1. 9/8/15 Do Now: -Hand in signed syllabus and plagiarism contract Homework: -Signed Syllabus (Due 9/9) -Signed Plagiarism Contract (Due 9/9) -Big Read Graphic Organizer -Supplies (Due 9/14) -Signup for TurnItIn (Due 9/14) Content Objective: Content Objective: Students will read and annotate a text in order to develop a claim and support it with the most relevant textual evidence. Language Objective: Language Objective: Students will annotate to show their understanding of the text and assist them in creating and supporting a claim based on the text.

2. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. Since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans and preserving them for future generations. In New York City and in mobile recording booths traveling the country—from small towns to big cities, at Native American reservations and an Army post—StoryCorps is collecting the memories of Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life. The project represents a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity, capturing for posterity the stories that define us and bind us together. StoryCorps Intro:

3. In Listening Is an Act of Love, StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects some of the most remarkable stories from the already vast collection and arranges them thematically into a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives—to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or caricature. Above all, this book honors the gift each StoryCorps participant has made, from the raw material of his or her life, to the Americans who will come after. We are our history, individually and collectively, and Listening Is an Act of Love touchingly reminds us of this powerful truth. Listening Is An Act Of Love: Click Image

4. 1)Identify individual’s dream(s) and idea(s) of happiness. 2)Identify conflicts that they face in achieving their dream(s). 3)Identify what lengths they were willing to go to in order to achieve their dream(s). 4)Make connections between the dreams in the text. 5)Make connections outside the text 6)What questions do you have? What words do you not understand? Annotation Guidelines:

5. 1)What is Connie’s American Dream? 2)What challenges did Connie face in trying to achieve her dream? 3)What is Blanca’s American Dream? 4)What challenges did Blanca face in trying to achieve her dream? 5)What did they do in order to achieve their dreams? Guided Reading Questions:

7. 1) Why do our stories matter? 2) Is the act of listening a lost art in our culture? 3) In what ways will being better listeners change the world around us? 4) Why do we—or do we—care more about celebrity stories than our own? Discussion Questions: