Week of October 24-28

Hello everyone,

Here are the assignments and classwork for the week. A quick reminder: your permission slips for the Wicked field trip are due on Thursday! See Ms. Atwill if you need another one or have any questions.

Monday

Periods 1, 5, and 7:

Classwork: Author's Toolbox: Central Idea: Identity vs. Fitting In

Definition: Tension between being true to oneself and one’s community.
Example: Julius Lester almost puts back a book of poetry that he wants to read because he feels that, as a black teenager in Tennessee in 1950, poetry isn’t for him.

Learn the SOAPSTone method for analyzing non-fiction. Read "A Rainbow Creation" and use the SOAPSTone template to analyze. Read "Finding One's Voice."

Homework: Use the SOAPSTone template to analyze "Finding One's Voice"

Periods 2 and 6:

Classwork: Read Chapter 8 in Malcolm X, pages 129-136.

Homework: Write 1/2 page on how Malcolm's drug use in Ch 8 connects to the central idea of dehumanization.

Tuesday

Periods 1, 5, and 7:

Classwork: Use the TPCASTT Method to analyze "Two Names, Two Worlds."

Homework: Create an identity chart for the narrator.

Periods 2 and 6:

Classwork: Read p. 144-153 in Malcolm X. Take double entry notes on central ideas of racial identity, systemic oppression, integration vs. segregation, and dehumanization.

Homework: Knowing that Malcolm becomes a Muslim minister, why does he spend so much time writing about his time on the streets?

Wednesday

Periods 1, 5, and 7:

Classwork: Author's Toolbox: Central Idea: Dehumanization

Definition: Taking away the humanity of a person or group.

Example: Segregation in America dehumanized black people by making them separate and different from white people.

Revise your songs with a partner or independently.

Homework: Write a new draft of your song, incorporating revisions and edits from today's class.

Periods 2 and 6:

Classwork: Revise your songs with a partner or independently.

Homework: Write a new draft of your song, incorporating revisions and edits from today's class.

Thursday

Permission slips for the Wicked field trip are due!

Periods 1 and 5:

Classwork: Watch a video on Jim Crow laws and segregation in the American south. Read an excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Homework: How do both segregation and Atticus's description of the Ewell family show the central idea of dehumanization?

Period 7:

Classwork: Watch a video on Jim Crow laws and segregation in the American south.

Homework: How does segregation connect to the central idea of dehumanization?

Periods 2 and 6:

Classwork: Review Author’s Voice: Raising the Stakes (Engaging the reader by increasing the intensity of a situation)

Read Malcolm X, p. 154-158. Double Entry Journal: Raising the stakes

Homework: Write ½ page: How does Malcolm raise the stakes in his description of prison life?


Friday

All periods:

Classwork: Stage Door Program with Taryn!

Homework: Begin writing your duet song lyrics.