game. They
must create all the rules as well as the board
and the pieces. Students may use an existing
game and adapt it, or they may create their own
original board. Peers will play and evaluate the
games.
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5 Steps

• Step 1 Read the question/directions
• Step 2 Reread the question/directions
• Step 3 Determine how many things the
  question/directions want from you
• Step 4 Underline the key words
• Step 5 Rewrite in your own words

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Scales
Read each statement and circle whether you
strongly disagree, disagree, agree or strongly
agree. You must choose one for each statement.
Be prepared to discuss your decision with the
class. Title of Selection The Three Little
Pigs 1. The three little pigs mother should
not have let them go out on their own. strongly
disagree disagree agree
strongly agree I because
2. Each pig was too hasty in his
decision about which material to use to build.


strongly
disagree disagree agree
strongly agree I
because 3. The Big Bad Wolf got what he
deserved. strongly disagree
disagree agree
strongly agree I
because
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It Says - I Say - So
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Probable Passage
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Vocabulary Game

• Who has a person, place, thing, or idea?
• I have Noun.
• Who has a word that replaced a noun?
• I have Pronoun.
• Who has

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Somebody Wanted But So
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Informational Narrative
The Misfortunate Bride Jen combed her hair as she
looked in the mirror and smiled. After all her
hard work and sweat, she was hours away from
being a heiress bride. She was going to have a
trophy husband and inherit mountains of money and
property from her naïve 99 year old grandmother
by marrying her grandmothers best friends son
John Prince of England. He would one day take the
throne and Jen would look like a million bucks
with a crown on her head. She set her comb down
and pranced to her majestic woodened dresser. Jen
swung the corpulent door open unveiling an
angelic white glorious gown. Her dreams of a
perfect wedding, the wedding shed dreamed of
ever since she was a young child, were becoming a
reality. The excitement made her dash to the
bathroom with her dress swaying in the air. As
the rain fell, Jen walked slowly and arrogantly
to the white limo parked outside of the estate.
Jen was sure the puny clouds couldnt supply an
inch of rain and it was most certainly not going
to ruin her day. As the limo made its way into
the grand ballroom in the mist of New York City,
Jen laughed at the thought of all her good
fortune. The imo arrived at the chapel to a sea
of uninvited people who had come to greet and
congratulate the soon to be queen. Jen smirked
and swiftly moved past the sea like a breeze. The
people yelled and reached for her but as soon as
she passed the chapels entrances the large wooden
doors shut blocking out the cheering
fans. Walking down the isle with her head up, Jen
looked like a celebrity, a real queen ready to
claim her treasure and country. Her grandmother
cried joyfully as she saw her beautiful child
walk down the isle. Catherine, Jens
grandmother, knew Jen would be happy to know her
sister, Elizabeth, had found a husband, Prince
Ulab of Egypt, and was also pregnant. She knew
Jen would be thrilled and happy. So after the
ceremony she approached Jen and quietly told
her. Jen was mortified her ugly half-sister had
married before her making her the heir to her
grandmothers fortune. She was enraged and
repulsed by such a thoughtless decision. She ran
to the limo in tears and with thoughts of
vengeance. Her grandmother would pay.
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Creating a PSA