Today's Agenda

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)

Today's Agenda

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

Today's Agenda

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)

Today's Agenda

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

Today's Agenda

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

Today's Agenda

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!

Today's Agenda

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!

Today's Agenda

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

Today's Attendance

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!

Today's Agenda

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!

Today's Agenda

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.

Today's Agenda

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...