Daily Schedule
August 1st
Introductions- why are you here?
Description of Course
Discussion of Syllabus
Unit focus
“Christina’s World” and connections to Foster
- Looking for patterns
- List of words to discuss what you see/analyzing an image
- Write a thesis statement inspired by the class discussion (15 minutes)
August 2nd
Discussion of thesis statements
Paintings and model thesis- group work
- Sitting on hands
- Sharing patterns
- Notes on the evidence and reasoning
Patterns in language- what could you look for?
Cisneros reading- hands-off followed by language guide
In-class essay: What is the theme of the passage and how does one pattern within it support your interpretation?
August 4th
Review example essays
Review Criterion B
Homework: Spend 20 minutes reading and making notes on “Mushroom River”
August 7
Review poem
Write topic sentence and plan to talk about the how
Homework: Review Foster to prepare for the essay
August 8
In-class Essay!!!!
August 9/10
Foster as a text type
Patterns of Development
Text type devices sheet
Small group study
Sharing
August 11
Text type study
Homework: Submit your text type sheet by midnight on Saturday
August 14
Introduce Cornell Notes
Practice Cornell Notes
Introduce reading assignment
Unit Vocabulary
Homework: Review text type notes and study your vocabulary (1 hour)
August 15
Read Orwell passage (alone, small group, class discussion)
- Why is the ruthless totalitarian regime, described in Orwell’s novel purging Oldspeak and imposing Newspeak? What assumptions are being made about the relationship between language and thought?
- How has technology impacted the relationship between language and thought in our world? (Consider recent discussions of “fake news” and “alternative facts”). Find an example to support your claim.
- In the rapidly expanding fields of science and technology, how do our language, knowledge, and wisdom intersect?
Homework: Read Woolf’s essay and complete the homework assignment (1 hour)
August 16/17
Discussion of Woolf
WT1 Modeling
Homework: Read and annotate the policy document (45 minutes)
August 18
Group work with questions
Homework: Compare and contrast the textbook and academic journal (1 hour)
August 21
Homework review
Text type activity
Homework: Study and refine your text type notes (1 hour)
August 22
Cow and beef warm-up
Studying tone
Homework: Read and annotate Descartes passage (1 hour)
August 23/24
Chair warm-up
Descartes day
Homework: Read and annotate your free choice book (1 hour)
August 25
Argot and jargon
Homework (2 hours)
- Read and annotate your free choice book
- Study for your test on Monday
August 28
Test
Homework:
- Review the proposal assignment and pick a menu item that you would like to complete (15 minutes)
- Read your book and annotate (45 minutes)
August 29
Proposal work day- make sure your answers are thorough!
Homework: Make sure you complete your proposal by class tomorrow
August 30/31
Pair/share
Rationale model
Rough draft of your rationale
Homework: Complete your rationale and bring in your book
September 1
Turn in all rationales stapled to the proposal
Reading day
Homework: finish your book
September 5
Review important dates
Give out vocabulary- test on September 11th
Review Criterion B rubric
Queen Elizabeth’s speech and handout
Mini presentations
Homework: Study vocabulary (1 hour)
September 6/7
Read and annotate “Being a Man”
Review and create Cornell Notes
FOA- how would I present?
Homework: September 7th is a WRITING WORKSHOP day!!!
Study vocabulary (1 hour)
September 8
Stations- planning for mini presentations and FOAs
Homework: Study vocabulary words!!!
September 14
Unit Quiz
About the FOA- assignment sheet
Homework: Read and annotate the cartoon (30 minutes)
September 15
Create a mini FOA in groups as a formative assessment
Homework:
- Determine your FOA group
- Make sure you are ready to discuss your reading book and BRING IT TO CLASS!
September 25
Pick FOA groups, fairytales, and fallacies
Share reading notes and observations
Homework: Begin to work on your FOA (1 hour)
- Annotate the text
- Consider how you will incorporate the fallacy
September 26
Reading groups and brainstorming- submit sheet by end of the period
Pass back proposals-
- Students who have a predicted score of a 3 or lower should go to the writing center at least two times between September 28th and October 17th. If you need to schedule a writing center appointment because you are unable to attend on Wednesday or Thursday afternoons, e-mail Ms. Crouse
September 27/28
Handout FOA schedule
Group proposal
Homework: Finish your proposal
September 29
FOA work day- turn in your plan by the end of the period
Homework: Work on your FOA
October 2
FOA workday
Handout questions to prompt the reflection
Homework: Work on your FOA. Remember, you need to turn in your reflection and bibliography at the START of class on your FOA day.
October 3-5
FOAs
Homework: Read excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun (1 hour)
September 6
Analyze voice
Homework: Read the letter (30 minutes)
October 10
Discussion of SOAPS
Homework: Read and annotate “Putting Down the Gun”
Block day
Butcher-paper cutouts and discussion
Homework: Work on your WT1, using your proposal and the last week’s lessons as guidance
October 13
Sample paragraphs
Sharing
Reflect on your WT1
Homework: Work on your WT1, using your proposal and the last week’s lessons as guidance
October 16
Type WT1
Homework: Turn in your WT1 electronically
October 17
Language and Belief announcement
Important due dates
Handout vocabulary
Focus for the unit
Power game
Homework: Read and annotate “The Censors” (1 hour)
Block Day
Discuss text- is holding power always to the detriment of someone else?
Finish Cornell Notes
Homework: Read and annotate the editorial (45 minutes)
October 20
Text type review
Jigsaw
How does one exert power through language?
Homework: Finish up Cornell Notes and annotate your assigned speech (1 hour)
October 23
Small groups and speeches
Homework: Read and annotate the song lyrics (45 minutes)
October 24
How do titles and groupings hinder a group’s interest? – class discussion
Homework: Figure out your idea for your WT1
Block Day
Proposal work day/conferencing with Ms. C.
Homework: finish your proposal and turn in a typed, hard-copy tomorrow
October 27
Magritte
Homework: Research your assigned place (15 minutes)
October 30
Brochure study- Can language ever be used to gain power?
October 31
Cartoon- where do we see evidence of language imperialism in our Anglophone world?
Block Day /
Propaganda- how is language used to propagate ideas and ideologies?
Create question sheet
November 3
Socratic seminar
Homework: Read about lost languages
Novemeber 27
Unit questions and sermon
Homework: Continue to study unit questions with the text on Islamic art (1 hour)
November 28
Belief vs. Knowledge
Studying proverbs and parables
Journal
Homework: Read about Campbell’s beliefs about myths and complete handout (1 hour)
Block day
Review homework
Questions about myths
Myths in America
- Questions
- Clip
- Where do we get this idea?
Homework: prepare for your presentation (1 hour)
December 1
Share
Homework: Annotate your visual (1 hour); be mindful of our unit focus
December 4
What myth does this visual create? Write a rationale
WT1 assignment
Homework: work on proposal
December 5
Conference day
Block day
Lab
December 8
Lab
Homework: Draft is due by the start of class on Monday
December 11
Pick FOA chapter
Review the text and begin to plan FOA
Homework: Complete all necessary annotations of your given chapter; figure out what makes it UNIQUE in comparison to the rest of the book.
December 12
FOA workday: focus on organization
Homework: work on FOA
Block day
FOA workday
Homework: work on FOA
December 15
FOA workday: writing a reflection (due to Managebac, along with MLA Works Cited, by Sunday night at 8 PM)
Homework: Finish reflection and prep for your FOA
January 4
Introduction of unit focus, Walcott’s background, Post-Colonial literature, and unit vocabulary
Review important upcoming dates
Read and take notes on the introduction of the book and Walcott’s background
Homework: Read the excerpt written by one of Walcott’s influences. Annotate, paying special attention to content and form (30 minutes) and finish reading and annotating the introduction and background information (30 minutes)
January 5
Understanding Walcott’s influences- group discussion about homework
Sharing our findings
Homework (45 minutes): Study information for the quiz:
- Thursday’s lecture and reading
- Today’s class notes
January 16
Vocabulary questions?
Discuss “As John to Patmos” as a whole and finish up Cornell Notes
Homework: Use the guides to help you start Cornell Notes for Chapter 7 (part I and II) of Another Life (1. 5 hours)
Block
A Voice for his People and a Painter’s Poet: part I study
Homework: Work on your WT1 and turn it in to Managebac by Friday’s class
- Reminders:
- One document, not three
- Include a word count for the rationale and the creative piece (this can be on the document or on a cover sheet)
- Name the file: LastName Junior Year WT1 External Submission
- Order: Rationale, Creative Task, Works Cited page (in MLA format)
January 19
Chapter 7, part II
Homework: Study vocabulary (30 minutes)
January 29- 30
“The Season of Phantasmal Peace”
Lens: Context and Setting
Homework: Study for the text on the block day
Block
Vocabulary Test
Homework: Read and annotate “Blues” (1 hour)
February 2
“Blues”
February 5
Review “Blues”
Fill out poetry reflection sheet
Homework: Study for the test
February 6
Jeopardy
Homework: Study for the test
Block
Test
February 9
IOC information, sample, and grading
Homework: Give yourself 20 minutes ONLY to complete the template
February 26
Review the packet
Connect the work over break to Shakespeare’s greater purpose
Homework:
- As needed, add to your Cornell Notes for Act I (scenes i and ii)- 20 minutes
- Read and complete introduction Cornell Notes for Act II (don’t forget to write a summary at the top of each scene)- 40 minutes
February 27
Review handout and discuss as a class
What does the island represent?
Review Gonzalo’s monologue
Homework:
- Complete Act II, scene i Cornell Notes (15 minutes)
- If you want to get ahead, you can begin to read and annotate Act III
Block
Study of Act II, scene ii
- Scene from movie
- Guide
- Review
- Complete Act II, scene ii Cornel Notes- 20 minutes
- Read all of Act III. Complete Cornell Notes for Act III, scene i and ii- 40 minutes (or less if you already started the reading)
March 2
Analyze Caliban’s language in Act III
Homework:
- Complete Cornell Notes for Act III, scene ii (30 minutes)
- Finish the play by Tuesday. You do not need to complete Cornell Notes, but you should annotate the text, focusing on studying the characters and looking for patterns in characterization and language usage. (1 hour)
March 5
Formative Quiz- A check to see how well you know Acts I-II
Finish reviewing Act III, scene ii
Revise thesis statements from homework
Homework: Finish the play by Tuesday. You do not need to complete Cornell Notes, but you should annotate the text, focusing on studying the characters and looking for patterns in characterization and language usage.
March 6
Quote hunting
- Was Prospero virtuous?
- Who was he as a leader?
- What did he have to do to survive?
- How does language convey inequalities within a culture’s expectations of gender?
- How are constructions of masculinity and femininity embedded in language?
- How does audience and purpose affect a text’s structure and content?
Block
Gender Study (Act I, scene ii and Act III, scene i)
Review play as a whole
March 9
Review scenes for the IOC
Cornell Notes workday
Homework: Make sure your notes are completed and polished by Monday; this would be a good time to form study groups! MONDAY IS THE IOC!
March 12
IOC
Homework: Listen to both recordings and complete the reflection. Plan to turn it in at the start of class tomorrow.
March 13
Introduce WT2
- Read informational description from IB
- Review the rubric
- Read a sample paper and score it
Block
Review spider graphs
Complete a graph as a class for the poem
- Which question is appropriate?
- Flush out the graph
- Write a thesis
- What would you research?
March 16
Create spider graph for your WT2
March 19
Review two outlines
Outline your WT2
Homework: Bring your anchor text to class
March 20
Quote hunting
Homework: finish finding all of your evidence from your anchor text
Block
Research Day
March 23
Research/Writing day
March 26
Editing day
Homework:
- Submit paper to Managebac before the start of class tomorrow
- Bring book to class tomorrow (if you need a book, stop by my room directly after school today!)
March 27
Guiding questions and reading “Cell One”
Block
Device check
Name themes
Write thesis
Mini-lecture on background of author and genre
Write IOC introductions
Share and discuss
Time/Plot/Setting annotations, guided by key terms
Homework: Finish time/plot/setting annotations (40 minutes)
March 30
Divide into three groups
Share annotations on topic
Answer reading questions
April 9
Reconnect with your group
Create a thesis
Share notes with the class
Homework: Review “Cell One” focusing on characterization (let the notes sheet on short stories guide you)- 30 minutes
April 10
Discuss title and share annotations
What types of characters did you note? What are their struggles?
Write a thesis: how does point of view shape meaning and understanding
Homework: Complete “Cell One” language guide (45 minutes)
Block
Review homework
Organize and IOC using the template
Homework: Complete introductory Cornell Notes on “Imitation” (1 hour)
April 13
TED talk
How does this apply to the first two stories?
Divide into small work groups
Homework: Work on the study guide
April 16
Workday for study guides
Homework: prepare for presentations tomorrow
April 17
Study guide presentations
Homework:
- Complete “Imitation” Cornell Notes
- Read and annotate “A Private Experience” with starter Cornell Notes
Block
Discussion of strengths and weaknesses of WT2
Break into groups:
- Identify a question
- Create a spider graph
- Write a thesis
- Focus on targeted weakness
April 20
Studying characterization, point of view, narration, and speech
How does your topic support the thesis from the block day? Share
Homework: Study for May’s IOC
April 23
Plot and setting work
Share
Homework:
- Quote hunt (1 hour)
- Talk to me (or e-mail me) by Thursday at 4:30 pm if you would like to do your final WT2 on The Tempest
April 24
Language and Elements day
- Share thesis from homework
- List of devices and Foster patterns
- Relevant?
- IOC prep
Block
Sign up for IOC
Student guide
Questions?
Modeling the IOC- glows and grows
How can you study?
List of possible texts
Homework: Study for the quiz
April 27
Skills quiz for Adichie
Homework: Start on your spider graph for the final WT2
April 30
Spider graph and conference day
Homework: Study for your IOC
May 1
WT2 outline day- due at the end of the period
Homework: Study for your IOC
May 2
IOC workday
May 3-9
SILENT workdays for WT2 and IOC
May 14
Final assignment- take questions
Begin movie
May 15
Movie
Homework: Continue to work on your WT2
May 16
Movie
Homework: Continue to work on your WT2
May 17-21
Prep days- work on WT2 or final summative
May 22
Final summative for class
May 23
WT2 external due to Managebac
Final class (varies by class)
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