Advanced English 8: Period 1

45 Minutes (Short Day)

12/7/16
(10 mins) Anticipatory Set: Finish Information on Japanese Internment in the U.S.
Common Core Standards:

Standards for Reading: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: 7. Integrate and

evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and
quantitatively, as well as in words.*

Objectives:

Students will be able to take notes on information about Japanese internment in the
United States during WWII.
Students will be able to engage in brief discussions with their peers, answering critical
thinking questions in a collaborative manner.
Students will be able to actively listen to information about Japanese internment, and ask
questions about the information provided.

Input: Take out your notes from yesterday on Japanese internment. Were going to continue
filling these in as we finish up the slideshow presentation today.
Input: I will read through my slides, giving students information about Japanese internment
camps in the U.S. and stopping periodically to give them time to fill out their handouts.
Check for Understanding: I will also take students questions and ask them some guiding
questions as we go, to get them thinking about this material and to make sure they understand the
historical and political connections of this information to Anne Frank and World War II.
Guided Practice: My slides will also include questions for students to answer in think-pair-share
format, which will allow students to reflect on the information and some themes that will be
present in Camp Harmony, and to share their thoughts with the class.
(35 mins) Reading and Annotating Camp Harmony
Common Core Standards:

Reading Standards for Literature:

o 3. Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel
the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
o 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific
word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

Objectives:

Students will be able to actively read Camp Harmony by annotating the text as they
read.

Input: Now Im going to be passing out a packet to everyone containing the Camp Harmony
short story and some critical thinking questions at the end. I want you read the short story silently
at your desks. As you read, I want you to annotate the story by highlighting important passages,
and writing summaries, comments, questions, or reflections about passages in the margins. You
should have some kind of comment written for every paragraph. I will be giving you points for
these annotations, so its important that you do them as you read, otherwise you will lose points.
If you finish reading and annotating the text before others, you may move on to the critical
thinking questions in the back of the story. We will be going over these questions together as a
class tomorrow. If you dont finish reading and annotating in class today, you will finish this for
homework.
Independent Practice: Students will read Camp Harmony silently, practicing their active
reading skills by highlighting and annotating as they read.