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7th & 8th Grade Literature & Public Speaking

Sep-Nov | Dec-Feb | Mar-June

John Swett Unified School District

Carquinez Middle School

Welcome to the 2007/2008 school year.

Film as Literature | Intro to Shakespeare: Twelfth Night | Public Speaking

SEPTEMBER
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

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LABOR DAY

NO SCHOOL

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First Day of School

  • Welcome
  • Intro to "Film as Literature"
  • Parent letter

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  • getting acquainted
  • procedures
  • Due: Parent letter

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  • Introduction to film study: the shot, framing, focus
  • more procedures

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  • Angles and camera movement
  • Predicting with Citizen Kane

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    • Lighting and sound
    • note-taking
    • More Citizen Kane

     

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  • Editing and Mise-en-Scene
  • Citizen Kane

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  • Finish Citizen Kane
  • Putting it together
  • Playing director

    • 13 min day

    Back to School Night

  • Cinematic effects and terminology review

    • 14

  • Quiz on terminology and cinematic effects

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  • Film and Reading Strategies:
  • Predicting: practice in becoming active viewers and readers of texts

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  • Strategy: Prediciting
  • Film clip: Rear Window

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  • Strategy: Reponding to the text
  • Film clips: A Christmas Story & The Conversation
  • Text: Animal Dreams
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  • Strategy: Responding
  • Film clip: East of Eden

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  • 3 levels of questioning
  • Text: Narrative of Frederick Douglas, chapter 7

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  • More questioning
  • Films: Color Purple, Titanic

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  • Strategy: Storyboard activity #1
  • Text: Retrieved Reformation

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  • Storyboard activity #2
  • Text: Thank you M'am

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  • Strategy: Character
  • Film: Henry V
  • Text: Main character from whatever you're reding in English class

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  • Strategy: Setting
  • Film: Falling Down
  • Text: House on Mango Street

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    OCTOBER
    Monday
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    Friday

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  • Film & Lit analysis: Setting
  • Film: Vertigo

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  • Point of View
  • Film: Jaws
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  • Point of view
  • Film: Psycho

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  • Point of View
  • Film: A Christmas Story

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  • Symbol
  • Films: Psycho
  • Symbol Tally Sheet

    • 8

  • Symbol
  • Film: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Symbol Tally Sheet

    • 9

  • Symbol
  • Film: The Piano
  • Symbol Tally Sheet

    • 10

  • Symbol
  • Text: Young Goodman Brown
  • Complete tally sheet

    • 11

  • Irony
  • Good Morning Vietnam
  • Edward Scissorhands

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  • Groundhog Day
  • Characterization sheet

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  • Finish Groundhog Day
  • Complete charaterization sheet and questions

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  • More work with Irony

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  • Review of cinematic and literary terms

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  • Film TBA

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  • Film TBA

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  • Test on terms and clips viewed and texts read

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  • Pre-viewing activity of first film: ET, the Extra-Terrestial

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  • E.T. viewing Day 1

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  • E.T. Day 2

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  • E.T. Day 3

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  • E.T. Day 4

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  • E.T. Day 5

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  • E.T. assignment

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  • Work on E.T. assignment

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  • Due: E.T. assignment
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    NOVEMBER
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    Thanksgiving

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    Holiday

    School

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    DECEMBER
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    JANUARY
    Monday
    Tuesday
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    Friday

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    Winter Break

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  • Shakespeare pre-viewing

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  • Shakespeare pre-viewing

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  • Start of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
  • Intro: Act 2 scene 2
  • handouts distributed

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  • Twelfth Night Folly
  • "What if?"

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  • Discovering Illyria
  • Text: 1.1, 1.2
  • CQ: Sketch or describe in words your first impressions of Orsino, Olivia, and Viola.

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  • Designing movement
  • Text: 1.3

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  • intro to blocking
  • Text: 1.3

    • 21

    Martin Luther King JR Birthday

    No School

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  • Performing 1.4 and 1.5
  • Text: 1.4, 1.5
  • Remember: No matter which option you've chosen for evidence of reflection (Act take-home test or daily log, you must reread the sections we cover in class and respond to the CQs (contemplation questions)

    • 23

  • Continued from Monday
  • Text: 1.4, 1.5
  • CQ: Review 1.5 and focus on Feste. How long do you think he has been in Olivia's household? Is he a carefree fool with no troubles? Does he have a brain? What do you see him doing in this scene?

    • 24

  • Explicating "Willow Cabin"
  • Text: 1.5.271-279
  • CQ: Write 3 pieces of information from today's lesson you consider the most memorable

    • 25

  • Role Playing and Performing 2.3
  • Text: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
  • CQ: Are you more of a Toby or more of a Malvolio when it comes to getting rowdy? Look again at Feste's song in this scene. Does it seem in keeping with the mood of the scene? Do the words reflect what's going on? How? Find what you consider a pretty good joke in this scene. What's funny about it to you?

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  • Act 1 through Act 2.3
  • Personality traits
  • Character Profile
  • CQ: Draw a diagram or chart that shows the characters and their relationships to each other. Or, do a storyboard of the plot so far. Due tomorrow

    • 29

  • Act 2.4
  • Close Reading of 2.4.88-137
  • CQ: 1)Do you think there's a difference in the way men love and the way women love? 2) Do either Viola or Orsino express views similar to your own? Or do you have a position on this question different from both these characters?

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  • Continued reading to 2.5

    • 31

  • Performing 2.5
  • Maria's letter

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  • finish 2.5
  • silent actors

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    FEBRUARY
    Monday
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    Friday

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  • Finish 2.5
  • 2.5 on Video
  • CQ: 1) Have you ever played a practical joke on someone, or been the victim of a practical joke? Write about your experience, making parallels between what happened to you and what's happening to Malvolio. 2) Make a list of all the epithets that are used for characters in this scene (e.g. "rascally sheep-biter," "overweening rogue").
  • HW: Act 2 test or log entries and CQs due tomorrow

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  • Start cutting 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
  • Due: Act 2 test or log and CQs
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  • Continue cutting and rehearsing 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
  • HW: Read your scene 3 times--twice to yourself and once aloud

    • 7

  • Performing 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
  • CQ: Find lines that show how Viola and Orsino express love and reflect on how their methods of expressing love define their personalities. Do you think Feste knows that Cesario is a female?

    • 8

  • Finish Act3.4
  • Start video wrap-up
  • Act 3 test/ log and CQs due Tuesday

    • 11

    Presidents' Day No School

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  • Video Wrap up

    • 13

  • End video wrap-up

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  • Sword-fighting
  • DVD
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  • More DVD

    • 18

    President's Day No School

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  • Finish DVD

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  • Choreograph and perform sword fights

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  • Closer look at character - class work

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  • Oral presentation of character analysis

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  • Acting companies

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  • Acting companies

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  • Acting companies

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  • Performances
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  • Cut-off for all Act tests and oral presentations
  • Performances
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    MARCH
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  • Monologues chosen

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  • Practice
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  • Practice
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  • Presentation of monologues

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  • Presentation of monologues

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    APRIL
    Monday
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  • Finish Monologues

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  • INTRAPERSONAL/ INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
  • Key words: communication, intapersonal, interpersonal, self-concept, self-esteem, interview, interviewer, interviewee
  • Activity #1: Personal interview

    • 2

  • Finish Activity #1

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  • Activity #2: Personality poem
  • Activity #3: Intrapersonal inventory

    • 4

    Min Day

  • Self-awareness Personal Profile Project(SPPP): Due 5/14
  • Entry #1: Getting Acquainted

    • 7

  • Activity #5: Person I'd Most Like to be

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  • Activity #6: Description of Best Friend

    • 9

  • VISUAL AIDS
  • Key Words: stage fright, audience analysis, purpose sentence, chronological pattern, spatial pattern, topical pattern, problem-solution patern, introduction, body, conclusion, slogan, jingle
  • HW: Bring a practical object to class for tomorrow's activity
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  • Activity #1: Object Speech
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  • Object Speech

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  • Activity #2: Chalk Talk

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  • Chalk Talk

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  • SPPP Entry #2

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  • Activity #3: Demonstration Speech
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  • Demonstration Speech
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  • Activity #4: The Commercial
  • HW: Ready to present commercial Thurs and Friday

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  • Work on Commercials
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  • SPPP Entry #3

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  • Commercials
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  • Commercials
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  • Partner speeches: Role Playing

    • 29

  • Acceptance speech

    • 30

  • SPPP Entry #4

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  • Whose Line is it Anyway?

    • 2

  • Improv Friday

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    MAY
    Monday
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  • Story Telling in groups

    • 6

  • Personal experience or
  • Most Embarrassing Moment

    • 7

  • SPPP Entry #5

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    Wrap up speeches

    Whose Line?

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    Improv Friday

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  • SPPP Entry #6

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  • Improv Friday

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  • Due: Self-awareness Personal Profile Project
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    School Talent Show

  • Improv Act?
  • Shakespeare Monologue?

    • 26

    Memorial Day No School

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    JUNE
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  • Class Trips

    • 12

  • LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
  • 8th Grade Promotion

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