Class Notes: Oct.15, 2009

B-block

AGENDA :
Lesson Focus: How do binary opposites define conflicts in literary works?
1. Lesson Activator: Alphabet Race - what are the "big ideas" of To Kill a Mockingbird?
2. Read and analyze "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
3. Discuss various associations we have with the words 'fire' and 'ice'
4. Discuss the meaning of the poem in terms of its structure and content through oppositional forces
5. Look at artworks that express their meaning through interrelated contrasts (dark and light, youth and age, life and death, etc.)

HOMEWORK: 1. Read chapter 11
2. Complete FQs for chapters 10 and 11.
Extra Credit: Explain how the meaning (and power) of "Fire and Ice" changes when in prose versus poetic form.

C-block (Honors)

AGENDA :
1. Journal: Write a story about a bubble at the bottom of the sea.
2. Return POV assignments.
3. Discuss themes versus theme statements versus theses.
4. Hand out examples of thesis statements and discuss various examples.
5. Continue discussion of the theme of hunger in Black Boy.

HOMEWORK: 1. Read chapter 6.
2. Find at least one example of your group's theme (hunger, fear, oppression or alienation) in chapter 6.