WEEKLY AGENDA: SEPTEMBER 12TH- 16TH
Pre-AP English
MONDAY
Goal: Students will be able to annotate a text through close reading,
thereby deciphering the multiple layers of a text.
Objective: Pose and answer questions in order to show literal and
figurative understanding of a text; analyze the meaning of a poem
1) Mini-Lesson: Annotating a piece of literature
a. Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory”
b. Modeling an Annotation
2) Reflection on annotation: Identifying important
reading strategies, literary elements, figures of
speech, and literary techniques
3) Groups: Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphors”
4) Whole Group: Reflection on Plath’s “Metaphors”:
What is the take away?
THURSDAY
Goal: Students will be able write effective literary analysis thesis
statements.
Objective: Develop and refine thesis statements using prior textual
annotation.
1) Grammar Warm-Up: SAT/MugShots
2) Mini-Lesson: Thesis Statements Activity:
a. Step 1: Using your annotation of “Hills”,
“The Wife’s Story”, and “Metaphors”,
generate 3 thesis statements
b. Step 2: Compare, Discuss, Edit and
Refine Thesis Statements
HW: Finalize Thesis Statement for each piece of
literature to be used on Friday
TUESDAY
Goal: Students will be able to annotate a text through close reading,
thereby deciphering the multiple layers of a text.
Objective: Pose and answer questions in order to show literal and
figurative understanding of a text; analyze the meaning of a piece of
literature
1) Grammar Warm-Up: SAT/MugShots
2) Review Vocabulary List (generated in class on
Monday)
3) Discuss Symbolism: Traditional, Archetypal,
Conventional, and Personal
4) Annotation
5) Read and annotate Hemingway’s “Hills Like White
Elephants”.
Essential Question: How does annotation help to
clarify meaning?
FRIDAY
Goal: Students will be able write effective literary analysis
introductory paragraphs.
Objective: Develop and refine introductory paragraphs using prior
thesis statements and textual annotation.
1) Warm-Up: SAT/MugShots
2) Review Vocabulary List
3) Mini-Lesson: Writing an Introduction
4) Activity: Writing an Introductory Paragraph
a. Step 1: Using your best thesis statement,
generate an introductory paragraph
b. Step 2: Compare, discuss, edit and refine
introductory paragraphs
HW: Turn in final introductory paragraphs
for an essay grade DUE MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
Goal: Students will be able to annotate a text through close reading,
thereby deciphering the multiple layers of a text.
Objective: Pose and answer questions in order to show literal and
figurative understanding of a text; analyze the meaning of a piece of
literature
1) Grammar Warm-Up: SAT/MugShots
2) Review Vocabulary
3) Annotation
a. Read and annotate Hemingway’s “The
Wife’s Story”
b. Whole Group: What subtle details would
have been missed without close reading?
Were these essential details?
4) Essential Question: How does annotation help to
clarify meaning?
WEEKLY AGENDA: SEPTEMBER 12TH- 16TH
Pre-AP English
WEEKLY AGENDA: SEPTEMBER 12TH- 16TH
Pre-AP English
WEEKLY AGENDA: FEBRUARY 23rd -27TH
COLLEGE PREP. : ENGLISH IV
MONDAY
1) Read and Discuss Oedipus: Exodus
2) Complete Exodus Questions
HW: Study for Oedipus Review Game
TUESDAY
1) Oedipus Review Game
HW: Study for Oedipus Exam
WEDNESDAY
1) Oedipus Exam
THURSDAY
1) Intro. to the Renaissance and Elizabethan Theater
2) Discuss Tragedy/Elizabethan Theater
3) Shakespeare in Love clip
FRIDAY
1) Discuss Humanism/Renaissance
2) Elizabeth clip (if time)