On-Level American Literature - Week of October 1-5 2018 

 
 

Weekly Learning Goals  Focus Standards 

Engage in high-level poetry analysis. Synthesize philosophical ideologies presented in nonfiction texts from the American
Transcendental era. Engage in metacognitive strategies in preparation for the upcoming PSAT.
ELAGSE11-12RI2:​ Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they
interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.​ ELAGSE11-12RI3: ​Analyze a
complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the
text. ​ ELAGSE11-12RI8​: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and
use of legal reasoning and the premises, purposes, and argument sin works of public advocacy.) ​ELAGSE11-12RL4​: Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on
meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include
Shakespeare as well as other authors.)​ ELAGSE11-12RL5​: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text
(e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and
meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

Upcoming Due Dates 

Friday, October 5, 2018 Magic Lense: Parts of a Sentence quiz; USA Test Prep practice assignment due by 11:59 PM

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 PSAT

Thursday, October 11, 2018 Vocabulary unit 2 exercises due & vocabulary quiz 2

Friday, October 12, 2018 Dickinson and Whitman Blind Date Presentations & project deliverables due

Due Today  In-Class Activities  Homework Tonight 

  Opening​: EOC and SAT Questions of the Day: ​http://hoyacrandall.weebly.com/daily-test-prep.html Bring a printed headshot of a
famous American who is infamous
 
for a secret that has been made
Monday,  Work Session​: public. Remember, this is school,
October 1,  1. Introduction to Romanticism Part II: Transcendentalism PowerPoint​ and ​Cornell Notes​/​Journals so keep it PG-13!
2018  2. Read: Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing,” and discuss characteristics of Transcendentalism
Record your CollegeBoard account
Closing​: login information.

  Printed headshop of Opening​: EOC and SAT Questions of the Day: ​http://hoyacrandall.weebly.com/daily-test-prep.html Work on vocabulary unit 2
infamous American vocabulary, and USA TestPrep
Tuesday, 
Work Session​: exercises.
October 2,  Bring CollegeBoard Login 1. Magic Lens: Parts of a Sentence Practice
2018  information to class. 2. Lab 9129: PSAT (2017) Item Analysis & Khan Academy
3. Preview week’s digital assignments: USA TestPrep
4. “The Minister’s Black Veil” Secret Sin Motif Wall

Closing​: Discuss benefits of PSAT and item analysis.

 On-Level American Literature - Week of October 1-5 2018 
 
 

  Due Today In-Class Activities Homework Tonight

  Bring 2017 PSAT booklet to
class.
Wednesday, 
October 3,  Sadlier vocabulary unit 6
2018  exercises and NoRedInk
exercises due by 11:59 PM
Opening​: 2017 PSAT Multiple Choice Review Work on vocabulary unit 2
vocabulary, and USA TestPrep
Work Session​: exercises.
1. Magic Lens: Parts of a Sentence Practice
2. Emily Dickinson Round Robin Annotation and Analysis Group Assignment
3. Assign ​Walt Whitman and Emily DIckinson Blind Date Project

Closing​: Review vocabulary unit 6 words.

Thursday,  Bring 2017 PSAT booklet to Opening​:2017 PSAT Multiple Choice Review Work on vocabulary unit 2
class. vocabulary, and USA TestPrep
October 4, 
Work Session​: exercises.
2018 
1. Preview unit 3 vocabulary words
2. Timed Constructed Response: “Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau) and “Self-Reliance” (Emerson)
3. Independent Reading

Closing​: Review this week’s digital assignments.

Friday,  Bring 2017 PSAT booklet to Opening​: 2017 PSAT Multiple Choice Review Work on vocabulary unit 2
class. vocabulary, and USA TestPrep
October 5, 
Work Session​: exercises.
2018 
1. Magic Lens quiz
2. Work on vocabulary unit 2 exercises
3. Lab 9129: Khan Academy PSAT Practice

Closing​: Review this week’s digital assignments.