How do you benefit from people who are different from you?
What do these texts teach us about our responsibility to others?
How does the form of the text impact the text's message?
Essential Questions:
Tier 3 Vocabulary:
speaker
audience
purpose
voice/tone
tragedy
symbol
archetype
6 traits of writing
Tier 2 Vocabulary:
Unit 3 Strategies: SOAPSTone (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, theme/tone)
DRAPES (dialogue, rhetorical question, anecdote, personal experience, example, statistic)
Topics:
Prejudice
Migrant Workers
Anchor Text:
Of Mice and Men
Supplementary Texts:
Let America Be America Again, Langston Hughes
Daily Warm Ups:
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Formative Assessments:
MCA Practice Test #1Revision Due: Monday, Feb. 6thNeighborhood Story/Creative PieceDue: Friday, Feb. 10thMCA Practice Test #2Due: Monday, Feb. 27thRevision Due: March 19thA Blended Poem (Benchmark assessment)Oral Interpretation of Poem: Written RationaleSummative Assessments:
Comparative Response to Literature Paper
Shared Inquiry Discussions
Interpretative Questions:
How does the quote, "I refused to be absorbed" from I Am Joaquin connect to the other texts?