Reading to build vocabulary, comprehension, and background knowledge is key to enhancing speaking and writing
Example to refer to after selecting ONE of the SAT words in the Google drive to complete a 'web' about
Choice Project
Choice Project
Choice Project
Choice Project
After reading Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm, students compare and contrast the setting, characters, and themes in both literary classics (outline format)
Just like in Animal Farm, student groups must decide how to set up a country after a revolution (main focus is the government structure)
Microsoft Word
Google Docs
This tool can shift hanging indents which is especially helpful when building Traditional Roman Numeral style outlines
Using the textbook (SB), this activity sheet guides which questions to answer and on which page for the online anthology
"Harlem"
"Love is Not All"
"The Hand That Signed the Paper"
"A Pact"
Langston Hughes
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dylan Thomas
Ezra Pound
Cultural icon and part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and wrote "Harlem" in 1951
Sean Combs remake
Original film (1961)
"O Captain! My Captain!"
"Song of Myself" (excerpt)
"1256"
"Proletarian Portrait"
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
William Carlos Williams
Final scene of movie when Robin William's character leaves the classroom
Inspiration in the form of passion about life, experience, and words... what impact will you have on the world?
catch a tiger by the tail- something too difficult to manage or cope
"Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning." (good and bad omens)
A prewrite outline is also attached
Annotated example (received a 80%)
Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, Active/Passive Voice
Annotated example (received a 86%)