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American Experience

Weekly Workflow

This semester's essential question:

How do writers use language and narrative to construct and convey truth?

November 24th - November 28th

What happened last week? Click here to see the weekly workflow archive.

Monday, 11/24: Nature Journal Day!

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

🌳Review Nature Journaling goals and purpose.

📋Head outside to begin work on your November Nature Journal entry.

🔰Complete & submit your November Nature Journal. See Google Classroom for your journal entry. Due: Tomorrow, Tuesday, 11/25..

Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives

🪞Begin work on Self-Directed Learner Mini-Posters for November. Complete at home with the Google Classroom assignment. Bring the hard-copy of your mini-poster back Tomorrow, Tuesday, 11/25..

🎒 For homework:

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

🎗️Remember to complete work not completed in class.

🪞FINISH work on your Self-Directed Learner Mini-Poster for November - hard copy and Google Classroom assignment. Bring the hard-copy of your mini-poster back Tomorrow, Tuesday, 11/25..

Tuesday, 11/25: Poetry Day!

Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯 Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives

🏛️Visit the Library of Congress to select a poem to perform for our November Poetry Day.

📗November Poetry Day performances!

🎒 For homework:

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

🔰 Complete the Poetry Day Reflection/Analysis for November. You can find this assignment in Google Classroom under Academic Discourse. Due: Tuesday, 12/2..

Wednesday, 11/26: No School- Thanksgiving Break

Thursday, 11/27: No School- Thanksgiving Break

Friday, 11/28: No School- Thanksgiving Break

So, wait a minute...do I have homework?

Yes- always! First, use this weekly workflow to keep track of deadlines and manage your time outside of class.

Next, thanks to independent reading, you always have reading to do. How much? Your Weekly Goal for Independent Reading (inside class and outside of class) is 40 minutes (minimum).

Lastly, most weeks we're working on vocabulary development. Use this page as a guide for your ongoing vocabulary work.

What'cha Reading? If you’ve switched your independent reading book or moved on to a new one, click here.

📓Reader's & Writer's Notebook

Composition Notebook Entries Prior to This Week

📓FRONT HALF OF YOUR NOTEBOOK: Reader's Responses

Entry #1: Reader's Response to "Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper" by Martin Espada (p. 1132 in lit. book).
Entry #2: Reader's Response to “One Day Now Broken in Two” by Anna Quindlen (p. 1156 in lit. book).
Entry #3: Reader's Response to "The Names" by N. Scott Momaday (p. 1076 in lit. book).
Entry #4: Reader's Response to "Mint Snowball" by Naomi Shihab Nye (p. 1081 in lit. book). For prompt, see Weekly Workflow for 9/4.
Entry #5: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #6: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #7: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #8: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #9: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #10: Reader's Response to Whitman
Entry #11: Reader's Response to "An Episode of War"
Entry #12: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.

📓BACK HALF OF YOUR NOTEBOOK: Writing Prompts

Entry #1 Prompt: Who am I as a reader?
Entry #2 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act I - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #3 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act II - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #4 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act III - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #5 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act IV - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #6 Prompt: If I could change one thing about independent reading, I would … OR The best thing I’ve read this semester…

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