SNL Holiday: Everybody Getting' Sump'n

Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created in 1975. 

The show's comedy sketches parody contemporary culture and politics. They are performed by a large and changing cast. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest. The host usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast. Each episode features performances by a musical guest. 

An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", beginning the show.

Happy Holidays from SNL

Worksheet and Lyrics

Cultural References

Celebrities

Richard Pryor

Paula Deen

Justin Bieber

Donald Sterling

Suge Knight

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
He's making a list
And checking it twice
Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming to town
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Arianna Grande + Michael Buble

Bonus:

Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song

Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick

Bing Crosby - Do you Hear What I Hear

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy

Travel Agents!

TRAVEL AGENTS Videos  NYC Lonely Planet NYC 6min SF Example Dialogue #1: (T = Travel Agent, C = Customer) T: Good afternoon. How can I help you? C: Hello. I’d like to go on a trip in Europe. T: Great. Where would you like to go? C: I don’t know. Where do you recommend? T: I recommend Prague. C: Really? …. (questions → ) …. C: Thanks for the information. I’ll think about it. T: You’re welcome.

Key Phrases & Questions: Where is it? How is the weather in June? What can I do there? What is it famous for? What’s that? Tell me more. Are there any special customs? Is there anything else? I’ll think about it.

FROM: www.englishcurrent.com/files/pages/Travel-Agency-ESL-Roleplay.doc

Example Dialogue #2: (T = Travel Agent, C = Customer) C: Hello again. I’d like to book the trip to [Prague]. T: Great! ….(questions →) … T: Thank you. So your flight departs on June 13th at 3 pm. You return on June 18th at 11 am. And you will stay at the Holiday Inn. C: How much will it cost in total? …. T: Your welcome. Have a great trip.

Key Phrases & Questions: When would you like to go? When would you like to return? Would you like first class? (Customer) How much will it cost? Where would you like to stay? How would you like to pay?

FROM: www.englishcurrent.com/files/pages/Travel-Agency-ESL-Roleplay.doc
worksheet 1

Thanksgiving Recipes

Roast Turkey
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/good-eats-roast-turkey-recipe.html

Sausage, cranberry and apple stuffing
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sausage-dried-cranberry-and-apple-stuffing-recipe.html

Creamy Garlic Mashed potatoes
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/creamy-garlic-mashed-potatoes-recipe.html

Paula Deen's Green Bean Casserole
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/green-bean-casserole-recipe.html

Sweet Potato Mash
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/robert-irvine/sweet-potato-mash-recipe.html

Deep Dish Pumpkin Pie
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/deep-dish-pumpkin-pie.html

Star Wars

Trailer 1


Trailer 2



Opening Scene a New Hope


Yoda


Lesson text

Printout

Comics!

ACTIVITY 1

Look at your comic book and answer the following questions
1. Who is the bad guy?
2. Who is the good guy?
3. What makes it science fiction?
4. What is realistic about it?
5. Draw a timeline for the story and put at lease 4 important events from the comic on the timeline.

ACTIVITY 2

Present your comic to the class. 

ACTIVITY 3

Design your own superhero.
One person draws and the other person describes the hero.
Switch.
Create a villan.

Sci-fi discussion
Video Activity

Shakespeare: Sonnet Scramble

The English or Shakespearean Sonnet

FORM: The English sonnet has the simplest and most flexible pattern of all sonnets, consisting of
3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and 1 couplet:

a

b

a

b

c

d

c

d

e

f

e

f

   g

   g

METER: Shakespeare's sonnets were written in iambic pentameter.
Iambic describes the "foot"(feet in plural),  or the group of syllables. Each foot is made up of two syllables. The first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed. The iambic rhythm often occurs naturally in English.

da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM

×   /   ×   /   ×   /   ×   /   ×   /

Pentameter means that each line contains 5 iambic "feet", or 10 syllables.

Sonnet Activity

I am going to pass out a line (or 2) from TWO of Shakespeare's sonnets to each student.
As a class, your task is to put the lines in the correct order.

Sonnets

Teacher's notes

EXTRAS:

Star-Crossed Lovers

Paul Revere

Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860 Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm."

Inspiration

 The Shot Hear Round the World

Lyrics / Paul Revere

The Shot Heard 'Round the World 

It was frightening for Americans to think of war. England was a great power; the colonies were scattered and had little military experience. But, they prepared for the worst, so, New Englanders began to collect cannonballs and gunpowder in Concord, a small town about twenty miles northwest of Boston. When the British heard about weapons, they decided to get them. Paul Revere, a silversmith who wanted independence, found out that the British soldiers were getting ready to attack. He sent a spy into the British camp; the spy was to send a signal. Revere instructed: "If the British go out by water, we should show two lanterns in the North Church steeple; and if by land, one, as a signal."

On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere saw one lamp, then two, in the church steeple. Now he knew. The British—called redcoats because of their red uniforms—were taking the water route across the Charles River. Paul Revere jumped on his horse and rode hard all night, warning everyone in the countryside, "The British are coming! The British are coming!" At Concord and at Lexington the American farmers were ready: They grabbed their guns. They were called minutemen because they could fight on a minute's notice. Captain John Parker was their leader. He said : "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

And it did begin right there, at Lexington. The great American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, later wrote of that moment:

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,

Here once the embattled farmers stood,

And fired the shot heard round the world.

Of course the sound wasn't actually heard. But the poet knew what he was writing. Because this fight, which was just beginning, would have a purpose and meaning that would echo and re-echo around the globe. Its message was one of freedom—and that "all men are created equal"—and that idea would resonate worldwide.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web01/segment5b.html

Causes of the American Revolution

http://www.adventuretales.com/atv1c/p118.gif

http://www.adventuretales.com/atv1c/p119.gif

http://www.adventuretales.com/atv1c/p127.gif

Paul Revere's Ride

In 1775 General Thomas Gage sent 700 British troops from Boston to seize or destroy military supplies at Concord as well as to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock for treason. Patriot leader Joseph Warren sent Paul Revere and William Dawes by separate routes to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming to arrest them for treason. Revere arranged for a signal to be flashed from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church, two lanterns would mean that the British were coming by water and one would mean that the British would be coming by land. Revere arrived in Lexington about midnight riding on a borrowed horse. Meanwhile Dawes arrived in Concord. However Revere was captured by the British but they released him. He returned to Lexington where he joined Adams and Hancock. They fled but Revere stayed in Lexington to rescue valuable papers. When the British arrived in Lexington they found the Minutemen waiting. And a battle ensued.

Source(s): 

World Book

Paul Revere Games

Paul Revere's Ride video

Jack London & the Klondike

Source: artofmanliness.com

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

Life and Times

Jack London lived during a time of major change, when industrialization and urbanization were becoming dominant. Jim Crow and "separate but equal" laws, Chinese exclusionary laws and Indian genocide put racial differences in the forefront of people's minds. With the wave of immigrants from Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe, some people grew anxious over labor competition and the health of the society.

At the same time, workers movements responded to unhealthy conditions, long hours, and low pay. Women sought the right to vote. Pacifists arose to condemn America's overthrow of Hawaii and colonization of the Philippines. Reformers attacked a variety of concerns, including lack of sanitation, prostitution, birth control, overcrowded housing, public health, and more. Socialism developed as a viable third party, providing support of reform causes, along with demands for public ownership of utilities and control of monopolies.

All was not so conflicted, of course. A genuine American literature, art, and architecture flourished. The public became better educated, and a middle-class emerged. For a passionate temperament such as Jack London's, there was much to react to, and he did.

Source: http://london.sonoma.edu/Teachers/usweb.html

“Jack London was the type of man to have commanded other men. [He has] eyes to inflame youth, inspire men, madden women.” -Frank Pease

“He just jumped into life with both feet in that courageous way of his, and he got romance and mystery and beauty out of it where other men could see only labor. That’s genius.” -Johnny Heinhold

“Jack looked like a young, ardent, hopeful fellow brimful of conviction. He instantly inspired me with his open comradeship…Whenever I saw him, he was always the center of a group; people flocked to his vital magnetism; everyone who came within its radius, loved him.” –Johannes Reimers

“His eyes were those of a dreamer, and there was almost a feminine wistfulness about him. Yet at the same time he gave the feeling of a terrific and unconquerable physical force.” -Arnold Genthe

“I never saw a man in all my life with more magnetism, beautiful magnetism. If a preacher could have the love in his make up, and the life, God, this whole world would be religious.” – Finn Frolich,

“I want to say that Jack London is one of the grittiest men it has been my good fortune to meet. He is just as heroic as any of the characters in his novels.” -Robert Dunn

“I think of him as part of the heroic youth and courage of the world.” –Edwin Markham


Source: theartofmanliness.com

ACTIVITY
CLASS TIMELINE
We are going to create a timeline for Jack London's life.

1. Read your life or historical event.
2. Work with your classmates to put yourself in chronological order.

Jack London Biography

1898 Alaska Klondike Gold Rush Story, Dawson City, Yukon River

Jack London in the Klondike
Source: berkeley.edu

Waikiki Beach
http://www.jacklondons.net/surfing2.html

Useful Sites:
Timeline: http://www.jacklondons.net/life.html

http://www.explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/jack_london.html
http://london.sonoma.edu/Teachers/usweb.html
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/investigating-jack-londons-white-fang-nature-and-culture-detectives#sect-background
*** http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/03/31/the-life-of-jack-london-as-a-case-study-in-the-power-and-perils-of-thumos-7-into-the-klondike/


Life Below Zero:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/life-below-zero/videos/life-below-zero-sled-dogs/
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.process.sleddogs/the-sled-dogs-of-the-arctic-circle-nature/

You Gotta Be: Modals and Advice

"You Gotta Be" by Des'ree

Karaokee

Possible activities:
fill in the blanks on lyrics.
Change lyrics (the advice given and or the modal verbs)

lyrics

Warm-up game

Mingles-Bingo : Abilities

1. As a class, we will brainstorm a list of abilities. (run, jump, skydive, dance bachata, etc.)
2. Choose 10 abilities and write them on a piece of paper. At least five need to be interesting abilities.  
3. Everyone will mingle. Each time you meet another student, ask him or her: "Can you _______?" If the student responds "Yes, I can." Cross off the ability and write the student's name by it. The first to cross off all ten yells "Bingo!"

Would You Do That?

1. Think about the things you would and would not do.

2. In random order, write 5 things you would do and 5 things you wouldn't do. 

3. Partner up and exchange lists. Each partner will try to guess which things the other partner would and wouldn't do.

4. You get 5 guesses to find out what your partner would and wouldn't do. Phrase guesses  like “(I think) You would _________.” Parter responds: "Yes, I would" or "No, I wouldn't"

5. One point for each correct guess. 

6. Change roles.

From: http://busyteacher.org/17140-how-to-practice-english-modals-5-fantastic.html

Modals and Music

material

Thanksgiving with Friends

Activity: 
We are going to watch a video. It is a mix of Thanksgiving scenes from the TV show "Friends."
Each of you will be assigned a character to observe.
During the video, take notes that answer these questions:

What is you character’s goal in the scene?

What does he or she do that is funny?

What relationship does he/she have with other characters (who)?

Write down any words that you don't know. 

Discussion:

How do they prepare for Thanksgiving Day?

What do they do on Thanksgiving Day?

Who does most of the work?

How is this holiday different from a holiday family dinner in Spain?

What famous actor appears in the video? What are his two greatest enemies?

Who's the funniest character and why?

Joey: "Naw naw! These are my _________________ pants!" 10 Min.

Chandler: "Oh come on, Monica. Reliving past pain and getting ________ is what Thanksgiving is all about...Ya know, for me anyways. And of course the ______________." 12 min

Phoebe: No, it's not supposed to be _________. It's supposed to be ________." 2 min

Monica: "Forty-two to twenty-one". 

Like the _________ Ross is _________!" 12:40

Rachel: Oh my God, Monica. Who is that? ... Wow! I really do not remember him. He's really got that ________ smoldering thing ___________." 7:15

Ross: "No need to _________. She knows who ______ is." 10 Min

The Hero's Journey

The Elements of Fiction

Plot, Setting, Character, Conflict, Symbol, and Point of View are the main elements which fiction writers use to develop a story and its Theme.

Today we are going to focus on plot

Debate Time: Social Issues

Printout for Students

Video from 1:30

Debate scenarios

Giant Pandas

Panda Field Work

Pandas

Should we save the panda?

Giant Panda versus Land Use Scale 

Save Giant Pandas at all costs (1 being strongest) 

                             1    2    3    4    5    6 

Meet human needs even at cost of panda (6 being strongest)

Giant Panda Role-Play Activity

1· farmer near giant panda reserve

2· hungry villager living near panda reserve Friends of the National Zoo

3· giant panda living in panda reserve

4· local governor of village near panda reserve

5· nature-oriented tourist hoping to visit panda reserve

6· hunter trying to illegally catch giant panda and other wildlife in reserve

7· student hoping to later work as biologist in reserve

8· biologist working in panda reserve with very limited resources

9· zoo scientist hoping to train and assist reserve biologists in monitoring pandas

10· zoo veterinarian trying to work with reserve biologists and other zoo people to learn more about zoo and wild pandas

Elephant Debate

animal conservationists