Objectives:

English Language Arts Curriculum

Competency Goal 1.01: Narrate a personal account which:

Creates a coherent, organizing structure,

Establishes a point of view and sharpens focus,
Uses remembered feelings,
Selects details that best illuminate the topic,
and
Connects events to self/society

Evaluating how personal perspectives are influenced by society, cultural differences, and historical issues,

Appraising changes in self throughout the learning process,
and
Evaluating personal circumstances and background that shape interaction with text.

Competency Goal 4 The learner will trace causes and evaluate effects of major events and personalities of the Revolutionary Ware Era.

Competency Goal 5 The learner will assess the impact of major events, problems, and personalities of North Carolina and the new nation.

Competency Goal 6 The learner will assess the role of North Carolina in events of the Antebellum Era.

Competency Goal 7 The learner will trace the causes and events and judge the effects of Civil War and Reconstruction on North Carolina.

Competency Goal 8 The learner will evaluate the effects of national economic, social, and political change on North Carolina and the South in the late nineteenth century.

Competency Goal 9 The learner will judge the effects of progressivism, war, and religious controversy on North Carolina.

Competency Goal 10 The learner will judge the extent to which North Carolina and the nation shared in the problems of the Great Depression and World War II.

Competency Goal 11 The learner will judge the continuing significance of social, economic, and political changes since 1945 and draw conclusions about their effects on contemporary life.

Before:

Brief encounters with other people, ideas, our inner selves, and non-human beings often are fascinating subjects for authors. One reason for this is that a relatively brief encounter can have a lasting effect. The following pre-writing activities do not have to be followed in this exact order or in its entirety.

1) Write the phrase "Brief Encounters" on the board. Tell students to write a list of all the words and phrases that come to their minds about those words.
2) Allow each student to read two items from his list to the class. Others may add any of these items to their own lists.
3) Read aloud “The Man He Killed” and "In the Old House.” Allow time for students to read them a second time.
4) Ask students to consider these questions:
Are brief encounters important in our lives?
Do brief encounters necessarily involve only humans?
Why do you think writers are interested in writing about brief encounters?
5) Create your own list of brief encounters that could have to do with Haywood Hall, without limiting yourself to people. Consider any encounters and be imaginative. What if you could meet any Haywood family member in a past time? How about an encounter with a ghost? 

1) Choose a brief encounter from your brainstorming list regarding Haywood Hall and write about the encounter. Describe the encounter clearly. Explain the reason that this encounter is in your thoughts.Let your imagination go!

2) Flesh out your encounter with your Haywood Hall person or object.Explain clearly why it was an encounter. Be imaginative and descriptive. Describe the event in detail. You may use any type of genre –- poem, essay, narrative, journal.

1)Can I add descriptive words to make my composition more vivid, concrete, concise?If so, add the words now.

2)Have I explained clearly why the brief encounter has impressed me and why I chose this person or object from Haywood Hall’s history? If not, try to add something that clarifies these ideas.

Peer Response-PQP (Praise, Question, Polish)

* Praise – What is the best description in the writing? 

* Question –What part of the writing (or the experience) would you like to know more about? Ask. Can you “see” the person or object from Haywood Hall? Is the wiritng believable regarding the encounter? 
* Polish –Suggest ways (at least one) to make the composition more vivid and /or clearer to the reader.

1)Does the author describe the encounter clearly?
2)Does the author explain, or imply, the reason that the encounter with something or someone from Haywood Hall is remembered? 
3)Write your favorite phrase or sentence on a strip of paper.
4)Post the “Favorite Phrases” on the bulletin board. Give the writer credit for the good phrase.