Unit VI: Solzhenitsyn

Essential Questions:

  1. How are the prominent themes - the struggle for human dignity, the outrage of unjust punishment, and the importance of faith - evinced through the development of setting, characters, conflicts, symbols, and motifs?

  2. How does reading cultivate empathy?

Fri., March 11, 2022

Review THE MARCH TO WORK (24-45), questions 1-7

Begin reading the section entitled THE WORKDAY, BEFORE LUNCH (45-60) through p. 53 and answer questions 1-3.

Finish for homework.

Mon., March 14, 2022

Review THE WORKDAY, BEFORE LUNCH (45-60) through p. 53, questions 1-3

Finish reading this section through p. 60 and complete question 4.

Homework:

  • Read the LUNCH (60-81) through p. 70, and answer questions 1-3.

Tues., March 15, 2022

Begin with viewing the first 6 of "THE GULAG COLLECTION BY NIKOLAI GETMAN: FROM THE 'VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION'"

Review LUNCH (60-81) through p. 70, questions 1-3.

Finish reading this section through p. 81 and complete questions 4-6.

Homework:

  • Be ready for tomorrow's test on pp. 3-81. Study the character list and review the study guide questions.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Complete the test on pp. 3-81.

When done, read BUILDING OF THE WALL (82-99) through p. 92 and complete questions 1-2.

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Review BUILDING OF THE WALL (82-99) through p. 92 and questions 1-2.

Finish reading this section through p. 99 and complete questions 3-4.

Friday, March 18, 2022

Review BUILDING OF THE WALL (82-99) through p. 99 and questions 3-4.

Read THE MARCH BACK TO CAMP (100-122) and complete questions 1-5

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Review THE MARCH BACK TO CAMP (100-122) questions 1-5.

Read BACK IN CAMP (122-159) through p. 140 and complete questions 1-3.

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Review BACK IN CAMP (122-159) through p. 140, questions 1-3.

Finish the section BACK IN CAMP (122-159) and complete questions 4-7.

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Complete One Day...Quiz on pp. 141-159 (Google Forms)

Review the section BACK IN CAMP (122-159) and questions 4-7.

Friday, March 25, 2022

Final Test: 20 M/C and 2 (out of 3) short answer questions.

Homework:

  • Read your independent reading book. It's due April 1st.

Monday, March 28, 2022

Tuesday, March 29 - April 8, 2022

Research projects and presentations

  • Review Research Projects;

    • Tatyana Cherpenova's imovie on Gulags

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5GXmu6ug0I


April 19- April 22, 2022

3 poems plus "Bread"

April 25, 2022

Begin Hamlet