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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

American Literature
4 October 2017
  
Objective: To examine voices other than the men’s during the Revolutionary Literary Period. (STANDARD RL.9, RI.9)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by earning at least an 80% on the clicker quiz review.
  
Agenda:
  1. SSR with notebook entry - 25 min
  2. Go over answers to Grammar Quiz #5 (re-quiz if necessary) – 10 min
  3. Read Women in the Revolution – 30 min
·        Study Guide
·        Abigail Adams “Letters from the Homefront”
·        Sally Wister “An Adolescent’s Wartime Diary”
  1. Review for UNIT TEST – clicker quiz review – 35 min

Assessment: Clicker quiz review (formative, not graded)

Homework: Choice Novel reading; prepare for upcoming UNIT TEST (tomorrow)

AP English Literature and Composition
4 October 2017

Student Learning Objective: To make contemporary connections to the themes of violence and bullying in Lord of the Flies.  (STANDARD RL.1-2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by discussing the relevance of the novel’s themes to 2017 issues in a class discussion. 
  
Agenda:
Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: ensconce (verb): to cover or shelter; hide securely

“At first light he would creep into the thicket, squeeze between the twisted stems, ensconce himself so deep that only a crawler like himself could come through, and that crawler would be jabbed” (Golding 191). 

1.            Read/Discuss/Analyze Chapters 7-10.  – 15 min
2.            Discuss possible paper topics – 10 min
3.            Read supporting literature: “I Stood Upon a High Place,” “The Hunger Games can’t match the cruelty in Lord of the Flies” and “Mobs are Born as Word Grows by Text Message.” – 25 min
4.            Finish the novel – 40 min

Assessment: Class discussion


Homework: Chapters 11 “Castle Rock” and Chapter 12 “Cry of the Hunters” p. 169-202

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