American Experience

Weekly Workflow

This semester's essential question:

What is the American Dream?

April 13th - April 17th

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

Monday, 4/13: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project

Reading Workshop

🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Summative Assessments

🎯Review Summative Assessment Guidelines

🎭Continue work on Summative #2: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project:

Friday, April 17th (before class) Use the submission form in the Google Classroom assignment to submit your full video without audio narration. (Script must be in the "record" section of your video.) Do not record narration until the attached submission form has been returned to you and your parent permission has been verified.
Wednesday, April 22 (before class) Complete any necessary edits/revisions and resubmit this assignment for a grade.

🔰Summative: #1: American Dream Thesis- Based Research Paper.

You have already demonstrated your competency as a Critical and Creative Thinker by completing your initial research and writing. Now, you’ll demonstrate competency as a Self-Directed Learner. I have provided personalized feedback on your "American Dream" papers in Google Classroom. To improve your overall score:

Review your feedback and revise your paper (in-class or outside of class), if desired.
Sign-up for a 1:1 conference with Mrs. Juster to present your revisions, update your score, and receive additional feedback.
Repeat the process, if desired, until the deadline.

Note: Simply resubmitting your document will not result in any changes to your score. You must follow the directions posted here.

Self-Directed Learner DEADLINE: Monday, April 20. After this date, your score will be entered into Aspen. At that time, only scores below 85/B will be eligible for reassessment/revision.

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

Tuesday, 4/14: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project

Reading Workshop

🎯Review 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 #6: Reader's Response to your Independent Reading.

Summative Assessments

🎯Review Summative Assessment Guidelines

🎭Continue work on Summative #2: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project:

Friday, April 17th (before class) Use the submission form in the Google Classroom assignment to submit your full video without audio narration. (Script must be in the "record" section of your video.) Do not record narration until the attached submission form has been returned to you and your parent permission has been verified.
Wednesday, April 22 (before class) Complete any necessary edits/revisions and resubmit this assignment for a grade.

🔰Summative: #1: American Dream Thesis- Based Research Paper.

You have already demonstrated your competency as a Critical and Creative Thinker by completing your initial research and writing. Now, you’ll demonstrate competency as a Self-Directed Learner. I have provided personalized feedback on your "American Dream" papers in Google Classroom.

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

Wednesday, 4/15: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project

Reading Workshop

🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Summative Assessments

🎯Review Summative Assessment Guidelines

🎭Continue work on Summative #2: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project:

Friday, April 17th (before class) Use the submission form in the Google Classroom assignment to submit your full video without audio narration. (Script must be in the "record" section of your video.) Do not record narration until the attached submission form has been returned to you and your parent permission has been verified.
Wednesday, April 22 (before class) Complete any necessary edits/revisions and resubmit this assignment for a grade.

🔰Summative: #1: American Dream Thesis- Based Research Paper.

You have already demonstrated your competency as a Critical and Creative Thinker by completing your initial research and writing. Now, you’ll demonstrate competency as a Self-Directed Learner. I have provided personalized feedback on your "American Dream" papers in Google Classroom. To improve your overall score:

Review your feedback and revise your paper (in-class or outside of class), if desired.
Sign-up for a 1:1 conference with Mrs. Juster to present your revisions, update your score, and receive additional feedback.
Repeat the process, if desired, until the deadline.

Note: Simply resubmitting your document will not result in any changes to your score. You must follow the directions posted here.

Self-Directed Learner DEADLINE: Monday, April 20. After this date, your score will be entered into Aspen. At that time, only scores below 85/B will be eligible for reassessment/revision.

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

Thursday, 4/16: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project

Reading Workshop

🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Summative Assessments

🎯Review Summative Assessment Guidelines

🎭Continue work on Summative #2: Pixels & Prose: Multimedia Project:

Friday, April 17th (before class) Use the submission form in the Google Classroom assignment to submit your full video without audio narration. (Script must be in the "record" section of your video.) Do not record narration until the attached submission form has been returned to you and your parent permission has been verified.
Wednesday, April 22 (before class) Complete any necessary edits/revisions and resubmit this assignment for a grade.

🔰Summative: #1: American Dream Thesis- Based Research Paper.

You have already demonstrated your competency as a Critical and Creative Thinker by completing your initial research and writing. Now, you’ll demonstrate competency as a Self-Directed Learner. I have provided personalized feedback on your "American Dream" papers in Google Classroom. To improve your overall score:

Review your feedback and revise your paper (in-class or outside of class), if desired.
Sign-up for a 1:1 conference with Mrs. Juster to present your revisions, update your score, and receive additional feedback.
Repeat the process, if desired, until the deadline.

Note: Simply resubmitting your document will not result in any changes to your score. You must follow the directions posted here.

Self-Directed Learner DEADLINE: Monday, April 20. After this date, your score will be entered into Aspen. At that time, only scores below 85/B will be eligible for reassessment/revision.

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

Friday, 4/17: Poetry Day!

Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯 Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives

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

📗April Poetry Day performances!

🔰 Complete the Poetry Day Reflection/Analysis for April You can find this assignment in Google Classroom under Academic Discourse. Due: Monday, 4/20.

🎒 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.
Entry #2: Reader's Response to your Independent Reading.
Entry #3: Reader's Response to your Independent Reading.
Entry #4: Reader's Response to your Independent Reading.
Entry #5: 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?

Entry #6: Prompt Response to A Raisin in the Sun: Part 2

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.

Entry #7: Prompt Response to A Raisin in the Sun: Part 3

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.

Entry #8: Prompt Response to A Raisin in the Sun: Part 4

Entry #8

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

Act II, sc iii ( pp. 110 - 130)

PROMPT: Which hurts the family more- the "polite" racism of Mr. Lindner, or the betrayal of Walter’s friend Willy Harris? To support your claim, include a passage from this part of the play in your prompt response.

Entry #9: Prompt Response to A Raisin in the Sun: Part 5

Entry #9

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

Act II, sc iii ( pp. 131 - 151)

PROMPT: Why does Walter Lee decide that his dignity is more important than the money Mr. Lindner offers him? To support your claim, include a passage from this part of the play in your prompt response.