10th^th Grade Week 15 and 16

Day	Date	Assignment	√
Monday	11/16
Class work		Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30 Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docs. Due by 6 PM 11/18
Homework		Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30 Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docs by 6PM 11/18
Tuesday	11/17
Class work		Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30 Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docsby 6 PM 11/18
Homework		Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30 Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docs due by 6PM 11/18.
Wednesday	11/18
Class work		Prepare 10 Questions for Socratic Seminar on Things Fall Apart. Questions will be collected at beginning of class. Complete “I will statement” for the Paper Prompt: Write an informative essay assessing Achebe’s efforts to use the English language to convey Nigerian culture and values (Paper prompt: Analyze the strategies Achebe uses to convey the clash of cultures) I will have read ______________________________________. (Yellow) I will write a  ____________________________________________(blue) I will address Achebe’s efforts to convey Nigerian Culture and Values by examining and discussing ____________________________________________________). (Pink) I will argue either for or against ___________________________________(or to what extent we should have that expectation). (Red) I will use evidence from the texts  _______________________________________________ to support my argument. (Green) I will address the counterarguments. “Others may think that_________________________ ___________________________________________________________________(Black).  I will provide _________________________________________________________throughout my paper and a ___________________________________________________list at the end  (Purple).
Homework		Complete Typed Roman Numeral Format Outline of Paper
Thursday	11/19
Class work		Outlines Peer Reviewed and Begin Writing Paper
Homework		Type Draft 1 of Paper
Friday	11/20
Class work		Socratic Seminar on Things Fall Apart
Homework		1. Draft 1 of Paper due Sunday 5PM to turnitin.com 11/29 Lock out after 5. NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED! 2. Reminder Grammar Packet  #2 Due 11/30 at beginning of Class 3. Using Post-it notes identify, Label, and Number Evidence that you have met 10A Skills requirements Thanksgiving Break
Monday	11/30
Class work		Correct Grammar Diagramming Packets Sign up for Portfolio Defense
Homework		Read Noriyuki, Duane. "His Own Path to a Life's Dream." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 03 Oct. 1997. Web. 15 Aug. 2014. <http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/03/news/ls-38623>. Read Shakur, Tupac. "The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur." The Rose That Grew from Concrete. New York: MTV, 2009. N. page. - Famous Poems, Famous Poets. Web. 15 Aug. 2014. <http://allpoetry.com/The-Rose-That-Grew-From-Concrete>.  "The Rose that Grew from Concrete"
Tuesday	12/1
Class work		Correct Diagramming Packets Watch and Read: Claunch , Steven, perf. Overcoming Obstacles. Dir. Avi Ofer. TED Ed, 2013. Web. 24 Jul 2014. <http://ed.ted.com/lessons/there-s-no-dishonor-in-having-a-disability-steven-claunch>. Link to video transcript Noriyuki, Duane. "His Own Path to a Life's Dream." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 03 Oct. 1997. Web. 15 Aug. 2014. <http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/03/news/ls-38623>. Mindset Vocabulary static    tendency   fruitless   plateau Article Vocabulary relentlessly    defined    fared     momentum
Homework		Annotate and Take Cornell Notes Learning To Read and Write by Frederick Douglass pp.111-122
Wednesday	12/2
Class work		What is resilience? Annotate and Take Cornell Notes on  The Autobiography of Malcolm X pp.123-126 Portfolio Defenses
Homework		Do Learning to Read and Write and skills pp.127-128 Do on a separate sheet of paper Skills Practice comparison and contrast chart pp.129
Thursday	12/3
Class work		Read Superman and Me  Blue PML pp. 130-137 Do exercises pp. 138- 140 Portfolio Defenses
Homework
Friday	12/4
Class work		Timed Paper on Resilience
Homework		Study For Final Exam Problem Solution Paper TBA