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Daily Objective: To appreciate the language, culture, and themes present in John Steinbeck’s writing
Daily Assignments:
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◦ RLARS for 15 minutes
◦ Continue reading and annotating Of Mice and Men
Disclaimer: I am aware that for my fast readers that the audio CD is slowly reading the novel. The purpose of a
Guided Reading is for you to take time annotating and underlining as the narrator is reading to you. Research proves that by hearing and seeing what is read simultaneously one better comprehends what is occurring. Most students make their highest test score on the novel we do for Guided Reading. This activity is to build both comprehension and confidence.

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Daily Objective: To appreciate the language, culture, and themes present in John Steinbeck’s writing
Daily Assignments:
◦ RLARS for 15 minutes
◦ On a tiny slip of paper given to you, write down your favorite quote from dialogue from OMAM so far. Share your quote with at least three people and have them guess who said it and why it is significant. At the end, we will have everyone share their quote.
◦ Do Gapfill on Chapter 3
◦ Continue reading and annotating Of Mice and Men

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Daily Objective: To appreciate the language, culture, and themes present in John Steinbeck’s writing
Daily Assignments:
◦ RLARS for 15 minutes
◦ On a tiny slip of paper given to you, write down your favorite descriptive sentence/s from OMAM so far. Share your description with at least three people and have them guess the literary techniques present. At the end, we will have everyone share their favorite descriptive quote.
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◦ Finish reading and annotating Of Mice and Men
AP Exam on Of Mice and Men will begin next week. One day we will do the Synthesis Essay and Rhetorical Analysis
Essay. Another day we will do our Multiple Choice and
Argument Essay. After we complete the exam, we will bring in a food from the Depression and complete a trial activity after we are done eating.

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◦ Assign Literary Analysis Research Paper (p. 46)
◦ RLARS for the first fifteen minutes of class
◦ Begin watching Dead Poets Society
 Take Cornell Notes as you watch on EVERY LITERARY
REFERENCE MENTIONED. State what is going on in the film and what is significant about that literary reference as well.
 We will also have a Socratic Seminar on Dead Poets
Society when we have finished watching it.

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◦ RLARS for the first fifteen minutes of class
◦ Finish watching
Cornell Notes
Dead Poets Society and turn in
◦ Read the following poems:
 “Ask Me”
 “Doo Wop”—Write a serious or comic poem which contains no more than two words per line

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Daily Objective: To appreciate poetry through watching a film dedicated to the importance of it.
Daily Assignments:
◦ RLARS for the first fifteen minutes of class (and a reminder that Reading Log #2 is due tonight at 11:59 pm)
◦ Read article on Dead Poets Society; we will use this as the starting point for our Socratic Seminar on Dead Poets
Society
◦ Continue reading poetry, including:
 “White Lies”
 “Dulce et Decorum Est”
 “Silence”—Write a poem that is told largely in quotations