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SA: Reflection

1. Reflection and packaging of workshop portfolio
2. Portfolio Celebration!

Homework:
TTTC questions due tomorrow
Essay outline due tomorrow!

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SA: What are the characteristics of an effective presentation?

1. Discussion of professional presentation qualities
2. Time to complete PowerPoints

Homework
1. Complete PP
2. Finish reading The Things They Carried
3. Begin outlining essay
4. Workshop due on Monday!

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SA: Briefly explain the two basic structures we discussed yesterday

1. Discussion of structure
2. Poetry analysis: "The Man He Killed"
3. In-class analytical essay
4. Discusison of the essay
5. Research project: identifying non-fiction evidence

Homework
1. Read TTTC pages 137-188 by Tuesday
2. Continue to gather hypotheses evidence for your essay

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SA: Thesis statement analysis
1. Discussion of TTTC questions
2. Research project - time to conduct your research

HW: read the next 40 pages of TTTC; continue to gather evidence

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SA: Turn one hypothesis into a thesis statement. What might your structure be?

1. The Things They Carried close reading discussion prompts
2. Hypothesis/thesis statement gallery walk - gathering evidence
3. If time - close reading poetry analysis

Homework

1. Read TTTC, pages 89-136 by Thursday
2. Continue to gather evidence to support your interpretations

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SA: Creative quick write (breaking writers block by writing)

1. Minilesson: colons and semicolons
2. Minilesson practice and conversation
3. Time to write - work on portfolios

Homework

1. Read TTTC, pages 62-88; continue to gather evidence for your hypotheses
2. Take home exam due tomorrow!

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SA: What is your research question? Based on your reading of TTTC so far, how might the text help you answer your question?

1. Discussion of the take home exam - structure and organization
2. TTTC: introduction to conflict and protest
3. The Vietnam War
4. Close reading analysis of pages 1-61
5. If time: poetic analysis

Homework:
1. Read pages 62-88 by Tuesday - continue developing hypotheses
2. Take home exam question due on Tuesday

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SA: Why does conflict exist in the world? Provide some examples...

Today, we will work on creating our research questions which will guide our studies through the unit. Please see our handout: Conflict and Protest.

Homework - due tomororow!

1. Vocab quiz
2. TTTC p. 1-61
3. Create 3 hypotheses regarding conflict and humanity
4. Take home exam due on Tuesday

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Today's class is dedicated to our Unit I exam! Good luck!

Homework
Bring your TTTC and SandS books tomorrow

Due Friday:
1. Vocab quiz
2. TTTC pages 1-61
3. 3 hypotheses regarding human nature and conflict - support with text evidence

Due Tuesday:
1. The take home portion of today's exam

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SA: What does Thoreau hope to accomplish with Walden? How do you know?

1. Passage gallery walk: Walden
2. Passage discussion
3. Writing formats
4. Writing format application: Walden passages

Homework
1. Vocab quiz on Friday
2. The Things They Carried p 1-61
3. Create 3 hypotheses regarding human nature and conflict (support with text evidence)

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SA: Explain your conceptual framework for the relationships among individuality, community, and education

Today's class will be devoted to the completion of our visual representations of our conceptual frameworks.

Homework
Complete Walden reading assignment
Prepare for vocabulary quiz

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SA: Reflection on the Walden essay assignment

1. Reading Pedagogy Ch 1
2. Putting it all together (Freire, Orwell, Cisneros, Salinger, Joyce, Emerson, Thoreau, Wordsworth, Nemerov, and Larkin)

HW: Continue reading Thoreau - second section due on Friday (you also have a vocab quiz on Friday)

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SA: To which two writers' views do you most relate? Explain

1. Vocabulary quiz
2. Revisiting Pedagogy of the Opressed, chapter one
3. Mental mapping: the purpose of education in society

Homework
1. Vocab quiz next Friday
2. Walden reading assignment I due on Tuesday

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SA: Compare and contrast Holden to Esperanza

1. Introduction to Walden
2. Discussion of Catcher in the Rye
3. Introduction to House on Mango Street
4. Close reading practice

Homework

1. Walden - passage one and journal due on Friday
2. Vocab quiz on Friday

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SA: Explain the title Catcher in the Rye. How does it work as a metaphor for Holden and his life?

1. Revisiting Emerson and "American Scholar"
2. Catcher in the Rye powerpoint
3. Catcher close reading analysis

Homework
1. Read "Walden" nonfiction article
2. Write a one page reaction to your "Walden" experience tonight
3. Vocab quiz on Friday - STUDY!

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SA: Word Power Made Easy (time to read the introduction and take the baseline self-assessments in chapter one. These assessments will be our measuring guides for the vocabulary progress you make this week)

The remainder of class time today is dedicated to Writer's Workshop. You should continue to work on your mandatory pieces (autobiographical writing and compare/contrast essay) as well as your choice pieces. Remember: Inspire, Create, Collaborate, and Publish!

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SA: How does Plato relate to 1984? Explain...

1. Discussion of Allegory sketches
2. Completion of Allegory of the Cave and discussion
3. Finalizing 1984
4. Looking ahead to Emerson: creating close reading questions

Homework
1. Close reading questions for Emerson due tomorrow
2. Vocab quiz tomorrow!
3. Bring your Catcher in the Rye book

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SA: How might a cave be symbolic?

Today's class is dedicated to the study of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" - how does it relate to the struggle between individuality and community? How does it relate to our study of 1984? Pedagogoy of the Oppressed?

Homework:

1. Due tomorrow: Emerson and 10 quotations
2. Due Friday: vocabulary quiz and Emerson close reading analysis
3. Bring your Catcher books!

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SA: Select and analyze one important quotation from Emerson's essay

1. Brief discussion of transcendentalism and Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
2. Vocab quiz and assignment of next ten terms
3. Emerson passage quick-write (40 minute test practice)

Homework Reminders
1. Emerson essay due on Tuesday
2. Vocab quiz next Friday
3. Bring you Catcher in the Rye and Sound and Sense books next week!

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SA: What makes someone an individual?

1. Discussion of individuality and community
2. Introduction to Emerson and "Self-Reliance"
3. 1984 PowerPoint background
4. 1984 close reading activity

Homework
1. Quiz tomorrow!
2. Read "Self-Reliance" and identify 10 interesting/notable quotations
3. "Self-Reliance" essay by Tuesday
4. Bring Catcher in the Rye on Tuesday and Wednesday next week

Yesterday's Agenda

SA: What are the steps for analyzing poetry? Refer to your Sound and Sense text

1. Discussion of poetry analysis activities
2. Reading and analyzing "A Study of Reading Habits"
3. Whole class discussion

Homework: Write a one sentence thesis statement and bullet evidence for today's poem. Study vocabulary for Friday's quiz.

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SA: What potential practical applications for writing exist in your life as a high school senior? Explain.

1. Writer's Workshop Overview and Introduction
2. Mandatory Piece 1: "It's All About You"
3. Time to write

Homework: Read and take notes through chapter two of Sound and Sense. Bring your 1984 and SandS books every day this week...

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Today's class will be devoted to baseline testing. The multiple choice and essay segments will take the entire class.

Homework: Remember to read and take notes through chapter two of Sound and Sense

Enjoy the holiday weekend!

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SA: What is the difference between "good" poetry and "bad" poetry?

1. Poetry brainstorming activity
2. Group discussion
3. Chapter one of Sound and Sense
4. Reading and analyzing "The Eagle"
5. Taking a side: "My Papa's Waltz"

Homework:
1. By Tuesday, read and take notes through chapter two of Sound and Sense
2. By TOMORROW: SUMMER READING!

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SA: Why did you decide to take this AP class? No...really...

1. Syllabus, policies, and procedures
2. Course overview and expectations
3. Summer reading discussion

Homework:
1. Two page definition esay: what is poetry?
2. Summer Reading due by Friday
3. Signed policy form