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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
 Student ad
 Journal response to
DI
 Discussion Circle:
ask/answer HW
questions
 Survey: research
skills
 HW: write down
the last 5 things you
read, why, and why
you did/n’t like
them
 Anti-western ad
 Discuss homework
 Research proposals
due
 Small groups:
workshop research
projects
 Read silently:
Persepolis (p. 4180)
 HW: Persepolis
until p. 80
 Welcome
 Surveys
 Expectations
 Reading focus
 Intro Survey
 Forms
 Very Funny Ad:
Volkswagon’s
“Hands”
 Discussion:
Persuasion (ppt
with terms)
 1-page writing
samples
 Paper ad and
interpretation
 Solicit ads from
kids
 Read “I’ve Seen the
Promised Land,
then watch video
 Discussion
 Cartoon &
interpretation
 Read the
Declaration of
Independence
 Discuss the
argument
 HW: write 5
questions about DI
 Mail ad
 Discussion:
Research skills
(ppt)
 Silent read: “The
Bombing of
Hiroshima”
 HW: find a resource
you could use to
research Hiroshima
and write a paper
 Student piece
 Ppt – Machievelli’s
“The Prince”;
context
 Have student read
“How flatterers
should be avoided”
 Small groups:
workshop resources
from HW
 Discuss strategies
for figuring out
vocab (announce
quiz)
 HW: study for quiz
 Read: “In the
waiting room”
 Quiz: Research and
persuasion, with
short answer
response to favorite
text so far
 Hand out research
project assignments
and spend rest of
class discussing in
small groups
 Picture ad
 Discuss bias,
prejudice.
 Introduce
Persepolis and
projects
 Start reading
Persepolis
 HW: Read until p.
40; take notes on
any prejudice you
saw
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 Anti- Muslim ad
 Mad write: pretend
someone showed
prejudice to you
and how you felt
 Have students share
their mad writes
 HW: read
Persepolis (81-110)
 Very Funny Ad
 Mini-lesson:
research thesis
 Workshop: thesis
writing
 HW: Read
Perspolis (111-130)
 Student piece
 Thesis due
 Research
minilesson
 Library trip to find
resources
 HW: Finish
Persepolis (130160)
 Student piece
 Fast write – what
you learned from
persepolis
 Discussion of
Persepolis
 HW: research for
paper
 Example of
research essay:
“Should Marine
Animals be kept in
Captivity?”
 Outlines due
 Library Trip
 HW: research
bibliography
 Read: (opt) “In
Egypt, tourism and
Islam”
 Another essay
example
 Read/Listen “The
Perils of
Indifference"
 Journal response
and personal
application
 HW: research
bibliography
 Cartoon about
school
 Mini-Lesson on
Satire
 Read: “The Butter
Battle Book”
 HW: keep working
on paper
 Student piece
 Read: “A Modest
Proposal”
 Free write: satire
 HW: finish paper
 Student piece
 Mini-lesson:
rhetorical methods
 Activity: practice
rhetoric in small
groups with fun
topics and
workshop rhetorical
methods to use for
paper
 HW: write outline
for paper
 Cartoon about
school
 Research Papers
due
 Silent Read:
Utopia: of their
slaves, and of their
marriages
 Discuss Utopia
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 Video clip: Do you
speak American?
 Read: Philly
Restaurant article
 Mad write: you
suddenly find
yourself in the
make-believe
country of
Swashnia and are
told you may only
speak swashniki.
Write a letter home.
 Cartoon: “Clueless”
 Read: “Leave Your
Name at the
Border”
 Pop quiz: free write
on perspective,
persuasion, and
research
 Group project plans
due
 Sign up for/assign
presentation days
 Group work time
 Video clip: rhetoric
 Fast write: write a
letter telling the
president why or
why not you should
be drafted into the
military
 Share writes
 Group work time
 Video clip: rhetoric
 Read: biased news
article
 Discuss in circle
 Last group work
session
 Quote: Bush “the
desire for freedom”
 Review
Expectations
 Presentations
 Ice-breaker
 Presentations
 Team-building
activity
 Presentations
 Team-building
activity
 Presentations
 Team-building
activity
 Movie: Mr. Smith
Goes to
Washington
 Compare paintings
of women in
Victorian England
and now
 Mini-lesson:
Feminist
perspective
 Read: Hannah More
Excerpt
 Discussion
 Chauvinist Ad
 Free write: how
would you respond
if someone told you
they wouldn’t hire
you because of your
gender?
 Discussion
 Indian Goddess and
Myth
 Small group
activity: come up
with adjectives
commonly
associated with
specific genders
 Discussion
 Chauvinist Ad
 Read: “Kerosene,
Weapon of Choice”
 Free write: write 1
page about how
gender is portrayed
in one of the recent
readings
 Discussion
 Marxist Cartoon/ad
 Mini-lesson:
Marxism (use
“Marxism: the
cartoon version)
 Watch: Fiddler on
the Roof clip/s
 Small groups: list
ways your life
would change under
Marxism
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 Visitor:
Immigration
Experience
 Introduce group
projects
 Divide class into
groups
 Team-building
activity
 Groups decide on
topics
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 Radical Marxist
Jokes
 Video clip about
communism
 Read: “Make-up
and other crucial
questions”
 Journal Response
 Discussion
 “Did I miss
anything?”
 Mini-lesson: intro
to reading poetry
AND discussion
 Introduce poetry
project
 HW: find a short
piece of poetry you
like and bring it to
class
 Poems due
 Publishing Circle:
poem reading
 Ice-breaker
 Exam review I
 Ice-breaker
 Exam review II
 Group Study time
 Video: how to take
a test
 UNIT EXAM
 Nonfiction party:
cookies and display
writing projects
 Literature game
 Video: War in Iraq
clip
 Mini-lesson:
nationalism, war,
and peace
 “The Soldier”
 activity: examine
pro-war ads and
respond in journals
 Discussion
 Ice-breaker
 “Anthem for
Doomed Youth”
 Examine anti-war
ads/campaigns and
respond
 Group discussion
 Picture of Aztec
Mask and
discussion of
hidden perspective
 Read: “Aztec
Mask”
 Groupwork:
brainstorm poem
ideas
 Picture of African
Mask
 Read: “We wear the
mask”
 Poem drafts due
 Workshop poem
drafts
 Ice-breaker
 Mini-lesson: intro
Bhagavad-Gita
(history and reading
help)
 Read some in class
 HW: read more at
home
 “Procrastination is
all of the time”
 Read BhagavadGita aloud/stream
online
 Free write:
respond to
Bhagavad-Gita
 HW: read
Bhagavad-Gita
 Poem from first day
of unit hw – ask
student to explain
why they liked it
 Read BhagavadGita aloud/stream
online
 Group activity:
respond creatively
to Bhagavad-Gita
 Ice-breaker: display
group responses to
BG
 Quiz: BhagavadGita
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 Ice-breaker
 Group 1:
Read/present
Inferno in class
 Discussion: what
was this portion
about?
 Group brainstorm
time
 Ice-breaker
 Group 2:
Read/present
Inferno in class
 Discussion: what
was this portion
about?
 Journal response
 Ice-breaker: read
“We are many”
 Mini-lesson:
writing about poetry
and doing closereadings
 Show sample essay
 Pairs: brainstorm
for essay
 Ice-breaker
 Read: “A far cry
from Africa”
 Discuss
 Journal response
 Time to work on
Essays (outlines
and theses)
 Ice-breaker
 Read “Christmas in
Quatar”
 Discuss
 Go to Media Center
and work on essays
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 Funny Poem
 Introduce Dante and
The Inferno –
video?
 Mini-lesson: Dante
and context
 Read some of
inferno
 Groups assigned
parts of Inferno
 Groups brainstorm
 Ice-breaker
 Group 3:
Read/present
Inferno in class
 Discussion: what
was this portion
about?
 Free write: what
do you think the
prevailing
perspective is in
the inferno and
why?
 Ice-breaker
 Read: “AfroAmerican
Fragment”
 Discuss
 Workshop drafts of
essays
 Ice-breaker
 Group 4:
Read/present
Inferno in class
 Discussion: what
was this portion
about?
 Review of Inferno
 Explain essay
 Ice-breaker
 Essays due
 1-minute
summaries of their
essays
 Popcorn
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 Audio news clip
 Intro to Hedda
Gabler and
instructions for
dramatic reading
 Dramatic Reading
of Hedda Gabler:
read Act I
 Video clip about
stories
 Dramatic Reading:
HG Act II
 Discussion
 Journal Response
 Example of short
story assignment
 Dramatic Reading:
HG Act III
 Discussion
 Workshop: drafts of
short stories
 Example of short
story as expected
 Dramatic Reading:
HG Act IV
 Free write:
Respond to HG by
explaining the plot
and what you
think the
point/argument of
the play was
 HW: finish short
story
 Short Stories due
 Publishing Circle
 Advertisement
 Ppt: Intro to Oral
Tradition
 Read: excerpt from
A Thousand and
One Nights
 Small groups:
discuss the who,
when, were, and
why of the stories
(analyze)
 Cartoon about
Greece/Rome
 Intro to Oedipus
 Read: Oedipus
 Worksheet response
to Oedipus
 You tube Oedipus
 Quiz on Oedipus
and A Thousand
and One Nights
 Story-telling game:
small group activity
 Warm-up peice
 Mini-lesson:
Realism and the
Eastern European
tradition
 Read: Notes from
the Underground
 Journal response
Stories
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Short Stories
 History video clip
on impact of short
stories
 Mini-lesson: the
short story and
review of plots
 Read: All Quiet on
the Western Front
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 Realist art
 Read: Gogol’s “The
Nose”
 Worksheet to
understand story
 Discussion
 HW: start reading
Kafka’s
“Metamorphosis”
 Symbolic art
 Read: “The
Metamorphosis”
 Worksheet
 Discuss and
contrast to “The
Nose”
 Political cartoon
 Mini-lesson: review
of satire and
connection to short
stories
 Read excerpt from
The Good Soldier
Schweik
 Fast write: write a
political satire
 French art
 Intro to Madame
Bovary
 Read chapters 9-11
of Madame Bovary
 Discuss (fill-in-theblank worksheet)
plot, characters, and
themes
 Video clip for
Madame Bovary
 Read: “Words do
not a book Make”
 Workshop:
brainstorm personal
narratives
 Ice-breaker
 Personal
Narratives due
 Publishing Circle
 Cartoon about
Greece
 Read: selections
from Aesop’s
Fables
 Writing: write
your own fable
 Share and discuss
 Student Piece
 Mini-lesson:
censorship
 Read: “The
Censors”
 Journal response
 HW: Buy folder
and compile all
writings from
semester
 Student piece
 Quiz on Madame
Bovary, “The Nose,
“Notes from the
Underground, and
“The
Metamorphosis”
 Introduce personal
narrative
assignment
 HW: Plan plot of
personal narrative
 Cartoon on
censorship
 Free write: It is
illegal to discuss
the color red.
Write me a story
about war without
saying “red”
 Explore Banned
Books site
 Read: list of banned
books - discuss
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 Picture of silenced
people
 Video clip:
“Ninotcha”
 Read article: “Press
Censorship around
the world”
 Small group: review
list of items we read
this semester and
think of reason why
they might be
censored in certain
situations, times, or
places
 Ice-breaker
 Pop quiz: write a
page about
censorship: how it
affects you today,
and make an
argument for or
against it using a
logical argument
 Read: “The Mask of
Red Death”
 Picture of child
labor
 Read: short story on
sex trade
 Journal: Respond to
story
 Discuss
 Political ad
(Soviet?)
 Read selection from
Red Scarf Girl
 Class activity:
Obstacle
course/game - get
through the system
 Political Ad/song
 Read: “Reflections
in a cell”
 Video: Fahrenheit
451
 Cartoon short story
(sequence)
 Group story-telling
game
 Read: “Civil Peace”
 Pre-final quiz
(review of
semester)
 HW: bring writings
from semester
tomorrow
 Video: writing
process
 Read: “The Dark
prince”
 Workshop: how to
make lap packs
 Advertisement
 Mad write: 5minute letter telling
me what you
learned, liked, and
hated
 Review of
Persuasion,
Research, Logic,
and literary aspects
of semester
 Final Exam
 Writing
Collections (“Lap
packs”) due
 Holiday Party
 Display of Lap
Packs
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