10 th Grade World Literature Unit Two: Q &A Holly Fritz

1. 10th Grade World LiteratureUnit Two: Q &AHolly Fritz Week 6 10/14 and 10/15 (short week due to Columbus Day, PD day, PSAT testing)

2. Learning Goals: By the end of this lesson I will be able to…1. Vocabulary: (review) Compose sentences using the word “transgress” from last week’s vocab. lesson and explain the connection between “transgress” and Q & A. 2. (New Word) Describe and illustrate the word “agency” and identify connections between transgress and agency by completing a “double bubble” graphic organizer with a partner. Do Now: On page 32 (or 34) Agenda: Do Now (HW Check: post-it notes and double entry log from “A Brother’s Promise” and “A Thought for the Crippled” Review “transgress” Unit two vocab. lesson #2: Agency Partner work: Adding to our working plot line. • Review your vocabulary notes from last week on the word “transgress”. • Write a sentence or two using the word “transgress”. • How does this word relate to Q & A. Homework: • Complete the “Moments of Agency in Q & A” chart • Complete the list of events from the first 5 chapters.

3. Learning Goal: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word “agency”. Vocabulary Lesson #2:Agency • This word has many different meanings. • It can be used as a noun as in “I have to go to the employment agency to try to get help finding a job.” or “I went to the modeling agency and gave them my headshots.” This is not the version of this word we will be working with in this unit!

4. Think like Philosophers! The other way to use this word is very complicated and abstract. It’s okay if you don’t get it right away! We’ll keep talking about this word throughout the unit. • The way we’re going to talk about this word in this unit it in relation to power and control. • Agency is your power to control your own life or to define who you are and not to have others (either people or systems) control and define you. • Your agency or your group’s agency is always in tension, or in opposition to a structure, or boundaries that exist to control you to some extent. • To be an agent is to be a person/individual who owns his/her actions– to act knowingly and to take responsibility for actions. • If you don’t feel like you have agency then you feel like someone else has taken away your power. • Agency is very fluid from moment to moment, day to day. In some classrooms you might have more agency than in others. Learning Goal: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word “agency”.

5. Examples of Agency Learning Goal: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word “agency”. • In the United States, the government and the white ruling majority attempted to strip African-Americans of their agency (ability to control and define their own lives) through restrictive Jim Crow laws. • The Civil Rights Movement is an example of a collective act of agency– of an attempt to reclaim control from a structure that tried to oppress them.

6. More Examples of Agency Learning Goal: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word “agency”. • Teenagers often feel like they are denied agency by adults (school, parents) who they think are trying to control them. Teenagers often feel like they need to resist or act out against these adults in order to claim their agency.

7. Unit Two Vocabulary Word #2 Word: __________________ My Understanding: 1 2 3 4 Describe what you think this word means in your own words: Draw/Illustrate this word: Further Understanding: Make connections between this word and “transgress”, between what you think this word means and the novel. Learning Goal: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word “agency”.

8. Agency: Official Definition • the state of being in action or of exerting power • a means of exerting power or influence Learning Goal: SWBAT • Describe and illustrate the word “agency”.

9. Learning Goal: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word “agency” and identify connections between transgress and agency by completing a “double bubble” graphic organizer with a partner. Analyzing Word Relationships Directions: Use your notes on “transgress” and “agency” to complete the double bubble graphic organizer with a partner. Describe the words in their own circles, identify similarities or characteristics these two words have in common in the space where they overlap, then on the outside, next to each of the arrows, list words, events, peoeple or ideas that these two words remind you of. If you need additional space you can attach loose-leaf paper.

10. Directions: For this homework assignment, you will review the first five chapters of the novel (you should refer to your “during reading notes” as well as your post-it notes) to identify three moments when a character was exerting their agency. Identifying Moments of Agency in Q & A by VikasSwarup

11. Homework: Q & A Review of the first five chapters: “The Prologue” through “A Thought for the Crippled”

12. Friday 10/15/10Learning Goals: SWBAT1.Explain one moment of a character exerting agency in the novel in small group discussion. 2. Organize and illustrate a list of events from the first five chapters of the novel Q & A from narrative order to chronological order by creating a plot line. 3. Identify moments of agency and transgression on the timeline. Do Now: Agenda: Do Now and HW check (chart on moments of agency in the novel and list of events from first five chapters) 6 minutes. Homework Review: (learning goal #1) Triads-- share chart on agency in the novel (each person in the triad shares one moment they identified on their chart and explains) and brief whole class share of three important moments of agency. 8 minutes Partner Work: (learning goals 2-3) Use your list of events from the novel and reorder your list in chronological order. When you have done that, get some paper and glue it together to make a long timeline and plot your events on the timeline (follow directions on next slide). 25 minutes) We will continue working on this next week. • Write about a time when you exerted your agency in a situation. How is this an example of agency? Homework: Due Monday 10/18/10 1. Read “How to Speak Australian” and use post-it notes. 2. Quiz on Monday on “A Brother’s Promise”, “A Thought for the Crippled” and “How to Speak Australian” 3. Finish your list of events on page 35. Bring colored pencils and markers to class on Monday.

13. Homework Review: Triad Discussion of Moments of Agency in Q & A by VikasSwarup (6 minutes) Learning Goal: SWBAT 1.Explain one moment of a character exerting agency in the novel in small group discussion. • Take out your homework chart from last night on moments of agency in the novel. Turn and face your triad (group of three). • Each person shares one moment of agency they identified on their homework chart from last night– explain what moment in the book you identified, why you think it is an example of agency. • Tell each other whether you think your examples are or are not examples of agency and why. • As a group, choose one example of agency to share with the whole class.

14. Learning Goals: SWBAT 2. Organize and illustrate a list of events from the first five chapters of the novel Q & A from narrative order to chronological order by creating a plot line. 3. Identify moments of agency and transgression on the timeline. Partner Work: Creating a Chronological Plotline of the novel Complete the following steps with your partner: • Step One: Share/read through your lists of events that you did for homework last night. Add to your list if you realize that your partner remembered something important that you didn’t have on your list. Once you both have complete lists then move on to step two. • Step Two: Number your plot list chronologically. Remember, the book is not told in chronological order (beginning with Ram’s infancy and ending at age 18 when he wins the quiz show and is accused of cheating). Your chronological order list will be different than your original list. • Step Three: Hilight events on your list that are moments of transgression. • Step Four: Put a star next to events on your list that are examples of agency. • Step Five: Get 6 sheets of paper and glue them together (see example) • Step Six: Make a timeline in the center of your paper. • Step Seven: Begin placing your events on your timeline in chronological order (not narrative order) • Step Eight: Illustrate at least 5 events on your list by drawing or attaching pictures or symbols that relate to these events. • Step Nine: Include at least three key quotes relating to at least three of the events on your plot line. • Step Ten: Mark at least one moment of transgression by writing the word next to the event and then briefly explaining why this is a moment of transgression. • Step Eleven: Mark at least one example of agency by writing the word next to the event and then briefly explaining why this is an example of agency.