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UNIT NINE: present day
Write Like Obama, Speak Like Obama |
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Inspired by his book, "Dreams from My Father". Obama's written and spoken
words are used to model excellence in standard English and to connect us to modern history and American culture. |
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UNIT EIGHT
The Culture of Cinema |
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UNIT ONE
Those Who Were Here Before |
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Unit Nine: Write Like Obama, Speak Like Obama
- English Language Arts emphasis on:
- Guided Reading
- Vocabulary Development
- Journal Writing
- Speech Making
- Improvisation
- PART I: Write like Obama
- Photos from Obama's childhood, adolescence and
young adulthood used as models for literal and interpretive
writing, haiku poetry, journal responses.
- Selections from Dreams from My Father and comparable
excerpts from writer Sandra Cisneros and storyteller
Lou Del Bianco as models for descriptive writing, poetic imagery, comparative themes and cultural vocabulary.
- Political cartoons, student writings used as models
for opinion(interpretation) vs. fact (literal) activities.
- PART II: Speak like Obama
- Excerpts from Obama's 2004 speech and 2009
Inaugural address to use to practice speaking.
- Excerpt from Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream
speech to use to practice speaking.
- Elizabeth Alexander's Inaugural poem
as a model in poetic imagery and free verse and how
they can be interpreted through the spoken word.
- PART III: Vocabulary Review - Write Like Obama
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