Junior and Senior Assignments for the Week of October 5-7, 2015

Seniors

Monday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words.  Students will write new second quarter objectives and essential questions.  Students will use technology to answer questions in cooperative groups.

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure.  The teacher will briefly review the rhetorical and literary features of theme, mood, tone, figurative language, irony, and allusion @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIhFJWVnsNw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTOR5bEq00 . The students will take notes accordingly. Then students will annotate, “Letter to John Bright” for theme, mood, tone, figurative language, irony, and allusion, and rhetoric. Students will then answer questions that correspond with the text with a minimum of three sentences and the incorporation of in-text citations.

Wednesday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words. The students will annotate Jefferson Davis “African Church Speech” for theme, mood, tone, figurative language, irony, and allusion, and rhetoric. Students will then answer questions that correspond with the text with a minimum of three sentences and the incorporation of in-text citations.

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Students will take a formative assessment requiring the analysis of US seminal text for theme, purpose, rhetoric, and literary elements.

Juniors

Monday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words.  Students will write new second quarter objectives and essential questions.  Students will use technology to answer questions in cooperative groups.

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. The teacher will play a short video explain determining word meanings at Figuring Out What A Word Means by Shmoop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccr28gxk35Y. Students will annotate Federalist Papers No. 10 for textual evidence that will help you explain Madison’s use of the word “Faction.” Students must find at least three separate pieces of textual evidence to support their claim/thesis.

Wednesday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words.  Students will utilize the annotation from the previous day to construct a five paragraph essay noting the definition of the word “Faction” in the Federalist Papers No. 10, and incorporating textual evidence to support their claim.

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure.  Students will take a formative assessment in which they determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term, or terms, over the course of a text.