1. Introduction to the American Dream Unit
American Literature Honors
Semester One
Mr. Gallegos

2. Step 1: Warm-Up
Please pick a copy of the pre-test off the front table and begin working. Please return to your assigned seat from yesterday.
This is a pre-assessment to assess your background knowledge with the literary terms you will need to know to be successful in this class.
During Warm-Ups
1. There is to be no talking or disturbance. Immediately take your seats.
2. ALWAYS read the Promethean Board to see what your task is during warm-up time. You need to do this without prompting.
3. Before you sit down, pick up your SpringBoard book and binder. Most activities will be completed in your spirals. When we work in spirals, record the entry in your Table of Contents.

3. Step 2: Review Warm-Up Activity
1. If we are reviewing grammar, we will review the answers.
2. Sometimes warm-ups are used to build background knowledge for what will be studies during the lesson. I will make sure you got the information you need from the activity to complete the lesson.
3. Review a concept. The warm-up may be a review of content from the previous lesson that I have decided to go back and re-teach.

4. Step 3: Review Learning Objectives
Content Objective: Students will be able to understand and define the concept of the American Dream.
Language Objective: Students will read Page 1 of the Unit Overview from SpringBoard.
Language Objective: Students will participate in a think-pair-share of their American Dream Anticipation Guides.
Language Objective: Students will read the poem “Ellis Island” and mark the text for dreams and disappointments.
Language Objective: Students will start working on their biographical sketches. Please see Page 8 for guidelines.

5. Step 4: Review Key Vocabulary
Image: a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses and creates an image. (Painting pictures with words.)
Autobiography: a history of a person’s life written or told by that person.
Biography: a history of a person’s life written by another person. (Biographer)

6. Step 5 Lesson: Think-Pair-Share
Think- Read through the statements to yourself and rate the statement using the 1-10 scale they provide for you as a guide.
Pair- You will be assigned a partner. Go through each statement and tell your partner the rating you gave each statement. If there is a huge disparity (difference), discuss each of your positions.
Share- Students will be allowed to share with the group their opinions on the statements. Otherwise, each pair will share with the group the statement they agreed on the most and the statement they disagreed on the most.

7. Ellis Island Poem
Language Objective: Students will read the poem “Ellis Island” and mark the text for dreams and disappointments. (Annotating)
Ellis Island was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until After 1924, it was primarily a detention and deportation center. As immigrants would enter the United States, they would be processed, inspected, quarantined in some cases, and then entered into the country.
Underline disappointments
Circle dreams

8. Ellis Island Pictures

9. Ellis Island Pictures

10. Biographical Sketches
On a separate sheet of paper, you are going to write or type a biographical sketch of who you are as a person and how different elements of your life have contributed to who you are today. Use this opportunity to help me get to know you better. From your paper, I want to understand who you are, where you come from, and what makes you who you are today.
Place of birth for you, for your parents and/or grandparents
Placed lived-you, your parents, and/or grandparents
Significant adults of people in your life
Dreams of your parents and/or dreams for yourself
Challenges of your parents and/or challenges for yourself.

11. Step 6: Exit Ticket
On the half-sheet of paper, please put the steps of a lesson in order.
It is important for you to remember how this class will be conducted. You and I are both responsible for your education.
Please answer the question on the bottom of the exit ticket in a complete sentence.