Content Objective: I can generate claims and subclaims, gather relevant textual evidence to back up my claims, and outline an argumentative essay.
Language Objective: I will generate my claim for my argument thesis, write subclaims and identify relevant textual evidence to outline my argument paper.

Essential Question: How do you create effective claims and outline an argumentative essay?

Agenda:

1. Read your Quarter 2 book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: Examine how your book reflects reality. For five minutes, write about if and how your book is honest about human nature? Is it portraying what it means to be a human in a romanticized or unrealistic way or is your book honest and realistic about human nature?

3. Daily Dose of Grammar: 
Which sentence is correct?

1. The snail which happened to be yellow was named Squiggly.
2. The snail, which happened to be yellow was named Squiggly.
3. The snail, which happened to be yellow, was named Squiggly.

4. Follow these slides to respond to/review Siddhartha and generate your claim/subclaims
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5. Siddhartha Argumentative Essay Outline

6. Make sure to check off your claim before the end of the period

Assignments:

• Reading Journal and Daily Dose of Grammar
  
• Siddhartha Response
• Claim and subclaims
  
• Argumentative Essay Outline
  

Content Objective: I can cite textual evidence and generate higher level questions to analyze complex themes and ideas in literary texts.
Language Objective: I will analyze the final two chapters of Siddhartha with my group.

Essential Question: What are the big questions in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha?

Agenda: 
1. Siddhartha Review Kahoot

2. Siddhartha Ch. 11 Summary

3. Questions for Siddhartha Ch. 11 and 12 (use Ch. 11 summary and read Ch. 12)

4. Wrap-up: What do you think about the ending of Siddhartha? Was the ending what you expected?

Assignments:

• Siddhartha Ch. 11 and 12 Questions
• Siddhartha Wrap-Up

Content Objective: I can cite textual evidence and generate higher level questions to analyze complex themes and ideas in literary texts.
Language Objective: I will jigsaw two chapters of Siddhartha collaboratively and generate and answer questions about Siddhartha in a group. 

Essential Question: How can generating and answering your own questions deepen your understanding of complex themes and ideas in literary texts?

Agenda: 
1. Read your Quarter 2 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Discuss the question at your table for 5 minutes. Include at least one piece of textual evidence in your answer. 
Once your five minutes are up, pick a scribe to add your findings (and your textual evidence) to this period’s Padlet. (Title: Question you discussed)

• Siddhartha Questions Padlet 2A
• Siddhartha Questions Padlet 2B
• Siddhartha Questions Padlet 4B

3. Time to read!
Read your assigned chapter (Ch. 9 “The Ferryman” or Ch. 10 “The Son”). You have 20 min. to read your chapter and take note of the following:

• 3 important pieces of textual evidence
• 2 things that told you something new about Siddhartha’s journey
• ​1 question

4. Summarize & Pick a Question!
In your group, spend 5 minutes generating a collective summary of your chapter and choose one question (of your four)  to leave on a sticky note at your table.

5. Jigsaw - Round 1
Leave two members of your group behind at your table and take two members of a group that discussed the chapter you haven’t read.
Once you are shuffled, you should have two people who have read Chapter 9 and two who have read Chapter 10 at your table.

Summarize & Discuss:

• Members of original group: share summary, textual evidence and details
• ​Everyone: discuss and generate an answer for the question the original group left behind. Everyone must contribute to your discussion before you can write down an answer on the Padlet.

6. Jigsaw - Round 2
With your group, move to a different table with a new question for the chapter the original group hasn’t read.
Now it’s the other half of your group’s turn to fill you in on before you discuss and answer the question at your new table.
Look at the previous group’s findings and add yours!

7. Return & Reflect
Return to your original seat and pick one of the questions you discussed this quarter and try to answer it in a final paragraph.

Assignments:
​In your GoogleDoc for today, include:

• Opener answers
• Siddhartha Ch. 9 or 10 3-2-1
• Answers to Ch. 9 question + Answers to Ch. 10 question
• Reflection

Content Objective: I can analyze and compare and contrast complex literary texts.
Language Objective: I will compare and contrast sections of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha to determine common themes and make a prediction about what will happen next. I will analyze chapter 8.

Essential Question: How is Siddhartha structured and how can you use this structure to navigate and predict what is going to happen next in the text?

Agenda: 
1. Read your Quarter 2 book for 10 minutes.

2. Summarize Siddhartha, chapters 1-3
Track the events and ideas of Siddhartha through the first three chapters

• What happened?
  
• What was the similarity between the three chapters?
  
• Who was the consistent supplementary character?
  
  • What was his role?
    
• What was Siddhartha’s goal?
  
• Did he accomplish it?  
  
• What does he realize in the fourth chapter that changes his perspective?
  

​3. Summarize Siddhartha, chapters 5,6,and 7
Use this summary to find out what happened in chapter 7

Track the events and ideas of Siddhartha through chapters 5, 6, and 7

• What happened?
  
• What was the similarity between the three chapters?
  
• Who was the consistent supplementary character?
  
  • What was her role?
    
• What was Siddhartha’s goal?
  
• Did he accomplish it?
  
• What does he realize in the eighth chapter that changes his perspective? (you will answer this at the end of class)

4. Compare and Contrast:
Insert a two-column table into your GoogleDoc and compare the answers to the two sets of questions side by side.
What do you see as similarities between the two sets of chapters?
What are some differences?
Enter them into your chart.

5. Analyze your table:
What does your table tell you?
Based on your findings, what do you predict will happen in chapter 8?

6.Read Chapter 8,  "By the River" (p. 87-100) and answer the following questions:

1. What do you think will happen next? Why?
2. Om is a major symbol in the book. We saw it in the beginning, now, and will see it again. Why do you think it is so important?
3. What does Siddhartha recognize about the idea of the path to enlightenment that Govinda does not?
4. What is the failure of each path Siddhartha has experienced according to Siddhartha? What is his new understanding? (99)
5. What is the importance of the last paragraph of the chapter?
What connection can you make between it and another section in the book?


7. Wrap up: What does Siddhartha realize in chapter 8? How is this significant?

Assignments:​

• Summary and notes on Siddhartha, chapters 1-3
• Summary and notes on Siddhartha, chapters 5-7
  
• Table comparing and contrasting the two parts above
  
• Analysis of table + prediction
• Chapter 8 questions
• Wrap-up question
  

Content Objective: I can generate argument questions and back up my claims using textual evidence. 
Language Objective: I will read and identify key textual evidence Chapter 6 of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha; I will compare and contrast two characters' viewpoints of Siddhartha. 

Essential Question: How can self-generated claims serve as guiding questions for your reading? How can two characters view a protagonist very differently?

Agenda:

1. Read your Quarter 2 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: What are some details in your book that help readers escape reality, that is, draw them into the book and make it more realistic as well as interesting to the reader? Mention specific details (evidence) from the book.

3. Siddhartha Pop Quiz

4. Read Chapter 6 "Among the People" (p.63-73)
Every two pages, write down one quote from the text you consider important.

5. Compare/Contrast:
With a partner write a brief (5-7 sentence) analysis of Siddhartha from the viewpoint of Kamaswami and from the viewpoint of Kamala.

• How is each character different?
  
• How are they similar?
  

Insert a two-column table into your GoogleDoc to show how they are different and similar.
Explain your findings in a paragraph (5-6 sentences).

6. Chapter 6 Wrap-Up:
What does it mean that “ordinary people can love but not people like us” (p.73)?

• Why aren’t they ordinary?
  
• Why can “ordinary” people love?
  

Assignments:

• Reading Journal
• Siddhartha Quiz 1
  
• Reading notes (textual evidence) for Ch. 6
  
• Compare/contrast
  
• Wrap-up