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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?

December 22nd - December 23rd

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

Monday, 12/22: Tears of a Tiger

Reading Workshop

🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

📓In the back half of your Reader’s & Writer’s Notebook, complete the following prompt and response:

Entry #8

Tears of a Tiger

(large book: pages 76 - 79/ small book: pages 84 - 88).

Prompt: Andy talks about the world losing its color. Pick a color (or the lack of one) and write about how the world looks through Andy’s eyes right now.

📘Continue reading, discussing and responding to our whole class novel, Tears of a Tiger by Draper (large book: pages 80 - top of 88/ small book: pages 85 - bottom of 98).

🎒 For homework:

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

Tuesday, 12/23: Nature Journal Day!

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

🌳Review Nature Journaling goals and purpose.

📋Head outside to begin work on yourDecember Nature Journal entry.

🔰Complete & submit your December Nature Journal. See Google Classroom for your journal entry.

Due: Tuesday, 1/6.

Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives

🌳Finish watching and discussing the film, Walden, by Ken Burns.

🎒 For homework:

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

📗Continue reading & tagging your book group text. Follow your book group’s reading schedule.

No School - Holiday Break

12/24/25 - 1/4/26

🥳 See you next year, when school resumes on Monday, January 5, 2026 🥳

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.
Entry #13: SKIP
Entry #14: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #15: 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…
Entry #7 Prompt: (Tears of a Tiger) If you had to give this first section of the novel a title, what would it be? OR If you could ask one character (Andy, Keisha,

Tyrone, or Rob) a single, honest question about what happened, who would you choose and what would that question be?

Entry #8 Prompt: (Tears of a Tiger) Andy talks about the world losing its color. Pick a color (or the lack of one) and write about how the world looks through Andy’s eyes right now.

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