Assignment Date
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Focus and Key Terms
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Class Work
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Homework
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Sunday 18th Reminder
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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.
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Monday 19th
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Driving Questions:
What qualities make a writer's voice forceful, distinctive, and memorable? How 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
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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
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Diagramming Packet Lesson 1 and 2
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Tuesday 20th
(Shortened Tuesday)
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Read Learned Hand
“ I am an American”
Examine Photographs
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Diagramming Packet 3 and 4
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Wednesday 21
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Answer Guiding Questions on “I am an American”
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Outline Compare and Contrast Essay. You may use
template in box to write your essay.
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Thursday 22
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PHABAO Parent Conference
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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.
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Diagramming Packet 5
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Friday 23 |
Minimum Day |
Complete Anticipation Guide
Fahrenheit 451 Section 1:
From the opening through
Montag's arrival at home (pp. 3-14).
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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 |
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Tuesday 27
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Section 5: From Beatty's visit through the end of "The Hearth and
the
Salamander" (pp. 52-68).
Study Guide Part I Due
Tomorrow
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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Friday 30
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Study Guide Part III to be
completed in class in your teams.
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Diagramming Packet Lesson 12-15
Closed Book
Exam on Fahrenheit 451 next Wednesday, November 4th.
STUDY your Guides and character analysis.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Weeks 10 and 11 ( Subject to change)
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Weeks 8 and 9 ( subject to change)
Assignment Date
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Focus and Key Terms
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Class Work
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Homework
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Sunday 4th Reminder
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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
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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”.
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Monday 5th
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Driving Question: What
elements of organization result in empowerment?
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Pass Out Essential Questions Handout (also in box).
Finish Discussion of Chavez Speech
Begin to answer Essential questions on separate sheets of
paper.
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Finish Answering Chavez project Essential Questions. Turn
in at beginning of class already stapled together!
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Tuesday 6th
(Shortened Tuesday)
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Background Information for Interim Assessment
Background
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Research and Add to database 1963
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Wednesday 7th
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Interim Assessment
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Research Add to Database 1984
Non-Sponsored Field Trip Academy Goldwyn
Guillermo Del Toro 7PM
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Thursday 8th
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Grade Window Opens for 10 Week Report Card
Honors Dialectical Journals for The Jungle due Tomorrow.
Interim Assessment
Exam
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Research Add to Database 2000
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Friday 9th
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Interim Assessment
Exam
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Add to database 2015
Calculate %change
Make sure your have cited all of
your credible sources.
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Monday 12th
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Interim Assessment
Exam
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Proofread and share
your database on Google docs by beginning of school on Tuesday!
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Tuesday 13th
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Complete Chavez Graphic Organizer using your annotations
and Cornell Notes
Remember to identify examples of ALL the elements
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Wednesday 14
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PSAT Exam
Taste of Tomorrow
(Bring Resumes and
Business Cards)
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Outline Chavez Paper due Thursday at beginning of class.
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Thursday
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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?
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Write Chavez Paper
Pass out Logical Fallacies Handout
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Write Chavez Paper
Annotate Logical Fallacies Handout
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Friday
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Logical Fallacies
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Write Chavez Paper
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Chavez Paper due by Sunday 5PM to turnitin.com
Bring Chinua Achibe Novel Things Fall Apart to
class on Monday
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