World Literature and Composition

16 October 2014

Thursday Work

• Planning for Literature Circles Skit presentations

Content Language Objective

• Collaborate to present a short skit of main ideas, conflicts and concepts related to the “American Dream” from literature circle novels using;– Dialogue– Written scripts

Content Language Objective

• Students will write and speak about the significance and power of voice in literary texts and apply this thinking in speaking and writing in their own work, using

• Exemplar texts• Graphic organizers• Collaborative feedback

Content Language Objective

• Students will read to understand the features of a memoir, annotating for specific characteristics, using

• List of memoir characteristics• Collaborative annotations• Exemplar text

Warm-upAcademic LanguageNorth: East:West:

Discourse RolesNorth:East: West:

TASK:Who would you cast to play the main characters in your

novel/play?Explain your choices.

• What is the value of reading a memoir?

• What kind of people write memoirs?

• What kind of people read memoirs?

• Why would someone read your memoir?

What we can learn

• North: Personal• East: National• West: International/World

Writing a memoir

• Why should you plan?

• Take 3 and a half minutes and write down a few things you would like to teach others with your memoir

Agenda

• Seating/Attendance/Warmup• Learning Objectives• “What’s in a Name” example memoir &

questions• Memoir• Wrap-up, reflection on learning objectives