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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Thursday, September 28, 2017

American Literature
28 September 2017
  
Objective: To brainstorm ideas for the academic essay using the provided brainstorming guide, including a claim and textual evidence. (STANDARD W.5)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by brainstorming a claim sentence and locating two quotations to support that claim. 
  
Agenda:
1.    SSR: Choice novel #2 – 20 min
2.    Introduction to Academic Essay – 20 min
·         Character Analysis
·         Theme Analysis
·         Conflict Analysis
·         Literary Term Analysis
·         Book Review
3.    Student workday: ACADEMIC ESSAY #1 due tomorrow end of block – 50 min

Assessment: Visual confirmation of a mostly filled out brainstorming guide

Homework: ACADEMIC ESSAY #1

AP English Literature and Composition
28 September 2017

Student Learning Objective: Draw parallels between the characters in Lord of the Flies and “The Swan.”(STANDARD RL.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by making a minimum of three connections between the settings, characters, and writing style used in the novel and the short story.
  
Agenda:
Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: impalpable (adj): incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; difficult for the mind to grasp readily or easily

“With impalpable organs of sense they examined this new field” (Golding 61). 

1.          Read/Discuss/Analyze Chapters 2-3 – 15 min
2.          Read supporting literature “The Swan.” – 45 min
3.          EXIT SLIP – 15 min

Assessment: EXIT SLIP - Draw parallels between Lord of the Flies and “The Swan” by making a minimum of three connections between the settings, characters, and writing style used in the novel and the short story.


Homework: Chapter 4 “Painted Faces and Long Hair” and Chapter 5 “Beast from Water” p. 58-94

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