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Monday, October 2, 2017

Monday, October 2, 2017

American Literature
2 October 2017
  
Objective: To analyze the historical and literary impact The Declaration of Independence had on the colonists, specifically the document’s themes, purposes, and rhetorical features. (STANDARD RI.9)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by explaining the difference between a leader and a tyrant and rationalizing when it is acceptable to disobey (in an exit slip).
  
Agenda:
1.    SSR  – 20 min
2.      Go over answers to Grammar Quiz #4 & 4b – 10 min
3.    Grammar Notes #5 - 20 min
4.    Review Revolutionary Literary Period Notes – 10 min
5.    Read “The Declaration of Independence” p. 152 – 20 min
6.    EXIT SLIP p. 158 #7 – 10 min

Assessment: EXIT SLIP p. 158 #7

Homework: Choice Novel reading/Study for Unit Test on Thursday

AP English Literature and Composition
2 October 2017

Student Learning Objective: To draw parallels between Lord of the Flies and “The Lottery.” (STANDARD RL.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by analyzing the governing systems in both the short story and the novel, and explaining at least three pros and three cons to each.
  
Agenda:
Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: serenading (verb): a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady

“As though he were serenading the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did” (Golding 125). 

1.            Framing quotations practice.  – 45 min
2.            Read supporting literature “The Lottery.” – 15 min
3.            Continue reading Chapters 7-8 – 20 min

Assessment: Analyze the logic of the government systems in the short story and the novel.  Discuss at least three pros and cons of both established societies.


Homework: Chapters 7-8 “Shadows and Tall Tress” and “Gift for the Darkness” p. 109-144

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