Week 12 English 10
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Day
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Class
work
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Homework
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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! ☐
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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.
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Read Things Fall Apart and work on your
Dialectical Journal
Revision of How to
Analyze a Poem Essay
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Tuesday
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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”?
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Read Things Fall Apart
and work on your Dialectical Journal
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Wednesday
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•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?
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Read Things Fall Apart
and work on your Dialectical Journal
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Thursday
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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?
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Read Things Fall Apart
and work on your Dialectical Journal
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Friday
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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
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Dialectical
Journals Ch. 20-25 Due Monday
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