English II Love, Sacrifice, and Redemption October 7 to October 31

English II Love, Sacrifice, and Redemption

October 7 to October 31

Learning Target

I will conduct intensive research.

I will organize materials using online resource.

I will complete writing process for research paper.

I will use precise language, avoiding clichés and casual language.

I will write appropriate transitions to organize paragraphs.

I will analyze how literary devices affect meaning.

I will explore the nuances of “love” as a topic within a text.

Materials

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand

Act One and Two of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Daily Activities and Homework Assignments

Days	Class Activities	Homework
10/7	Clip of Act one of Cyrano, Presentation on author, and read Act I as a class	Complete Act I study guide questions
10/8	Complete Act I and seminar on What does society value?
10/9	Cyrano Webquest
10/10	Act I quiz and read Act II together	Complete Act II study guide questions
10/11	Lit Circle on Act 1 and 2 and watch Act 2
10/15	Act II Quiz, Venn Diagram on American and French Society, start Act III	Complete Act III study guide questions
10/16	Complete Act III
10/17	Symbolism Poster
10/21	Read Act IV	Complete Act IV study guide questions
10/22	Love Letter Activity
10/23	Read Act V	Complete Act V study guide questions
10/25	Cyrano Test
10/26-27	Viewing of Roxanne Seminar on physical and spiritual.
10/28	Computer lab to start research on beauty  Create a 750 word research paper on the definition of beauty and be sure to use at least three different cultures as evidence.	Essay due Oct. 31
10/29	Lesson on the writing process and paraphrasing sources
10/30	Close reading on excerpts from King Lear
10/31	Grammar Review and peer editing of research project

AP III Week 6 Lessons Sept. 30 to Oct. 4

English II Week 6 Sept. 30 to Oct. 4

Outlining Practice

Outlining and argument

AP Week 5 9/23 to 9/24

English II Week 5 Sept. 23-27

English II Unit Background and Research

AP III Week Four Sept. 16 to Sept 20

English II Human Right/ Night 9/16-9/20

English II Human Rights and Responsibilities

September 16 to October 3

Genocide- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Purposes

To examine the causes and effects of genocide

To remember and honor the fallen

To examine how to end current genocide

Learning Target

I can write a coherent and logical essay discussing either the causes or effects of genocide or create a poster on the events and concepts studied.

I can support their thesis statements with reading, observations, quotes, and personal experiences.

I can examine conflict (internal, external, man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature) within the ext.

I can analyze dialogue and description as it relates to author’s tone and purpose.

I can analyze character’s motivations and author’s choices.

I can identify an extended metaphor or recurring symbol from the first several chapters. I can consider how this recurrence is related to the theme.

I can analyze how historical events influence literature.

I can analyze how literary devices help convey theme.

I can write appropriate transitions to organize paragraphs.

I can use precise language, avoiding clichés and casual language.

I can analyze the motives, qualities, and contradictions of a character in a major work.

I can select, come to group consensus, and evaluate “moving” passages. As a group analyze what techniques are used to make them so.

Materials

Presidential Speech on Syria

Hotel Rwanda-film

Night by Elie Wiesel- novel

“The Shawl”

Selected Poems

Interviews, audio, and websites from a variety of Holocaust museums

Daily Activities and Homework Assignments

Days	Class Activities	Homework
9/16	The President’s Speech on Syria
9/17	Presentation on the Holocaust Complete pages 3-22 in pairs and complete section 1 chart in pairs Clip and bio on Elie Wiesel and visuals from Auschwitz	Complete pre-reading questions
9/18	Read pages 23-46 in class	Complete Reading questions for sections 1-3
9/19	Read Pages 27-45	Complete Reading questions for section 4
9/20	Read list of Judaic and Night Vocab then create word wall Complete guided notes on vocabulary	Read pages 47-65 for HW
9/23	Complete the Novel Road Map to Success for Sections 1-4 of Night, and complete viewing of Wiesel interviews	Pages 66-84 for HW
9/24	Poster Collage on The Destructive Power of Hatred	Lit Circle HW for sections 1-5 of Night
9/25	Lit circles sections 1-5 of Night and read section 6 as a group	Complete Road map for success for sections 5 and 6 of Night
9/26	Box Car Activity and Complete Sections 7 and 8 of Night in class	Complete Road map for success for sections 7 and 8 of Night
9/27	Night Test
9/30	Genocide Webquest
10/1	Watch Hotel Rwanda and complete the major works data sheet Sheet must be written in complete sentences and use details from the film to explain your statements. Please remember that the film documents actual events that took place in Africa in the 90’s. The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda.
10/2	Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman
10/3	“The Shawl” and Selected Poems

AP Language Unit Two: War, Peace, and Politics

AP Language Unit Two: War, Peace, and Politics  

 September 16^th to October 10^th

Learning Targets

I can analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques;

I can apply effective strategies and techniques in their own writing;

I can create and sustain arguments based on readings, research and/or

Materials

The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)

 “The War Prayer” (Mark Twain)

“Introductory Notes to The Crucible” (Arthur Miller)

Excerpts from The Prince(Niccolo Machiavelli)

”Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid” (Virginia Woolf)

“National Prejudices” (Oliver Goldsmith)

“Military-Industrial Complex Speech/1961 Address to Congress” (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

“Politics and the English Language” and “Shooting an Elephant” (George Orwell)

“Every Dictator’s Nightmare” (Wole Soyinka)

“The Gettysburg Address” (Abraham Lincoln)

Dates	Class lessons and Activities
9/16	Reading quiz on “The Things they Carried” Turn in CRP Start research for guided seminar due 9/17 All reading and annotations for the unit will done outside of class
9/17	Guide Seminar on “The Things they Carried” Seminar reflection  due 9/18 Assign rhetorical definitions assignment two. Provide an example of each device from an assigned reading. Due 9/24
9/18	Rhetorical Analysis on O’Brian
9/19	“The Things they Carried” timed test and rhetorical families due
9/20	AP multiples practice Grading AP exams Assign formal essay one on The Things they Carried
9/23	Planning an argument and the Toulmin method of argument
9/24	Voice lessons: Analyzing tone and diction. Creating an annotation notebook for AP exam review purposes.  Annotations on the text below are due on the day the text will be presented in class. Rhetorical device examples due
9/25	“The War Prayer” (Mark Twain)
9/26	“Introductory Notes to The Crucible” (Arthur Miller)
9/27	Excerpts from The Prince(Niccolo Machiavelli)
9/30	”Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid” (Virginia Woolf)
10/1	“National Prejudices” (Oliver Goldsmith)
10/2	“Military-Industrial Complex Speech/1961 Address to Congress” (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
10/3	Politics and the English Language” and “Shooting an Elephant” (George Orwell)
10/4	“Every Dictator’s Nightmare” (Wole Soyinka)
10/7	“Every Dictator’s Nightmare” (Wole Soyinka)
10/8	Build a Wall of Rhetoric
10/9	Peer review of formal essay one
10/10	Formal essay one due Unit test: AP multiples and essay