Honors American Literature - Week of September 17-21 2018 

Weekly Learning Goals  Focus Standards 

Engage in high-level poetry analysis. Connect symbols in Romantic era short stories to contemporary social issues. Analyze
short stories and construct analysis responses to complex texts.
ELAGSE11-12RL1:​ Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn
from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain ​ELAGSE11-12RL2:​ Determine two or more themes or central
ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a
complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.​ ELAGSE11-12RL3:​ Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to
develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and
developed).​ELAGSE11-12RL10​: By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades
11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range ​ELAGSE11-12RI1​: Cite strong and thorough
textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where
the text leaves matters uncertain.​ ELAGSE11-12RI7:​ Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented indifferent media or
formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem

Upcoming Due Dates 

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 NoRedInk.com activities due

Thursday, September 20, 2018 Sadlier Unit 5 vocabulary quiz; USA Test Prep practice activities (red dots) and attempt #2 of practice test due by 11:59 p.m.

Due Today  In Class Activities  Homework Tonight 

  Opening​: EOC and SAT Questions of the Day: ​https://jmotsinger.weebly.com/test-prep-questions-of-the-day1.html

 
Monday,  Work Session​:
September 17,  1. Review characteristics of Romantic poets
2018  2. Model ​TPCASTT​ (whole group):​ “The First Snowfall”
3. Partner/small group​ TPCASTT​: ​“Thanatopsis”

Closing​: Review vocabulary unit 5 words.

  Opening​: EOC and SAT Questions of the Day: ​https://jmotsinger.weebly.com/test-prep-questions-of-the-day1.html Read and annotate​ “What is
Predatory Lending?”​ and
Tuesday, 
Work Session​: “​Supreme Court Rules Miami Can
September  Sue for Predatory Lending”
1. Lab 9129: Sadlier unit 5 vocabulary and USA TestPrep “Red Dot” exercises
18, 2018 
Closing​: Review vocabulary unit 5 words.

  Annotated article on Opening​: EOC and SAT Questions of the Day: ​https://jmotsinger.weebly.com/test-prep-questions-of-the-day1.html
predatory lending
Wednesday, 
Work Session​:
September 
1. Read ​The Devil and Tom Walker​, and complete ​allegory reading guide and constructed response (​ partner)
19, 2018 

Closing​: Review vocabulary unit 5 words.

 Honors American Literature - Week of September 17-21 2018 
 
Due Today  In Class Activities  Homework Tonight 

Thursday,  Sadlier vocabulary unit 5
exercises
September 
20, 2018  USA TestPrep practice test #2
Opening​: EOC and SAT Questions of the Day: ​https://jmotsinger.weebly.com/test-prep-questions-of-the-day1.html Bring a printed headshot of a
famous American who is infamous
Work Session​: for a secret that has been made
public. Remember, this is school,
1. Lab 9129: Unit 5 vocabulary quiz
2. Lab 9129: Complete USA TestPrep Practice Test #2 so keep it PG-13!

Closing​: Introduce homework for tonight.

Friday,  Printed headshop of Opening​: EOC and SAT Questions of the Day: ​https://jmotsinger.weebly.com/test-prep-questions-of-the-day1.html
infamous American
September 21, 
Work Session​:
2018 
1. New Fiction Friday presentations
2. Read:” The Minister’s Black Veil,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Complete Prentice Hall “Literary Analysis” questions 1-5 with a partner
4. “Secret Sin Wall” symbolism activity

Closing​: Happy fall break!