Materials: Textbook, outside books, computer, writing materials, notetaking materials, highlighters, index cards

Resources: 1. Glencoe Literature Textbook: American Literature 1900 to the Present 2. To Build A Fire DVD 3. Outside book sources listed on weebly 4. Online magazines, articles, websites, and blogs 5. Apps for Andriod and IOS

Standards: Assessments: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text Part 1: Garrulous, conjecture, Formal Assessment: and analyze their development over the course of the text, dilapidated, interminable, Throughout unit 4, the including how they interact and build on one another to enterprising, repose, students will turn in their produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of degenerate, ruinous, vocabulary cards, literary the text. [RL.11-12.2] impropriety, malevolence, detective assignments, and Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to equanimity, hypothesis, active reading notes or develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where seclusion,principle, and reflections every Friday. The a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters impose Part 2: Prosperous, major formal assessment will are introduced and developed). [RL.11-12.3] obscure, stupor, calamity, be the Author Project paper Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are elusive, tumultously, exalted, that will be 5-6 pages and used in the text, including figurative and connotative perception, persistence, include three outside sources. meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on salient, tempest, dissension, The students will have the meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or guile, vile, imperially, assail, option to choose from any language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. fragrant, incessantly, scorne, author that we studied in the (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.) [RL.11-12.4] uncanny, emphatic, regionalism, realism, or Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires ingenuously, impudently, naturalism time period. The distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is coerce,intangible, Author Project should include really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or immortality, compel, historical context of the time understatement). [RL.11-12.6] intervene, apathetically period, background Initiate and participate effectively in a range of information of the authors Closure: Assessments:

Academic Language:

When we finish Unit 4, I will give a brief overview lesson of Informal Assessment: I will informally assess my students Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism. I will also grant them through participation. A portion of their overall grade will be access to the PowerPoints used in the overview lesson so that participation, because students should be challenged to they can use that as a tool for their final exam. The students speak their minds and share their thoughts and ideas. I will will have an Author Project due, which is a 5-6 page paper also create a signal for yes/no so that I know whether to worth 10% of their final grade. I will also return all of their move on or further my explanation on a topic. I will most weekly journal reflections, vocabulary cards, and literary likely either do a thumbs up/thumbs down rule or have red detetive assignments, so that they can see where there grade and green cards on their desks to raise up when I ask them if lies in the class. The weekly assignments and the author they understand. project grades will show me whether or not the students have

Week 1

Monday

Tuesday Review of Regionalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain and discuss Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Wednesday Review of Regionalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read from "Two Views of the River" from Life on the Mississipp i by Mark Twain and discuss Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Thursday Review of Regionalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn and Mark Twain. Then read "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte and discuss Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Friday Review of Regionalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read "A Wagner Matinee" by Wila Cather and discuss

Direct Literary History and Instruction/ Overview of Whole Group Regionalism and Local Color - Then read "Fiddler Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters and discuss

Guided Practice/ Exploration

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Independent Work on Vocabulary Practice/ Card and Literary Application Detective Assignment

Work on Vocabulary Card and Literary Detective Assignment

Work on Vocabulary Card and Literary Detective Assignment

Work on Vocabulary Card and Literary Detective Assignment

Vocabulary Cards, Literary Detective Assignments, and active note taking/weekly journal reflections on Huck Finn all Due today

Homework/ Read Chapters 1-4 of Read Chapters 5-8 of Read Chapters 9-12 Read Chapters 13-16 Read Chapters 17-20 Early Finishers Huck Finn and take Huck Finn and take of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and active reading notes active reading notes take active reading take active reading take active reading or write chapter or write chapter notes or write notes or write notes or write reflections in journal reflections in journal chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in journal journal journal

Homework/ Read Chapters 1-4 of Read Chapters 5-8 of Read Chapters 9-12 Read Chapters 13-16 Read Chapters 17-20 Early Finishers Huck Finn and take Huck Finn and take of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and active reading notes active reading notes take active reading take active reading take active reading or write chapter or write chapter notes or write notes or write notes or write reflections in journal reflections in journal chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in journal journal journal

Week 2

Monday

Tuesday Review of Realism and Naturalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read "April Showers" by Edith Wharton and discuss

Wednesday Review of Realism and Naturalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and discuss.

Thursday Review of Realism and Naturalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov and discuss

Friday Review of Realism and Naturalism and briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read "Richness" by Gabriela Mistral and discuss.

Direct Literary History and Instruction/ Overview of Realism Whole Group and Naturalism.Briefly discuss Huck Finn.

Guided Practice/ Exploration

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Independent Work on Vocabulary Practice/ Card and Literary Application Detective Assignment

Work on Vocabulary Card and Literary Detective Assignment

Work on Vocabulary Card and Literary Detective Assignment

Work on Vocabulary Card and Literary Detective Assignment

Vocabulary Cards, Literary Detective Assignments, and active note taking/weekly journal reflections on Huck Finn all Due today

Homework/ Read Chapters 21-24 Read Chapters 25-28 Read Chapters 29-32 Read Chapters 33-36 Read Chapters 37-40 Early Finishers of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and take active reading take active reading take active reading take active reading take active reading notes or write notes or write notes or write notes or write notes or write chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in journal journal journal journal journal

Homework/ Read Chapters 21-24 Read Chapters 25-28 Read Chapters 29-32 Read Chapters 33-36 Read Chapters 37-40 Early Finishers of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and of Huck Finn and take active reading take active reading take active reading take active reading take active reading notes or write notes or write notes or write notes or write notes or write chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in chapter reflections in journal journal journal journal journal

Week 3

Monday

Tuesday Review of Realism and Naturalism. Then read "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Robinson and discuss.

Wednesday Overview lesson on Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism. Group Project day! (see weebly)

Thursday Literature circle for Huck Finn and discuss Field Trip details and instructions.

Friday Field Trip

Direct Review of Realism Instruction/ and Naturalism and Whole Group briefly discuss Huck Finn. Then read "Douglass" and "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and discuss. Guided Practice/ Exploration Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Note taking skills and guided discussion.

Field Trip

Independent Work on Vocabulary Practice/ Card and Literary Application Detective Assignment

Work on Vocabulary Card and Literary Detective Assignment

Group Work all day

Brief, in-class writing Field Trip assignment

Homework/ Read Chapters 41-43 Do assigned Get permission slip Early Finishers of Huck Finn and homework for Group signed for field trip take active reading Project day tomorrow to New Orleans on notes or write Friday. The relfective chapter reflections in paper will be due journal next Monday. The rubric is online.

No homework!

Work on Reflection paper due Monday Vocabulary Cards, Literary Detective Assignments, and active note taking/weekly journal reflections on Huck Finn all Due Monday

Homework/ Read Chapters 41-43 Do assigned Get permission slip Early Finishers of Huck Finn and homework for Group signed for field trip take active reading Project day tomorrow to New Orleans on notes or write Friday. The relfective chapter reflections in paper will be due journal next Monday. The rubric is online.

No homework!

Work on Reflection paper due Monday Vocabulary Cards, Literary Detective Assignments, and active note taking/weekly journal reflections on Huck Finn all Due Monday