BOOKS MUST BE READ NEXT WEEK!
Seniors
Monday- Students will complete their journal and ACT prep the
first ten minutes of class. All students will take their Benchmark Exam using
IPADS.
Tuesday- Students will read the first ten minutes of
class. Utilizing information from last
week’s analysis, students will write a five-paragraph essay explaining in 1787,
which political party, the Federalists or Anti-federalists, they would belong
to citing at least three reasons.
Wednesday- Students will complete their journal the first
ten minutes of class. Students will
watch brief biographies on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Students will then read some of Emerson’s
work annotating the effective use of rhetoric.
Thursday- Journals
Due! Students will read the first ten minutes of class. Students will read a selection from Thoreau
and also annotate for effective rhetoric.
Students will then create Venn Diagrams comparing Thoreau and Emerson.
Juniors
Monday- Students will complete their journal and ACT prep the
first ten minutes of class. All students will take their Benchmark Exam using
IPADS.
Tuesday- Students will read the first ten minutes of
class. The teacher will conduct a mini-lesson on figurative language; namely metaphors, extended metaphors, personification,
hyperboles). Teacher will then show
students how to create a graphic organizer intended on clarifying meaning in
older poetry. As a class, students will read, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
and answer guided questions analyzing specific poetic elements.
Wednesday- Students will complete their journal the first
ten minutes of class. As a class, students will read, “Huswifery,” and “Upon
the Burning of Our House” and answer guided questions analyzing specific poetic
elements. Independently, students will
answer analysis questions on the After
Reading handout.
Thursday- Students will read the first ten minutes of
class. Students will write five paragraph
essays discussing what the poems by Bradstreet and Taylor have in common? What distinguishes one poet’s work from the other’s?
Students must use specific evidence from the poems for each supporting
paragraph.
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