September 18 - September 22, 2017
Planning Your Week: Bring you copy of Into the Wild to class, every day this week.
Monday, September 18: Writing Lab Work Day
Tuesday, September 19: Bring “Civil Disobedience” annotations to class
Wednesday, September 20: Unit 2 Sadlier Vocabulary exercises due
Thursday, September 21: Unit 2 Sadlier Vocabulary quiz in class
Friday, September 22: Presentations for Friday Forum, Rhetoric Wrap-Up board game due, USA TestPrep Test #2 due @ 11:59 PM, Synthesis Popplet due @ 11:59 PM
Learning Goals: Read for a combination of purposes. Strengthen reading comprehension, stamina, and reading-writing connection, while sharpening linguistic skill and precision. Increase critical thinking and analysis skills. Improve writing organization skills. Work collaboratively to improve study skills.
Focus Standards:
ELAGSE11-12RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE11-12RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. ELAGSE11-12RL9: Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth century foundational works (of American Literature, British Literature, World Literature, or Multicultural Literature), including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics. ELAGSE11-12RI8: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents) and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist, presidential addresses.) ELAGSE11-12RI9: Analyze foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (including The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features. For British Literature, American Literature, and Multicultural Literature use comparable documents of historical significance. ELAGSE11-12W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content ELAGSE11-12L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11-12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Monday, September 18
Handouts provided by teacher: Rhetoric Wrap-up board game assignment, Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
Materials provided by student: Into the Wild text
- Opening: EOC/SAT/ACT/AP warm-up
- Reading quiz - Chapters 7-11 of Into the Wild
- Student Work Session (Writing Lab): USA TestPrep test #2 (due 9/22), Sadlier Connect unit 2 exercises (due 9/20), Synthesis Popplet (due 9/22)
- Assign group rhetoric wrap-up board game assignment (due 9/22)
- Homework: Read and annotate excerpt from “Civil Disobedience,” by Henry David Thoreau
Tuesday, September 19
Materials provided by student: Into the Wild text, annotated “Civil Disobedience” excerpt, rhetoric wrap-up board game materials
- Opening: EOC/SAT/ACT/AP warm-up
- Reading quiz - Chapters 12-13 of Into the Wild
- Whole-group elements of exposition in Into the Wild class discussion and poster
- Whole-group rhetorical analysis of “Civil Disobedience,” by Henry David Thoreau: develop an outline, and write introduction
- Student Work Session: Rhetoric wrap-up board game
Wednesday, September 20
Handouts provided by teacher: Emerson analysis assignment
Materials provided by student: Into the Wild text, rhetoric wrap-up board game materials, annotated
“Civil Disobedience” excerpt
- Opening: EOC/SAT/ACT/AP warm-up
- Reading quiz - Chapters 14-15 of Into the Wild
- Whole-group rhetorical analysis of “Civil Disobedience,” by Henry David Thoreau
- Student Work Session: Read from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” and complete analysis assignment, and work on rhetorical analysis board game
- Homework: Review Sadlier unit 2 vocabulary words
Thursday, September 21
Handouts provided by teacher: Vocabulary quiz, “The Poet” excerpts and analysis questions
Materials provided by student: Into the Wild
- Opening: EOC/SAT/ACT/AP warm-up
- Reading quiz - Chapters 16-17 of Into the Wild
- Vocabulary Unit 2 quiz; assign Unit 3 Sadlier Online activities
- Student Work Session: “The Poet,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Song of Myself,” and “I Hear America Singing,” by Walt Whitman analysis questions and synthesis essay outline
Friday, September 22
Materials provided by student: Into the Wild
- Opening: EOC/SAT/ACT/AP warm-up
- Friday Forum Presentations
- Into the Wild post-reading activity
- Rhetoric wrap-up rhetorical terms board game review