The Great Gatsby chapter 1

Big Idea: What motivates us to achieve success and fame?

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. How will this work? (10)
1. You will be put in groups and each group will be responsible for preparing a lesson for a chapter of the novel.
2. Check Google Classroom for the members of each group.
3. Each group will be assigned a chapter of the novel. The reading and teaching schedule is also on Google Classroom.
4. This document has the lesson plan template that needs to be filled out.
5. This document has a list of activities you could do with the class.
2. Read The Great Gatsby chapter one
3. Watch The Great Gatsby movie chapter one

Homework:

1. No vocabulary this week.
2. Read your book at home.

Finishing the Connections Map

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Making Connections partner activity. Choose you work well with. You have to use all of the words listed below on your poster. This is the second time we have done this activity.
1. Group words together.
2. Make connections between different words.
3. On the connecting lines, write down why you are making the connection.
4. Have a central image and five other images
5. Use color
1. Tituba
2. Sara Good
3. Reverend Parris
4. Betty Parris
5. Mercy Lewis
6. Susanna Walcott
7. Abigail Williams
8. Thomas Putnam
9. Goody Putnam
10. John Proctor
11. Elizabeth Proctor
12. Mary Warren
13. Ruth Putnam
14. Rebecca Nurse
15. Reverend Hale
16. Giles Corey
17. Deputy Governor Danforth
18. Confession
19. Reputation
20. Fear
21. Intolerance
22. Lies
23. Forgiveness
24. Witch
25. Power
26. Courage

Homework:

1. No vocabulary this week.
2. Read your book at home.

Watching Act IV

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Play review game for The Crucible, Act III.
2. The Crucible, Act III quiz in Google Classroom.
3. Watch The Crucible, Act IV
4. Play Act IV review game.
5. Take Act IV quiz.
7. Making Connections partner activity. Choose you work well with. You have to use all of the words listed below on your poster. This is the second time we have done this activity.
1. Group words together.
2. Make connections between different words.
3. On the connecting lines, write down why you are making the connection.
4. Have a central image and five other images
5. Use color
1. Tituba
2. Sara Good
3. Reverend Parris
4. Betty Parris
5. Mercy Lewis
6. Susanna Walcott
7. Abigail Williams
8. Thomas Putnam
9. Goody Putnam
10. John Proctor
11. Elizabeth Proctor
12. Mary Warren
13. Ruth Putnam
14. Rebecca Nurse
15. Reverend Hale
16. Giles Corey
17. Deputy Governor Danforth
18. Confession
19. Reputation
20. Fear
21. Intolerance
22. Lies
23. Forgiveness
24. Witch
25. Power
26. Courage

Homework:

1. No vocabulary this week.
2. Read your book at home.

Reading Act IV with Acting Groups

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Read Act IV of The Crucible. We will be in acting groups for the final act.
1. 662-663 (7 people) Sarah Good, Herrick, Tituba, Hopkins, narrator, Danforth, Hathorne
1. Highlight three times Danforth is suspicious. Explain why.
2. 664-665 (4 people) Hathorne, Danforth, Cheever, Parris
1. Highlight two pieces of information Parris gives us about Abigail. Why does Danforth call Parris a brainless man?
3. 666-667 (5 people) Hathorne, Danforth, Parris, Hale, Herrick
1. Highlight two statements about John Proctor. Highlight one statement that shows Danforth's stubbornness. Why won't Danforth stop the hangings?
4. 668-669 (4 people) Hale, Danforth, Parris, Elizabeth (have someone double as Hathorne)
1. Highlight three of Hale's concerns about what is going on. Explain whether you think Hale is courageous or cowardly.
5. 670-671 (3 people) Parris, Proctor, Elizabeth
1. Highlight what happened to Giles. Explain whether you think Proctor will confess to save his own life.
6. 672-673 (4 people) Elizabeth, Proctor, Hathorne, Danforth
1. Highlight two lines from Proctor about lying. Why is he so torn about whether to lie or not?
7. 674-675 (4 people) Proctor, Parris, Danforth, Rebecca
1. Why is Proctor willing to say he saw the devil, but he won't condemn anyone else?
8. 676-677 (4 people) Proctor, Hale, Parris, Danforth
2. We will annotate the pages after each group performs.

Homework:

1. Work on your Membean goal.
2. Read your book at home.

Watch Act III Edpuzzle

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Watch Act III Edpuzzle.

Homework:

1. Work on your Membean goal.
2. Read your book at home.

Watch Act III Edpuzzle

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Watch Act III Edpuzzle.

Homework:

1. Work on your Membean goal.
2. Read your book at home.

Continuing Act III

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Finish partner paragraph from yesterday.
2. Read the first part of Act III up to page 637
1. Danforth
2. Proctor
3. Parris
4. Hathorne
5. Giles
6. Mary Warren
7. Martha Corey
8. Francis
9. Hale
10. Herrick
3. 630-631 List five words to describe Judge Danforth and Hathorne. Which word best describes the two judges and why?
4. 632-633 What evidence does Francis and Mary Warren offer the court? What is the response?
5. 634-635 What actions make Proctor seem like an unreliable witness to the court? Do you agree?
6. 636-637 What are the three most important things that happen on these two pages? Why is it hard to discover the truth during a witch hunt?
7. 638-639 Complete the Close Read activity on page 639. Annotate. Question. Conclude.

Homework:

1. Work on your Membean goal.
2. Read your book at home.

Starting Act III

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Finish partner paragraph from yesterday.
2. Read the first part of Act III up to page 637
1. Danforth
2. Proctor
3. Parris
4. Hathorne
5. Giles
6. Mary Warren
7. Martha Corey
8. Francis
9. Hale
10. Herrick
3. 630-631 List five words to describe Judge Danforth and Hathorne. Which word best describes the two judges and why?
4. 632-633 What evidence does Francis and Mary Warren offer the court? What is the response?
5. 634-635 What actions make Proctor seem like an unreliable witness to the court? Do you agree?
6. 636-637 What are the three most important things that happen on these two pages? Why is it hard to discover the truth during a witch hunt?

Homework:

1. Work on your Membean goal.
2. Read your book at home.

Abigail Behind the Scenes

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Membean vocabulary
2. Partner Activity
   
1. Make a bubble map with your partner
2. Paraphrase all of the actions Abigail is taking behind the scenes. You can find a list of all the quotes about Abigail here.
3. Write a partner paragraph on the back. You should each write in a different color.
   
1. In Act II, Abigail is working behind the scenes to target...First of all,...In the court she...Throughout the Act she...At the end of Act II she pretends...The one person who could potentially stop her is...But this person is unwilling to...because...Three words that describe Abigail at this point are...The best word to describe her is...because...

Homework:
1. Read your new book.
2. Work on your Membean vocabulary goal for this week.

Fake Tweets for Act II

Big Idea: How do you resist a "witch hunt"?

• witch-hunt is a symptom of community panic
• repressions of order greater than the danger
• public confession and vengeance

Learning Target: Explain how different events are related

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by April 29th.

Agenda:

1. Year Review Gimkit
2. Fake Tweets
1. Tweetgen or this or this or this
2. Create a Tweet from Abigail and a response from either John or Elizabeth Proctor.
3. You can only use information from Act II.
4. Turn in the images of your Tweets on Google Classroom.
3. Don't forget to finish your vocabulary assignment for this week.
4. Read your book over the break.

Homework:

1. Complete your Membean goal for this week.
2. Read your book at home.