Quarter 1, Week 9 of 10

Monday, September 26

 or 

Tuesday, September 27

Due Today: Reading for Seminar, Annotated Bibliography (leave INB in class for assessment)

Learning Target: SL.11-12.1 Arrive prepared for and participate effectively in a collaborative discussion. SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker's perspective or position, evidence used, and tone in a discussion.

Classwork

1. Do Now: Read and annotate Quarter 1, Week 9 of 10.
2. After: Form 3-person teams. Write you Personal Goal for today's Socratic Seminar #3. Make sure to write the date at the top-left of the page.
3. Then: 3 Round Socratic Seminar:

• Round 1: Discuss the attitudes towards imperialism in the poems. Are there other poems that you found which reflect different attitudes towards imperialism? 
• Round 2: How do these attitudes reflect different cultural perspectives. 
• Round 3: How does learning about cultural perspectives effect your writing of something like EA2: the reflective essay?

1. Next: Reflect on progress toward your Personal Goal

Target Practice: I can participate effectively in a discussion about cultural perspective, it's impact on the selected literature, and the impact on my own writing. Fist-5?

Homework

• Continue drafting EA2 in Google Classroom. A complete draft must be ready by the beginning of next class.

Tuesday, September 27

 or 

Wednesday, September 28

Due Today: Typed draft of EA2

Learning Target: RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author's choice regarding how to develop a story. W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real experiences using precise words. 

Classwork

1. Do Now: On the Next Page of your INB, create another Event/Response/Reflect graphic organizer. Write today's date at the top-left. Use it to evaluate your partner's EA2.
2. After: With an elbow partner, use the blue rubric in your INB to evaluate and score EA2.
3. Then: Whole group discussion about obstacles to completing EA2.
4. Next: Senior Project questions/comments.

Target Practice: I can use knowledge gained from evaluating a peer's essay to improve my personal narrative. Fist-5?

Homework

• Continue revising your personal narrative (Draft due Friday)
• Continue adding to your annotated bibliography- AN INTERVIEW MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR USE BY THE BEGINNING OF QUARTER 2.

Thursday, September 29

 or 

Friday, September 30

Due Today: EA 2 Draft

Learning Target: RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author's choice regarding how to develop a story. W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real experiences using precise words. 

Classwork

1. Do Now: Turn to Workbook p. 69. Read the During Reading question above the blue box. After, preread About the Author, marking the blue box for any details that you believe might be helpful in understanding the reading.
2. After: Listen to Lindo Jong: Double Face on Workbook pp. 69-70, marking for details about being a 'stranger in a village.'
3. Then: Use the Evaluating and Checking and Editing questions on Workbook p. 81 to help revise your EA 2.
4. Alternate Activity: Listen to James Baldwin's Stranger in a Village on Workbook pp. 71-79

Target Practice: I can use my understanding of the 'stranger in a village' concept to improve my own essay. Fist-5?

Homework

• Continue revising your personal narrative. THERE WILL BE NO MORE CLASSTIME FOR THIS EMBEDDED ASSESSEMENT. Final Draft is due by next Friday, October 7.
• Continue adding to your annotated bibliography- AN INTERVIEW MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR USE BY THE BEGINNING OF QUARTER 2.

Looking ahead...Reflective discussion about the essay and prewriting the Senior Paper.

Quarter 1, Week 8 of 10

Monday, September 19

 or 

Tuesday, September 20

Due Today: INB Check #2

Learning Target: RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author's choice regarding how to develop a story. W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real experiences using precise words. 

Classwork

1. Do Now: Read and annotate Quarter 1, Week 8 of 10.
2. After: login to Google Classroom and begin your typed draft of EA 2.
3. Then: On Seeing England for the First Time by Jamaica Kincaid on WB pp. 40-42. Read the Key Ideas and Details prompts before listening, so that you can annotate while reading.
4. Next: Create the Event/Response/Reflect graphic organizer on the next page of your INB. Look at the essay you've already written. complete the graphic organizer for your essay.

Target Practice: I can identify the event/response/reflect structure of a personal narrative and use that knowledge to enhance the structure of my own narrative. Fist-5?

Homework

• Continue drafting EA2 in Google Classroom.
• Bring completed annotated bibliography to next class.

Tuesday, September 20

 or 

Wednesday, September 21

Due Today: Final Annotated Bibliography Check

Learning Target: RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author's choice regarding how to develop a story. W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real experiences using precise words. 

Classwork

1. Do Now: Click here to read an example reflective essay.
2. After: With an elbow partner, use the rubric in your INB to evaluate and score the example.
3. Then: Use your understanding of the Event/Response/Reflect structure, as well as your understanding of the scoring rubric to revise your EA 2 narrative.
4. Next: With an elbow partner, read and annotate WB p. 53 for use next class.

Target Practice: I can use knowledge gained from evaluating the EA 2 exemplar to improve my personal narrative. Fist-5?

Homework

• Continue revising your personal narrative (Draft due Friday)
• Continue adding to your annotated bibliography

Thursday, September 22

 or 

Friday, September 23

Due Today: EA 2 Draft

Learning Target: RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author's choice regarding how to develop a story. W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real experiences using precise words. 

Classwork

1. Do Now: Share your EA 2 from Google Classroom with an elbow partner. Read and annotate each-other's reflective essay for ideas, structure, and language.
2. Alternative Do Now: Continue drafting your reflective essay
3. Then: Title the next page of your INB Socratic Seminar #3: Cultural Criticism.  Divide the page into four sections. Title them: Questions, Personal Goal for the Day, Notes, and Reflection. Discuss Literal, Interpretive, and Universal questions. Topics for each round will be: 
• Discuss the attitudes towards imperialism in the poems. Are there other poems that you found which reflect different attitudes towards imperialism?
• How do these attitudes reflect different cultural perspectives. 
• How does learning about cultural perspectives effect your writing of something like EA2: the reflective essay?
4. Next: Read/listen and annotate Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden and George McNeill's The Poor Man's Burden on WB pp. 54-57

Target Practice: I can use the editoral suggestions from my partner to revise my personal narrative. Fist-5?

Homework

• Develop literal, interpretive, and universal questions for Socratic Seminar next class. 
• Enrichment: find other poetry that deals with imperialism in Hawaii for use in class during the seminar.
• Annotated Bibliography will receive a grade next week using the rubric provided at the beginning of the quarter.
• Continue revising your personal narrative.

Looking ahead...Socratic Seminar #3 on Imperialism: A Poetic Conversation.

Quarter 1, Week 7 of 10

Monday, September 12
 or 
Tuesday, September 13

Due Today: AB Check #4 (7 or more sources)

Learning Target: SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions. SL.11-12.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts.

Classwork

1. Do Now: Read and annotate Quarter 1, Week 7 of 10 using three different marks and at least one note.
2. After: Writing the personal goal for the day (Advanced Goals section only)
3. Then: Inner/Outer Circle Socratic Seminar (3 rounds)
• Round 1: Reflecting on EA1 (Texts: EA1 and rubric)
• Round 2: Discuss EA2 (Texts: Blue Sheet and notes)
• Round 3: Anticipating Problems and Solutions (Texts: notes and Blue Sheet)
4. Next: Self-Assessment on the Seminar 

Target Practice: I can reflect on my experience during EA1 with a group and understand the requirements for EA2. Fist-5?

Homework

• Finish any missing Annotated Bibliography entries for this check.

Wednesday, September 14
 or 
Thursday, September 15

Due Today: Last Chance for AB Check #4

Learning Target: W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences. RL.11-12.4 Determine the meanings of words and phrases as they are used in the text. L.11-12.6 Acquire and use accurately new academic and content-specific words and phrases.

Classwork

1. Do Now: Read and annotate WB p. 48 using three different marks and notes. Share your findings with a friend and discuss after.
2. After: With a partner, read and annotate WB p. 49 to understand cultural criticism.
3. Then: Respond to the Before Reading prompt on WB p. 50 and listen to Speaking With Hands
4. Next: Title the next page of your notebook Feeling Marginalized. Write today's date in the top-right corner. In the time allowed, consider a time where either you felt marginalized or you witnessed someone else being marginalized by a group. What was it? How did you react? How were you 'different' afterward?

Target Practice: I understand and can explain why it is necessary to be able to reflect on a personal incident and my response to it. Fist-5?

Homework

• Setup INB Check #2 for grading on Monday/Tuesday
• Review Grade Check form and return signed by parent/guardian
• Final Annotated Bibliography checkpoint next week on Thursday/Friday (8+ sources)

From	To	# of Stamps	Assignment Name	Score	Peer Initial
8/20	9/9	/8	INB Check #2

Looking Ahead...Incident/Response/Reflection structure for EA2!

Quarter 1, Week 6 of 10

Tuesday, September 6

 or 

Wednesday, September 7

Due Today: AB Check #3 (5+ sources)

Learning Target: W.11-12.5 Improve writing through peer editing, revision, or another method. 12.3a Vary syntax for effect.

Classwork

1. Do Now: Attach Quarter 1, Week 6 of 10 to the NEXT PAGE of your INB. Read and annotate using 3 different marks and at least 1 written note.
2. After: Timed-writing for introductory paragraph. The paragraph should appear AFTER the introductory image (on a separate slide if you are using slides). The paragraph should include:
• A hook that grabs the reader's attention
• A sentence that establishes the topic of the essay
• A claim that states the argument or reason for contention
• A concession that recognizes the argument made by the other side
• A thesis statement (claim with more detail)
3. Then: Break for peer discussion, editing, and revision
4. Next: Timed-writing for call-to-action. The paragraph should appear BEFORE the concluding image (on a separate slide of you are using slides). The paragraph should include:
• A sentence that draws the argument to a close and restates the claim
• Makes a final appeal to the values (ethos) of the audience
• Voices a final plea to the emotions (pathos) of the audience
• Finishes by reminding the reader to take action, do something, or make a decision about the topic

Target Practice: I can enhance my Photo Essay by including effectively structured introductory and concluding paragraphs. Fist-5?

Homework

• Finish revisions to EA 1: Photo Essay by Friday, September 9 @ midnight
• Continue working on Annotated Bibliography- Check #4 will be next week, Monday/Tuesday

Thursday, September 8 or Friday, September 9

Due Today: Final Draft of EA 1: Photo Essay (Friday ONLY)

Learning Target: RL.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis. L.11-12.3a Vary syntax for effect.

Classwork

1. Do Now: On Springboard WB p. 27, complete #1 by yourself. Write your response in the space provided below the prompt.
2. After: On SB WB pp. 27-28, read and annotate the excerpt from Invisible Man marking for imagery about what he is and what he is not. Complete #5 on p. 28 to practice sentence variety.
3. Then: Think about sentence variety in your essay. Use this link to learn the different types of sentences (take the quiz to check your knowledge). ALL of them need to be used somewhere in your photo essay.
4. Next: Attach the blue EA 2: Reflective Essay document to the next LEFT PAGE of your INB. On the RIGHT PAGE, create the Socratic Seminar boxes for Monday/Tuesday: Questions, Personal Goal for the Day, Notes, Self-Evaluation.

Target Practice: I can identify where effective syntax is used in a text and use that knowledge to improve my Photo Essay. Fist-5?

Homework

• Finish revisions to EA 1: Photo Essay by Friday, September 9 @ midnight
• Read and annotate the blue document. Create at least 5 questions or comments in the Questions box on the next page of your INB. You may also wish to consult SB WB p. 48.
• Continue working on Annotated Bibliography- Check #4 with 7+ sources will be next week, Tuesday/Wednesday

Looking Ahead...Cultural criticism and what it means to be marginalized.