Week 26 (March 16 - 20)

Monday/Tuesday (3/16 and 3/17):
1. Quiz on: Meet Joseph Conrad.
2. SIFT activity: McTeague AP passage (pages 160-161 in notebook)
3. Work on notebooks--due Friday (3/20).

HW: Critical Lens Essay...Final Draft, 2 copies, and rough draft due on Wed/Thur/Fri.
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Wednesday/Thursday (3/18 and 3/19):
1. Score and discuss: Sample McTeague essays.
2. Heart of Darkness: The Exploration and Exploitation of the Congo--Notes (pages 170-171 in notebook).

HW: Notebooks due on Friday.
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Friday (3/20):
1. HOD Reading Notes handout (page 173 in notebook). Notes taken will go on page 172.
2. Impressionistic Writing Activity (pages 174 and 175 in notebook).

HW over SPRING BREAK:
1. Read all of HOD.
2. Reading Notes for HOD.
3. Vocabulary #1: complete the first 20 words.

***You will be tested on HOD and vocabulary upon your return from Spring Break. All work due on first day back.***

Week 25 (March 9 - 13)

Monday/Tuesday (3/9 and 3/10):
1. AP Timed Write: Johnny Got His Gun (passage goes on page 157 in notebook).
a. Discuss, Review rubric, Score samples and own essay. (Your own essay goes on page 156 in notebook.)

2. Short Story: "A Father" (page 159 in notebook).
a. Small group discussion--look for point of view, selection of detail, syntax (page 158 in notebook).

HW:
1. Lit. Devices.
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Wednesday/Thursday (3/11 and 3/12):
1. Discussion: "A Father"
2. Write a paragraph about how point of view, selection of detail, syntax helps characterize one of the characters in "A Father" (page 158 in notebook).
3. Writing Workshop: Revision of Crit. Lens Essay

HW:
1. Lit. Devices.
2. Crit. Lens Essay

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Friday (3/13):
1. Practice AP Timed Write: McTeague

HW: Crit. Lens Essay

Week 24 (March 2 - 6)

Monday/Tuesday (3/2 and 3/3):
1. Discussion of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"...questions #1-8 due.
2. Crit. Lens Essay Requirements (page 151 in notebook).
3. Developing a Working Thesis Statement (page 150 in notebook).

HW:
1. Develop a working thesis statement for your critical lens essay.
2. Lit. Devices.
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Wednesday/Thursday (3/4 and 3/5):

We will be working on developing your Crit. Lens Essays today:

1. Quick Write (page 152 in notebook).
2. Essay Planning Sheet (page 153 in notebook).
3. Quoting passages in a literary essay (page 154 in notebook).
4. (If time) Works Cited Page (page 155 in notebook).

HW: Write a Rough Draft of your Crit. Lens Essay.
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Friday (3/6):

Rough Drafts of Critical Lens Essay are due today.

1. Works Cited Page (page 155 in notebook).
2. Focused Peer Review.

HW:
1. Works Cited Page for your essay.
2. Read Bharati Mukherjee's "A Father." Think about how you would rewrite the ending.