What Are We Willing To Sacrifice? November 8, 2016

Focus: What larger ideas should we take from American Gothic literature?

1. Warming up with the reaping scene from The Hunger Games

• As you watch, try to make at least three specific connections to "The Lottery" (in your journal or in your notes--up to you).
• Why do you think the topic of catharsis of aggression is still so popular today?

2. Discussing "The Lottery" in grid groups:

• Pick any three of the discussion questions at the end of the story (or create your own). 
• Click HERE for the grid, make a copy, and save it inside your Gothic folder.

3. Creating a larger definition of American Gothic literature

• What ideas are Gothic authors interested in?
• What is a Gothic setting?
• What are Gothic characters like?
• What are some patterns you're noticing in Gothic lit?
• What is the tone of American Gothic lit? (Click here for some tone words.)
• What do you think the purpose of American Gothic literature is?

Row 1: Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" and Ashleigh's response poem 
Row 2: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Row 3: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Row 4: "The Minister's Black Veil"
Row 5: The 4 Gothic Mysteries
Row 6: Google search "American Gothic Literature" for supplementary info

4. Setting up our close reading of The Village

• Click HERE for the viewing guide.
• Make a copy and save it in your Gothic lit folder.
• This will turn into your Gothic unit assessment; please use the viewing guide thoughtfully and thoroughly.

HW:
1. Make sure your Gothic journals are shared with me; if you handwrote, take a photo and put it in Google doc in your Gothic Lit folder (you should have 4 entries, one of which has been graded). Click HERE if you'd like to check out the journal rubric.

2. There is one week left to revise/redo any assignments from the past six weeks. This includes cultural hysteria essays, missed fishbowls, ELIC journals, Gothic journals, grammar fixes, and anything else in IC that doesn't accurately reflect your learning. 

All revisions/redos/make-up work due next Friday, November 11.

Reminders:

(1) If you're revising your cultural hysteria essay, you must conference with me before Friday.

(2) If you add to a journal or any other assignment, please e-mail me.

3. Decide on your speech topic and enter it on the sign-up sheet by this Friday, Nov 11. Don't worry if it's not too specific yet; look to your index cards, and work with one of the ideas you put on top when you ranked them in terms of personal interest.

4th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.
6th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.

Sample topics: 

• Increasing diversity in schools
• Being an athlete on the inside (even if you're never going  to win any medals)
• Failing your way to success