October 24-28

Monday, October 24

Goal: communicate effectively with a small group

Tasks:

• Edna's Ruthie Due
• JFK reflection paragraphs due
• Reading questions
• Kincaid, "Girl" mimic write

Tuesday, October 25

Goal: analyze author's syntax

Tasks:

• Section 5 reading questions, poetic device application
• Journal due
• "Girl" mimic due
• Rhetorical device review

Wednesday, October 26

Goal: Incorporate poetic devcies to tell stories

Tasks:

• Assign vignette project
• Begin drafting vignettes

Thursday, October 27

Goal: analyze student work

Tasks:

• Review "Pink Flamingo" prompt
• score anchor papers--use 1-9 scoring rubric

Friday, October 28

Goal: incorporate poetic devices into personal writing

Tasks:

• Rhetorical Terms Quiz #2
• Work on vignettes

October 17-21

Monday, October 17

• Mango Section 1 Due
• Reading Questions:

1. What is the feeling behind the nun’s comment, “You live there?” (page 5)

2. What is Cathy’s significance in the story?

3. Why is five dollars “cheap”? (page 14)

4. Why does Esperanza feel stupid about the music box?

• "My Name" mimic write

Tuesday, October 18

• Journal: p. 144 "Eleven", use alliteration twice
• "My Name" Due
• Section 2 Due
• Reading Questions

1. What does Esperanza think of Marin?

2. In what ways is Marin older than the other girls?

3. Why is Alicia afraid of nothing but "four legged fur. And fathers." (p. 32)

• Compare/contrast chart

Wednesday, October 20

• Analysis Work: "The Plastic Pink Flamingo"
• Annotate, write thesis and one body paragraph

Thursday, October 21

• Section 3 due
• Compare/Contrast Chart due--discuss
• Begin "Edna's Ruthie"

Friday, October 22

• Finish "Edna's Ruthie"
• Read Mango
• Read outside reading book

October 10-14 (Homecoming!)

Monday, October 10

• Vocabulary quiz #1
• Steve Jobs and ethos (arictle and questions)

Tuesday, October 11

Goals: apply study of ethos to life; review test results to see patterns of error

• Journal due
• Discuss Steve Jobs and ethos artcle and questions
• Review rhetorical terms test #1 (see questions and answers)
• The House on Mango Street: background and Introduction

Wednesday, October 12:

Goals: Practice close reading strategies; understand purpose for poetic devices

• Book check out (to the library)
• Poetic devices review
• Begin reading introduction, chapter one (see reading calendar)

Thursday, October 13:

Goals: analyze a difficult text; write a concise thesis and well developed analysis paragraph

• "The Plastic Pink Flamingo"--abbrieviated on demand write

Friday, October 14:

Goal: comprehend language of rubric; evaluate peer work to improve writing

• Review "Flamingo" prompt
• 1-9 AP Rubric
• Score anchor papers