Week 12 English 10A

Week 12 English 10

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday LACER and NMA Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER and NMA Tutoring logs Fridays to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Hold on to your Political Cartoons. We will return to this in a few weeks ☐ Objectives:  1. Learn How to Analyze a Poem 2. Learn 3 methods of writing a Compare and Contrast Essay BLOCK FORMAT POINT-BY-POINT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ☐ Driving Questions: • Can reason be used to solve “ world problems”? • Is it the responsibility of each new generation to insure “liberty and justice for all”? Discussion of How to Analyze a Poem Color Template.	Read Things Fall Apart and work on your Dialectical Journal Revision of How to Analyze a Poem Essay
Tuesday	Review Analysis of Paragraph 1 of Learned Hand on the “Spirit of Liberty” Reminder Vocabulary definitions on quizlet.com Paragraph 1, third section Does Hand think we ought to reject seeking liberty through the legal system? –What “reasons” that could improve society are alluded to in this poem? – Would Hughes and/or Hand agree with the Enlightenment idea that rational people can solve “problems”?	Read Things Fall Apart and work on your Dialectical Journal
Wednesday	•What is the problem Hand sees with granting people “unbridled will”? • How has the definition of liberty evolved over the course of this first paragraph?	Read Things Fall Apart and work on your Dialectical Journal
Thursday	2nd Paragraph, 1st Section •How does Hand’s explication of his vision of the spirit of liberty explain why he could not define the spirit of liberty?  • Why does Hand shift from describing a commonly held faith (“we”) in the first paragraph to describing his “own faith” in the second paragraph? • Who is Hand referring to when he speaks of “the spirit of Him”?  What “lesson” did he teach that has neither been learned nor forgotten?	Read Things Fall Apart and work on your Dialectical Journal
Friday	Essay Prompt Hand considers a variety of ideas regarding what is meant by the term liberty. Write a comparative essay, where you compare and contrast Hand’s thoughts with another author’s writings regarding liberty, Langston Hughes’ poem, “Let America be America Again” Review of how to write a compare and Contrast Essay	Dialectical Journals Ch. 20-25 Due Monday

Week 11 English 10

Week 11 English 10  Revised

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Printout syllabus before class Monday for 100 pts ☐ Points given 7:30-7:45 or at Lunch only! ☐ LACER Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER logs to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Hold on to your Political Cartoons. We will return to this ☐ Objectives:  1. Learn How to Analyze a Poem 2. Learn 3 methods of writing a Compare and Contrast Essay BLOCK FORMAT POINT-BY-POINT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ☐ Media Literacy Handouts due! Rev Unit 1-3 Vocabulary Exam  Take at home Honor Code ☐  Assignment: In your teams, answer the following questions. 1 paper per team. 1. Who is speaking in the poem? Is the speaker the poet or a character created by the poet? 2. Does the poem examine some common life experience or problem? Does it suggest solutions or answers? 3. What is the poet’s attitude toward the subject? The audience ? 4. What techniques from the “author’s toolkit” does Langston Hughes use to control language to create certain effects? 5. How does the poet’s choice of words, his diction,  influence the poem’s meaning? Give examples. 6. What figurative language, such as metaphors and similes does the poet employ to make imaginative comparisons? 7. What sound devices, such as rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, alliteration, consonance, does the poet use?  Give definition of term and example.	Vocabulary Review Unit 4-6 Vocabulary for Comprehension  and Grammar in Context ☐ Dialectical Journals on Things Fall Apart will be collected on Wednesday for Ch. 20-25 due next Monday Things Fall Apart ☐
Tuesday	Assignment : Analyze Learned Hand “Spirit of Liberty” First Paragraph 1. Hand uses his opening sentence to emphasize the importance of the event.  How does his word choice in the first sentence reflect this? 2. Hand creates a growing sense of the importance of the occasion by asserting that those gathered have a common “purpose,” then a shared “conviction,” and finally a joint “devotion.”  What do these words mean, and how does the progression of them emphasize the gravity of the event? 3. How does Hand create a sense of camaraderie and shared experience in the second sentence? 4.  What qualities make the “picked group” so special in Hand’s eyes? 5. What qualities does Hand imply the “picked group” possesses when he says they “had the courage to break from the past”? 6. Put Hand’s fourth and final sentence into your own words.	Vocabulary Review Unit 4-6 Two-Word Completions and Choosing the Right Meaning ☐
Wednesday	Media Literacy Field Trip Rules and Reminders Assignment : Analyze Learned Hand “Spirit of Liberty” First Paragraph, Second Section 1. What is Hand’s initial answer to the question he posed at the end of section one (what motivated immigrants to come to America)? –What is Hand’s initial answer to the question he posed at the end of section one (what motivated immigrants to come to America)? 2. Hand’s initial answer is “liberty” . 3. What are the 3 sub-categories? 4. Hand says that immigrants “sought liberty” in coming to this country.  How do the kinds of freedoms he mentions compare to another contemporary’s conception of freedom—Norman Rockwell’s pictorial representation of FDR’s “Four Freedoms”?  See website box.com for images.	Vocabulary Review Unit 1-3 Antonyms and Word Families ☐ Things Fall Apart Read Chapters 14-19 ☐
Thursday	Media Literacy Field Trip Timed Essay question TBA for those not going on field trip. P1,P6 Dialectical Journaling and Sustained Silent reading Things Fall Apart Ch 20-25	Vocabulary Review Unit 4-6  Word Associations and Building with Classical Roots  ☐
Friday	Media Literacy Field Trip Timed Essay question TBA for those not going on field trip. P1,P6  Dialectical Journaling and Sustained Silent reading Things Fall Apart Ch 20-25 P1,P6  Dialectical Journaling  and Sustained Silent Reading   20-25 ☐	Vocabulary review Unit 4-6 Study for Exam Monday Use Quizlet.com ☐ Dialectical Journals Ch. 20-25  Due Monday

Compare and Contrats Essay Review from Read Write Think

•http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/compcontrast/

•http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/compare-contrast-30066.html

Week 10 English 10 REVISED

Week 10 English 10

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Printout syllabus before class Monday for 100 pts ☐ Print our Engrade with parent/guardian signature and Contact PHONE NUMBER 100 Pts ☐ Points given 7:30-7:45 or at Lunch only! ☐ LACER Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER logs to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Hold on to your Political Cartoons. We will return to this next week ☐ Outlines for Compare and Contrast Essay due and Discussion of Learned Hand and Langston Hughes Articles ☐ Complete Media Literacy Packets thoughfully and neatly, they will be published and/or shared  ☐ Unit 6 Vocabulary Exam  Take at home Honor Code ☐ You can complete during Nutrition, lunch, or at LACER Bring Things Fall Apart  Every Day  Read Chapters 7-11☐ Dialectical Journals on Things Fall Apart will be collected on Wednesday for Ch.7- 11 LAUSD Shake Drill 9:10 AM – 9:45 AM	Vocabulary Review Unit 1-3  1 Activity/page  Vocabulary for Comprehension☐ and Grammar in Context ☐ Unit 6 Vocabulary Exam  Take at home Honor Code ☐ Dialectical Journals on Things Fall Apart will be collected on Wednesday for Ch.7- 11 Things Fall Apart ☐
Tuesday p1 and 3  Shortened Day	Learned Hand PowerPoint ☐ Langston Hughes and Learned Hand PowerPoint ☐ Objectives:  1. Learn How to Analyze a Poem 2. Learn 3 methods of writing a Compare and Contrast Essay BLOCK FORMAT POINT-BY-POINT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Reading Circles Things Fall Apart Dialectical Journaling ☐	Vocabulary Review Unit 1-3 Two-Word Completions ☐ and Choosing the Right Meaning ☐ Review How to Analyze a Poem form 9th Grade PML (Purple Book)
Wednesday P 7  Shortened Day	PSAT 8-11 am ☐  Langston Hughes and Learned Hand PowerPoint ☐ Objectives:  1. Learn How to Analyze a Poem 2. Learn 3 methods of writing a Compare and Contrast Essay BLOCK FORMAT POINT-BY-POINT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Reading Circles Things Fall Apart Read Ch. 12-13 ☐	Vocabulary Review  Unit 1-3  1-page ok today Antonyms and Word Families ☐ Things Fall Apart Read Chapters 14-19 ☐
Thursday	Lanston Hughes and Learned Hand Powerpoint Day II ☐ Objectives:  1. Learn How to Analyze a Poem 2. Learn 3 methods of writing a Compare and Contrast Essay BLOCK FORMAT POINT-BY-POINT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES	Vocabulary Review Unit 1-3   1 activity/page Word Associations ☐  and Building with Classical Roots  ☐
Friday Minimum Day	Sustained Silent Reading and Reading Circle Discussions of Things Fall Apart  ☐ Compare and Contrast Essay Compare and Contrast Timed Essay:  Learned Hand’s I am an American Day Address with Langston Hugh’s Let America be America Again ☐	Vocabulary review Unit 1-3 Study for Exam Monday Use Quizlet.com ☐ Dialectical Journals Ch. 12-19 Due Monday

Week 9 English 10

Week 9 English 10

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Printout syllabus before class Monday for 100 pts ☐ Print our Engrade with parent/guardian signature and Contact PHONE NUMBER 100 Pts ☐ Points given 7:30-7:45 or at Lunch only! ☐ LACER Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER logs to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Political Cartoons Read P. 61 Answer Questions 1-6☐ Unit 5 Vocabulary Exam   ☐ Things Fall Apart Discussion Plan ☐	Vocabulary Unit 6 Definitions ☐ Find a political cartoon, print out and bring to class ☐ Dialectical Journals on Things Fall Apart will be collected on Wednesday for Ch.1-6 Things Fall Apart ☐ Volunteer Vocabulary Marathon Graders due in 125 at 3:15-5:45. Shane for those who signed up.  Academy Bus leaves at Orange Gate at 6PM Sharp☐
Tuesday	Political Cartoon Posters ☐ Reading Circles Things Fall Apart ☐	Vocabulary Unit 6 Completing the sentence ☐
Wednesday	Political Cartoon Posters ☐ Reading Circles Things Fall Apart ☐	Vocabulary Unit 6 Synonyms and Antonyms   ☐
Thursday	Read Learned Hand, I am an American Day Address, ☐ Learned Hand Speech and Langston Hughes Let America be America Again ☐ http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609 Langston Hughes PoemLangston Hughes Poem	Vocabulary Unit 6 Choosing the Right Word and Vocabulary in Context ☐ Take Cornell Notes ☐
Friday	Bring Cornell Notes to Class ☐ Reading Circle Discussion of Poem and Speech	Vocabulary Unit 6   Study for Unit 6 Exam Monday Use Quizlet.com ☐ Roman Numeral Outline of Compare and Contrast Essay Due Timed Essay DAY TBA