August 2025
August 6: Review syllabus; Where I’m From activity (sample)
August 7: Read the poem by George Ella Lyon. Write your own 14 line version of this poem; Window swap analysis
August 8: Watch reaction video; Find a piece of music
August 11: Big idea Questions Writing Assignment
August 12: Watch Mystic Pop-Up Bar (absent students without Netflix can read this synopsis)
August 13: Mystic pop-up bar analysis (absent students without Netflix can read this synopsis)
August 14: Create a presentation with your team for the “big ideas share out”
August 15: Big idea creative interpretation; Personal lens activity
August 18: Full text of the novel; read chapter 1; add to character chart; HW: Read Chapters 2-3
August 19/20: Read ch 4/character chart; Ibo culture activity – part 1 HW: Read Ch. 5-6
August 21: Ibo culture activity part 2;
August 22: Prolific Writing: the legend of the Ikenga statue Read Ch 7; HW: Ch 8
August 25: Finish character chart; Ch 7-8 analysis (Genesis reading)
August 26/27: TFA SSR ch 9; read chapter 10 and review presentation; read Heart of Darkness excerpt (audiobook - 8:30) and complete language activity; HW: read Ch 11
August 28: Read Ch 12; Heart of Darkness: Achebe response and paragraph
August 29: Read Ch 13; Okonkwo’s relationships symbolism activity
September 2025
September 1: Labor Day
September 2/3: Chapter maps; Read Ch 14
September 4: Read Ch 15-17; Ch 16-17 activity; HW: Read Ch 18
September 5: Read Ch 19; Prolific Writing #6: Nwoye’s departure HW: Ch 20
September 8: Read Ch 21; effects of colonialism chart
September 9/10: Thematic found poem; Read ch. 22; Brown vs. Smith;
September 11: Read Ch 23-24; “The Second Coming” analysis worksheet
September 12: Finish the book; small group discussion; start movie
September 15: Film notes intro; watch Black Panther (52 mins)
September 16/17: Black Panther/film notes (84 mins); fishbowl prep
September 18: Fishbowl discussion; start essay outline
September 19: Draft essay
September 22: Draft essay
September 23/24: Hair Love viewing, article and activity; Bao pre-reading, reading; wind pre-viewing discussion, reading and reading guide;
September 25: Q-force article and reading guide
September 26: Comparative/ argumentative analysis
September 28:Grammar Flip: 1.04 - Simple and Complete Subject and Predicates; Legislative History project groups (per 1, per 2, per 6); complete source information notes sheet
September 30/October 1: Legislative History project presentation development
October 2025
October 2: Legislative History project presentations; Notes
October 3: “Crossing the Border” reading and analysis; read The Round House pages 1-7
October 6: Read 7-16; Journal: your home; HW: 17-26
October 7/8: Grammar Flip: 1.06 - Compound Subjects and Predicates; Read:26-36; character motivation chart; HW: finish Chapter 2
October 9: End of Quarter
Read Chapter 3 HW: 57-61
October 10: NO SCHOOL
October 13: NO SCHOOL
October 14: STAFF DEVELOPMENT
October 15: Grammar Flip: 1.07 - Coordinating Conjunctions; Reader’s theater: 62-75;
October 16: Nuclear and Extended Families activity; read 75-83; HW: read 85-94
October 17: Read 94-108; storyboard the most important events in the chapter; HW: Read Chapter 6
October 20: Read 129-142; answer Joe’s luck questions 1-4; HW: read to page 156
October 21/22: Answer Joe’s luck questions 5-9; read 156-168; murder board; Read 168-179;HW: Finish Ch 8
October 23: Review pages 195-197; Round House humor chart; Read 201-209; HW: 209-223
October 24: Read 223-230; HW: finish Ch 9
October 27: read 241-254; HW: 254-264
October 28/29: Watch Sarah Deer interview and complete notes/reflection; Read 264-271; Grammar Flip: 1.30 - Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices, and Fragments
October 30: book review and activity HW: Finish Ch 10
October 31: Read 285-296; HW: 296-307
November 2025
November 3: Finish the book; post-reading questions
November 4/5: Fishbowl discussion; Work on final project
November 6:Work on final project
November 7: Final project presentations
November: 10: Iran background PPT part 1 with notes; read pgs 3-32
November 11: NO SCHOOL
November 12: Iran background PPT part 2; discussion questions;
November 13: Current events research; journal and panel share pgs. 3-32; Grammar Flip: 2.22 - Phrases Defined; HW: read through page 46
November 14: PPT and ancient city haiku; reading images activity; read pgs 47-61; answer journal prompts
November 17: Heroes and Moscow group work (one paper per group); hero/hypocrisy panel & share out
November 18/19: SSR: read 62-93/journals; pg 62-93 group discussion questions; allusion matching; loss of innocence panel share; reading images; HW: read 94-117
November 20: Grammar Flip: 2.25 - Clauses Defined; found poem; pgs 118-134; journals HW: pgs 135-153
November 21: Socratic discussion; prolific writing: Perspectives story
November 24-28 Thanksgiving Break