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Thursday, September 6, 2018

Thursday, September 6, 2018



American Literature
6 September 2018

OBJECTIVE: To read closely to determine what the text says. (STANDARD RL.1)

SUCCESS CRITERIA: Students will show mastery of comprehension by citing specific textual evidence from the novel when speaking to a table partner about the main events from 23-47.
  
AGENDA:
1.    Notebook - 15 min
2.    Give points for a decorated notebook! – 5 min
3.    Review Puritan Period and "Of Plymouth Plantation" – 5 min
4.    Read from my history textbook “The Starving Time” – 10 min
5.    Grammar Notes #2: Verbs – 20 min
6.    Discuss HF p. 23-47 – 10 min
7.    Begin HF p. 47-70 – remaining class time

ASSESSMENT: Table partner discussions/question and answer sessions

HOMEWORK: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn p. 47-70

AP English Literature and Composition
6 September 2018

Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: NONE

Student Learning Objective: (1) To prove your knowledge of Literary Theory by using textual evidence to support a claim.  (2) To be introduced to the Romantic Literary Period and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery of Literary Theory by analyzing “Two Kinds” through the lens of one of the theories studied in class.
  
Agenda:
  1. QUIZ: Write an essay in which you analyze Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” using either the Feminist Literary Theory, Reader’s Response Literary Theory, Marxist Literary Theory, or Deconstruction Literary Theory – Timed quiz, 55 min
  2. Intro to Frankenstein
    1. Draw a picture of the image that comes to your head when you hear the work “Frankenstein”
    2. Read intro to “Romantic Poets and Their Successors”
    3. Read author bio on Shelley, inside book cover
    4. Read “Introduction” by Diane Johnson p. vii-x and “Author’s Introduction” p. xxiii-xxviii

Assessment: Literary Theory Quiz

Homework: Frankenstein, Letters I-V p. 1-16

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