1. Goals for the Unit and the Weekly Essential Questions Unit Goals: ●Students will be able to analyze and create Modernist texts that utilize new methods of authentic communication. ●Students will be able to analyze a text individually, in small groups, and as a whole class. Essential Question for the Week: ● How can Modernist writers communicate “reality” in fiction and poetry? ●How do we retain control and individuality in a world that tries to make us all feel powerless?

2. 2 March 2015 To-Do List PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Finish Small-Group Activity, DIY: Build Your Own Fire ○Show 3 examples and discuss human control Homework ●Take 2 DAYS to look over your ACT packet and write 5 issues/problems you had with it. DUE WEDNESDAY!!

3. DIY: Build Your Own Fire ●Your small-group members must decide on 7 basic things a human needs to be: ○Alive ○Happy ○Fulfilled ●Draw your own interpretation of a “life” fire. ○Draw 7 images, that represent your 7 chosen things, in the flames of your fire. ○Write a one-sentence explanation for EACH choice on the back of the paper.

4. 3 March 2015 To-Do List -- 1st Period Take out your ACT take-home test. Write down 5 issues/problems you had with the test on a separate sheet of paper. ●Today’s News: Real or Not? ○Consider questions on News Powerpoint ●Sign up for Google Drive if there is time

5. 3 March 2015 To-Do List -- 2nd Period PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Today’s News: Real or Not? ○Consider questions on News Powerpoint ●Closing: Pass back tests and sign up for Google Drive if there is time Homework ●Journal Entry: WRITE AT LEAST 2 FULLY THOUGHT-OUT PARAGRAPHS! ●Write down 5 issues/problems you had with your ACT take-home test. DUE TOMORROW!

6. 4 March 2015 To-Do List -- 1st Period Journal Entry: Describe a time when you felt out of control. How did you deal with it? Write 1 complete paragraph! ●Whole-class ACT discussion ○Compile list for future -- Trello ●Imagist Manifesto ○Listen to Suzanne Vega’s song “Tom’s Diner”“Tom’s Diner” ○Introduce T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ●Closing: Pass back tests Homework ●Read T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” for homework! Write down 3 questions you have about it! DUE TOMORROW! ●Complete “Tom’s Diner” assignment from class!

7. 4 March 2015 To-Do List -- 2nd Period PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Whole-class ACT discussion ○Compile list for future -- Trello ●Imagist Manifesto ○Listen to Suzanne Vega’s song “Tom’s Diner”“Tom’s Diner” ○Introduce T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ●Closing: Pass back tests Homework ●Read T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” for homework! Write down 3 questions you have about it! DUE TOMORROW! ●Complete “Tom’s Diner” assignment from class!

8. 5 March 2015 To-Do List PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Go over “Tom’s Diner” assignment ○Imagism techniques ○Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” ●T.S. Eliot’s Biography in the book ●Whole-class reading of and begin annotation of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Homework ●Read and annotate “Prufrock” according to the attached annotation guide! I WILL CHECK TOMORROW!

9. 6 March 2015 To-Do List PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. Make sure your email is on the Google Drive sign-up sheet at the front! ●Journal: “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” - T.S. Eliot ○Write AT LEAST 1 COMPLETELY THOUGHT- OUT PARAGRAPH! ●“Prufrock” presentation ○Whole-class annotation of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ○Answer questions as you go Homework ●Brainstorm Journal Entry ○Write AT LEAST A PAGE. DUE MONDAY! ●Re-read “Prufrock” AGAIN, and, WITH A DIFFERENT WRITING UTENSIL, write any new annotations OR connections you have made with the rest of the poem.