Mon, Feb 10, 2020

• ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 4 - Writing Between the Lines pg 11-12

• Discuss "The Story of an Hour"

Assignment:

• Build Background, Journal , Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 492

• Read "We Wear the Mask" pg 493 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

• Do discussion questions 1-5 pg 494

• Do Creative Writing 494

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a poem.

• understand how the post-Civil War period affected this literature.

• analyze and understand speaker and metaphor.

Tue, Feb 11, 2020

• ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 5 - X-Ray Vision pg 13-14

• Discuss "We Wear the Mask"

• Review Author info - Booker T Washington-pg 495

• Review Author Info - W.E.B. DuBois pg 497

• Read together in class: "Booker T and W.E.B" Assign M&W and ??? pg 508 & 509

Assignment:

• Journal Writing Option #2 page 496

• Read "Up from Slavery" in class pgs 495-496 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

• Do discussion questions 1-3 pg 496

• Read from "The Souls of Black Folk" pg 497-507 Do M&W

• Do discussion questions 1-3 pg 507

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• apply reading strategies and skills.

• use context clues to understand unfamiliar vocabulary.

• analyze literary elements

• address critical thinking questions.

Wed, Feb 12, 2020

• ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 6 - Something Worth Arguing About pg 15-17

• Discuss "Up From Slavery" and "The Souls of Black Folk"

• Discuss Booker T and W.E.B. Pieces and questions pg 508 - 509

• Read Part 3 --Harlem Renaissance Author Focus -- Langston Hughes

Assignment:

• • Build Background, Journal , Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 641

  • Read "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Do Mirrors and Windows (M7W) pg 643

  • Read "I, Too, Sing America" pg 644 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 644

  • Do discussion questions ??? 1-5 pg 647 In Class

Also do....

• Assignment:

  • Read background Page 645

  • Read from "The Big Sea" pg 646-647

  • Do Questions and Text 2 Text page 646

College Students: Do Expository Writing pg 647 Posted to Edmodo by Midnight Thu, Feb 13

Post to three classmates by Mon, Feb 17.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

• read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate two lyric poems by Hughes.

• analyze and understand speaker and tone.

• identify common themes and styles in Hughes's writing.

Thu, Feb 13, 2020

• ACT - 3 Minutes a Day - Principle 7 - Summarily Dismissed pg 18-19

• Discuss works of Langston Hughes

Assignment:

• background Page 664

• Read "Any Human to Another" pg 664

• Do Questions M&W and Questions 1-3 page 665

• Journal: Writing Option #2 pg 665

Fri, Feb 14, 2020

• Teacher In-service