Friday, October 16, 2015

Weeks 10 and 11 ( Subject to change)

Assignment Date
Focus and Key Terms
Class Work
Homework
Sunday 18th Reminder







Agree or Disagree with Chavez’s thesis that Organization Results in Empowerment.

Due by 5 PM to turnitin.com

Revision of Bitran Paper due to turnitin.com by Thursday.



Monday 19th
Driving Questions: 

What qualities make a writer's voice forceful, distinctive, and memorableHow is poetry used as social commentary?   To paraphrase Shelly, are poet’s or songwriter’s  “the unacknowledged legislator’s of the world”?
Proj: Analyze Speech and Poem
 PROJ:  Timed In Class  Compare and Contrast Essay
Pass Out Diagramming Packet
Lessons 1-25

Proj: Analyze Speech and Poem
                                    PROJ:  Compare and Contrast Essay

Read Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again
Diagramming Packet Lesson 1 and 2


Tuesday 20th
(Shortened Tuesday)

Read Learned Hand
 “ I am an American

Examine Photographs

Diagramming Packet 3 and 4
Wednesday 21

Answer Guiding Questions on “I am an American”

Outline Compare and Contrast Essay. You may use template in box to write your essay.
Thursday 22
PHABAO Parent Conference
Timed Compare and Contrast Essay


Paper 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 those of  Langston Hughes  in his Poem “Let America be America Again” writing regarding liberty.
Diagramming Packet 5

Friday 23

Minimum Day

Complete Anticipation Guide

Fahrenheit 451 Section 1:
From the opening through Montag's arrival at home (pp. 3-14).

Fahrenheit 451 Section 2: From Montag in his bedroom to the rain scene with Clarisse  (pp. 14-31). Diagraming Packet Lesson 6


Monday 26



Fahrenheit 451 Section 3:  From the first scene in the fire station through the burning of the old woman on Elm Street (pp. 31-40)



Section 4:  From Montag and Mildred in bed to Beatty's arrival (pp. 41-52). Diagramming Packet Lesson 7
Tuesday 27

Section 5:  From Beatty's visit through the end of "The Hearth and the 
                  Salamander" (pp. 52-68). 

Study Guide Part I Due Tomorrow
Section 6:  From the opening of "The Sieve and the Sand" to Montag's visit 
with Faber (pp. 71-93 at the break). Diagramming Packet Lesson 8


Study Guide Part I Due Tomorrow


Wednesday 28



Section 7:  From after Montag's visit with Faber till the end of "The Sieve and the Sand" (pp. 93-110).
Study Guide Part II due  Monday


Section 8:  From the opening of "Burning Bright" through Montag's second 
visit with Faber (pp. 113-136).
Study Guide Part II due  Monday
Diagramming Packet Lesson 9

Thursday 29




Section 9:  From after leaving Faber's through the death of the fake Montag (pp. 137-149).



Section 10:  From after the fake Montag's death through the end of the novel (pp. 149-165).
Diagramming Packet Lesson 10 and 11

Friday 30

Study Guide Part III to be completed in class in your teams.
Diagramming Packet Lesson 12-15

Closed Book
Exam on Fahrenheit 451 next Wednesday, November 4th.
STUDY your Guides and character analysis.






Saturday, October 3, 2015

Weeks 8 and 9 ( subject to change)

Assignment Date
Focus and Key Terms
Class Work
Homework
Sunday 4th Reminder
Bracero
Labor union
Conversion
Excrement
Mortality
Chattel
Humiliation
Domination
Voter registration
Symbolize
Shame
Sham
“Bread and butter issue”
Social movement
Civil rights movement
Political rhetoric
Ironic
Obituary
Arsenal
Dismantle
Intimidation
Socially accepted
Disposable income
Trend
Economic clout
Absurd
Fumigants
Unrestrained
Irrevocably
Luscious
Subjugated
Covet
“Punch-drunk”
Pessimistic
Consciousness




Make-up papers work due by 5 PM Sunday to turnitin.com with an email note with what you have submitted.

Makeup Work highlighted in yellow, attached/stapled in order to your engrade.com print-out


Cornell Notes:
  3 Pages ( with summaries)  on Cesar Chavez “ What the Future Holds for Farm Workers and Hispanics”.

Monday 5th
Driving Question:  What elements of organization result in empowerment?


Pass Out Essential Questions Handout (also in box).

Finish Discussion of Chavez Speech

Begin to answer Essential questions on separate sheets of paper.

Finish Answering Chavez project Essential Questions. Turn in at beginning of class already stapled together!
Tuesday 6th
(Shortened Tuesday)

Background Information for Interim Assessment
Background
Research and Add to database 1963
Wednesday 7th

Interim Assessment

Research Add to Database 1984


Non-Sponsored Field Trip Academy Goldwyn
Guillermo Del Toro 7PM

Thursday 8th

Grade Window Opens for 10 Week Report Card

Honors Dialectical Journals for The Jungle due Tomorrow.


Interim Assessment Exam

Research Add to Database 2000
Friday 9th

Interim Assessment Exam
Add to database 2015

Calculate %change
Make sure your have cited all of your credible sources.
Monday 12th

Interim Assessment Exam
Proofread and share your database on Google docs by beginning of  school on Tuesday!
Tuesday 13th

Complete Chavez Graphic Organizer using your annotations and Cornell Notes

Remember to identify examples of ALL the elements



Wednesday 14

PSAT Exam


Taste of Tomorrow
(Bring Resumes and Business Cards)
Outline Chavez Paper due Thursday at beginning of class.
Thursday
Driving Questions: Why is oral tradition such an important part of a culture?  Does the rise and survival of speech distinguish humanity from other species?



Write Chavez Paper

Pass out Logical Fallacies Handout

Write Chavez Paper

Annotate Logical Fallacies Handout
Friday
Logical Fallacies

Write Chavez Paper
Chavez Paper due by Sunday 5PM to turnitin.com

Bring Chinua Achibe Novel Things Fall Apart to class on Monday