Monday – 3/24
Tuesday – 3/25
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 - Writing
 Persuasive Essay Peer Review
 SAR 4 – Writing and Peer Review
Materials: Handouts, highlighter, post-its, pen, pencil
Homework: Persuasive Essay due today! AP Questions due today. Joy Luck Club Final Test
tomorrow! Final Culture Journal due Friday. Both are major grades!!!
Friday – 3/28
Wed/Thur – 3/26-27
Week of: Mar. 24-28
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 –Writing
 Read and Annotate “The Ways We Lie” – Stephanie Ericsson
 AP Questions
Materials: Handouts, highlighter, post-its, pen, pencil
Homework: AP Questions due Tuesday. Persuasive Essay due tomorrow. The Joy Luck Club Final
Test – bring novel– Wed/Thur. Major Grade! Final Culture Journal due Friday. Major Grade!
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 - Writing
 Joy Luck Club Test
 Persuasive Essay
Materials: Exam
Homework: Culture Packet due tomorrow with response journal completed before class.
Objective: Revise drafts to improve style, word choice, figurative language, sentence variety, and
subtlety of meaning after rethinking how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been
addressed (ELA.10.13C). Students will also use Modern Language Association (MLA) to document
sources and format written materials (ELA.10.23E).
Agenda:
 Warm-Up – STAAR Prep – Writing
 Reflection Journal Writing
 Draw for Presentation date
 MLA Mini-Lesson
Materials: Handouts, Purdue OWL Writing Lab Website
Homework: Culture Journal due today!! ABC Project – due on Monday – STAAR Test on
Tuesday!