1. December 1 st Q2 outside reading registration due Monday Learning Targets: 1.Preview big ideas for the unit 2.Identify skills and knowledge needed to complete EA 2.1 3.Analyze poetry to identify imagery, structure, and technique 4.Write an original poem reflecting cultural imagery 1.Get Springboard books: back to the grind 2.Find new seats & discuss Q2 book choices 3.Unit two: cultural perspectives How have/can cultural experiences and perspectives be conveyed through memorable narratives? What are some you remember? What issues resonate across cultures, and how are arguments developed in response? 4.Unpack Embedded Assessment 2.1 5.Where I’m From Poem

2. December 2 nd outside reading registration due Monday Learning Targets: 1.Analyze poetry to identify imagery, structure, and technique 2.Write an original poem reflecting cultural imagery 3.Analyze narrative and identify key narrative components 1.Get Springboard books: back to the grind 2.Check in with Q2 outside reading group: pick book by Monday 3.Unit two: cultural perspectives 4.List artifacts, people, places, conversations, moments from your past 5.Where I’m From Poem Intentional use of imagery (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) Anaphora Metaphor No line or format requirements 6.TWIST 7.Share poems with class. Tone Word Choice Imagery Style Theme

3. December 3 rd outside reading registration due Monday Learning Targets: 1.Analyze poetry to identify imagery, structure, and technique 2.Analyze narrative and identify key narrative components 3.Identify aspects of culture presented in literature 1.Check in with Q2 outside reading group: pick book by Monday 4.Share Where I’m From Poems Intentional use of imagery (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) Anaphora Metaphor No line or format requirements 5.& TWIST at bottom or on back of poem 6.Funny in Farsi page 95 Number paragraphs 1-14 Tone Word Choice Imagery Style Theme

4. December 8 th School days ‘ til Break: 9 Learning Targets: 1.Analyze narrative elements writers & directors use to create a sense of pacing in a narrative. 2.Outside Reading Q2 registration due today 3.Vocabulary pretest/Kaffir Boy due Friday. 4.EA 1.2 returned tomorrow. Opt rewrite due Friday. 1.Check in. Catch up. Calm down. 2.Vocabulary pretest and Kaffir Boy assignments extended to this Friday. 3.Outside Reading registration due today. 4.Finish sharing “Where I’m From” for absent people. 4.Vocabulary Anaphora Memoir Stereotype Clichéd Dialogue Tag [besides “he said”] Narrative Pacing 5.“Pick One” page 103 Simple sentences Compound sentences Complex sentences [:] Compound-Complex sentences 6.SNL and Commercials Commercials SNL Q= question H= help T= teach

5. December 9 th School days ‘ til Break: 8 Learning Targets: 1.Analyze narrative elements writers & directors use to create a sense of pacing in a narrative. 2.Outside Reading Q2 registration was due 12/8. 3.Vocabulary pretest/Kaffir Boy due 12/12. 4.EA 1.2 optional rewrite due 12/12 by 3:00. 1.Get SB book. On post it, write one compound-complex sentence about something you hate. 2.Google Classroom: vocabulary and Kaffir Boy assignments extended to this Friday. 3.Make a plan to read over break! 4.EA 1.2 optional rewrite instructions. 4.Vocabulary Anaphora Memoir Stereotype Clichéd Dialogue Tag [besides “he said”] Narrative Pacing 5.“Pick One” page 103 Simple sentences Compound sentences Complex sentences [:] Compound-Complex sentences Holiday spirit week next week: Mon (PJ/Holiday Socks), Tue (whiteout), Wed (Ugly sweater), Thursday (candy cane), Friday (sophomores wear red)

6. EA 1.2 optional rewrite instructions 1.Be careful about modifying original document. 2.COPY/paste your original paragraph(s) onto a new document –PRINT 3.Make and highlight changes to your new document (do not modify original). –PRINT 4.Include a 1 page, typed, double spaced reflection: Identify elements of the rubric that you targeted for improvement –give specific examples, use wording from the rubric. In what ways is your new and improved copy stronger than your last draft? Reflect on what you have learned about yourself as a writer. What did you learn from this writing experience that you could use in the future? –PRINT Due Friday