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Critical Lens Links and Group Project

SH-5 Critical Lens Links

A) Coming of Age

Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man

Interpretation of the painting

Bildungsroman

B) PTSD

National Center for PTSD

Psychiatric Times

C) Stages of Grief

PsychCentral

Peeled and Cored: A Blog for Teens

D) Einstein’s Theory of Time

Everything Forever

E) Color Spectrum

Hyperphysics

Chromotherapy

Critical Lens Project

Purpose: This is a formative activity that will prep you and the class for the in-class essay you will write on Slaughterhouse-Five.    Using a lens to analyze a novel allows us to develop a greater depth of understanding about the novel’s themes, the writer’s craft, and the impact the text has on a broader scale.

Directions:  We’ve placed you in groups according to your interests.  So now, you need to go to the blog and follow the links of your lens.  Study those links and apply them to Slaughterhouse-Five.  Find specific scenes and quotes that seem to relate to or encapsulates parallel concepts found with your lens.  On Thursday, come prepared with notes, additional resources, and ideas about how to present your findings to the rest of the class. 

Finished Product:

·       Provide a visual element (e.g.a poster, collage, prezi)

·       Quotes or examples from Slaughterhouse-Five

·       A clear connection to your lens

·       Answer the “so what” question with your analysis

·       A 5-7 minute presentation where every group member participates

·       Think critically and creatively

Due Date: Monday, April 27

Points: 40 formative points

My Plan Essay

Due Dates:Typed Draft April 9, Final on April 14

My Plan Essay

The Extended Application (EA) is an Oregon graduation requirement.  In Portland Public Schools, the EA is fulfilled when, during their senior year, students write a “My Plan Essay”. This is a formal reflection of a student’s high school experiences related to college and career, future plans, and goals. The My Plan Essay supports the district’s goal for every PPS student to graduate college and career ready with an informed post-high school plan. When you receive a meeting score on your essay, you will need to upload it to your Naviance account.

In your My Plan Essay, you will need to address the following three areas:

1. Explain your career aspirations and your educational plan to meet these goals. Clearly articulate both short and long term goals and describe the interests, skills, and experiences that helped you develop your post-high school plan.
2. Explain how you have helped your family or made your community a better place to live. Provide specific examples and include what you learned from these experiences. How did these experiences help to inform your post-high school plan?
3. Describe a personal accomplishment and the strengths and skills you used to achieve it. Consider your growth during your four years in high school. How will this experience serve you in your future?

Must score a “Meets” or better in all areas to meet requirements

	Exceeds	Meets	Needs Improvement
Ideas & Content	·  Each of the three areas identified in the prompt is addressed thoroughly. ·  Evidence is thorough, in-depth, and insightful. ·  Supporting details are rich, interesting and carefully chosen for audience and purpose.	·  Each of the three areas identified in the prompt is addressed. ·   Shows evidence of new learning, ideas, results, or conclusions appropriate to the student’s personal, academic, and/or career interests and post-high school goals. ·   Main ideas are supported with specific details.	·  One or more of the three main areas identified in the prompt is not addressed. ·   Evidence is weak, incomplete, inappropriate, or limited in some way. ·   Supporting details may be too general or off topic. ·   Essay may be too short, without enough ideas or details
Organization	·  The reader can follow the writing easily; ideas and details are placed in an order that moves the reader right along. ·  Connecting words and phrases: smooth; effective; make the writing easy to follow from one part to the next. ·  Paragraph breaks are used effectively.	·  The reader can follow the writing; ideas and details are placed in an order that makes sense. ·  Connecting words and phrases help the reader follow from one part to the next. ·  Paragraph breaks are there and are helpful.	·  The reader has a hard time following the writing and may be confused often; ideas and details are not in an order that makes sense. ·  Connecting words and phrases are repetitive; points may be numbered or bulleted. ·  Few or no paragraph breaks
Spelling Punctuation Grammar	·  May be a few minor errors.	·  Some errors, but few major errors; the most important rules are followed most of the time.	· So many basic errors that the reader has a hard time figuring out what the writer is trying to say.

SH-5 Vocab/Questions Journal

Slaughterhouse-Five  

Vocabulary and Question Journal

Part A: Vocabulary

For this unit on Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five we will keep a word journal like we did with Henry V but with a few changes. Please make 15 entries total (either typed or hand-written) that covers the scope of the reading. Follow the steps below for each entry:

a. Write out at least seven words of the sentence where your word appears, including the word underlined and the page number.

b. Before looking up a word’s definition, write down what you think the word means based on context clues and/or the root word.

c. Include the part of speech your word belongs to and write a brief definition in your own words.

d. Use it in your own sentence as the same part of speech you identified.

Vocab Entry Example:

a. “His mother was incinerated in the Dresden firestorm” (2).

b. The root “ciner” sounds like cinder and along with the term firestorm the word seems to have something to do with burning.

c. to destroy by burning (verb)

d. The old man was arrested by the EPA after he incinerated toxic trash in his back yard filling the neighborhood with dangerous carcinogens. 

Part B: Questioning

Please make 15 entries total that covers the scope of the reading.  For each entry:

·       Ask a question about style, plot, anything you want that is related to the book somehow.  If you need more guidance, consider the 5 different types of questions found on the back of this assignment.

·       Include the page number of the text where you thought of your question.

Question Entry Example:

1. p. 22: Is Vonnegut writing an autobiography or a fictional piece like I was told? 

Due: April 20                          Worth: 30 points

WORLD CONNECTION QUESTION:

Write a question connecting the text to the real world.

Example: If you were given only 24 hours to pack your most precious belongings in a back pack and to get ready to leave your home town, what might you pack? (After reading the first 30 pages of NIGHT).

CLOSE-ENDED QUESTION:

Write a question about the text that will help everyone in the class come to an agreement about events or characters in the text. This question usually has a "correct" answer.

Example: What happened to Hester Pyrnne's husband that she was left alone in Boston without family? (after the first 4 chapters of THE SCARLET LETTER). OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

Write an insightful question about the text that will require proof and group discussion and "construction of logic" to discover or explore the answer to the question.

Example: Why did Gene hesitate to reveal the truth about the accident to Finny that first day in the infirmary? (after mid-point of A SEPARATE PEACE).

UNIVERSAL THEME/ CORE QUESTION:

Write a question dealing with a theme(s) of the text that will encourage group discussion about the universality of the text.

Example: After reading John Gardner's GRENDEL, can you pick out its existential elements?

LITERARY ANALYSIS QUESTION:

Write a question dealing with HOW an author chose to compose a literary piece. How did the author manipulate point of view, characterization, poetic form, archetypal hero patterns, for example?

Example: In MAMA FLORA'S FAMILY, why is it important that the story is told through flashback? 

Slaughterhouse-Five Reading Schedule

Part I: 1-135, Quiz on Monday, April 13

Part II: 136-215, Quiz on Monday April 20