2nd Semester, 2016
anita.nunez@austinisd.org
English III
Mrs. Nuñez
5th Six-Weeks Calendar
Block/ Date
2/19 & 22
F
M
Class Agenda
Socratic Seminar (L2)

See me for makeup date
Block 1
2/23 & 2/24
T
W
American Poetry Unit: How we struggle & what we learn
Block 2
2/25 & 2/26
TH
F
Block 3
2/29 & 3/1
M
T
American Poetry Unit
Block 4
3/2 & 3/3
W TH
American Poetry Unit
Block 5
3/4 & 3/7
F
M
How we struggle & what we learn
A Raisin in the Sun viewing and Reflection (L1)
Block 6
3/8 & 3/9
T
W
How we struggle & what we learn
A Raisin in the Sun viewing and Reflection (L1)
Block 7
3/10 & 3/11
TH
F
3/13 =
Daylight Saving
Time Begins
Block 8
3/21 & 3/22
M
T
Block 9
3/23 & 3/24
W
TH
Notes/Needs
Turn in your
notes.
Poetry Terms
Review TPCASTT
Class analysis: “I am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg (√)
Individual analysis using TPCASTT: “America” by Claude McKay (L1)
American Poetry Unit
2/25 = Late St.
2/26 = Special
Prog. schedule
2/29 =Leap Day
Harlem Renaissance Background PowerPoint and Notes
 What were the struggles? How did people respond?
Langston Hughes- Dream Variations, I, Too, Sing America, and
A Dream Deferred reading and viewing
Zora Neale Hurston- How it Feels to be Colored Me
How does each
poem reflect
the time
period?
Study your CC
Words
How we struggle & what we learn
Visual Response to American Poetry Unit (√)
Spring Break!
How we struggle & what we learn
Memoir-view of bilingual education
Richard Rodriguez- Aria
Commonly Confused Vocab Quiz #5
Begin The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (TTTC Unit)
H.W. Study
your CC Words!
3/23 = Advisory
3/25 = Holiday
Block 10
3/28 & 3/29
M
T
Block 11
3/30 & 3/31
W TH
Block 12
4/1 & 4/4
F
M
Block 13
4/5 & 4/6
T W
Block 14
4/7 & 4/8
TH
F
Block 15
4/11 & 4/12
M
T
Block 16
4/13 & 4/14
W
TH
Block 17
4/15 & 4/18
F
M
The Things They Carried Unit
TTTC Unit
3/31- EOC II
TTTC Unit
TTTC Unit
TTTC Unit
LATE START
TTTC Unit
TTTC Unit
5th 6 weeks Assignments:
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3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
3/29- EOC I
(reverse bells)
Socratic Seminar- Of Mice and Men (L2)
TPCASTT (L1)
A Raisin in the Sun Reflection (L1)
TBD
Commonly Confused Vocabulary Quiz #5 (L1)
Rodriguez/Hurston Comparison Handout (L1)
Checks/Participation Grade Total (L2)
4/14 = Advisory
End of sixweeks is 4/15