~ January 2015 ~
◄ Dec 2014
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Feb 2015 ►
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Sat
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Make-up exams
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This week, you will need:
Archetypes Power Point
3-ring binder
No School
Make-up exams
Introduce research
Topics due (1-26)
Course Intro
Introduction of Professor
Archetypes characters
and theme (Homework)
Culture Homework(1-22)
Assign Group Archetype
Project
Introduce source
evaluation
Workday
Week’s main objectives:
Identify archetypes.
Apply archetypes to text.
Evaluate research sources.
RL 1, RL 6, RL 10
RI 1, RI 6, W 2, W 5, W7, W 8
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Quiz: Archetypes
The Trojan War
(Discord and the
Judgment of Paris)
Notecards
Printed Source due
The Trojan War
(Iphigenia,
Major Players)
Notecards
The Trojan War
The Iliad
(Achilles v
Agamemnon)
Week’s main objectives:
Identify archetypes.
Apply archetypes to text.
Evaluate research sources.
Read complex text for meaning.
Evaluate impact of literary devices
on text
Determine theme(s).
Analyze characterization.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 3, RL 4, RL 5, RL 7,
RL 10
RI 1, RI 2
W 2, W 5, W 7, W 8
25
This week, you will need:
Archetypes Power Point
Index Cards
Printed material from one source
Technology devices
26
Fairy tale archetype
activity
27
Introduction to the Greek
gods
“Cupid and Psyche” and
Topics and Sources Due archetypes
Hero project
introduction
Computer Lab: sources
Group work: project
~ February 2015 ~
◄ Jan 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Mar 2015 ►
Thu
Fri
Sat
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This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Trojan War materials
Technology devices
Notecards due
Outline introduction
The Trojan War
The Iliad
(Hector v Patroclus)
The Trojan War
The Iliad
(Hector’s Goodbyes)
The Trojan War
The Iliad
(Hector vs. Achilles)
The Trojan War
Drama: Agamemnon,
Trojan Women
(Fall of Troy)
Vocab Quiz 1
The Trojan War
Drama: Agamemnon,
Trojan Women
(Fall of Troy)
Week’s main objectives:
Apply archetypes to text.
Read complex text for meaning.
Evaluate impact of literary devices on text.
Determine theme(s).
Analyze characterization.
Gather relevant information from reliable sources.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 3, RL 4, RL 5
RL 7, RL 10, W 2, W 5, W 7, W 8
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14
This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Trojan War materials
Technology devices
Outlines due
The Trojan War
The Odyssey
Archetype project due
Workday
The Trojan War
The Odyssey
The Trojan War
Week’s main objectives:
Read complex text for meaning.
Evaluate impact of literary devices on text.
Determine theme(s)
Identify literary devices.
Analyze how an author transforms ancient text for a
new purpose.
Organize information and plan informational writing.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 3, RL 4, RL 5
RL 7, RL 9, RL 10, W 2, W 5, W 7
L 1, L 2, L 3
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21
Daedalus and Icarus
Week’s main objectives:
Write, revise and rewrite informational text.
Identify theme(s); identify main idea.
Determine point of view and purpose.
Evaluate impact of literary or rhetorical devices.
Analyze cultural point of view and experiences.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 4, RL 6, RL 10
W 2, W 5, W 7, L 1, L 2, L 3
This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Technology devices
Workday
22
This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Technology devices
Things Fall Apart
Echo and Narcissus
19
1st
SNOW DAY
SNOW DAY
Peer edit draft of
research paper
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28
Unit 1 Test
Socrates (from Plato’s
“The Apology”
African Oral Tales
Final research paper
due
African Oral Tales
Sundiata
Sundiata
Vocab. Unit 2 Quiz
“Life is Sweet”
HW: TFA chs. 1-2
HW: TFA chs. 3-4
HW:TFA ch. 5-7
Week’s main objectives:
Identify theme(s); identify main idea.
Determine point of view and purpose.
Evaluate impact of literary or rhetorical devices.
Analyze cultural point of view and experiences.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 4, RL 6, RL 7, RL 10, RI 2, RI 4
~ March 2015 ~
◄ Feb 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Apr 2015 ►
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
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7
This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Technology devices
Things Fall Apart
“Dead Men”
PSAT
“Prisoner”
Apartheid
Rwanda article
Hotel Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda
Week’s main objectives:
Identify main idea.
Determine point of view and purpose.
Evaluate impact of literary or rhetorical devices.
Analyze cultural point of view and experiences.
CCSS:
RL 4, RI 1, RI 2, RI 3, RI 4, RI 6, RI 9, RI 10
Journal 1 due (ch. 1-7)
HW: TFA chs. 8-9
HW: TFA ch. 10
HW: TFA ch. 11
HW: TFA ch. 12
HW: TFA ch. 13-15
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10
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14
This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Technology devices
Things Fall Apart
The Creation and Fall
Mary/Eve packet
Esther/Jezebel packet
Trojan War project due Hotel Rwanda
African satire piece
Hotel Rwanda
Journal 2 due (ch. 8-13)
Boko Haram
Unit 2 Test
HW: TFA ch. 16
HW: TFA ch. 17
HW: TFA ch. 18-19
HW: TFA ch. 20-22
Week’s main objectives:
Determine theme.
Evaluate impact of literary devices on text.
Analyze cultural point of view and experiences.
Analyze character archetypes in text.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 3, RL 4, RL 6, RL 7, RL 10, RI 2,
RI 6
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This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Technology devices
Things Fall Apart
Parable packet
Abraham and Isaac
Hymn to the Aten
Psalms
Creation/Fall
Paradise Lost
Journal 3 due (ch. 1419)
Parables
(Hebrew and Zen)
Abraham and Isaac/
Wilfred Owen
Abraham and Isaac/
Wilfred Owen
Psalms
“Hymn to the Aten”
Assign Praise Poem
HW: TFA ch. 23
HW: TFA ch. 24
HW: TFA ch. 25
Week’s main objectives:
Determine theme.
Determine point of view and purpose.
Evaluate impact of literary devices on text.
Analyze cultural point of view and experiences.
Analyze how an author transforms ancient text for a new
purpose.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 4, RL 5, RL6, RL 7, RL 9, RL 10,
W3
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24
25
26
27
28
This week, you will need:
Vocabulary Workshop
Technology devices
Your Inferno materials
African project due
1001 Nights
(Prologue, Epilogue,
and “The Dream
Inferno/Afterlife
Inferno/Afterlife
Inferno/Afterlife
Week’s main objectives:
Determine theme.
Determine point of view and purpose.
Evaluate impact of literary devices on text.
Analyze cultural point of view and experiences.
CCSS:
RL 1, RL 2, RL 4, RL 5, RL6, RL 7, RL 9, RL 10,
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Notes:
Don Quixote
End of 3rd quarter
Don Quixote
Mary vs. Eve
(Jezebel, Delilah,
Abigail, Esther)
Optional Assignment 2
due
Journal 4 due (ch. 2025)