Week 3 Q2
Monday 10/26
Goal: SWBAT explore key ideas and historical context for our next novel study by taking notes.
Bellwork: What is your favorite holiday? Why?
Instructional Sequence:
One-Pager Project - Presenting in small groups (record feedback)
Focus Question: Are there situations where it is acceptable to lie for a greater truth?
Due on Tuesday
THP Ch 3
Tuesday 10/27
Goal: SWBAT analyze literary elements from the first three chapters of The Hiding Place by completing a chat station activity.
Bellwork: Corrie’s father highly values education. Do you agree with him and feel education is highly important? Why, or why not? Are there any changes you would suggest to improve our education system?
Instructional Sequence:
Exit question: How do the early chapters establish the Ten Boom family as special or unique? Explain.
Due on Block
THP Ch 4 & 5
Wednesday/Thursday 10/28-29
Goal: SWBAT describe characters from the text by supporting their description with textual evidence.
11-12 RL 1
11-12 L 2 (grammar practice)
Bellwork: Describe your senior year so far. Explain what goals you have achieved and which ones you are still working towards.
Instructional Sequence:
Discuss Chapter 5 reading questions
Exit Question: Describe the help that is being offered to the Jews in Corrie’s town. What motivated them to risk their lives to help others?
Due on Friday
THP Ch 6
Friday 10/30
Goal: SWBAT write a literary analysis paragraph including a claim, integrated textual evidence, and reasoning.
11-12.RL 1, W.1
Bellwork: Write a spooky Halloween story that includes a ghost.
Instructional Sequence:
Chapter 6 journal prompt (in notes)
Paragraph response (turning in at the end of class)
Prompt: In The Hiding Place, why does Corrie ten Boom include so many anecdotes about her childhood and life before the war? What is its effect on the novel so far?
Due on Monday
THP Ch 7
Vocabulary (week 12): frivolous, taciturn, infamous, redundant, authoritarian, exhaustive, profuse, expedient, fastidious, prosaic
Previously in English...
Week 2 Q2
Monday 10/19
Goal: SWBAT analyze and evaluate how characters have changed throughout the novel.
Bellwork: Write a scary story that includes a haunted house.
Instructional Sequence:
Discuss Ch. 5 of Night
Focus Question: How has Wiesel changed so far in the novel? How do you know?
One-Pager Project & Rubric
Due on Tuesday
Read Night ch 6-7 (pages 85-103)
**Reading homework packet & directions
One-Pager due Monday, October 27th
Tuesday 10/20
Goal: SWBAT describe themes present in the novel and how they have developed throughout the course of the text.
Bellwork: What virtue(s) do you demonstrate in your own life? Explain.
Instructional Sequence:
Grammar - Sentence 11
Reading Quiz
Discuss Ch. 6-7 of Night
Focus question: Describe the father-son relationship in the novel. How has it evolved since the beginning of the novel?
Due on Block
Read Night ch 8-9 (pages 104-115)
**Reading homework packet & directions
One-Pager due Monday, October 27th
Wednesday/Thursday 10/21
Goal: SWBAT identify and analyze rhetorical choices that Wiesel uses in the novel.
Bellwork: What happens at the end of the novel, Night? What stood out to you? Why is this a significant book to read in 2025?
Instructional Sequence:
Grammar - Sentence 11
Discuss Night & rhetorical situation
Prepare for Socratic Seminar
Work on One-Pager Project
Due Friday/Saturday
One-Pager due Monday, October 27th
Friday 10/23
Goal: SWBAT apply their understanding of the novel by preparing for their socratic seminar and working on their novel project.
Bellwork: How does Wiesel use personal experience and emotionally charged language to move the audience and inspire them to take action against indifference and suffering?
Instructional Sequence:
Grammar - Sentence 11
Socratic Seminar
Intro to THP Reading Packet
Due Monday
THP Ch 1-2
Link to the reading packet
One-Pager due Monday, October 27th
Vocabulary (week 11): compatible, dubious, solicit, elusive (elude), facilitate, static, ironic, irrational, dogmatic, flagrant
Week 1 Q2
Monday 10/12
Goal: SWBAT analyze and evaluate the rhetorical effectiveness of Elie Wiesel’s speech by answering questions and discussing answers.
Bellwork: Explain what you did over Fall Break.
Instructional Sequence:
Read Nobel Acceptance Speech
Analysis Questions
Intro to Night
Due on TuesdayRead Night ch 1 (pages 3-22)
Tuesday 10/13
Goal: SWBAT describe the setting and conflict of the novel by citing evidence from the text.
Bellwork: You discover a beautiful island where you decide to build a new society. What is the first rule you put in place? Why?
Instructional Sequence:
Grammar - Sentence 10
Intro to Night (wrap-up)
Discuss Ch. 1 of Night
Exit Question: How does Wiesel introduce the setting and conflict of his narrative? Are his choices effective for you as the reader?
Due on Block
Read Night ch 2-3 (pages 23-46)
Wednesday/Thursday 10/14
Goal: SWBAT identify and analyze rhetorical choices that Wiesel uses in the first three chapters of the novel.
Bellwork: What does veritas mean to you? Put it in your own words and provide examples to explain your definition.
Instructional Sequence:
Grammar - Sentence 10
Discuss Night (ch. 2-3 - discuss in small groups)
Focus Question: What rhetorical strategy did you find particularly effective in the first three chapters of the book? Explain why.
Night Gallery Walk (Images)
Due Friday
Read Night ch 4 (pages 47-65)
Friday 10/16
Goal: SWBAT explain Wiesel’s complex relationship with religion during his time at the concentration camp.
Bellwork: Describe a character that has demonstrated Veritas. It can be from a book that we’ve read this year or from any other year of high school!
Instructional Sequence:
Grammar - Sentence 10
Discuss Night
Exit Question: Find two quotes that elaborate on Wiesel’s thoughts and feelings towards religion and his belief in God. How has it changed? Why does he include this in his novel?
Intro One-Pager Project & Rubric
Due Monday
Read Night ch 5 (pages 66-84)
Vocabulary (week 10): antagonist, arbitrary, austere, expedite (expedient), heresy, compromise, condescend, fallacious (fallacy), intangible, arrogant
Previously in English...
Monday 9/21
Goal: SWBAT explain the function of a significant event to the overall plot by discussing textual evidence.
Bellwork: Peter Jennings once said, “Whoever controls the media, controls reality.” Do you agree? Do we believe the news we read and see on television or our devices? Can the news media be used to manipulate us? How is this portrayed in texts we’ve read this year.
Instructional Sequence:
Discuss BNW
Prep for Socratic Seminar
Work on essay
Due on Tuesday
Essay due Friday at 11:59pm in Google Classroom
Tuesday 9/22
Goal: SWBAT demonstrate their analysis of key themes and literary elements in BNW by making at least two comments during our Socratic Seminar.
11-12 RL 1
11-12.SL 1
No bell work - prep for SocSem
Instructional Sequence:
Socratic Seminar (link to packet)
Reflection
Hand out study guide
Due on Block Day (Wednesday or Thursday):
Test on Block Day (Study Guide for BNW Test)
Essay due Friday at 11:59pm in Google Classroom
Wednesday/Thursday 9/23-24
Goal: SWBAT apply understanding of the setting, plot, and themes of BNW by taking a multiple choice test.
11-12. RL 1, 2
No bell work - prep for MC Test
Instructional Sequence:
Multiple Choice Test
Writing time for essay!
Due Friday:
Essay due Friday at 11:59pm in Google Classroom
Friday 9/25
Goal: SWBAT discuss connections between 1984 and Brave New World by analyzing Huxley’s letter to Orwell.
11-12. RI 1 & 6
Bellwork: Which book seems more likely to succeed? Control through pleasure (Brave New World) or control through pain/fear (1984)?
Instructional Sequence:
Discuss/Wrap-Up BNW
Due TONIGHT:
Essay due Friday at 10:00pm in Google Classroom
Vocabulary (week 9): profound (profundity), enhance, phenomenon, enduring, advocate, solitude, tentative, contemporary, provocative (provoke), adversary