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Warm Up

Notice & Note Tracker

Read your personal book selection!

Who’s the protagonist?

How do they use words?

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Important Dates

January 29: Next Reading Check in (Be able to summarize 1 book you read)
February 3: Saturday School
Feb 12-16: Unit 3 District Benchmark
Feb 19-23: Winter Break (No School)
Feb 26: Start Unit 4
March 2: Saturday School
March 4: Next Missing Work Deadline

Tutorial Opportunities:

*Every morning from 8:15-8:30 a.m. (request a pass in advance)

*Fridays by request 3:45-4:30 p.m.

**If you are absent, it is your responsibility to timely make up everything you missed. That includes reviewing the slides, taking notes, reading the text(s), and doing and turning in any assignment(s).

Want to remember? Make a note now.

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Jan. 3-March 4 Assignments

Jan 3-5: Unit 3 Introduction Activity (Formative)

Jan 8-12: RI6 Rhetorical Devices Analysis (“I Have a Dream” Speech) (Formative)

Jan 15-19: RI3 and RI6 Quiz (“I Have a Dream” Speech) (Formative)

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Today’s 9th Grade Literature & Composition Agenda:

Warm-Up:

Independent Reading Time

Opening

Review Rhetorical Devices & “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Purpose

Work Period

Analyze “Letter” for rhetorical devices in small groups.
View/analyze Robert Kennedy’s “Remarks.”
Create a new political cartoon OR a comic strip highlighting the main events in 1963.

Closing

Compare/contrast

Be physically & mentally ready for class.
Be respectful to yourself, others, and the classroom environment.
Be responsible for your learning by giving your best effort.
Read a book or work on writing pieces in journal if you finish the work of the day.

Our Class Norms

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Learning Target

Today I am… reading and annotating Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,”

So that I can… compare and contrast his use of rhetorical devices in a written versus a spoken text.

I’ll know I’ve gotten it when… I’ve added at least 4 entries (rows) in my graphic organizer, compared and contrasted the written and spoken text, and created a poster with my small group.

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Opening

What’s the role of…

Speaker
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Subject
Tone

Does MLK use words to provoke, calm, or inspire?

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Work Period

Today’s Assignment:

Add 4 entries to graphic organizer Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Create a poster with at least 5 elements:

Option #1: Create a new political cartoon featuring MLK (Inspiration here)

Option #2: Create a comic strip highlighting the main events in 1963.

Be physically & mentally ready for class.
Be respectful to yourself, others, and the classroom environment.
Be responsible for your learning by giving your best effort.
Read a book or work on writing pieces in journal if you finish the work of the day.

Our Class Norms

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Full Text

Does Robert Kennedy use words to provoke, calm, or inspire?

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Closing

Contrast / Contrast:

How does Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” compare and contrast with his “I Have a Dream” speech and Robert Kennedy’s “Remarks” in terms of Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, and Tone?

Which of the texts provoke, calm, and inspire? *add to your notes*

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Codes

Individual

Partner Pairs

Whole Class