Unit 1: Border Crossing and Cultural Clashes
Essential Questions:
- What forces influence individuals to cross borders and cultures?
- How does what we know about the world shape the way we view ourselves?
- What are the benefits and detriments of crossing borders?
- How does the experience of crossing borders and experiencing diverse cultures affect an individual’s identity?
Literary Texts:
- Bless Me, Ultima
- Things Fall Apart
Independent Reading Choices:
Frankenstein, Into Thin Air, Metamorphosis, Life of Oloudah Equiano, Obasan, Annie John, The House on Mango Street, Sold, The Things They Carried, The Joy Luck Club, OR A Long Way Gone
Week of 2 August
- student information
- introduction to voice through art (PPT)
- Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 1
- review of course policies (PPT)
- 8/6/10 summer reading assignment DUE (instructions)
- 8/6/10 self-portrait and expository paragraph DUE
- alliterative adjective introduction & summer reading activity (instructions, personality trait adjectives)
Week of 9 August
Week of 16 August
- 8/16/10 summer reading novels Socratic seminar (essential question)
- independent reading selection
- 8/18/10 Vocabulary Lessons 1 & 2 review: cartoon creation DUE (instructions)
- 8/18/10 TEST: summer reading novels timed-writing essay
- 8/20/10 QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 1 & 2
Week of 23 August
- 8/24/10 Bless Me, Ultima chapters 1-7 analysis and vocabulary DUE (instructions, double-entry journal)
- Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 3
- discussion of Bless Me, Ultima chapters 1-7
Week of 30 August
Week of 6 September
- discussion of returned GHSGWT timed essays
- 9/10/10 Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 3 & 4 review activity DUE (instructions)
- lesson and group activity on planning a persuasive timed essay
Week of 13 September
- 9/14/10 QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 3 & 4
- 9/14/10 Bless Me, Ultima chapters 16-22 analysis and vocabulary DUE (instructions, double-entry journal)
- introduction to Things Fall Apart (portfolio assignment)
- Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 5
- 9/16/10 timed-writing essay: GHSGWT prompt
- independent reading of Things Fall Apart Part One and work on project (portfolio assignment)
Week of 20 September
Week of 27 September
- independent reading of Things Fall Apart Part One and work on project (portfolio assignment)
- 9/28/10 Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 5 & 6 review activity (instructions)
- 9/30/10 independent reading assignment 3 DUE (instructions, double-entry journal)
- 9/30/10 Things Fall Apart Part Two (chapters 14-19) DUE (portfolio assignment)
- discussion of fall break BONUS assignment (instructions)
- 9/30/10 QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 5 & 6
- discussion of fall break BONUS assignment (instructions)
Week of 11 October
- 10/11/10 Things Fall Apart Part Three (chapters 20-25) DUE (portfolio assignment)
- explanation of border-crossing personal narrative assignment
- 10/13/10 fall break BONUS assignment DUE (instructions)
Week of 18 October
Week of 25 October
- 10/25/10 Unit 1 Socratic seminar continued
- Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 7 & 8
- 10/27/10 brainstorming of border-crossing personal narrative assignment (instructions)
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