August

Essential Question for Week 1: How can I be successful in this class?

Essential Question for Week 2: What can literature teach us about cultures?
Essential Question for Week 3: How do I define the American Dream, and how can do I see it represented in multicultural literature?
Essential Question for Week 4: How is the idea of the American Dream represented in multicultural literature featuring immigrant
families?
Essential Question for Week 5: How do Second Generation children of immigrant families represent their experiences in different
ways?
Essential Question for Week 6: How can I discuss and analyze works of multicultural prose literature that represent the immigrant
experience with the American Dream with my groups?
Essential Questions for Week 7: How can I work with my group to present works of multicultural prose literature that represent the
immigrant experience with the American Dream?
Essential Question for Week 8: How can I synthesize the literature I have read this quarter to defend, challenge, or qualify the
statement: immigrant families in American have access to the American Dream?
Essential Question for Week 9: How can I write a powerful synthesis essay? How can I help my classmates write powerful synthesis
essays?

Mon

Tue
1A

Wed
2B

Topic: Course
Introduction
Objective: To annotate
the course syllabus and
understand the course
policies, procedures, and
objectives.

8B

Thu
3A

Fri
4B

Topic: Course
Procedures
Objective: To discuss
works of a multicultural
nature with my
classmates while
remaining respectful of
classmates points of
view and perspectives

9A

PDD

10B

5A
Topic: Course
Procedures Contd.
Objective: To discuss
and write about works of
a multicultural nature
while considering
multiple points of view.
To fully understand
course policies and
procedures.

11A

12B

*Topic: What is
Multicultural Literature?
Objective: To
understand what
multicultural literature is,
who writes multicultural
literature and whom
multicultural literature
represents.

15A

BTSN

16B

Topic: What is the

American Dream?
Objective: To
understand and discuss
the idea of the American
Dream and how it might
appear in multicultural
literature. To understand
the final assessment for
quarter 1: the synthesis
essay.

22B

Topic: What is
Multicultural Literature?
Objective: To identify
and discuss a work of
multicultural literature of
your choosing that
represents your point of
view/perspective.

Minimum Day 17A

18B

*Topic: How does the

American Dream appear
in works by multicultural
authors?
Objective: To read,
annotate and
comprehend two works
by multicultural authors
that feature the idea of
the American Dream:
Sandra Cisneros No
Speak English and Pat
Moras Elena; to
understand the imagery,
symbolism and diction
and what it reveals
about the idea of The
American Dream. To
begin to prepare for a
Socratic Seminar
discussing the two
works.

23A
*Topic: The American
Dream and Multicultural
Literature
Objective: To read,
annotate, comprehend

24B

19A
Topic: First Socratic
Seminar
Objective: To
understand the
procedures and policies
of a whole class
discussion and to
participate in a
discussion of No Speak
English and Elena and
their representation of
the American Dream
through imagery, diction
and symbolism. To
reflect on the first class
discussion of
multicultural literature.

25A
Topic: The American
Dream and Multicultural
Literature
Objective: To write an
analysis of Junot Diazs

26B

and discuss Junot Diazs

Edison, New Jersey. To
track the symbolism,
imagery and diction Diaz
uses to discuss the
American Dream

29A
*Topic: Immigrant
families and the
American Dream
Objective: To read,
annotate, comprehend,
and discuss Maxine
Hong Kingstons No
Name Woman. To
prepare for a discussion
of No Name Woman

30B

Edison, New Jersey in

which you discuss the
imagery, symbolism and
diction Diaz uses to
discuss the idea of the
American Dream.

PDD

31A

Topic: Immigrant
families and the
American Dream
Objective: To engage in
a discussion of No
Name Woman and how
it represents the
American Dream for the
child of an immigrant
family through diction,
imagery, and symbolism.

1B

2A
Topic: Immigrant
families and The
American Dream
Objective: To write an
analysis of No Name
Woman and how it
represents the American
Dream through diction,
imagery and symbolism.

September
Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri
1B

5H

6B

7A

8B

*Topic: Multicultural
Literature, The
Immigrant Experience
and the American Dream
Objective: To research
and select a work of
multicultural prose
literature that represents
the American Dream and
what it means to
immigrant families.

12B

13A
Topic: Multicultural
Literature, The
Immigrant Experience
and the American Dream
Objective: To work with
your group to craft a
presentation of your
selected multicultural
prose literature works
and their representation
of the American Dream

PDD

14B

2A

9A
Topic: Multicultural
Literature, The
Immigrant Experience
and the American Dream
Objective: To discuss
and write about your
selected work of
multicultural prose
literature that discusses
the American Dream and
what it means to
immigrant families.

15A
Topic: Multicultural
Literature, The
Immigrant Experience
and the American Dream
Objective: To present
with your group your
selection of multicultural
prose literary works,
their themes, and their
representations of the
American Dream through

16B

through imagery, diction

and symbolism

19A

20B

Topic: Writing the

Synthesis Essay
Objective: To select
your 3-4 works of
multicultural literature
for your essay, to select
passages from those
works, and to outline
your synthesis essay

26B

imagery, diction, and

symbolism.

21A

22B

Topic: Writing the

Synthesis Essay
Objective: To peer edit
classmates outlines and
first two paragraphs of
the synthesis essay. To
begin revising and
drafting final three
paragraphs of synthesis
essay.

27A
Topic: Peer Review and
Revisions of Synthesis
Essay
Objective: To conduct
final peer editing of
synthesis essays and to
begin revising final
synthesis essay

PDD

28B

23A
Topic: Full Peer Review
Workshop
Objective: To engage in
a peer review of
classmates full rough
draft synthesis essays

29A
Topic: Submit Final
Synthesis
Essay/Assignment
Reflections/Portfolio
Building
Objective: To reflect on
your final synthesis
essay and build your
portfolio of writing.

30B
Final Day of
Quarter 1