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American Experience

Weekly Workflow

This semester's essential question:

What is the American Dream?

March 2nd - March 6th

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

Monday, 3/2: A Raisin in the Sun

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

🎬Begin viewing & reading A Raisin in the Sun: Part 2. Look in Google Classroom for this assignment.

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

💡Begin vocabulary development for the spring semester and prepare for the SAT later this month with Vocabulary.com.

💡Explore and study the terms in this list: “The SAT: Language of the Test, List #1”. Quiz in class on Monday, 3/9.

Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯 Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives

🔰 Complete the Poetry Day Reflection/Analysis for February. You can find this assignment in Google Classroom under Academic Discourse. Due: TOMORROW!

🎒 So, wait a minute...do I have homework? Yes- always! Click here to learn more.

Tuesday, 3/3: A Raisin in the Sun

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

🎬Finish viewing & reading A Raisin in the Sun: Part 2. Look in Google Classroom for this assignment.

📓In the back half of your Reader’s & Writer’s Notebook, complete Entry #6: Prompt Response to A Raisin in the Sun:

Entry #6

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

Act I, sc. ii ( pp. 54 - 75)

PROMPT: How are Mama’s plans for the $10,000 insurance check different from Walter’s plans and Beneatha’s plans? To support your claim, include a passage from this part of the play in your prompt response.

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

💡Continue exploring and studying the terms in this list: “The SAT: Language of the Test, List #1”. Quiz in class on Monday, 3/9.

🎒 So, wait a minute...do I have homework? Yes- always! Click here to learn more.

Wednesday, 3/4: A Raisin in the Sun

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

🎬Begin viewing & reading A Raisin in the Sun: Part 3. Look in Google Classroom for this assignment.

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

💡Continue exploring and studying the terms in this list: “The SAT: Language of the Test, List #1”. Quiz in class on Monday, 3/9.

🎒 So, wait a minute...do I have homework? Yes- always! Click here to learn more.

Thursday, 3/5: A Raisin in the Sun

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

🎬Finish viewing & reading A Raisin in the Sun: Part 3. Look in Google Classroom for this assignment.

📓In the back half of your Reader’s & Writer’s Notebook, complete Entry #7: Prompt Response to A Raisin in the Sun:

Entry #7

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

Act II, sc. i and sc. ii ( pp. 76-109)

PROMPT: Why did Mama ultimately give Walter Lee the remaining $6500? To support your claim, include a passage from this part of the play in your prompt response.

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

💡Continue exploring and studying the terms in this list: “The SAT: Language of the Test, List #1”. Quiz in class on Monday, 3/9.

🎒 So, wait a minute...do I have homework? Yes- always! Click here to learn more.

Friday, 3/6: A Raisin in the Sun

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

📓In the front half of your Reader’s & Writer’s Notebook, complete Entry #2: Reader's Response to your Independent Reading.

💬🗨️Whole-class discussion of A Raisin in the Sun: Parts 1 - 3.

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

💡Continue exploring and studying the terms in this list: “The SAT: Language of the Test, List #1”. Quiz in class on Monday, 3/9.

🎒 So, wait a minute...do I have homework? Yes- always! Click here to learn more.

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 your Independent Reading.

📓BACK HALF OF YOUR NOTEBOOK: Writing Prompts

American Dream Research

Entry #1 Response to “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

Prompt: How does this poem connect immigration and the American Dream? (What words or images most clearly express its message?)

Entry #2 Response to “The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell

Prompt: How does the painting comment on equality, inclusion, or barriers to the American Dream? (Use details from the image to support your

answer.)

Entry #3 Response to “I Have a Dream” by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Prompt: How does King include many different people in his vision of the American Dream? (Use details from the speech to support your answer.)

Entry #4 Respond to the prompt connected to the song of your choice.

“This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie

Prompt: What does Guthrie suggest about access to the American Dream? Support your answer with details from the lyrics.

“Born in the U.S.A.” by Bruce Springsteen

Prompt: How does this song both celebrate and question the American Dream? What details from the chorus/context support your reasoning?

Entry #5: Prompt Response to A Raisin in the Sun: Part 1

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

Act I, sc. i (pp. 23- 53)

PROMPT: How does living in such a tiny, crowded space make Walter and Ruth feel on the inside? How does the "smallness" of the apartment match their "big" frustrations with life?

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