Weekly Agenda 2.27-3.3

MONDAY

Review Ind. Reading #6

Pass Back Argument Timed Writing #1

-notes

3-Chair Discussion

Chapter 9

Note: Hold onto all of your chapter specific handouts.

TUESDAY

Argument Timed Writing #2

WEDNESDAY

Writing Reflection-Argument

Fallacy Quiz: Make up pts

Alternate Feminist Criticism

-annotate -respond

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

---SBAC TESTING---

HW READ Chapters “The Man I Killed” and “Ambush”

NEXT

M-T -more testing

W-F-review text; share ind. Books; more poetry.

Weekly Agenda 2.21-2.24

MONDAY

President’s Day

TUESDAY

Background on the War

-exit ticket

“Rainy River” Worksheet

-annotations: romanticism versus realism; heroism vs cowardice

Define ambiguity and ambivalence and apathy

"Enemies" and "Friends" and "How to Tell a True War Story"

-review paragraph about why O'Brien uses "shifting narrators" to tell the "true story."

HW for FRIDAY, read Chapters 8&9

AND, complete Reading Journal #6: Independent Letters A1, A2, +2 others due next MONDAY

WEDNESDAY
HEARING TEST

THURSDAY

Read and Mark up “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Ambush”

-connect language, metaphor, symbolism to evidence from Things Carried

FRIDAY

Read Criticism on Chapter 9 “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”

-changing roles of women

-refer to other female characters

What is O’Brien trying to prove through Mary Anne.  -analyze symbolism

HW Prepare analysis for 3-chair MONDAY

AND, complete Reading Journal #6: Independent Letters A1, A2, +2 others due next MONDAY

Weekly Agenda 2.13-2.17

MONDAY

Dear America documentary

HW Things Ch1 Passage Analysis and M/C, for WED

TUESDAY

“Love” Questions, Conversations on the page.

Read “Spin” -add to conversations, turn in

HW Read “Rainy River for FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY

Review Passage Analysis and Conversations

Background on the War

-exit ticket

HW Review Sample Argument Essays online

THURSDAY

Timed Writing

-argument

FRIDAY
Review "Love" and "Spin"
-concepts of memoir and vignettes in writing
-symbolism
-"truth of war"
HW READ "Enemies" and "Friends" and "How to Tell a True War Story"
-write a paragraph, due Tuesday, about why O'Brien uses "shifting narrators" to tell the "true story."

NEXT

“Rainy River” Worksheet

-annotations: romanticism versus realism; heroism vs cowardice

Define ambiguity and ambivalence and apathy

HW Read “Enemies” and “Friends”for MONDAY;

AND, read and mark up poem: “Dulce Et Decorum Est”

AND, Reading Journal #6: Independent Letters A1, A2, +2 others due next WEDNESDAY

Weekly Agenda 2.6-2.10

Read

Chapter 1 for Thursday, Feb 9th

Chapter 2 for Monday, Feb 13th

Chapter 3 for Thursday, Feb 16th

MONDAY

Finish Obama Speech presentations

Review #5

HW Read Chapter 1 for Thursday; record a list of items you would carry with you to war if you were drafted.  Write a “Goodbye Letter.”

TUESDAY

CAASP Practice

WEDNESDAY

Define Memoir as a genre

-controversy and content

Record a list of tangible and intangible items soldiers carry.

Style focus

-annotate for devices

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Dear America documentary

-excerpts from the book

-notes on the movie

HW Read Chapter 2 for MONDAY

→ Possible Argument Timed Writing

NEXT

Ambivalence and Ambiguity