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Honors world literature

MARCH 5, 2020

OPENNING: PRE-TEST 
  • Videos on insects/ Arachnid
Work session: Research on bugs 
  • Complete chart/ graphic organizer
Closing: Does public speaking help better prepare you for your future career?

Feb 28, 2020

Opening: Grade Socratic seminar prep sheet
Work session: Socratic seminar! On "The scholarship jacket" and By Another name" 
Closing: Does public speaking help better prepare you for your future career?

feb 6, 2020

Opening: Rad independent novel
  • send students to media if the work is not completed 
Work session: Catch up with reading IRP 
Closing: What can be compared to solitary confinement?

FEB 3, 2020

Opening: Literacy Monday
  • ​Reciprocal Teaching
Work Session: Begin constructed response on "The Bet"
 Files Here

jan 28, 2020

Opening: Socratic seminar
​​Closing: How do you feel about "Public Speaking"?

Jan 27, 2020

Opening: Literacy Monday Anton Chekhov Article
Work session: "The bet"by Anton Chekhov 
Files here
Closing: How do you Feel about "public speaking"?

JAN 24, 2020

Opening: Independent reading / full page narrative journal
Work Session: Finish Socratic seminar preparation for "Like The Sun"by R.K. Narayan
  • What are the Socratic seminar rules ?
Closing: How do you feel about "Public Speaking"?

jan 23, 2020

Opening: Independent reading before lunch."Like the Sun"
Work session: Begin Socratic seminar preparation for "Like The Sun"by R.K. Narayan 
  • What is a Socratic seminar?
Closing: How do you feel about "public speaking"?

JAN 21, 2020

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Opening: Collect Work for Dead Men's Path. Answer Journal Prompt: 
​Work Session: Read "RK Narayan, India's Prolific Storyteller, Dies at 94" Article (Literacy). Begin reading "Like the Sun" by R.K. Narayan

Files HERE 



JAN 17, 2020

Opening: Read Independent Novel
Work Session: Complete Constructed Response along with any other work to be collected on Tuesday for Dead Men's Path  

JAN 16, 2020

Opening: Reading Independent Novel.
Work Session: Demonstration of MLA format on Word.
  • Type Constructed Response for Dead Men's Path. 
  • Assignments due on Friday: Literacy Activity, Dead Men's Path Annotations, Literary Analysis Chart, Constructed Response, and Self-Assessment.

JAN 15, 2020

Opening: How do you view old fashioned traditions? What traditions do you or your family do that might be considered old-fashioned? Independent Reading 
Work Session: Spoke about phone use in class.
  • Review Constructed Response expectations. Show Exemplar. Click HERE 
  • Work on rough draft of Dead Men's Path constructed response.
  • Assignments due on Friday: Literacy Activity, Dead Men's Path Annotations, Literary Analysis Chart, and Constructed Response.
Files HERE 
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jan 14, 2020

Opening:​Literacy Monday-"Chinua Achebe: The Patriarch Of The African Novel" by Franklin
  • Begin "Deadmen's Path"by Chinua Achebe 
​​​closing:whats next?

jan 13, 2020

Opening: literacy Monday-"Chinua Achebe: THE PATRIARCH OF HE AFRICAN NOVEL" by Ruth Franklin
  • begin "Deadmen's Path"by Chinua Achebe 
closing:whats next?

jan 10, 2020

​​Opening: Discussion on conspiracy theories
Work Session: Plot vs Character Driven stories video. Social issues ad video. Pronoun and antecedent worksheet. Semicolon and comma splice worksheet. 

jan 9, 2020

​ Opening: IR for 15 mins - students will receive IRP packets tomorrow. 
Work Session: Discussion One: Who is in control of your identity?
Read first two chapters or vignettes of The House on Mango Street.
Finish working on research project for Sandra Cisneros

Jan 8, 2020

​Opening: IR for 25 mins. 
Work Session: Elements of Fiction notes. MLA PowerPoint with notes and practice.

JAN 7, 2020

Opening: Went to the Media Center check out IRP novel: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Students were given Reading Packets for individual books.
  • Click here for ITTOB
  • Click Here for LOTF
  • Begin reading.
Work Session: Notes on THEME. Presentation HERE: https://create.piktochart.com/output/40996395-theme 
January Extra Credit Calendar. Check Home Page for Document.  Due February 3rd. 

jan 6, 2020

 work session: Introductions continued. World lit terms pre-test. Discussion of literary analysis chart expectations. Began reading "There Will Come Soft Rains"by Ray Bradbury. Introduction to independent reading choices:In The Time Of The Buterflies by Julia Alvarez or Lord Of The Flies by William Golding.

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  • Stories We're Reading
    • Short Stories
    • Purple Book
    • A Long Way Gone
    • Dante's Inferno
    • House on Mango Street
    • Lord of the Flies
    • In the Time of the Butterflies
    • Metamorphosis
    • Night
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Romeo & Juliet
    • The Odyssey
  • Community
  • About
  • Contact
  • A-Z
  • MLA FORMAT
  • "Dead Men's Path"