English 4 & 4H: 1/14,15/13

Guiding Q

• What is persuasion?
• How does history impact literature

Bell Ringer

• Use pages 552-554 in the literature book to answer the following questions:
• Why do you think "The Glorious Revolution" (page 552) and the English Bill of Rights were important?
• How was John Locke (page 554) a part of these two things?

Activities:

• Discussion and explanation of the change in England, the increase of freedom, and the beginnings or journalism, essays, and public expressing opinion and persuasion
• Theme for the grading period: all things persuasion and propaganda
• Hand out vocabulary words
• Test 1: 1/25; coronation to aesthetics
• Test 2: 2/1; critique to inconsiderable
• Test 3: 2/22; whereof to clarion
• Test 4: 3/8; ply to indulge (30 words)
• Hand out Declaration of Independence
• Watch video of famous actors performing the document
• Assign look up and master all unfamiliar words for a vocabulary test (or more)
• I showed an example of the words I felt should be examined and gave students the opportunity to mark their own papers or take a cell picture of my example.
• Students were given the rest of the period to work on their outlines and vocabulary