Essential Question(s):
What is the tone, purpose, and auidence of early exploration literature?
Where do we see evidence of bias in early exploration literature?
Standards Covered:
ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence and main ideas in a variety of texts, and identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of structures and elements of American fiction, poetry, dramatic literature, and nonfiction, and provides evidence from the text to support understanding.
ELAALRL3 The student relates a literary work to primary source documents of its literary period or historic setting.
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Class work |
Homework |
Due Date |
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Monday, August 29th 2011 |
-Vocabulary Practice (Sentence Completions) -Read from "The Iroquois Constitution" pg 24 |
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Tuesday, August 30th 2011 |
-GHSGT Practice
-Read and discuss from "The Iroquois Constitution" pg 24
-Read and discuss the "Nacirema" Nacirema Reading |
Study for Vocabulary Quiz Tomorrow |
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Wednesday, August 31st 2011 |
-Vocabulary Quiz
-Discuss "Nacirema" Activity from yesterday in relation to exploration narratives
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Nacirema Reading.doc Homework: Write your own Nacirema Activity |
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Thursday, September 1st 2011 |
-Share homework from last night
-Read "from the First Voyage to America" p62
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Friday, September 2nd 2011 |
The New World vs. Disney's Pocahonatas vs. from The General History of VA by John Smith
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