Monday, September 20, 2021

• I Can statements:

1. I can identify the central idea within a text

2. I can discuss details the text uses to support textual analysis.
3. I can analyze text in order to provide evidence of how the text
explicitly uses details to
support key ideas.
4. I can draw inferences from the text to support textual analysis.
5. I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support the
text (explicit and inferred)
Instructions
(for both in class and online learners)
(Online learners, please be ready to answer any questions
on the public chat)

• Today, we will be using our book My Perspectives.

• From today onwards, you will log into your book
using your Portal by accessing External Resources.
Instructions
(for both in class and online learners)
(Online learners, please be ready to answer any questions on the public chat)

Create a word document titled Classwork (your name, Gr) that you will upload at the end of today’s
session with all your answers

• Access Launch Text:

1. You will read “My Introduction to Gothic Literature”
2. Read Purpose of the Launch Text.
3. Complete Word Network for the Literature of Fear: where you will add new words to your
Word Network as you read texts in the unit.
4. Complete Summary: where you will write a summary of the Launch Text in the Classwork.
5. Complete the Launch Activity as individual work in the Classwork.
6. Closing Work: complete the Evidence Log for inside The Nightmare:
Prompt: In what way does transformation play a role in stories meant to scare us?
Write your answer in the Classwork.
 Instructions
(for both in class and online learners)
(Online learners, please be ready to answer any questions on the public chat)

Essential Question:
What is the allure of fear? (Read the paragraph)

Access Anchor Text (Short Story): The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe:

• Read Comparing Texts

• Complete Concept Vocabulary
• Start your First Reading of the text The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.
• Make sure you:
• Notice: whom the story is about, what happens, where and when it happens, and why those
involved react as they do.
• Annotate: Mark vocabulary and key passages to revisit
• Connect: Ideas within selection to what you already know and have read
• Start your First Reading of the text The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. You
can also listen to the text.
 Assignment
Please remember that this is due Wednesday, September 22
at 6 pm.

You can find the text on your Learn Online as a PDF file: The
Most Dangerous Game

Read the text, and answer the questions on your Assignment

tile for Wednesday, September 22 at 6 pm.
Discussion Board for online
learners ONLY!
• If you have any questions regarding today’s
lesson, please do post them on the
discussion board.