American Literature Period 1&3

Agenda:  Audio Article of The Week. This week We will listen to an audio story on National Public Radio. While listening, take notes on the back of your SOAPS sheet. See if, using the title, context clues and the content if you can understand and answer questions about the text.
Listen, Write Answer
2.  Using "A Raisin in The Sun" for A Performance Assessment.  Today, you will be in groups of three or four students.  You will work individually and in teams to create a "test" on "A Raisin in The Sun".  Your test will be modelled after the Smarter Balanced Assessment with: 5 passages for brief writes.  One passage selected for figurative language use: personification; irony; metaphor; etc.
Three passages chosen for characterization.  One passage chosen to demonstrate elements of plot:plot, conflict, setting, etc.
You will also select passages from the play--some of them can be the same ones from your brief writes, and create multiple choice questions.  Your test must have 25 multiple choice questions.  You will have your notes, the text, The Warmth of Other Suns, information on Lorraine Hansberry; the vocabulary on quizlet to assist you.