Lesson Plan 2.1 - The Origins and Evolution of the Short Story
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Overall Expectations |
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1. Reading for Meaning: students read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, informational, and graphic texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning; 2. Understanding Form and Style: recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning; 3. Reading With Fluency: use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently; 4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading. 5. Listening to Understand: listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes; |
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Specific Expectations |
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ORAL COMMUNICATION: 2.1 communicate orally for a wide range of purposes, using language effective for the intended audience. CRITICAL LITERACY 1.8 identify and analyze in detail the perspectives and/or biases evident in oral texts, including complex and challenging texts, commenting with understanding and increasing insight on any questions they may raise about beliefs, values, identity, and power READING: 1.3 identify the most important ideas and supporting details in texts, including complex and challenging texts; 1.5 extend understanding of texts, including complex and challenging texts, by making rich and increasingly insightful connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights. WRITING: use a wide range of descriptive and evocative words, phrases, and expressions precisely and imaginatively to make writing clear, vivid, and compelling for their intended audience. |
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Learning Skills (Where applicable): |
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Learning Goals |
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- be able to identify a variety of characteristics of literary text forms and demonstrate insight into the way they help communicate meaning. - be able to analyse texts in terms of the information, ideas, issues, or themes they explore, examining how various aspects of the texts contribute to the presentation or development of these elements Update: Splitting Lesson time into working on Assignment #2 Poem Creation and Analysis for Posting; Building of Success Criteria Update: Splitting today's Lesson into 3 days to accommodate Introduction to the Unit and Feedback/Suggestions for Assignment #2 Update: Oral sharing of Raymond Carver's Popular Mechanics and overall opinion on style and length of story |
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By the end of this You will be able to identify a variety of text features and demonstrate insight into the way they communicate meaning as well as identify a variety of elements of style in texts and explain how they help communicate meaning and enhance the effectiveness of the texts. Update: Create a Poem on your Own and Analyze it according to the Tpcast Method |
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Materials and Resources |
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Celia is Back Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield Popular Mechanics (Mine) by Raymond Carver Principles of a Story by Raymond Carver Reading Strategies PPTX Short Story Analysis PPTX Homework: Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield |
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Timing (min) |
Lesson |
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TODAY'S ICEBREAKER Done Imagine that your friend is having a baby, but they won't tell you if it's a boy or a girl. The friend says they don't want their child to grow up acting and thinking like typical males or females do (personal interests, clothes etc.). Would you agree with your friend's attitude? |
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INTRODUCTION VIDEO Done When it comes to Short Fiction, how short is short? An overview of this Unit: nationalities and cultures, themes such as relationships, parent and child, coming of age). |
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Short Quiz: (FOR Learning) Done 5 questions about short story plot and character. |
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Video Lecture #1 Done The Short Story - a short history (PPTX) |
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Read Principles of a Story by Raymond Carver and annotate/highlight key points Carver makes about writing and short stories in particular. Done |
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Video Lecture #2 Done Raymond Carver is considered to be one of the greatest American short story writers. Why? Some excerpts of his work. Starting a Journal to track thoughts, developing knowledge. (100 marks/Final Weight: 20) |
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Activity #2 Done Read the short story Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver. The story is in the Resource Folder. In what ways does this short story match with Carver's beliefs about short stories stated in his essay. (100-150 words) |
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Video Lecture #3 Done Short Story Analysis (PPTX) The essentials: Plot and Character |
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Activity #3: Read the short story Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez Refer to the Short Story Analysis (PPTX) and (1) write a paragraph of about 100 words to summarize the character of the barber or (2) record a video of up to 2 minutes long describing the character of the barber. |
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Discussion Forum: Updated to Authors of Short Stories V. Authors of Longer Fiction. Done as Asynchronous Course on July 12 How do the Discussion Forums and your participation in the discussions help you to see own your strengths and weaknesses? What changes could be made to improve peer participation. Let's create a Checklist together that students can use to grade themselves and their peers. |
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Assignment FOR Learning / Homework |
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Review the Reading Strategies PPTX in the Resource Folder then carefully read the short story Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and answer the questions: (1) Analyze the character of Miss Brill as fully as you can in approx.100 words and, (2) Write down some recurring imagery and/or symbols that appear in the story to develop the theme(s). |
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Please answer a few short reflection questions based on Lesson #3 on the Exit Card on the Moodle Course Page |
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