Week of January 31st-February 3rd

Welcome to the spring semester, everyone!

Please remember to stay on top of your grades by checking them frequently in Pupilpath. If you don't know how to set up your account, please see me or Ms. Kemp.

Here are the assignments for the week:

Monday

No Class

Tuesday:

All Periods: 

Classwork: Read and annotate the poem "First They Came." With your group, write your answers to the questions on the handout.

Homework: 10 pages of Independent Reading, and write a response on one Writing Strategy from your book.

Wednesday:

Periods 1, 5 and 7:

Classwork: Watch a video on the Civil Rights movement and events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's arrest in Birmingham, Alabama. Read par. 1 of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Discuss the specific word choices Dr. King uses in the opening of his letter.

Homework: 10 pages of Independent Reading, and write a response on one Writing Strategy in your book.

Periods 2 and 6:

Classwork: Read paragraphs 1-10 of "Ideas Live On."  Discuss rhetoric (writing strategies) Bhutto uses to establish her point of view.

Homework: 10 pages of Independent Reading, and write a response on one Writing Strategy in your book AND research Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan and bring in three significant facts to share with the class.

Thursday
Periods 1, 5 and 7:

Classwork: Read par. 2-5 of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and discuss Dr. King's purpose for writing the letter, and how he supports his claims.

Homework:

Write ½ p: How do Dr. King’s ideas in par. 3-5 connect to the ideas of the poem “First They Came”?

Period 2:

No class (Senior Community Meeting)

Period 6:

Classwork: Read paragraphs 11-23 of "Ideas Live On."  Answer the following questions: How does Bhutto support her criticism of the military? In paragraph 18, what kind of relationship does Bhutto suggest that the government has with its citizens? How does Bhutto's criticism of military rule develop a central idea?

Homework: Write ½ page: How do the ideas and events Bhutto discusses in paragraphs 11–23 develop a central idea from paragraphs 1–3?

Friday

Periods 1, 5 and 7:

Classwork: Read and discuss par. 6-9 of "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Complete a jigsaw analysis of the paragraphs.

Homework: 10 pages of Independent Reading, and write one response on a Writing Strategy from your book. Reading Logs due Monday, and you will be sharing your text analysis from today with a partner, so don’t forget to bring it!

Period 2:

Classwork: Read par. 11-28 of "Ideas Live on" and answer the following questions:
How does Bhutto's criticism of military rule develop a central idea?
How does Bhutto use figurative language to develop a central idea in paragraphs 24–27?
How do Bhutto’s choices about how to end her speech relate to the choices she made about how to begin her speech?

Homework: ½ p: How do the ideas and events Bhutto discusses in paragraphs 11–23 develop a central idea from paragraphs 1–3? AND 10 pages of Independent Reading, and write a response on one Writing Strategy in your book.