Monday – 3/310
Tuesday – 3/11
Wed/Thur – 3/512-13
Week of: Mar. 10-14
Teacher: T. Moser
Team: English II Pre-AP
Objective: Students will be able to annotate a nonfiction essay to better understand a writer’s
purpose and voice in expressing cultural identity through language
Agenda:
 Warm-Up – STAAR Prep – “2009 Young Innovators” Reading Passage and Questions
 Read and Annotate “How it Feels to be Colored Me” – Zora Neale Hurston
 AP Questions
Materials: Handouts, highlighter, post-its, pen, pencil
Homework: AP Questions due Tuesday. Persuasive Essay due tomorrow. The Joy Luck Club Quiz
– Wed/Thur.
Objective: Students will be able to write an argumentative essay to the appropriate audience that
includes a clear thesis or position based on logical reasons supported by precise and relevant
evidence, including facts, expert opinions, quotations, and expressions of commonly accepted beliefs
(ELA.10.16A)
Agenda:
 Warm-Up – STAAR Prep “Digital Dad”
 Persuasive Essay Peer Review
 SAR 3 – Writing and Peer Review (using “2009 Innovators” and “Digital Dad”)
Materials: Handouts, highlighter, post-its, pen, pencil
Homework: Persuasive Essay due today! AP Questions due today. Joy Luck Club quiz tomorrow;
Joy Luck Club study questions, journal reflections due Friday.
Objective: Students will be able to analyze, synthesize and make logical connections between ideas
and details in several texts selected to reflect a range of viewpoints on the same topic and support
those findings with textual evidence (ELA.10.9D)
Agenda:
 Warm-Up – STAAR Prep (Reading Passage Questions)
 Quick Edit
 Joy Luck Club Quiz
 Socratic Circle (over Joy Luck Club and Essays)
Materials: Handouts, Joy Luck Club and Socratic Questions
Homework: Culture Packet due tomorrow with response journal completed before class.
Friday – 3/14
Objective: Students will be able to write an interpretative response to a literary text that extends
beyond a summary and literal analysis (ELA.10.15Ci)
Agenda:
 Warm-Up – STAAR Prep – Writing Passage/Editing
 Reflection Journal Writing
 Socratic Circle
Materials: Handouts, The Joy Luck Club Novel
Homework: STAAR Prep Packet!!!