US LITERATURE—PERIODS 1/2/3
WEEK 3: January 18th
Note: Please keep up with the schedule—if you are absent, you are expected to know what
you missed! The schedule is subject to change based on class discussion and progress. I
will announce all changes in class and will revise the online schedule. Please check the
schedule frequently.
DATE
ACTIVITY
Monday
1/18
No School
Tuesday
1/19
Check homework: Two poems
annotated/answered
READING/ASSIGNMENT
DUE
Read and ANNOTATE the other two poems in the
packet (work together)
Wednesday/
Thursday
1/20 and 1/21
BLOCK DAY
Obstacles to the Dream:
 The role of education: excerpts from
Gregory Mantsios’ “Class in America—2003”
 Read/annotate
 Discuss
 Reader’s Notebook Entry
Keep up with the reading
and Reader’s Notebook
assignments!
Introduce Of Mice and Men
 Distribute books
 Discuss RN assignment
 Read
Introduce SOCRATIC SEMINAR
Friday
1/22
Read: Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”
(packet)—
As you read: focus on the view of wealth through
the eyes of the poor, black children. What does
the narrator (Sylvia) teach us about the concept of
the American Dream? What obstacles do these
children face?
Homework:
Finish “The Lesson” and
RN entry
**Be prepared for
Socratic seminar on
Monday