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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Thursday, October 25, 2018 *AM Half-day



American Literature
25 October 2018

Objective: To prove your knowledge of The Great Gatsby in a literary analysis. (STANDARD W.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by achieving an 80% or higher on the Great Gatsby literary analysis

Agenda:
1.    Student workday: Literary Analysis #2: The Great Gatsby due end of block – 83 min

Assessment: Academic Essay #1

Homework: Choice novel reading

AP English Literature and Composition
25 October 2018

Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day: botched (verb): carry out (a task) badly or carelessly.

“The work of the world is common as mud. / Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. / But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident” (from “To Be of Use” by Marge Piercy)

Student Learning Objective: To analyze the themes of "To be of Use" and determine where it fits in the AP English Curriculum. (STANDARD RL.1, W.2)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by telling an engaging story using supporting details and effective event sequences.
  
Agenda:
  1. Read and discuss poem “To Be of Use” – EXIT SLIP PROMPT: Does this poem best fit thematically with Lord of the FliesTheir Eyes Were Watching, or The Color Purple? Explain where this poem belongs in the AP curriculum, so far. – 15 min
  2. Discussion of novel, first 25 pages
  3. Read model personal narrative: "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self" 

Assessment: EXIT SLIP

Homework: The Color Purple p. 26-53

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