It's official! We have less than two months of school left before the school year is over, and you'll be seniors. I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing break and is ready for a productive and lively 8 weeks until finals.
This week, we'll wrap up Gatsby and begin reading the Dakota Pipeline synthesis essay prompt and kick off a mini-unit with older and more modern American reading about humans and their relationship to nature. This is the first of the remaining three essays we'll work on this year - the other two are the independent reading synthesis essay and the college essay.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Review Space Exploration prompt and review class outline responses. View actual samples turned in to the College Board and evaluate them. Watch the first 30 minutes of the 2013 movie.
Due: Read Chapters 8 and 9 of The Great Gatsby (finish the book). Does
the ending ring true for you? We'll discuss the book when you get back
and it'll be on this week's quiz.
Read the synthesis essay sources and prompt, and outline an essay response for Monday.
Continue reading your independent reading book. We will be working with
the information from these books with a synthesis essay in early May
(after April's essay).
Homework: Make sure journal is ready to turn in next class.
Read another 25-50 pages of your independent reading book, keeping an eye out for how the messages, style, and characters compare and contrast with the first semester independent reading book(s).
NOTE: The goal is to finish your independent reading by May 4. Here is where you should be (approximately):
A. Tech - at least 400 pages into Steve Jobs
B. Race Relations - 250-300 pages into Malcolm X
C. War - finished with The Things They Carried by the end of this week
D. Environment - about 250 pages into Silent Spring
E. Horror - about 400 pages into The Shining
F. American Woman - just beginning The Awakening
G. Strength - about 100, 125 pages into Fight Club
H. Politics - about 900-1,000 pages into Atlas Shrugged
I. American Man - Just starting We the Animals
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Pippin school play preview. Watch another 30 minutes of the 2013 version of The Great Gatsby.
Due: Continue independent reading.
Homework: Study for quiz.
Journals ready to turn in on Friday.
Complete the Final Gatsby Questions with original answers for Friday.
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz. Watch the movie version of The Great Gatsby.
Due: Complete the Final Gatsby Questions with original answers for Friday.
Turn in journals for a journal check.
Homework: 1. Read the questions and submit an original discussion board post in Turnitin.com for the Independent Reading.
2. Take this, one of the last opportunities, to work on the independent reading book:
please read another 30-80+ pages, keeping an
eye out for how the messages, style, and characters compare and
contrast with the first semester independent reading book(s).
NOTE: The goal is to finish your independent reading by May 4. Here is where you should be (approximately):
A. Tech - at least 600 pages into Steve Jobs
B. Race Relations - 400 pages into Malcolm X
C. War - finish The Things They Carried
D. Environment - about 350 pages into Silent Spring
E. Horror - about 600 pages into The Shining
F. American Woman - finish The Awakening
G. Strength - 180-200 pages into Fight Club
H. Politics - about 1,000-1,100 pages into Atlas Shrugged
I. American Man - finishing up We the Animals
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