September 14 (2Black) & September 15 (2Green & 4Green), 2015

Post date: Sep 14, 2015 2:41:57 PM

We:

• went over the new weekly schedule for the first several minutes
• had our 15 S.S.W. (silent, sustained writing)
• discussed "What is Literary Analysis?"
• discussed "What is Critical Thinking?" (2Black's definition: thinking until you reach a solid truth / drilling down to truth(s))
• took notes on all of the above, as well as reviewed the definition of alliteration
• did line-by-line, heavy annotation of The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
• moved on to the speech by FDR on the 50 anniversary of the dedication of The Statue of Liberty, after doing quick research on why France gifted the U.S.A. with her
• passed out American Dream novels to students: The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Other options are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Black Boy

Homework:

1. 1.3 writing prompt
2. KWLs for Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes in preparation for two of the three poems in 1.4
3. start reading your American Dream novel - the driving question to consider is "How does ________ exemplify The American Dream?" Annotate for this driving question, as it will be the central question of our Socratic Seminar. Date for that TBA.