Tyr’s Day, April 23: Watching A Story Unfold
EQ: What made Scheherezade an effective and heroic storyteller?
· Welcome! Gather paper, pen/cil, wits, old work, BROWN BOOK!
· Discussion: Islam
· Freewrite: Cliffs
· Student Reading: The 1001 Nights
· Freewrite/RJ
Saki Yabumoto in "Scheherazade," a ballet by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, to which you are presently listening.
ELACC12RL-RI2: Analyze two or more themes or central ideas of text
ELACC12RL3: Analyze impact of author’s choices regarding elements of a story
ELACC12RI3: Analyze and explain how individuals, ideas, events interact, develop
ELACC12RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text
ELACC12RI8: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal British texts
ELACC12RL-RI9: Analyze for theme, purpose rhetoric, and how texts treat similar themes or topics
ELACC12RL10: Read and comprehend complex literature independently and proficiently.
ELACC12W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas
ELACC12W4: Produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
ELACC12W5: Develop and strengthen writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting
ELACC12W10: Write routinely over extended and shorter time frames
ELACC12SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
ELACC12SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, evidence and rhetoric
ELACC12L1: Demonstrate standard English grammar and usage in speaking and writing.
Above, pilgrims pray at the Kaaba, or “Cube,” said to have been built by Abraham. Into the Kaaba Mohammed placed parts of The Black Stone, a meteorite Muslims believe fell in Eden. Adam used it as the first altar to God. Originally white, the stone turned black as it absorbed humanity’s sins.
Misspellings To Watch Out For
Opening Freewrite (100 wds)
Do you know what a “cliffhanger” is?
J If you DO know, what is a good example of a “cliffhanger” story – and what made it good?
J If you DON’T know, what do you THINK that would mean – and what story can you think of that works that way?
Reading Guide: The Thousand And One Nights
from Preparing to Read The Thousand And One Nights: Sindbad the Sailor (Textbook pp. 582 - 3)
1. The Thousand And One Nights is sometimes called The ______.
2. Those titles refer to the ______story which ______many stories together.
3. Who is Shahryar, what sort of person does he hate, and why does he hate them?
4. What is Shahryar doing each day to get revenge on this sort of person?
5. Who is Scheherezade, and what plan does she devise to stop Shayryar?
6. Who is Sinbad, and where does he live?
from The Thousand And One Nights: Sindbad the Sailor translated by N. J. Dawood (pp. 584 - 588)
1. Sindbad says that he lived “a joyful and carefree life” in Baghdad; so why did he leave?
2. Sinbad sailed down the ______River to the city of ______.
3. On an “uninhabited island,” what did Sindbad do that caused his crew to abandon him – and how did Sindbad feel about it?
4. “The ______that ______a ______time is sure to ______,” he says. What does this mean? (Remember that this is his second dangerous voyage).
5. What did Sinbad climb, and why?
6. What did he see from atop this perch, and how big was it?
7. What blocked out the sun, what was it called, and what did it feed its babies?
8. This made him realize that the huge thing he had seen was what?
9. With what did Sindbad attach himself to the monster – and why?
10. Where did the creature land, and what did Sindbad wish once he looked around?
11. Sinbad thought, “No sooner do I ______from one ______than I find myself in ______more ______. There is no ______or ______save in ______!”
12. What did he see on the ground that he wanted – and what did he see that he feared?
13. Where did he go to try to get sleep – and what did he find there?
14. The next day he found a rotting ______on the ground. Why did men set it here?
15. How did Sindbad use this to escape – and what did men think when they saw him?
16. This story of Sindbad’s second voyage ends with Sinbad promising to do what tomorrow?
Closing Freewrite (100 wds): Reflections
Choice #1: Scheherezade’s Heroism
Scheherezade kept herself and other women alive by using a tormentor’s desires against him – in short, by making him want more (in this case, more story).
Can you think of, or write, another story like that?
Quote to use as Reading Journal!
Closing Freewrite (100 wds): Reflections
Choice #2: Sindbad’s Voyage
Think and write about some DETAIL in the story you just read that reminds you of any other story you have read, seen, or otherwise encountered.
Quote to use as Reading Journal!
TURN IN TODAY:
· Opening Freewrite: Cliffhanger
· Reading Guide: 1001 Nights
· Closing Freewrite: Reflections
o Scheherezade
o Sindbad