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9/30: Lit as Film

Students will review film vocabulary by presenting Experiencing Film projects

Agenda:

- Kate
- Ashley & Greg

HW:
- Work on Experiencing Film project
- Groups and presentation dates

9/30: Honors English 10

Students will will propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion of civic responsibilities to themes of Night.

Agenda:
- Real Talk

- Share posters

- Fill out rubrics for poster presentations

- TEXT Warm-up #1

- "38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police"

- Exit card for article

HW:

- Finish reading Night and complete the packet in its entirety.

- The book and the packet will both be collected on Friday.

Students will discover organization patterns that acknowledge the counterargument while firmly stating a position.

Agenda:
- Discuss yesterday's readings
- Warm-up: Sentences with Identity Vocabulary (page 3, 20-31)

- Word Sort according to Level of Specificity

- Write outline for Identity Rough Draft

Resources:
- Don’t sit on the fence

- TEXT model for argument (different than TEXT model for rhetorical analysis)

- Language frames for argument

- Example argument

- Example sources

HW:

- Finish the outline for Identity Rough Draft. We will write the draft in class tomorrow.

- Turn in The Great Gatsby on Friday

- The Final Identity Argument Essay is due to Turnitin.com by 11:59pm on Monday, 10/5.

9/29: Lit as Film

Students will review film vocabulary by presenting Experiencing Film projects

Agenda:
- Sam & Turner

- Kate
- CJ & Emmanuel
- Paige
- Ashley & Greg

HW:
- Work on Experiencing Film project
- Groups and presentation dates

9/29: Honors English 10

Students will infer knowledge from Night by completing a group discussion for a formative.

Agenda:

- Motif discussion & T-journal

HW:
- Read chapter 8-9; pages 104-115 & T-Journal
- Catch up on reading the book & completing the packet

9/29: AP Lang

Students will develop concrete and specific evidence by using the Big 7 Brainstorming Categories.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Sentences with Identity Vocabulary (page 2)
- Turn in Specificity Paragraphs
- Thursday's essay prompt
- Big 7 Brainstorming Categories

HW:
- Review the upcoming Identity Rubric
- Read "The Man Who Quit Money"
- Read "How Michael Jordan Still Earns $80 Million A Year"

9/28: AP Lang

Students will get better at generating concrete and specific evidence to support an argument.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Sentences with Identity Vocabulary (page 1)
- Identity Rubric
- Specificity Paragraphs

- Surprise -- the importance of specificity to credibility

HW:
- Work on the Specificity Paragraphs if you didn't finish
- Review the upcoming Identity Rubric