1. Read/annotate the "What is Freedom" essay pgs. 56-58
2. Answer questions #'s 1-4
3. Introduce and begin working on Body Biographies for The Glass Castle
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AGENDA 1. Read/annotate the "What is Freedom" essay pgs. 56-58 2. Answer questions #'s 1-4 3. Introduce and begin working on Body Biographies for The Glass Castle
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1. Review the skills check from last week (1st block) 2. Read, "Four Freedoms" (SB pgs. 49-51) focus on the learning targets and the setting a purpose for reading. Let this guide your annotations. 3. Answer questions 1-4 4. TGC-finish reading the novel then, In the journal section of your reader/writer notebook, respond to the following prompt: Choose a character from The Glass Castle, AND explain how they changed or did not change from the beginning of the memoir to the end. You need to include at least 2 pieces of textual evidence. Use your reading notes to help guide you. Cite your evidence in MLA format (Author's last name pg#) (Walls 14) ---no comma in between! HW: Finish the journal entry AGENDA
1. American Dream Skills Check I Revisions 2. TGC Reading Quiz #3 3. Read the next section of TGC - stopping to discuss annotations that students should be taking note of. HW: Finish reading pgs. 264-281 AND USA Test Prep (assigned last week) AGENDA
1. American Dream Skills Check I (over McCain, Roosevelt, Whitman, Hughes, and America and I) 2. Read and annotated the poem, “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes on pg. 42 or your SB book. Mark the text for examples of imagery – use of words to create mental pictures that appeal to the five senses. definition of an American definition of The American Dream After annotating, Answer questions 1-4 on pg. 45 HW: Read TGC pgs 252-263 - there will be a quiz on Monday over pgs. 186-263 AGENDA
1. In the journal section of your reader/writer notebook, answer the following prompt: “People got stuck in Welch. I had been counting on Mom and Dad to get us out, but I now knew I had to do it on my own. It would take saving and planning…It would be the beginning of my escape fund” (Walls 221). Based on the excerpt, what might Jeannette’s escape fund symbolize? 2. Read, annotated, discuss, and answer the text dependent questions 1-5 discussing the concept of the hyphenated American. "Growing Up Asian in America" pg.37 in the textbook HW: Read TGC pgs. 235-251. Come to class tomorrow with 4 discussion questions (w/pg#'s) over tonight's reading. They can be notated in your book or on sticky notes. There is a Skills Check tomorrow over the texts that we have read so far up to America and I , Veterans Day, I Hear America Singing, I Too Sing America, and Roosevelt's 50th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. AGENDA
1Using the graphic organizer.Read, WHAT IS an American? from Letters from an American Farmer (1781) by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Pg. 32 2. Answer the questions that follow #'s 1-4 3.Continuing reading TGC through pages 222-234 AGENDA
1. In the journal section of your reader/writer notebook, read the following excerpt and answer the questions: “Mom wouldn’t hear of it. Welfare, she said, would cause irreparable psychological damage to us kids. “You can be hungry every now and then, but once you eat, you’re okay,” she said. “And you can get cold for a while, but you always warm up. Once you go on welfare, it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You’re scarred for life“ (Walls, 188). What does Rose Mary mean when she says, “You’re scarred for life”? How does this excerpt represent irony? 2. Finish reading and analyzing America and I- answer the text-dependent questions (SpringBoard pgs. 22-26) 3. Read TGC HW: Read TGC through pg 213 AGENDA
1. In the journal section of your reader/writer notebook, answer the following prompt: Is the American Dream attainable for everyone? If so, why? If not, why? 2. The Glass Castle Reading Quiz over Pages 48-163 3. Begin reading, annotating, discussing and answering questions for "America and I" (SpringBoard pg. 18 - read through Chunk 3 Answer questions 1-3 Identify evidence of a definition of The American Dream or What it Means to be an American with four different highlighters-highlight evidence of answers to the above questions. Each color should represent one of the definition strategies (Exemplification, Negation, Function, or Classification) Do this same thing for the other pieces we have read thus far (John McCain, Roosevelt, Whitman, and Hughes) HW: Read TGC pgs. 186-195 AGENDA 1. Research Paper Revision Submissions 2. Creating a Theme Statement instruction and guided notes 3. TGC Timed Writing/CEI assignment 4. Summarize "The Desert" Section on your Reading Notes 5. Continue reading TGC - you have a quiz on Monday over pgs. 48-163 HW: Read pgs. 129-132; 140-144; 155-163 - Quiz on Monday
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•Remember your revised papers are due tomorrow. •You need your original AND your revised paper. AGENDA 1. In the journal section of your reader/writer notebook, answer the following prompt: In your own words, define THEME. 2. Class discussion on identifying theme 3. Media Center to take Touchstone #3 4. Continue reading TGC HW: TGC through pg. 125 |
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