Wednesday, October 31, 2018


Wednesday, October 31, 2018
92 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

     1.   SSR 
     2.   Review for Socratic Seminar: share your questions with a partner and then create one more question. REMINDER: your questions/belief statement should be about the “secret education” in cartoons. Make sure you have created a belief statement using this packet: Socratic Seminar Instructions  
 3.   Review guidelines for Socratic Seminar 
 4.   Conduct Socratic Seminar (2 rounds) 
 5.   HOMEWORK:Complete the post-Socratic Seminar questions and self-evaluation at the end of the Socratic Seminar Instructions packet. 


Friday, October 26, 2018


Friday, October 26, 2018
92 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

     1.   SSR 
     2.   Get into groups and jigsaw articles about  Pocahontas:

     3.   Share out from your table groups with the whole class

     4.   In your groups, create at least one sentence strip that captures any of the themes we have seen in our viewing of cartoon clips focused on masculinity and Pocahontas. Share out with the class and then post your sentence strip on the wall 

     5.   Prepare for a Socratic Seminar by preparing questions and creating a belief statement using this packet: Socratic Seminar Instructions  

HOMEWORK: Create 3 questions and a belief statement for the  Socratic Seminar on Wednesday, October 31. (See page 2 of the Socratic Seminar Instructions . Read for at least 30 minutes from your SSR book

Thursday, October 25, 2018


Wednesday, October 24, 2018
76 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

     1.   SSR 
     2.   Share your comments on your note-taking chart in table groups 
     3.   Read and jigsaw articles about  Pocahontas:
Trigger Warning: these articles discuss violence, sexual assault/rape, and other forms of abuse, including racial slurs. The articles with asterisks are the least harsh/detailed accounts of Pocahontas.

HOMEWORK: Finish your Pocahontas article

 ON FRIDAY, I will collect your Pocahontas chart and your Pocahontas article



Monday, October 22, 2018


Monday, October 22, 2018
92 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

     1.   SSR 
     2.   Share note-taking chart in table groups
     3.   Finish watching Pocahontas
HOMEWORK due on Wednesday, October 24: Respond to the question at the end of the note-taking chart



Thursday, October 18, 2018

    1.   SSR (sustained silent reading) 

    2.   Free-write: what do you know about Pocahontas (the real historical figure and/or the Disney cartoon)? 

    3.   Brief share out 

    4.   Distribute note-taking chart (attached) and review the categories for taking notes.


    5.   Begin watching Pocahontas

Tuesday, October 16, 2018


Tuesday, October 16, 2018
92 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

1.   SSR 

2.   1st period, review Man of the House”. 2nd period: Read the short narrative called  by Donald Rose and mark up this text using these guidelines: Takes notes on
·      Ideas that resonate for you or ideas that you disagree with.
Places where “Being a Man” is described or defined or illustrated
·      Places where you learn something new or connect to something you learned previously.
·      Think about cartoons you have watched. What did you learn from them—connections to this piece?
·      Places that make you wonder? What else do you need to know?
 ·      Writing strategies that you notice the writer using—quoting experts, using metaphors or anecdotes, alliteration.
At bottom of the page, write your response or reaction to this short story


3.   Discuss the implications of what this means to someone as young as four and how that affects their ideas about masculinity for the rest of their life. In your notes, write times in your lives where this idea of masculinity or manliness was brought to your attention. 



  
HOMEWORK: Read for at least 30 minutes from your SSR book

Thursday, October 11, 2018


Thursday, October 11, 2018
92 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

1.   SSR 

   
2.   Small groups: (from last time) Share your sentence strip(s) out to the whole class and tape them to the board. 

3.   Small groups—2nd period: create sentence strips with themes that you see emerging or ideas that you want to follow up on as we go through this unit. Share your sentence strip(s) out to the whole class and tape them to the board. 

Begin “Hypermasculinity and Cartoons”

4.   Quick-Write: October 11: What does it mean to “be a man”? You can do word associations, recount examples of manhood or manliness, or write about how your definition of manhood was shaped. 

5.   Share out in small groups and as a whole class (while I take notes.) Then, discuss: where do these ideas come from? 

6.      Watch video Be A Man , pausing at age 14 and recounting the answers given in the video—where do kids, as early as five, get these messages? 

7.   (2nd period needs to do this next time) Read the short narrative called Man of the House” by Donald Rose and mark up this text using these guidelines: Takes notes on
·      Ideas that resonate for you or ideas that you disagree with.
Places where “Being a Man” is described or defined or illustrated
·      Places where you learn something new or connect to something you learned previously.
·      Think about cartoons you have watched. What did you learn from them—connections to this piece?
·      Places that make you wonder? What else do you need to know?
 ·      Writing strategies that you notice the writer using—quoting experts, using metaphors or anecdotes, alliteration.
At bottom of the page, write your response or reaction to this short story


HOMEWORK: Read for at least 30 minutes from your SSR book


Monday, October 8, 2018


Monday, October 8, 2018
92 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

1.   SSR 
2.   Practice PSAT test: Tips on taking the test and practice questions and scoring. You can practice on your own by going here: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sample-questions/reading/1



HOMEWORK: Read for at least 30 minutes from your SSR book

Thursday, October 4, 2018


Thursday, October 4, 2018
76 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

1.   SSR  

2.  Women in Cartoons:
Finish watching and discussing the portrayal of women in cartoons. Record your observations on this chart 

3.   In pairs, answer the questions at the end of the Women in Cartoons chart (questions about the Bechtel test) and briefly discuss as a class 

4.   Small groups: Discuss these questions:
·       Consider the early clips like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. What similarities did you see between them in terms body types, hair color, who their friends and servants were?
·       Now consider the more contemporary cartoons like Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, and Frozen—what has changed and what hasn’t?
Report out to the class. 
5.   Small groups: create sentence strips with themes that you see emerging or ideas that you want to follow up on as we go through this unit. Share your sentence strip(s) out to the whole class and tape them to the board. (2nd period needs to do this on Monday)
  

HOMEWORK: Read for at least 30 minutes from your SSR book

Tuesday, October 2, 2018


Tuesday, October 2, 2018
92 minutes
Learning Targets:
I can read and understand an academic argument
I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages
I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

1.   SSR  

2.   Free-Write: “Women in Society Today, October 2, 2018” Write a few paragraphs about what it means to be a woman in our society today. What messages have you received about women? What are women supposed to look like? Act like? Who are role models in your lives or in the media? Have you ever felt like being a woman opens doors that might be closed to others? 

3.   Share in small groups. Then come back to a large group and collect notes in a class brainstorm: “What did we learn about what it means to be a woman in society today? 

        4.   Read Denice Frohman’s article, “The Cost of Being a Girl.” Take notes and respond to Frohman’s article. How does Frohman’s article support your ideas? Argue against your ideas? Did being a woman open doors for her or close them? 


HOMEWORK: Read for at least 30 minutes from your SSR book