Course:___11
A_______WC=Writer’s Choice AM.
Lit- Textbook________ Summer School @ Hollywood High
(Subject to Change)
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29 Norm
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30 Emergency Earthquake/Fire Drill
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July 1 Emergency Cards Due Emergency Lock Down Drill @11:20am
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· Icebreakers
· Syllabus
· Mastery Learning/Grading
· Class rules and conduct
· Homework/Classwork policy
· Teacher directed cell phone use
only
· Assignment:
· AAA Study Skills Review
· “Let your
life speak.” Describe the environment in which you were raised – your family,
home, neighborhood, or community – and how it influenced the person you are
today.
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Unit/Project: Encounter Lit.
How does Diction reveal narrators POV?
· Activity—assessment
· Decoding a prompt,
Annotation of a text, Collaborative Conversations, Model reading circles
Taos Singer
· Assignment—register for turnitin.com, composition books,
· respond to one of the following six questions. Prompts
to reveal student voice.
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Unit/Project: Encounter Literature Diction reveals voice
· Activity—Cornell Notes
· Reading Circles
· Presentation of Team
· Assignment—Read and Take Cornell Notes on Olaudah Equiano
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Unit/Project: Encounter Literature
· Activity—Collect Parent signature ER forms and syllabus
review forms
· Decoding Portfolio Skills
· Reading Circles
· Presentations
· MLA Formatting –Easy Bib, Son of
Citation machine, Purdue Owl
· Assignment—Read and Cnotes William Bradford
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Unit/Project: Colonial Period Voices
· Activity—Grammar Review-sentence types
· Rhetorically Correct verbs
· Dialectical Journal handout review
· Reading Circles
· Presentation
· Distribute Dialectical Journaling,
Tone and Mood word, Quotation Sandwich, Action verb handouts
· Assignment—Read and Dialectical Journals Canestego, Mary
Jamison
· Submit Works Cited List for
Colonial Literature to turnitin.com
· Begin Dialectical Journaling of Nora
Zeale Hurston- Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Independence Day
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School)
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Unit/Project: Colonial Lit/Designing A New Nation
Objective: Understanding style through figurative language, literary
devices (tone, mood, imagery, sound effects) recognition and use of
Persuasive Techniques
· Activity—Dekanawidah The
Iroquois Constitution
· Cornell Notes and Collaborative
Conversations
· Thomas Paine pp.169-172
· Persuasive Speech Writing Workshop pp. 193-197 Am Lit; WC pp.274-278, Student
Model pp. 278, WC- Writer’s Handout pp. 907-920
· Assignment—Write and deliver
A persuasive speech due 7/8
Pick Topic, Conduct Research, In
Notebook Bring 5-10 Facts/ Credible Evidence
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Unit/Project: Designing A Nation
· Patrick Henry Speech to the Virginia Convention
· Activity—Identification of Propaganda-systematic effort to spread opinion or beliefs
· Grammar- Varying Sentence
Structure and Parallel Structure WC907-909
· Proofreading/Symbols
· Develop Roman Numeral
Outline for Speech
· Peer Review Outline for
Content
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Unit/Project: Designing A Nation
· Activity--Declaration
of Independence; revisit Ain’t I a Woman Am Lit pp. 236-237
· Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Happiness: Persuasive Speech
· Assignment--Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Happiness: Persuasive Speech
· Assignment—Begin Draft
· Annotate Speech Rubric
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Unit/Project: Designing A Nation
Activity-
Delivering A Persuasive Speech
· Assignment—12-step Revision of Speech
· Revising for Content WC p. 79
· Revising for Structure p. 80
· Submit Revision to turnitin.com
· Dialectical Journaling Of Eyes Were
Watching God Continued.
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Midterm Grades DUE
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Report Card
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Unit/Project: Transcendentalists and Romantics (Emerson, Thoreau) Objective:
To understand use of figurative language to understand the mind and the
process of thinking
· Activity: Introduce Transcendentalism
· Cnotes: Identify consequences of
conformity and non-conformity, examples of figurative language, main and
supporting ideas
· SocS.on Non-Conformity
· Assignment--
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Unit/Project: How does Voice express what is important in life?
· Activity—Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau T. pp.
225- 233
· Recognition of Illusions and their
Communicative Value
· Argument Analysis
· Quick Write: What do you consider
the “necessaries of the soul”
· Assignment—Dialectical Journal Continued
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Unit/Project:
· Activity--Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau T. pp.
225-233
· Review of Sound Devices (rhythm,
alliteration, assonance, consonance)
· Assignment—Quick Write: What kind of walls do you think
separate people in your community?
· Collaboration: Why is democracy the
“ last improvement possible”? How can a democratic government be further
improved? Create Gdoc.
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· Unit/Project: Expanding America: How is work. Life, learning, self,
established/claimed by Voice? Activity—Review
of Symbolism Assignment—Read Whitman pp. 360-363
· Collaboration: Response to Visual
Imagery
pp. 361-363
Identify Content, Context,
Connection to Excerpt, Communication (Points of view or Bias) Conclusion (
How does this image contribute to our understanding of text?
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Unit/Project:
Expanding Democracy
· Activity—read Am Lit pp.327 What the Black Man Wants by
Frederick Douglass
· Quick Write: Is an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) necessary?
· Assignment—preview
How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora
Neale Hurston
(Handout
in Box on main page of blog in Eyes
were Watching God Folder)
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Review Culminating Paper rubric and complete DJ.
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Dialectical Journals
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Creative Response to Literature; pp.32-34
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Week #4
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Unit/Project: Their Eyes
Were Watching God
· Activity—Brainstorm
Where do Stories Come From?
Objective: Understand how language conveys mood, images, and meaning.
· Assignment--find examples of specific
stylistic devices in sample literary passages.
· Review Checklist of
Elements of Literary Style
· Defining Style (H)
· Demonstrating Style (H)
· Student “Think Aloud” Demonstrating Style
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Unit/Project: Their Eyes
Were Watching God
· Activity—Exploring Nora Zeale Hurston’s Style
· Rhythm, Diction, Oral
features/heard speech, figurative language, personification, and Biblical
Allusions.
· Assignment—Focus on Ch. 1
· Dialectical Journals Due 7/21
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Unit/Project: Their Eyes
Were Watching God
· Activity—Exploring Nora Zeale Hurston’s Style
· Rhythm, Diction, Oral
features/heard speech, figurative language, personification, and Biblical
Allusions.
· Socratic Seminar
· Assignment—Dialectical Journals due 7/21
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Unit/Project: Their Eyes
Were Watching God
Activity—: After reading several informational and literary
texts, write an essay in which you identify and describe a common thread in
the American literary voice and how it is reflected in three different texts.
Support your discussion with evidence from the texts.
· Assignment/s:
· I Will Statement (Decode the
prompt, choose texts/authors, identify thread)
· Roman Numeral Outline
· First Draft of Paper
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Unit/Project:
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Activity—After
reading several informational and literary texts, write an essay in which you
identify and describe a common thread in the American literary voice and how
it is reflected in three different texts. Support your discussion with
evidence from the texts.
· Peer Review Paper
· 12-Step revision of Paper (Handout in Eyes
Were Watching God Folder in Box)
· Assignment—Culminating Paper Due to turnitin.com
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28 FINAL GRADE
VERIFICATION DUE
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29 Last Day of Summer School
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Unit/Project:
· Activity—Portfolio Presentations (No extensions will be
granted)
· Use Post-It Notes to Label Best Example of how you met or
surpassed required skill.
· Be able to discuss why you choose a
piece of evidence
· 6 minutes/student
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Unit/Project: Their Eyes Were Watching God
· Activity—Reflective Essay
· Exploring Personal Connections to
Text
· Student reflection sheet
· Components of Cultural relevance
review
· Cultural relevance Review
Guidelines
· Model Cultural relevance essay “ SiSe
Puede” ( H in BOX)
· Checklist for Cultural relevance
Review
· Cultural Relevance Rubric
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Unit/Project: Their Eyes
Were Watching God
· Activity—Reflective Essay
· Peer review
· 12-Step revision (H in Eyes
Folder in Box)
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Final Performance Task/s
Activity- Writing A Resume
Pp 24-27 Writer’s Choice
Activity- Writing A College Application Essay pp. 16-19 Writer’s
Choice
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Final Performance Task
Revise College Essay
Activity- Socratic Seminar on Voice in Contemporary America
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June 27 - July 29 2016
Cnotes- Cornell Notes
Gdoc- Share as a Google Doc with Teacher; Team creates and edits
All Handouts (H) in BOX on Main Page of Blog- http://docsenglishclass.blogspot.com
DJ-Dialectical Journal SocS- Socratic Seminar
