Week 13 English 10B

Week 13 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”? 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”?	Begin Essay on Analyzing Learned Hand Speech Use pp. 36-39 in Blue PML as your guide Essay due to Turnitin.com by Friday 3 PM. Attend NMA tutoring or LACER if you need additional help.
Tuesday	•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?	Analysis of Learned Hand Speech
Wednesday	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?	Analysis of Learned Hand Speech
Thursday	Finish Essay	Finish Essay
Friday	Begin Compare and Contrast  Poem and Speech 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:  How to write a Compare and Contrast Essay In Purple 9th grade PML book read P 136 and 137, Read pp. 157	Complete Graphic Organizer Use Compare and Contrast Essay Template to start your essay.