Annotations Bridget, Jessica, Lesley
“Prologue: Ragtime, Audio Clip”
This is a video clip that helps give an overview of what occurs throughout the play. It starts off with Little Boy telling the story in 1902 and their beginning of life in New Rochelle, New York as relatively simply. Through song, the existence of Ragtime is described as something that spreading and “the sound of changing times. The conflict white Americans hold with immigrants and African Americans at the time is established. Important historical figures that are included in Ragtime such as Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, and J.P. Morgan are pointed out. The clip ends with the song combining all the immigrants, African Americans, and White Americans.
“Ragtime (Musical) – He Wanted to Say”
This is an audio clip that demonstrates the struggle that Mother’s Younger Brother experiences with trying to convey his feelings about society’s injustices to Coalhouse. This audio clip helps to demonstrate how Mother’s Younger Brother sees a connection between himself an Coalhouse and that together they can fight to find justice and rightness. This clip also demonstrates that Coalhouse also cannot fully communicate his thoughts either. The two men have many commonalities, but as this audio clip demonstrates there is a lot to say about the problems in society, but it is very hard to communicate these things with others without violence.
“Ragtime (Musical) - Make Them Hear You”
This selected audio clip argues the point of telling one’s story and making others listening to the story. This clip argues that when there is injustice, you must make those who created the injustice and those who have done nothing about the problems hear you and create change. Using one’s voice and telling one’s story can demand justice. As demonstrated in this song, it is important to tell your daughters and sons your story and keep the history of the struggle known and learn from it.
Chapters 3 & 4 from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
These excerpts are utilized in the Lesson Plan: "Comparing Characters to Learn about Conditions for Immigrants across the Continent". The Jungle is also a novel that portrays the injustices that many immigrants working in the United States had to endure. In these two chapters students will be introduced to Jurgis, an immigrant from Lithuanian who is trying to make a living for himself and his family while working in a meat factory. The working conditions are horrendous and not at all what Jurgis expected. Students will compare and contrast this example to the way that immigrants were treated in In the Skin of the Lion. Both novels promote the idea of a much needed social change.
Excerpts from Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient continues the lives of four main characters from his previous novel, In the Skin of the Lion. These excerpts are read in order to prepare for the Lesson Plan: "Character Continuation: How we can use characterization and analysis to help us predict the outcome for characters over two different novels". Students will use prediction strategies to predict what happens to four of the main characters from In the Skin of the Lion at the close of the novel. Students will be able to determine whether or not their predictions came true by reading excerpts from The English Patient. This activity will show students Ondaatje's philosophy that characters have the ability to continue on even after their story has ended.
Context & Summary of The Epic Of Gilgamesh
These annotations are included in the Lesson Plan: "Silent Conversations to Discover the Significance of a Novel’s Title". The phrase "in the skin of the lion", which happens to be the title of Ondaatje's novel, comes from the piece of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and is found in Tablet VIII. Students will read the context for The Epic of Gilgamesh and a summary of the epic in order to serve as a source for students to analyze the title in relation to its importance in In the Skin of the Lion. Students will also be expected to make connections between the two texts and analyze whether or not both texts utilize the quote in the same way or in different ways. Students will also see how literature can be all encompassing because of the way it draws on previous works.
A Virtual Voyage to Ellis Island
This video clip on Ellis Island is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I use this video clip to show my students what immigration was like during this time period, and the role that Ellis Island played in their journey.
Watch, Know, Learn: Immigration
This video clip is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I use this video clip to portray the lives of immigrants coming to America. This clip shows the students what immigrants expected to see in America, how they were treated, where they lived, and what jobs they obtained.
Canadian Immigration in the Late 19th and
Early 20th Century
This article is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I used the information in this article to create my immigration worksheet and to create my power point. The information I found in this article were extremely useful.
Immigration in the Early 1900's
This article is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I used the information in this article to create my immigration worksheet and to create my power point. The information I found in this article were extremely useful.
Themes in In the Skin of a Lion from Gradesaver.com
This website helped me confirm many of themes that I saw in the novel. It gave useful information on these themes and how they connect to other themes. I used this website to build my lesson plan: Themes In Part 1.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
I used this website in order to create rubrics for my lesson plans. It helped me create a useful, engaging, and consistent lesson plan for each lesson that I taught.
Fievel: An American Tale
Fievel, is a movie about and Russian immigrant mouse, who comes to America in search for the 'American Dream.' The mice in Russia think that the streets are paved with cheese in America. The movie ties into the themes of immigration within both of the texts, and the hardships that immigrants face when coming to the new world.
Super Teacher Worksheet: Literature Circles
I used this website during my Lesson Plan: Literature Circles, Analyzing the Text. This website has a description of what roles are involved in a literature circle and what the students need to do to complete these roles. On this website, I also found the worksheets that will accompany each role.
The Epic of Giglamesh
The Epic of Giglamesh is an epic poem that is about Giglamesh, the king of Uruk. Giglamesh is considered the greatest king on Earth because he is both man and god. Giglamesh’s people complain to the sun god Anu and so the god sends Enkidu to challenge him, however the two cannot defeat eachother and end up becoming friends. Together they kill the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba, and to be punished, Enkidu becomes sick and dies. Utnapishtim gives Giglamesh the opportunity for immortality after he claims he can live forever to Utnapishtim. He fails the test by being unable to stay awake for even a week. Giglamesh immediately fails by falling asleep. At the end, Gilgamesh accepts his mortality by acknowledging that humans will continue living on and he will last through his contribution to the civilization and culture. Students will compare the character of Gilgamesh with Patrick and discuss whether or not Patrick is a hero.
“Speaking to You (From Rock Bottom)”
The speaker in this poem says that he has loss his ability to effectively write poetry. The speaker discusses the concepts of memory, suffering, and inability to grow. The speaker appears lost and he has been very upset by a woman. There is much disappointment in the poem, the speaker is angry, and the children are aware of the suffering. He discusses his love for a woman, who is not clearly his wife or another woman, and the need to have this woman’s company. This poem will allow students to apply their reading of In the Skin of a Lion to a text in another artistic element.
This is a video clip that helps give an overview of what occurs throughout the play. It starts off with Little Boy telling the story in 1902 and their beginning of life in New Rochelle, New York as relatively simply. Through song, the existence of Ragtime is described as something that spreading and “the sound of changing times. The conflict white Americans hold with immigrants and African Americans at the time is established. Important historical figures that are included in Ragtime such as Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, and J.P. Morgan are pointed out. The clip ends with the song combining all the immigrants, African Americans, and White Americans.
“Ragtime (Musical) – He Wanted to Say”
This is an audio clip that demonstrates the struggle that Mother’s Younger Brother experiences with trying to convey his feelings about society’s injustices to Coalhouse. This audio clip helps to demonstrate how Mother’s Younger Brother sees a connection between himself an Coalhouse and that together they can fight to find justice and rightness. This clip also demonstrates that Coalhouse also cannot fully communicate his thoughts either. The two men have many commonalities, but as this audio clip demonstrates there is a lot to say about the problems in society, but it is very hard to communicate these things with others without violence.
“Ragtime (Musical) - Make Them Hear You”
This selected audio clip argues the point of telling one’s story and making others listening to the story. This clip argues that when there is injustice, you must make those who created the injustice and those who have done nothing about the problems hear you and create change. Using one’s voice and telling one’s story can demand justice. As demonstrated in this song, it is important to tell your daughters and sons your story and keep the history of the struggle known and learn from it.
Chapters 3 & 4 from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
These excerpts are utilized in the Lesson Plan: "Comparing Characters to Learn about Conditions for Immigrants across the Continent". The Jungle is also a novel that portrays the injustices that many immigrants working in the United States had to endure. In these two chapters students will be introduced to Jurgis, an immigrant from Lithuanian who is trying to make a living for himself and his family while working in a meat factory. The working conditions are horrendous and not at all what Jurgis expected. Students will compare and contrast this example to the way that immigrants were treated in In the Skin of the Lion. Both novels promote the idea of a much needed social change.
Excerpts from Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient continues the lives of four main characters from his previous novel, In the Skin of the Lion. These excerpts are read in order to prepare for the Lesson Plan: "Character Continuation: How we can use characterization and analysis to help us predict the outcome for characters over two different novels". Students will use prediction strategies to predict what happens to four of the main characters from In the Skin of the Lion at the close of the novel. Students will be able to determine whether or not their predictions came true by reading excerpts from The English Patient. This activity will show students Ondaatje's philosophy that characters have the ability to continue on even after their story has ended.
Context & Summary of The Epic Of Gilgamesh
These annotations are included in the Lesson Plan: "Silent Conversations to Discover the Significance of a Novel’s Title". The phrase "in the skin of the lion", which happens to be the title of Ondaatje's novel, comes from the piece of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and is found in Tablet VIII. Students will read the context for The Epic of Gilgamesh and a summary of the epic in order to serve as a source for students to analyze the title in relation to its importance in In the Skin of the Lion. Students will also be expected to make connections between the two texts and analyze whether or not both texts utilize the quote in the same way or in different ways. Students will also see how literature can be all encompassing because of the way it draws on previous works.
A Virtual Voyage to Ellis Island
This video clip on Ellis Island is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I use this video clip to show my students what immigration was like during this time period, and the role that Ellis Island played in their journey.
Watch, Know, Learn: Immigration
This video clip is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I use this video clip to portray the lives of immigrants coming to America. This clip shows the students what immigrants expected to see in America, how they were treated, where they lived, and what jobs they obtained.
Canadian Immigration in the Late 19th and
Early 20th Century
This article is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I used the information in this article to create my immigration worksheet and to create my power point. The information I found in this article were extremely useful.
Immigration in the Early 1900's
This article is used in the Lesson Plan: Immigration in the Early 20th Century. I used the information in this article to create my immigration worksheet and to create my power point. The information I found in this article were extremely useful.
Themes in In the Skin of a Lion from Gradesaver.com
This website helped me confirm many of themes that I saw in the novel. It gave useful information on these themes and how they connect to other themes. I used this website to build my lesson plan: Themes In Part 1.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
I used this website in order to create rubrics for my lesson plans. It helped me create a useful, engaging, and consistent lesson plan for each lesson that I taught.
Fievel: An American Tale
Fievel, is a movie about and Russian immigrant mouse, who comes to America in search for the 'American Dream.' The mice in Russia think that the streets are paved with cheese in America. The movie ties into the themes of immigration within both of the texts, and the hardships that immigrants face when coming to the new world.
Super Teacher Worksheet: Literature Circles
I used this website during my Lesson Plan: Literature Circles, Analyzing the Text. This website has a description of what roles are involved in a literature circle and what the students need to do to complete these roles. On this website, I also found the worksheets that will accompany each role.
The Epic of Giglamesh
The Epic of Giglamesh is an epic poem that is about Giglamesh, the king of Uruk. Giglamesh is considered the greatest king on Earth because he is both man and god. Giglamesh’s people complain to the sun god Anu and so the god sends Enkidu to challenge him, however the two cannot defeat eachother and end up becoming friends. Together they kill the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba, and to be punished, Enkidu becomes sick and dies. Utnapishtim gives Giglamesh the opportunity for immortality after he claims he can live forever to Utnapishtim. He fails the test by being unable to stay awake for even a week. Giglamesh immediately fails by falling asleep. At the end, Gilgamesh accepts his mortality by acknowledging that humans will continue living on and he will last through his contribution to the civilization and culture. Students will compare the character of Gilgamesh with Patrick and discuss whether or not Patrick is a hero.
“Speaking to You (From Rock Bottom)”
The speaker in this poem says that he has loss his ability to effectively write poetry. The speaker discusses the concepts of memory, suffering, and inability to grow. The speaker appears lost and he has been very upset by a woman. There is much disappointment in the poem, the speaker is angry, and the children are aware of the suffering. He discusses his love for a woman, who is not clearly his wife or another woman, and the need to have this woman’s company. This poem will allow students to apply their reading of In the Skin of a Lion to a text in another artistic element.