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Ortner - For Ortner’s Blocks 2B and 4B Days 1 - 5 Standards READING: LITERARY TEXTS 5: Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations. 6: Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of thematic development. 7: Analyze the relationship among ideas, themes, or topics in multiple media, formats, and in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities. 8: Analyze characters, settings, events, and ideas as they develop and interact within a particular context. 9: Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, and conventions, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts. 13: Read independently and comprehend a variety of texts for the purposes of reading for enjoyment, acquiring new learning, and building stamina; reflect on and respond to increasingly complex text over time. READING: INFORMATIONAL TEXTS 5: Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence and investigating multiple interpretations. 6: Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas. 8: Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts. 10: Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose and perspective shapes content, meaning, and style. 12: Read independently and comprehend a variety of texts for the purposes of reading for enjoyment, acquiring new learning, and building stamina; reflect on and respond to increasingly complex text over time. WRITING 6: Write independently, legibly, and routinely for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences over short and extended time frames. COMMUNICATION 1: Interact with others to explore ideas and concepts, communicate meaning, and develop logical interpretations through collaborative conversations; build upon the ideas of others to clearly express one’s own views while respecting diverse perspectives. Learning Targets I Can Statements I can analyze author’s choices in literary nonfiction (figurative language, word choice, characterization, theme development, etc.) to explore author’s purpose and message. I can connect texts thematically, understanding both thematic similarities and nuanced differences. I can reflect on new learning and new perspectives in both formal and informal writing/dialogue. Essential Question(s) What is the American Dream? Has its definition changed over time? In what ways does the American Dream mean different things for different Americans? To what extent do culture and society shape an individual’s concept of the American Dream? How do we construct identity through our actions, interests, values and beliefs? What is the relationship between nature and American identity? What does it mean to be a rebel? What is the relationship between self and society? What is success? To what extent is community essential to happiness? Resources Access to Teams, where I will post daily instructions – reading assignments, PowerPoints, assignments Into the Wild – in hard copy (provided 3.16) or online in PDF format Learning Activities or Experiences DAY ONE: Reflecting on Previous Texts and Beginning Into the Wild (Author’s Note) Review/connect: Free write: Think about some of your most deeply held beliefs. What do you believe in? Why? How have your deepest beliefs shaped who you are? Where do you think your beliefs came from? Do your actions always reflect your beliefs? Write for 5-10 minutes about your own beliefs. Lastly, finish with 2-3 minutes of listing some of the key beliefs you think London, Thoreau, and Emerson – last week’s authors – held. Read and discuss: Students will read just the Author’s Note of Into the Wild. They will keep typed or written answers on the following guiding questions: 1. How long did Chris McCandless’ journey in the Alaskan wilderness last? 2. Immediately after graduating from Emory University in 1990, Chris McCandless dropped out of sight. List 5 things that he did to support his “plan”. 3. What are some themes Krakauer mentions are the result of his “meandering inquiry”? 4. What do you think Krakauer means when he states, “I won’t claim to be an impartial biographer”? 5. What reason does Krakauer offer for writing this book? 6. What are some of the questions Krakauer raises but doesn’t yet answer in this author’s note? Write and reflect: Via a Teams document, I will instruct students about their unit journaling expectations. They will receive detailed instructions as well as a sample. Each journal entry must connect a specific passage from a required reading to at least one of our unit essential questions. Students should begin by thinking about last week’s texts (Thoreau and Emerson) and completing one preliminary journal entry on a passage from one of those texts. They will turn this in to me for some preliminary feedback before they begin their journaling in earnest next class session. 6. Who is Ron Franz? How do he and Chris meet? 7. List three pieces of information from Franz’s background story. Why might Krakauer spend time explaining Franz’s background? 8. Describe both the people and location of Oh-my-God Hot Springs. 9. List five items that Chris etches into his leather belt. 10. While “riding the rails” Chris encounters a “bull”. From the context of the story, what is a bull? 11. In his letter to Ron, what advice does Chris give? Does Ron take Chris’s advice? Do you agree with the advice given? Would you take it? Explain. Write and reflect: Students will complete a written journal entry based on the instructions they were given at the beginning of the week. They must pick a specific passage from the novel to write about and must use it to discuss/answer one of the unit essential questions. DAY FIVE: Into the Wild Chp 7 and Connections to Previous Texts Review/connect: (1) Quick write: What does it mean to be a rebel? Provide examples from your personal life or from art/culture. Do you see yourself as a rebel? Why or why not? (2) Via PowerPoint, I will ask students to return to Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and to skim back through the reading and their notes for examples of rhetorical strategies – ethos, logos, pathos – and for at least one example of a paradox. Read and discuss: Students will read Chp 7 of Into the Wild. They will keep typed or written answers on the following guiding questions: 1. Ronald Franz and McCandless establish a father-son type of relationship. Identify one benefit or drawback (using a quote) that each gets out of the relationship. 2. How do Wayne Westerberg’s girlfriend, Gail Borah, and his mother, Mary, react to Chris McCandless? 3. List three things you learn about Chris that might point to his innocence. 4. List three things you learn about Chris that might point to his arrogance. 5. How does Chris plan to travel to Alaska? Why does he choose this method? 6. Reread the postcards that Chris sends to Wayne Westerberg and Jan Burres. Was Chris expecting to die? Defend your answer. 7. Before McCandless leaves for Alaska, Wayne Westerberg offers to buy him a plane ticket. McCandless refuses, however, claiming, “flying would be cheating. It would wreck the whole trip” (67). Find and explain two quotes from this chapter that demonstrate whether or not McCandless actually lives by his own words. 8. “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservationism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” (57) Respond to this quote in a few sentences. What does it mean? Do you agree? Examples that prove or disprove it? 9. What connections exist between McCandless and Thoreau? Write and reflect: Students will complete a written journal entry based on the instructions they were given at the beginning of the week. They must pick a specific passage from the novel to write about and must use it to discuss/answer one of the unit essential questions. As part of the culmination of week one, I will ask students to pick one piece of writing they did this week (a warm-up or a journal entry) to type and share with their classmates. Students are expected to read through their classmates’ “discussion” and to offer at least one substantive response to a classmate.