Today's Agenda

Agenda

SA: Brainsorm themes for Catcher in the Rye

1. Poetry Analysis: "A Study of Reading Habits"
2. Close reading activity regarding Catcher in the Rye

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Agenda

SA: What themes do you see in 1984?

1. Time to complete close reading activity
2. Discussion of passage one

Homework

Complete any remaining questions from the close reading
Answer the final thematic question regarding 1984

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SA: What values are important to your utopia?

1. Utopia review and discussion
2. Close reading activity: 1984

Homework

Catcher in teh Rye
Visual character analysis for Holden

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SA: What makes you unique?

1. Skills workshop: Capitalization
2. Skills practice
3. Assignment of mandatory piece
4. Grading discussion
5. 30 minutes to write

Homework
Bring 1984 and Catcher in the Rye this week
"Mending Wall" essay

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SA: What strategies did you sue to "attack" Frost's poem?

1. Group review of "Mending Wall"
2. Lecture - "Mending Wall"

Due today - UTOPIA

Homework

Mending Wall essay due Tuesday

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SA: How does Cisneros create a conflict between individuality and community?

1. Complete close reading activity discussion.
2. Begin "Mending Wall" poem study

Homework

1984 and UTOPIA assignment due tomorrow

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SA: What themes do you see in House on Mango Street?

1. Time for close reading activity
2. Discussion - first two close reading passages

Homework

Extension - 1984 and utopia assignments are due on FRIDAY

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SA: What do you know about the AP test? What questions would you like answered?

1. Discussion/reading regarding test structure
2. Close reading activity - House on Mango Street
Due: House on Mango Street character analysis

Homework

1. Bring 1984 on Thursday
2. Create your version of UTOPIA
This can be a 2 page essay or an alternate form (to be discussed)

Yesterday's Agenda (sorry for the delay)

Agenda

SA: If you had to write an essay about Those Winter Sundays, what would your thesis be?

1. Complete discussion of TWS
2. Group activity - thesis, TS, and evidence
3. Group discussion

Homework

1. Read "What is Poetry" packet - take notes and revise the "What is Poetry" essay
2. Bring House on Mango Street text

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Agenda

1. SA: feedback on baseline and poetry activity
2. Poetry term quiz / notebook check
3. Discussion of "Those Winter Sundays"
4. Thesis creation and support
5. Class discussion

Homework

Create a two page definition of "poetry"