Monday, October 5th Good morning ladies and gentleman,

and a happy Music Monday to you (more on that later)

Please get back into your groups from Friday. You will have ten minutes to complete your pyramid and to develop your theme.

Today’s EUs

Many stories, from children’s stories and fairy tales to short stories and novels, follow a very standard plot outline.

Most stories have a theme, the moral, message or lesson about life that the reader wants the reader to learn.

Today’s EQs How are the elements of plot seen in

“The War of the Wall”? How does the theme of our story

connect with the theme of our unit? Who were those people painted on

the wall?

By the end of class today, you should be able to say to yourself…

I have a better understanding of the elements of plot and how they are seen in “The War of the Wall”, as seen through the class completion of the plot chart

“The War of the Wall” is more relevant to me because I was introduced to some background information on the people involved

I can identify the theme of “The War of the Wall”, and I see how it connects to the theme of our unit

“Music Mondays” are awesome

The War of the Wall

Toni Cade Bambara(1939-1995)

“Writers are everyday people who write

stories that come out of their own

neighborhoods”

Music Mondays During the playing of the following

song, I want you to think about how the song makes you feel. At the end of the song, you will record those feelings in your notebook…be prepared to share with the class

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I recognized some of the faces right off. There was Martin

Luther King, Jr.

Malcolm X

And there was a man with glasses on and his mouth open like he was

laying down a heavy rap. Daddy came up alongside and reminded us

that that was Minister Malcolm

X.

Harriet Tubman

The serious woman with a

rifle I knew was Harriet Tubman

because my grandmama has pictures of her

all over the house.

Fannie Lou Hamer

And I knew Mrs. Fannie Lou

Hamer ‘cause a signed

photograph of her hangs in the restaurant next to the calendar.

Louis Armstrong

Then I let my eyes follow what

looked like a vine. It

trailed past a man

with a horn, …

Billie Holiday

… a woman with a big

white flower in

her hair, …

Duke Ellington… a handsome

dude in a tuxedo seated at a piano, …

W.E.B. DuBois

… and a man with a

goatee holding a

book.”

Closure

After learning the time period in which this song was created, and about the person who created it, why do you think Louis Armstrong made this song? What message was he trying to send?