Contents of Writer’s Notebook for Formative Grade Submission #4:
Gender Unit:
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Gender WT2 brainstorming notes for each of the six prompts
Gender FOA notes
Culture Unit:
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Persepolis Dialectical Journal
Life map
Master list of cultural aspects
Annotations on “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me”, “Looking
for Zora”, and “Discovering Books”*
Chart for “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” (cultural aspects and writing strategies)
Thesis statement for one of the African-American texts
Personal writing using a strategy from one of the African-American texts
Annotations on “Always Living in Spanish”, “Always Running”, and “Aria”*
Thesis statement for one of the Hispanic texts
Personal writing using a no-named strategy from one of the African-American texts or Hispanic
texts, OR internal monologue
Annotations on “No Name Woman”, and “Mother Tongue”*
Thesis statement for both Asian-American texts
Annotations on “Beyond Traditional Notions of Identity”, “Language of Prejudice”, “Meanings of
a Word”, and “Words with Built-In Judgments”*
Master list of derogatory terms used to denigrate culture/ways language can influence culture
Culture WT2 brainstorming notes for each of the six prompts
Language/Power Unit:
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Language/Power personal brainstorm
Language/Power concepts master list
Annotations for The Week articles about language/power*
1984 Book 1 Reading Guide*
Annotations for Orwell essay on politics and language*
1984 Book 2 Reading Guide*
1984 Book 3 Reading Guide*
Annotations for Orwell essay on politics and language*
Annotations for NY Times “Orwellian article*
Annotations for Environmental Doublespeak article*
Vocabulary (in back):
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Quarter 4 list creative activity (HW)
Quarter 4 list related words (HW)
Quarter 4 list writings about unit texts (HW)
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Quarter 4 list activity: sentences about past literature (in class)
*Denotes assignments that may have been done on the print-out of an article or other assignment, or
did not necessarily need to be written down. Students will not be penalized if these assignments are not
in the WN---however, I remember who did not have print-outs of the culture texts, so if there are not
thorough annotations in your WN instead, it will impact your grade.