August 25 – October 3, 2014
1st 6-weeks
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Aug 25 C
26 B
27 A
28 B
29 A
Sept 1
2 B
3 A
4 B
5 A
8 A
9 B
10 A
11 B (LATE START)
12 B
15 A
16 B
17 A
18 B
19 A
22 A
23 B
24 A
25 B (LATE START)
26 B
29 A
30 B
Oct 1 A
2 B
3 A
HOLIDAY
(Labor Day)
October 6 – November 7, 2014
2nd 6-weeks
How does language influence the way we think, act, or perceive the world? How does awareness of author’s craft influence our
evaluation of an argument?
Essential Vocabulary: style, tone, diction, atmosphere/mood, paradox, prose, voice, organization, symbolism, syntax, shift, slang,
colloquialism, jargon, aphorism, apostrophe, ambiguity, literary devices, antithesis, inverted word order, reversed sentence structure,
metonymy, synecdoche, contradiction, subtlety, equivocation, parallelism, repetition, inductive and deductive reasoning, procedural
texts, cause and effect, rhetorical strategies (ethos, pathos, logos), author’s purpose
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Oct 6 A
7 B
8 A
9 B (LATE START)
10 A
1. 1 page journal: Why do
people come to the US?
2. SOAPSTone from
Upfront
3. Take citizenship test
4. Research responses
5. SSR
HW: SAT Vocab #2
1. 1 page journal: Why do
people come to the US?
2. SOAPSTone from
Upfront
3. Take citizenship test
4. Research responses
5. SSR
HW: SAT Vocab #2
1. SSR
2. What’s legal/illegal
immigration?
3. Read and summarize
Texas immigration laws
4. Introduce “Into the
Wilderness”
HW: Find out from where
your family immigrated.
1. SSR
2. What’s legal/illegal
immigration?
3. Read and summarize
Texas immigration laws
4. Introduce “Into the
Wilderness”
HW: Find out from where
your family immigrated.
1. SAT Vocab Quiz #2
2. SSR
3. Reading visuals minilesson
4. immigration.procon.org:
look through and make
your own infographic
5. Continue “Into the
Wilderness”
13
14 B
15 A (PSAT)
16 B
17 B
20 A
21 B
22 A
23 B
24 A
27 A
28 B
29 A
30 B (LATE START)
31 B
1. SSR
2. Economic vocab
3. Journal: Imagine that
you are your ancestor.
How much money do you
need to come to America?
How are you going to get
here? Why are you
coming? With whom are
you traveling?
1. SSR
2. Economic vocab
3. Journal: Imagine that
you are your ancestor.
How much money do you
need to come to America?
How are you going to get
here? Why are you
coming? With whom are
you traveling?
1. SSR
2. Continue immigration
research
3. Nonfiction test
1. SSR
2. Continue immigration
research
3. Nonfiction test
1. SSR
2. Continue immigration
research
STAFF
DEVELOPMENT
(Columbus Day)
1. Journal: How does the
portrayal of immigration
differ between the media
and fictional sources?
2. Research immigration
from your family’s country
3. Make a graphic or
timeline
4. Look at political
cartoons
5. Analyze political cartoon
in groups
1. SAT Vocab Quiz #2
2. SSR
3. Reading visuals minilessons
4. immigration.procon.org:
look through and make
your own infographic
5. Continue “Into the
Wilderness”
1. SSR
2. Continue into the
wilderness
3. Read opinion letters
4. SOAPSTone both letters
5. Write rebuttal to one
side
1. Watch CSI Miami:
Hunting Ground (Season 9
Episode 16)
1. SSR
2. Read opinion letters
3. SOAPSTone both letters
4. Write rebuttal to one
side
1. Watch CSI Miami:
Hunting Ground (Season 9
Episode 16)
1. SSR
2. T-Chart pro/con
immigration policy
3. Choose a
philosophy/belief
4. Philosophical chairs
based on chosen side
5. Philosophical chairs
reflection
1. Journal: How does the
portrayal of immigration
differ between the media
and fictional sources?
2. Research immigration
from your family’s country
3. Make a graphic or
timeline
4. Look at political cartoons
5. Analyze political
cartoons in groups
1. SSR
2. T-Chart pro/con
immigration policy
3. Choose a
philosophy/belief
4. Philosophical chairs
based on chosen side
5. Philosophical chairs
reflection
4. Introduce research
strategies—go to the
library and learn about
Gale Group
4. Introduce research
strategies—go to the
library and learn about
Gale Group
Nov 3 A
4 B
1. SSR
2. Continue immigration
research
1. Compile presentation
and works cited page
5 A
1. Compile presentation
and works cited page
6 B
1. Presentations
2. Reader response
journals due
7 A
1. Presentations
2. Reader response
journals due
November 10 – December 18, 2014
3rd 6-weeks
Essential Questions: How has the idea of being an American evolved? How do we maintain authentic identities even when
influenced by others’ cultural belief systems?
Essential Vocabulary: audience, protagonist, antagonist, characterization, conflict, dialogue, dialect, climax, verbal and
dramatic irony, monologue, aside, allusion, analogy, parallelism, rhetorical questions, understatement, tragedy, comedy,
stage directions, theme, universal experiences, explicit and implicit theme, set, props.
Monday
Nov 10 A
1. Journal: Respond to the
following quote—“Our
claim, our hope, our
despair are in the mind—
not in things, not in
scenery.”
2. Introduce small town life
3. Vocab posters
Tuesday
11
STAFF
DEVELOPMENT
(Veterans Day)
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
12 A
13 B
14 B
1. Introduce different
pieces of drama
2. Take parts and read Act
I and fill out Sights and
Sounds graphic organizer
3. Rewrite ½ in own
language for their chosen
character
1. Journal: Respond to the
following quote—“Our
claim, our hope, our
despair are in the mind—
not in things, not in
scenery.”
2. Introduce small town life
3. Introduce different
pieces of drama
4. Vocab posters
1. Take parts and read Act
I and fill out sights and
sounds graphic organizer
2. Rewrite ½ in own
language for their chosen
character
3. Fill in Then Comes
Trouble graphic organizer
17 A
18 B
19 A
20 B (LATE START)
21 B
24 A
25 B
26
27
28
1. Create character chart
2. Gallery walk character
charts
3. Fill out Role Call sheet
HW: Interview 1 family
member or family friends
about life in America pre1970
1. Watch Our Town
adaptation
Dec 1 A
2 B
3 A
4 B
5 A
1. Watch Our Town
adaptation
1. Take parts and read Act
III and fill in Then Comes
Trouble organizer
2. Map town
3. Share universal themes
1. Take parts and read Act
III and fill in Then Comes
Trouble organizer
2. Map town
3. Share universal themes
1. OT: Our Town
documentary and
questions
2. Vocab quiz
1. OT: Our Town
documentary and
questions
2. Vocab quiz
STAAR
STAAR
STAAR
STAAR
STAAR
1. Take new parts and
finish reading Act 1
2. Finish Sights and
sounds graphic organizer
3. Whole group discussion
4. Write summary of Act I
5. Fill in Then Comes
Trouble organizer
6. Read Thorton Widler
reviews
1. Take new parts and
finish reading Act 1
2. Finish Sights and
sounds graphic organizer
3. Whole group discussion
4. Write summary of Act I
5. Fill in Then Comes
Trouble organizer
6. Read Thorton Wilder
reviews
1. Small group reading Act
II and complete Sights and
sounds graphic organizer
and questions
2. Fill in Then Comes
Trouble organizer
3. Investigate universal
themes
1. Small group reading Act
II and complete Sights and
sounds graphic organizer
and questions
2. Fill in Then Comes
Trouble Organizer
3. Investigate universal
themes
1. Create character chart
2. Gallery walk character
charts
3. Fill out Role Call sheet
HW: Interview 1 family
member or family friend
about life in America pre1970
Thanksgiving Holiday
8 A
9 B
10 A
STAAR
STAAR
STAAR
1. Finish film
2. Read reviews
3. Write like
15
st
1. Finish film
2. Read reviews
3. Write like
rd
1 & 3
FINALS
16
nd
1.
th
2 & 4
FINALS
17
Final review
th
11 B
1. Introduce of Mice and
Men
2. Introduce SS paper and
our take
3. Journal: If you were
going to update Our Town
like the students in the film,
what are some things that
you would change in
2014?
STAAR
th
5 & 7
FINALS
18
th
th
6 & 8
FINALS
12 B
1. Final review
STAAR
19
STAFF
DEVELOPMENT