Table of Contents Name Tent Altruism, Molly Peacock Famous, Naomi Shihab Nye “Texts and Contexts:” Introduction, Chapter 1, and New Criticism “Texts and Contexts:” The Writing Process: A Sample Essay (The Mother) “Texts and Contexts:” Chapter 3, Creating the Text “Texts and Contexts:” The Writing Process: A Sample Essay (A Very Short Story) Critical Theory Notes Essential Question Rubric Essential Question First Draft “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar Maya Angelou Video Notes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Test Preface of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings “Shame,” Dick Gregory The Rust on the Razor that Threatens the Throat reading and chart I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Literary Criticism I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Criticism Analysis Reading Lolita in Tehran Chapters 1 and 2, close reading Reading Lolita in Tehran: Chapters 1 and 2, poster excerpt Reading Lolita in Tehran: during-reading schedule and work Reading Lolita in Tehran: reading quizzes Reading Lolita in Tehran: Character chart and main idea/them charts Reading Lolita in Tehran: In-class notes Project Sheet Project: Abstract and Rubric Project: Oral Presentation rubric Project: Oral presentation peer evaluations Project map Project: Notes for power-point and oral presentation Project: Materials received from others Project: post-reflection There is no greater agony… packet Proust Questionnaire Speak, Memory Nabokov Excerpts “You” college essay packet College essay draft packet Revised college essay Where I’m From J. Shanahan Where I’m From draft packet Where I’m From finalized poem “The Playground” John Updike “Determining Ideas is a Sequence” “Clarifying Ideas” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Power-point notes Narrative/descriptive draft packet Narrative/descriptive final essay Mr. McKiernan Materials “The Plot Escapes Me” Graded discussion post-its 47 48 49 50 51 52