Unit: 1 Economics
Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
Workouts
Word of the Day
Week #
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4
Monday
Altruistic
Discern
Engender
Obscure
Tuesday
Ambivalent
Disdain
Innocuous
Ostentatious
Wednesday
Angular
Disparage
Insipid
Prodigal
Thursday
Arrogant
Disparity
Lament
Repudiate
Friday
Aversion
Embellish
Laud
Reticence
Mentor Sentences
Week #1
1.
As an emotional span, uniting its movement in space and time, a sentence seems to generate its
own dynamics of feeling, ushering us into its meaning and escorting us across it, anticipating,
deflecting, suspending, and finally going to a satisfactory close. —Virginia Tufte, Grammar as
Style
2.
Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in
whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man
must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic
contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with
something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
3.
I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of
my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.—James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
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This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel,
and maples were still alive, and the green place invited refugees—partly because they believed
that if the Americans came back, they would bomb only buildings; partly because the foliage
seemed a center of coolness and life, and the estate’s exquisitely precise rock gardens, with
their quiet pools and arching bridges, were very Japanese, normal, secure; and also partly
(according to some who were there) because of an irresistible, atavistic urge to hide under
leaves.—John Hersey, Hiroshima
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It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles
of sorrow.—Toni Morrison, Sula
Week #2
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Unit: 1 Economics
Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
1.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?—Jane
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
2.
It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady
and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social
purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not,
and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not. —Joan
Didion, Slouching Towards Bethleham
3.
Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.—Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell
to Arms
4.
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so
pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its
impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the
smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.—Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
5.
In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat
jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him,
a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.—Tim O’Brien, The Things
They Carried
Week #3
1.
There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. .—Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
2.
Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains
streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never
stopped there.—Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
3.
At the still point, there the dance is.” —T. S. Eliot
4.
In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
5.
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing,
holding the universe together.”
—J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”
Week #4
1. I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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Unit: 1 Economics
Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
2. “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
3. “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
4. “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
5. “‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’”
—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Term(s) of the Week
Week #1
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Devices of Comparison (Song: “Wake Me Up” by Avicii)
o Metaphor
o Simile
o Analogy
o Synecdoche
o Metonymy
o Personification
o Periphrasis
Week #2
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Images (Song: “The Sounds of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel)
o Types of images: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, olfactory
Week #3
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Allusion (Song: “American Pie” by Don McLean)
o Types of allusion: biblical, historical, cultural, literary
Week #4
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Diction (“Roar” by Katy Perry)
o Types of diction
 Abstract/Concrete
 Denotation/Connotation
 Formal/Informal
 Latinate/Anglo-Saxon
 Slang/Jargon
Citation Questions of the Week
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Unit: 1 Economics
Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
These assignments are homework each night. The Citation Questions of the week are handout out and
available online Friday of each week.
Week #1
1. What are the three major formats for citations in essay? What are their abbreviations and what
do they stand for? What disciplines are MLA, APA, and Chicago primarily used for? What is
Turabian?
2. What are the margins in an MLA essay? APA? Chicago?
3. How are papers spaced in MLA? APA? Chicago?
4. What is the font and size used for papers written in MLA, APA, Chicago?
5. Place the following in the correct order for the MLA heading or title page:
Date: August 29, 2014
Teacher’s Name: Mrs. Kearney
Course Title: World Literature
Institution: McIntosh High School
Title of Essay: The Right Stuff
Student’s Name: Mary Smith
Week #2
1. Place the following information in the correct order for an APA heading or title page:
Date: August 29, 2014
Teacher’s Name: Mrs. Kearney
Course Title: World Literature
Institution: McIntosh High School
Title of Essay: The Right Stuff
Student’s Name: Mary Smith
2. Place the following information in the correct order for a CMS heading or title page:
Date: August 29, 2014
Teacher’s Name: Mrs. Kearney
Course Title: World Literature
Institution: McIntosh High School
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Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
Title of Essay: The Right Stuff
Student’s Name: Mary Smith
3. What is pagination? How should it be included in all three styles?
4. Create the first page of a paper in MLA manuscript form on Microsoft Word.
5. Create the first page of paper in MLA manuscript form on Google.
Week #3
1. Explain the capitalization rules and punctuation rules for a title of your essay in MLA format.
2. Explain the capitalization rules and punctuation rules for a title of one of your essay’s in APA
format.
3. Explain the capitalization rules and punctuation rules for a title of one of your essay’s in CMS
format.
4. What is titular colonicity?
5. Write an essay title about work with titular colonicity.
Week #4
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What is the reference list of works used in a paper called in all three formats?
Explain the indention and line spacing in all three formats.
In which reference lists should only cited works be included?
What is a “work consulted”? Which formats contain these?
How are entries listed in the reference list in all three formats? For example, chronological,
alphabetical by article title
Anchor Texts:
Summer Reading: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Summer Reading: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Reader’s Choice:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (watch the movie Of Mice and Men)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (watch the movie The Great Gatsby)
Author Study: John Steinbeck
“Paradox and Dream” (essay)
Nobel Prize address (speech)
“On Falling in Love” (letter)
From Journal of a Novel (journal)
Central Essay for Close Reading (CR)
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Unit: 1 Economics
Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
From Serving in Florida by Louise Ehrenreich in Language of Composition, 394
Modeled Reading/Interrupted Reading (MR)
“Women on the Breadlines” Writing America, 758
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style (GRS)
Short Simple Sentences and Fragments--Chapter 7 in Language of Composition
4 exercises
Writing/Reading Lessons
Instructions: Complete 1 section of notes and activities for a C, 2 for a B, 3 for an A. You may choose any
of the three sections. The numbers just delineate where one set of assignments end and another begins.
Turn these in as part of your homework and multiple choice portfolio.
Section 1
Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis (Language of Composition Chapter 2, 39-80)
Activity (41)
Activity (43)
Activity (47)
Activity (56)
Activity (63)
Culminating Activity (69)
Section 2
Reading as Inventing (Writing America Chapter 1, 3-27)
Activity: Keeping a Double-Entry Journal
Activity: Juxtaposing to Analyze Ads
Activity: Juxtaposing Multiple Texts
Activity: Practice Reading Out and In
Activity: Looking at a Text’s Models to Determine Tone
Activity: Predicting Meaning
Chapter Activity: Reader Experience and Text Features on Exams
Section 3
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Strategic Reading (Understanding Rhetoric Chapter 2, 67-111)
Re-reading as Reading
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What books have you read more than once? Why do these texts merit multiple
readings?
 Has there been a document (a contract, an agreement, a set of instructions, etc.) that
you should have read more carefully? Why do you think it deserved more careful
reading?
 What types of information are missed when you read something quickly or not at all?
 What do commercial plot summaries or online study guides miss in presenting a work of
literature?
Read: “Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliff Notes” from The Onion
Becoming a More Active Reader
 How does reading aloud increase (or decrease) your comprehension?
 How does reading with a writing instrument in hand increase your comprehension?
 How does explaining what you have read to another person increase your
comprehension?
 How else can you improve your reading comprehension and active engagement with a
text?
 Drawing Conclusions
Complete 1-4, 110-111
Synthesis: Materialism in America
Language of Composition, 474-501
Reading essays
*Group Discussion (Socratic Seminar)
Individual Questions
Making Connections (prior to writing)
Entering the Conversation—answer the five prompts, 501
Class Discussion of Student Writing (Student-Led)
Rhetorical Analysis: Analyzing a Prose Passage
Required Reading: “On Dumpster Diving” (LOC, 421)
Be prepared for discussion.
READ | WRITE | WATCH | DO
You will select one task for each skill in this unit: READ | WRITE | WATCH | DO.
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Unit: 1 Economics
Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
READ Choices
Non-fiction choices
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Fiction choices
Complications by Atul Gawande
Down and Out in Paris by George Orwell
How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Letters to a Young Journalist by Samuel G. Freedman
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
New Yorker: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Nickel and Dimed by Louise Ehrenreich
Secret Formula by Rick Allen
The Mind at Work by Mike Rose
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
Working by Studs Terkel (divided into nine books, do at least four)
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Short Works
And Then We Came to the End by Jonathan Ferris
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Rabbit Run by John Updike
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
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“at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south Carolina, 1989” by Louise Clifton (WA)
“Banneker” by Rita Dove (WA)
“Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg (WA)
“How to Restore the American Dream” by Fareed Zakaria (TLC)
“Keynote Address to the Democratic Convention” by Mario Cuomo (WA)
“Sharing Our Wealth” by Huey P. Long (WA)
“Stranded in Suburbia” by Paul Krugman (WA)
The Atlanta Exposition Address, Booker T. Washington (TLC)
“The Case for Working with Your Hands” by Matthew B. Crawford (TLC)
“The Roots of Honor” by John Ruskin (TLC)
“The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This Modern World: “A ‘Handy’ Guide to the Housing Market by Tom Tomorrow
“To Be of Use” by Marge Piercy (TLC)
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Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
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“What the Bagel Man Saw” by Dubner and Levitt (TLC)
From Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett, Jr. (WA)
From In Strawberry Fields by Eric Schlosser (TLC)
From Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (WA) by Frederick Louis Allen
From The Long Road of Women’s Memory by Jane Addams (WA)
From The Roots of Honor by John Ruskin
From USA by John Dos Passos (WA)
WRITE choices
Select one of the writing prompts in Suggestions for Writing pp. 512-515 in The Language of Composition.
WATCH choices
Film
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9 to 5 (1980) PG
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Citizen Kane (1941) PG
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Death of a Salesman (1985) PG
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Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (1997) PG
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Harlan County, USA (1976) PG
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Modern Times (1936) G
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Norma Rae (1979) PG
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Office Space (1999) (R)
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On the Waterfront (1954) NR
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Revolutionary Road (2008) (R)
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Roger and Me (1989) (R)
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The American Ruling Class (2005) NR
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006) PG-13
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Waitress (2007) PG-13
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005) NR
(PG-13), (R), and documentaries require parental permission.
DO Choices
1. Do manual labor. Build something, put something together (IKEA furniture), pick crops, feed the
chickens.
2. Get a shopping list of 10 items from your parents. Go to at least three stores to compare prices
on the same items. Record your data for each product. Where would you get the best deal?
One trip? Multiple trips?
3. Go pick something at a farm. Take it home, prepare it, eat it. Document the experience.
4. Go to a couple of garage sales. Take $10. Purchase wisely. Do something with your purchase—
sell it on eBay, give it away, donate it. What did you gain?
5. Go to a locally owned business—Omega, Shenanigans, Partners II Pizza, then go to a chain store
in the same category—Barnes & Noble, Toys ‘R’ Us, Pizza Hut—and compare the experience.
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Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
6. Go to a museum and look for objects like those Marge Piercy describes on pp. 469-70. Create
an original piece of art (poem, song, monologue) from the point of view of one of the pieces. Be
sure to document your presence in the museum with the object.
7. Go to a place where people work. Do periodic observation logs.
8. How much is minimum wage? Develop a budget for living one month as a single person earning
the minimum wage in Peachtree City. What kind of living accommodations could you afford?
How much money would be available for food? What would your transportation costs be?
9. Interview someone in the field you are interested in as a career. Focus on the day in day out of
work. What is a day like for someone in that career?
10. Keep a photo log of your family’s trash for a week. How much do you throw away? Recycle?
How could you reduce or reuse to cut down on the trash you throw away?
11. Look at a week of your family’s grocery purchases and take the receipt. Compare prices now to a
time when your parents were your same age. Look at the items you buy compared to what your
parents and grandparents used at the same age.
12. Scavenge: Find something valuable in the trash. Why would you consider the item valuable
when someone else tossed it out? What can it be used for?
13. Simplify: Toss 50, Project 333. Get your family involved.
14. Trace the history of an object of your own back to its creation.
15. Interview someone who works for you—custodian, cafeteria worker, records clerk—and bring
his or her story to life.
Vocabulary Lessons (also responsible for Word of the Day)
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Back to Business (Quiz)
Bank Balance (Quiz)
Goals and Ambition (Quiz)
The Scales of Justice (Quiz)
Bricks and Mortar (Quiz)
Multiple Choice Practice (with corrections)
Some of these will be homework; some timed in class.
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From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (500)
Lars Eighner “On Dumpster Diving” (WA)
Henry David Thoreau “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (WA)
W.E.B. DuBois from The Souls of Black Folk (WA)
Booker T. Washington “The Atlanta Exposition Address”
William Cullen Bryant “On the Right to Strike”
Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Tim O’Brien “On the Rainy River”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt “State of the Union”
From The Great Gatsby
From Of Mice and Men
From The Grapes of Wrath
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Time: First 4 ½ weeks (August 6, 2015-September 8, 2015)
Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
13. From East of Eden
Timed Writings
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Synthesis
Analysis
Argument
Unit Test
Each unit test covers vocabulary, literary terms, textbook reading selections, multiple choice practice,
novels, citation skills, and novels.
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Essential Question: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives?
Due Dates
Unit 1: The Economy
Date
Subject
8/6/2015
8/10/2015
8/13/2015
8/17/2015
8/11/2015
8/17/2015
8/19/2015
Summer Reading
Class information packet
Vocabulary 1.1
Steinbeck essay due
Socratic Seminar
Grammar due
Quiz #1.1
8/19/2015
8/20/2015
8/21/2015
8/21/2015
8/21/2015
8/21/2015
8/25/2015
8/26/2015
Critical Reading due
Timed Writing
Vocabulary 1.2
Vocabulary 1.3
Synthesis Due
Read 1/2 Anchor Text
Extended Multiple Choice
Quiz 1.2
8/28/2015
9/1/2015
9/2/2015
9/3/2015
9/2/2015
Anchor Text Discussion
M.C./H.W. Portfolio Due
Timed Writing: Synthesis
Share Stacked Ammo
Quiz #1.3
8/27/2015
8/27/2015
9/3/2015
9/4/2015
9/4/2015
9/8/2015
Vocabulary 1.4
Timed Writing: Argument
Vocabulary 1.5
Vocabulary Test
Unit Test
Read | Watch | Write | Do
Notes
Grade
Type
Turn in annotations/notes
Return forms
Back to Business
From list of suggested topics
Summer reading/Steinbeck essays
Short Simple Sentences and Fragments
Vocabulary/Literary Terms/Mentor
Sentences/Citations/News/Readings
"Serving in Florida"
"Serving in Florida"
Bank Balance
Goals and Ambition
Materialism in American Culture
The Great Gatsby/Of Mice and Men
50-55 questions on new passages
Vocabulary/Literary Terms/Mentor
Sentences/Citations/News/Readings
The Great Gatsby/Of Mice and Men
See Homework Assignment List
TBA
Take 1/Give 1
Vocabulary/Literary Terms/Mentor
Sentences/Citations/News/Readings
The Scales of Justice
TBA
Bricks and Mortar
Online. Due by 9/6/2015 at 11:59 p.m.
Unit 1: The Economy + Summer Reading
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