1st Nine Weeks Agenda

Illuminating Imagery Day 1

Where I'm From Poem Assignment & Rubric (1).doc

Where I'm From Poem 2018

Week 1

8/13: Welcome PPT, Syllabus, Note Card, Questionnaire, Summer HW due, 1st HW find a poem you love to present to the class

8/14: Ethos, Logos, Pathos PPT, Sample Poem Presentation, "Why I Think the world Should End"

8/15: "If I Have a Daughter" Ted Talk by Sarah Kay, 10 Things I Know assignment

8/16 & 8/17: Poem Presentations, and Your Name mini assignment

Week 2

8/20: Summer HW due, Finish poem presentations, poem reflection assignment

8/21: Begin Where I'm From Poem in class, finish RD for HW, FD due Thursday 8/23

8/22: Workshop RD, create Name Brick to attach to poem FD, Begin FD and finish it for HW

8/23: Share poems in small groups and turn them in, Poem comparison lesson with Imagery and the poems "Harlem" and "Juicy"

8/24: Literary Terms Matching Quiz 1, Poem comparison day 2 on Meaning with the poems "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" and "Me Against the World"

Week 3

8/27: Listen to Podcast on expectations, complete handout, write Found Poem (finish for HW if needed)

8/28: Begin House on Mango Street (HoMS) unit, Essential questions, Pre-Reading #1, Read pp.3-11, Elements of Writing handout (for next quiz), Hairs Modeling assignment

8/29: Find and chart FL together, Pre-Reading #2, Read Cats-Sold, Finish Hairs assignment, share it and turn it in

8/30: Read Ortiz-Cousins, Chapter Titles assignment (finish for HW if needed)

8/31: Pre-Reading #3, Read pp.22-38, Elements of Style Quiz 2, Begin Houses in the Book assignment due 9/7

Week 4

9/3: Labor Day Holiday

9/4: Mrs. Franklin out for travel, Read "Geraldo No Last Name" in HoMS and "9/11 Disappeared" article to compare

9/5: Pre-Reading #4, Read pp.39-55, Discuss the lesson from 9/4

9/6: PICTURE DAY! Catch up on Reading

9/7: Pre-Reading #5, Read pp.56-73, Work on Houses in the Book turn it in , HW Open Mind

Week 5

9/10: Open Mind due, Pre-Reading #6, Read pp.74-87,

9/11: Pre-Reading #7, Read pp. 88- 102, Assign DEJ

9/12: Pre-Reading #8, Read pp. 103-110, finish and turn in DEJ

9/13: Letter Home assignment, Finish HoMS Discussion Questions as test review

9/14: HoMS Test (short answer and matching)

Week 6

9/17: Best and Worst List writing, HW Life Chart (due 9/19)

9/18: Personal Narrative RD writing

9/19: Peer Editing/ Interview, Life Chart HW due

9/20 & 9/21: Computer lab to type FD essay due 9/24

Week 7

9/24: 1. In lab one more day to finish essay, FD due

9/25: Intro to August Wilson, new seats, begin the play

9/26: What is AAVE?, Code Switching Ted Talk, Read the play

9/27: Epigraph assignment, Read the play

9/28: Guidance presentation in auditorium

Week 8

10/1: Ted Talk "The Danger of a Single Story" and Read the play

10/2: Read the play to finish Act 1, Complete Act 1 HW questions

10/3: View the first 30-35 minutes of the film, complete the comparison assignment

10/4: Read the play

10/5: Romare Bearden Poetry assignment

Week 9

10/8: Read the play (finish the film if time)

10/9: Finish reading the play, Family Tree Assignment

10/10: PSAT in our class until 4th/ B lunch

10/11: Finish the Family Tree, Begin Writing about the Piano Lesson essay

10/12: Finish Writing assingment

Week 10

10/15:Learning about the Great Migration, Non-Fiction Article and a Ted Talk

10/16: Jacob Lawrence and Art, to create found poems

10/17: AIMS Quarter One test

10/18: The Piano Lesson Test

10/19: Teacher Work Day

The danger of a single storyOur lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

The Great Migration and the power of a single decisionSometimes, a single decision can change the course of history. Join journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson as she tells the story of the Great Migration, the outpouring of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities in the North and West between World War I and the 1970s. This was the first time in American history that the lowest caste people signaled they had options and were willing to take them -- and the first time they had a chance to choose for themselves what they would do with their innate talents, Wilkerson explains. "These people, by their actions, were able to do what the powers that be, North and South, could not or would not do," she says. "They freed themselves."

The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great MigrationWhen millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt

3 ways to speak EnglishJamila Lyiscott is a “tri-tongued orator;” in her powerful spoken-word essay “Broken English,” she celebrates — and challenges — the three distinct flavors of English she speaks with her friends, in the classroom and with her parents. As she explores the complicated history and present-day identity that each language represents, she unpacks what it means to be “articulate.”

Transcript of "If I should have a daughter ..."TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: "If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. -- and gives two breathtaking performances of "B" and "Hiroshima."