Sunday, July 3, 2016

Contemorary Comp. Calendar

Course:___11 B_______WC=Writer’s Choice Hamilton, Hamilton The Rebellion, Beloved - Textbook________              Summer School @ Hollywood High (Subject to Change)
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27 First Day of Summer School
28   (CPT 7:45-8:45am)
29           Norm Day
30 Emergency Earthquake/Fire Drill
                                          @ 11:15am
  
July 1 Emergency Cards Due Emergency Lock Down Drill @11:20am
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Week #1
·    Icebreakers
·    Syllabus
·    Mastery Learning/Grading
·    Class rules and conduct
·    Homework/Classwork policy
·    Teacher directed cell phone use only
·    Assignment:
·    AAA Study Skills Review
·    Let your life speak.” Describe the environment in which you were raised – your family, home, neighborhood, or community – and how it influenced the person you are today. Respond to one of the following six questions. Prompts to reveal student voice.
Unit/Project: Hamilton
How does Diction reveal narrators POV?
·     Activity—assessment
·    Decoding a prompt, Annotation of a text, Collaborative Conversations, Model reading circles
Who was Hamilton?

·       Hamilton Secondary Sources, Biography by Ron Chernow/excerpts
·       Hamilton The Revolution by Miranda
·       Excerpt from Farmer refuted

·     Assignment—register for turnitin.com, composition books, download or print copy of U.S. Constitution
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Unit/Project: Encounter Literature Diction reveals voice

·     Activity—Cornell Notes
·    Reading Circles
·    Presentation of Team
·    Listen to My SHOT,
·    Hamilton vs. Burr


·     Assignment—Read and Take Cornell Notes on
Unit/Project: Encounter Literature

·     Activity—Collect Parent signature ER forms and syllabus review forms
·    Decoding Portfolio Skills
·    Reading Circles
·    Presentations
·    MLA Formatting –Easy Bib, Son of Citation machine, Purdue Owl
·    Listen to Story of Tonight, The Schuyler Sisters, and Farmer Refuted

·     Assignment— Read and Take Cnotes on

Unit/Project: Colonial Period Voices

·     Activity—Grammar Review-sentence types
·    Rhetorically Correct verbs
·    Dialectical Journal handout review
·    Reading Circles
·    Presentation—Farmer Refuted
·    How do Lyn Manuel Miranda synthesize Farmer Refuted?
·    Distribute Dialectical Journaling, Tone and Mood word, Quotation Sandwich, Action verb handouts

·    Submit Works Cited List for
Hamilton to turnitin.com
·       Cnotes 55-88
·    Begin Dialectical Journaling of Beloved by Toni Morrison
Part 1 Ch 1-8

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6 Midterm Grade Window Opens
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Week #2
Independence Day
(No School)
Unit/Project: Hamilton
Objective: to understand the relationship choices men and women had in Colonial America;

·       Character Analysis using STEAL
·       Add Eliza, Angelica, Mulligan, Lafayette, Laurens to character Tables
·       Critical listening to Story of Tonight
·       Critical Listening:  Wait For It
·       Quickwrite: What is Aaron Burr’s Code?
·       Discussion 
·       HW: HTR; pp. 94-95


Unit/Project: Designing A Nation Objective: Examine impact of War on family


·       Critical Listening
·       Stay Alive, Ten Duel Commandments, That Would be Enough
·       Cnotes on HTR: The trouble with Goodness pp. 107/8
·       Critical Listening to Guns and Ships, History has its Eyes on You, Yorktown
·       Add Washington to Character Table
·       Quickwrite: What does it mean to have someone believe in you? 



Unit/Project: Designing A Nation: Examine/review Federalism vs. States Rights

·   Excerpts from The Federalist by Publius
·  Bill of Rights
·  Critical Listening To Non-Stop
·  Add to Character Tables for Burr and Hamilton
·  Paper: Creative response to Literature

On-demand Prompt: Why does Hamilton claim that he is “more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground?”

Critical Listening: What’d I miss? Cabinet Rap Battle #1



Unit/Project: Designing A Nation
Objective: Write a Rap that contains a political critique; takes a stand on an issue:

“ It is a principle among printers that when truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.”- Ben Franklin

Activity- Writing and Delivering A Rap on A Political Topic
·  Rap Rubric (In Rubrics Box)

·    Revising for Content and Structure

·    Submit Revision to turnitin.com

·    Dialectical Journaling Of Beloved Continued.
·    You should have finished Ch 9-18  Part I  Begin Part II Ch. 19


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12     Midterm Grades DUE
13 Midterm Report Card
14      (CPT 7:45-8:45am)
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Week #3
Unit/Project: Hamilton Act II  How does an author deal with ambiguity?
·     Assignment—review of definition of ambiguity
·    Cnotes pp. Did They or Didn’t They  pp. 164-167
·    Quickwrite: Tell the story of an event that you observed or participated in that could have been interpreted more than 1 way.
·    Critical Listening: Take A Break, Say No To This
·    Collaboration
·    How do you write or perform an ambiguous relationship? Does ambiguity allow a text or character to change/grow through time?

·    Dialectical Journaling Beloved Ch 20-23


Unit/Project: Inclusion

Critical Listening: The Room Where it Happens

Handout: “Oscars So White” excerpts, HHS Governance

On demand prompt:  Argue that access to power requires access to equitable preparation and inclusion.  


·     Assignment—Dialectical Journal Continued

Unit/Project: Identify the gap that “yawns between the hope Washington sings about in One Last Time and contemporary American reality? “


Critical Listening: Cabinet Battle #2, One Last Time, cabinet Battle #3

·  Brainstorm Current Events ( Black Lives Matter, Immigration,  College The 2016 Election,

·    Dialectical Journaling Beloved Ch 24-26

·  Unit/Project:

Critical Listening: The Adams Administration
Stay Alive, It’s Quiet Uptown The Election of 1800

Collaboration: Each Group analyzes and  presents on how the author’s voice reveals character to the class.


Unit/Project:

Critical Listening: Finish Act II Songs

·    Dialectical Journals  Beloved Part III Ch. 26-28

·  Creative Response to Literature; pp.32-34
·  Write an essay in which you discuss the author’s purpose in writing one of the final group of songs in ACT II.

·  Review Creative Response Rubric.
·  Submit to turnitin.com



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Week #4
Unit/Project: Beloved  Activity—

·  Create Visual Representations of  Beloved Book 1

·  Gallery Walk

·  Complete Gallery Walk Questions

·  Begin Close Reading of Selected Passage
Unit/Project: Beloved
·     Activity—Exploring Toni Morrison's Style
·    Rhythm, Diction, Oral features/heard speech, figurative language, personification, and Biblical Allusions.

·     Assignment—Focus on Ch. 1


·    Dialectical Journals Due 7/21

Unit/Project: Beloved

·     Activity—Exploring Toni Morrison's Style

·    Rhythm, Diction, Oral features/heard speech, figurative language, personification, Allusions, goals in representation
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·    Socratic Seminar

·   Review Highlighting Subjective Values through Narration Rubric



·     Assignment—Dialectical Journals due 7/21

Unit/Project: Beloved

 Activity—:  Choose 1
1. After closely reading the three accounts of the infanticide Sethe commits, compose a well-developed response that explores how the act’s meaning is a product of the viewer/narrator’s personal values and beliefs.
Your response should highlight the author’s use of diction, figurative language, sentence structure, and any other resources of language as they contribute to the passages effectiveness.
2.  After closely reading Hamilton Excerpts, Hamilton the Revolution, and the songs from the musical Hamilton, compose a well-developed response that explores how the words that drove the American Revolution: fiery statements of principle; charges of imperialist oppression; accusations of betrayal; fine points of governance; even wordy obfuscations to gloss over disagreements that could have sabotaged the country at its start are reflected in contemporary writing. 

·   Assignment/s:

·  I Will Statement (Decode the prompt, choose texts/authors, identify thread)
·  Roman Numeral Outline
·  First Draft of Paper
Unit/Project: Beloved
 Activity—After reading several informational and literary texts, write an essay in which you identify and describe a common thread in the American literary voice and how it is reflected in three different texts. Support your discussion with evidence from the texts.

·    Peer Review Paper
·    12-Step revision of Paper (Handout in Box)

·     Assignment—Culminating Paper Due to turnitin.com


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28         FINAL GRADE
         VERIFICATION DUE
29 Last Day of Summer School
     
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Week #5
Unit/Project:

·     Activity—Portfolio Presentations (No extensions will be granted)

·    Use Post-It Notes to Label Best Example of how you met or surpassed required skill.
·    Be able to discuss why you choose a piece of evidence
·    6 minutes/student
Unit/Project: Beloved

·     Activity—Reflective Essay
·    Exploring Personal Connections to Text
·    Student reflection sheet
·    Components of Cultural relevance review
·    Cultural relevance Review Guidelines
·    Model Cultural relevance essay “ SiSe Puede” ( H in BOX)
·    Checklist for Cultural relevance Review
·    Cultural Relevance Rubric

Unit/Project: Beloved

·     Activity—Reflective Essay
·    Peer review
·    12-Step revision (H in Eyes Folder in Box)




Final Performance Task/s

Activity- Writing A Resume
Pp 24-27 Writer’s Choice

Activity- Writing A College Application Essay pp. 16-19 Writer’s Choice


Final Performance Task

Revise College Essay

Activity- Socratic Seminar on Voice in Contemporary America

June 27 - July 29 2016
Cnotes- Cornell Notes
Gdoc- Share as a Google Doc with Teacher; Team creates and edits
All Handouts (H) in BOX on Main Page of Blog- http://docsenglishclass.blogspot.com
DJ-Dialectical Journal SocS- Socratic Seminar HTR-Hamilton The Revolution