Language Arts 10: The Pearl, chapter 1

Writer's Journal entry:  Write about a time: 
When you were RIGHT, but no one believed you, and everyone told you you were wrong, or, when you were right but YOU doubted yourself and didn't believe it.


Handout: Ideas for annotating a text

Background info on John Steinbeck and The Pearl

Read chapter 1 of The Pearl aloud and do some annotations together

Continue reading and annotating independently

Homework: 
Complete chapter 1 and have 10 annotations on it for Thursday
Quiz on chapter 1 Thursday
Please make sure to start bringing your planner to class on Thursday!

Language Arts 10: The Pearl Anticipation Guide

Fill out the Anticipation Guide handout, marking whether you agree or disagree with each of the twelve statements. Take a stand--don't be wishy-washy!

On the back of the paper, write a paragraph about each of the TWO statements you feel most strongly about. 

These statements are all ideas used as themes in The Pearl. 

Graded class discussion. A nonvolunteer picks a statement to discuss. Volunteers then will be able to respond. When the statement is exhausted, a new nonvolunteer is chosen. 

Homework: None!

Language Arts 10: Corrido Writing

Writer's Journal entry: Write a long paragraph about an event, place, or a person that you believe deserves to be remembered, commemorated, or celebrated. This could be historical, political, or personal. If you were going to immortalize something or someone in song, what or who would it be, and why? What things would be most important to describe about them?

Read examples of corridos. Identify rhyme scheme and other features of a corrido.

Draft your own corrido for the Tucson annual bilingual corrido contest! 

Requirements: 

• 36 lines (either 6 stanzas of 6 lines each, or 9 stanzas of 4 lines each)
• approximately 7-10 syllables per line
• traditional corrido rhyme scheme (ABCB, AABB, or ABCBDB)

Homework: 

Corrido rough and final drafts will be due on Thursday.

Language Arts 10: Corridos

Review Star Wars Hero's Journey Tracker

Quiz on the Hero's Journey (10 points)

Discuss corridos and Poetry Center corrido contest

Handout with corrido examples and criteria

Homework: None

Language Arts 10: The Hero's Journey Continues

Review the "Departure" stage of Star Wars
Use your hero's journey notes and tracker to list examples of stages found in the second half of Star Wars

Homework: 
Quiz on the Hero's Journey will Thursday, September 6

Have John Steinbeck, The Pearl, on Thursday, September 6


Obi-Wan, the mystagogue

Language Arts 10: Star Wars, a Hero's Journey

Notes on the "Return" stage of the hero's journey myth structure
Notes on archetypes

Watch first section of Star Wars (the "Departure" stage of the hero's journey), filling out tracking sheet with the stages of the journey you see in the film

Homework: None

Quiz on hero's journey and archetypes will be Thursday, September 6.

Have a copy of John Steinbeck, The Pearl, by Thursday, September 6.

Language Arts 10: The Hero's Journey

Writer's Journal entry: Write about heroism. What is a hero? What qualities does a hero possess? Give an example of a hero and describe what’s heroic about them.


Notes (using a handout outline) on Joseph Campbell and The Hero's Journey "monomyth," with video montage examples.

Homework: None.

Please have your own copy of John Steinbeck's The Pearl by Thursday, September 6. 

Language Arts 10: North American Creation Myths

Background context on four North American peoples: the Aztecs, the Maya, the O'odham, and the Hopi

Notes on 7 types of myths common across cultures (flood, creation, "the dying god," the creative sacrifice, axis mundi, titanomachy, and the hero's journey)

Notes on 3 types of similarities between myths (linguistic, structural, and psychological)

Handout on 7 characteristics of myth

Assignment: Due Thursday, August 23. Complete dialectical journal on four creation myths. Include 12 entries (3 for each myth). Use each of the 7 characteristics of myth at least once.

(To complete an entry, include a quote from a myth that illustrates one of the 7 characteristics. List the page number on which the quote is found and the characteristic it illustrates.)

Language Arts 10: Culture and Fairy Tales

Writer's Journal entry: Create your own Tucson alphabet

Definition of culture Read article about fairy tales in the zeitgeist

View clips of modern-day fairy tale television show for inspiration and identify elements of culture shown


 Homework: For Monday, August 20, rewrite a classic fairy tale by setting it in your time and culture. Submitted assignment must be typed or written in ink. Two pages. Ten points.

Class procedures quiz

Writer's Journal entry: Write down your favorite childhood fairy tale from memory.

Read the Brothers Grimm's original version of "Cinderella." Mark details that are different from the Cinderella story you remember from childhood.

Read the Himalayan story "The Black Cow."  Create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting "Cinderella" and "The Black Cow."


Takeaway questions: (1) What are some reasons that very similar stories might arise from different cultures?
(2) What can we infer about the culture of the Indian Himalayas from reading "The Black Cow"?

Homework: None

Discuss class procedures 

Present two to three procedures to class using art (poster, skit, song rap, etc.)

Handouts: Language Arts Class Procedures sheet

Homework: Procedures Quiz Monday, 8/13

                   Have all class supplies Monday, 8/13

Fill out "Getting to Know You" sheet.
Teacher Quiz
discuss Course Syllabus

Homework: Have course syllabus signed for Thursday, 8/9.