MISS MISKIMMIN’S LESSON PLANS FOR WEEK OF 12/09/13:

MONDAY, 12/09: Read to identify and evaluate the use of flashback and descriptive language; identify possible themes (1.3.8 A, D, E, F).

Materials: Old lit book, Prompt #4

  1. Record your obligations in your planner
  2. Check and discuss RB 4.
  3. Continue discussion on Stave 2
  4. What are Scrooge’s deepest regrets?
  5. Focus on descriptive language of the final scene and Scrooge’s penalty
  6. Begin Prompt # 5: Do the various responses to the question suggest any themes for this novel? Discuss the idea of universal questions—those questions that people deal with again and again throughout history.
  7. Consider this universal question: at what point must a person take responsibility for his or her own actions?
  • Assignment: Complete the rest of Prompt #5 for 12/10
  • QUIZ on Staves Two and Three and vocabulary on Friday

TUESDAY, 12/10: Evaluate the use of descriptive language and imagery; read to determine tone. (1.3.8 D, F).

Materials: Old lit book; Prompt #5

  1. Discuss Prompt #5
  2. Begin Stave Three. Compare and contrast the descriptions of the Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas Present.
  • QUIZ on Staves Two and Three and vocabulary on Friday.

WEDNESDAY, 12/11: Evaluate the use of descriptive language and imagery; read to determine tone (1.3.8 D, F).

Materials: Old lit book

  1. Continue to read Stave Three.
  2. Carefully analyze the Cratchit feast scene and discuss the use of descriptive writing and the author’s tone. If you were in charge of setting the stage and collecting props, what exactly would you need?
  • Assignment: Complete Prompt#6. Be sure to write two separate paragraphs, and be sure to analyze the scene in detail.
  • QUIZ on Staves Two and Three and vocabulary on Friday.

THURSDAY, 12/12: Identify tone and theme; trace plot and character development (1.3.8 A, B, C).

Materials: Old lit book, Prompt #6

  1. Collect and discuss Prompt #6.What is Dickens’ tone? How does the descriptive language contribute to the tone? Does this scene contribute to a theme in this story?
  2. Quick summary: list the ways that Scrooge has changed to this point in the novel.
  3. Read to the end of Stave Three on p. 654 and discuss Dickens’ message to England.
  4. What is the mood at the end of Stave Three?
  • Assignment: Carefully consider the questions in Prompt #7, and write a well-developed response to the prompt. Remember to use quotes and to explain your thinking clearly.
  • QUIZ on Staves Two and Three and vocabulary tomorrow

FRIDAY, 12/13: Trace mood, foreshadowing , imagery, and character development (1.3.8 B, C, F). Make inferences while reading (1.3.8 B).

Materials: Old lit book; quiz sheets

  1. Collect Prompt #7
  2. QUIZ
  3. Begin reading Stave 4. Compare the mood from the end of Stave 3 to the beginning of Stave 4.
  4. Read the following quote:
  5. “Ghost of the Future!” [Scrooge] exclaimed, “I fear you more that any specter I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared bear your company, and do it with a thankful heart, Will you not speak to me?”
  6. Why does Scrooge fear the Ghost of the Future more than any other Ghost?
  7. Why does Scrooge think the Ghost’s purpose is to do him good?
  8. Why is Scrooge unsure of what will occur in the future?
  9. Why does the Ghost of the Future no speak to Scrooge?

*REMEMBER: Wednesday, December 18th is the field trip to see A Musical Christmas Carol.*