Category: DC English 8
Monday, March 4th – All Classes
Indie Read
🖋️Quickwrite #14: Book Club Read – Who holds the race-based and/por gender-based power in your book? How is race or gender an issue? Explain. [Post-Colonial & Feminist Lens Application]
STUDY: Discussion Day – Crit. Lit. Group Book Club 🎯3 (share your notebook page thoughts)
DEADLINE: CCR Revisions due no later than end of day Monday 3/11 (rename as LastnameCCRRV.docx when your revisions are complete).
THIS WEEK: Book Club – Crit. Lit. Paper Work (topics, plan, design, source search/read)
Friday, March 1st – All Classes
Indie Read
STUDY: A look / some thoughts about feedback (see handout).
+ Time for reading teacher feedback on your cited commentary & response paper.
TO-DO: MLA Survey for Understanding (find this TODAY on GClassroom)
DEADLINE: 🎯 #3 & notebook page due Monday 3/4 (end of book)
UPCOMING: Revisions for CCR due no later than Monday 3/11 (details on submission next week)
Thursday, February 29th – All Classes
Indie Read
STUDY: Short Film “Purl” + Crash Course Sociology “Harriet Martineau & Gender-Conflict Theory”
🖋️Quickwrite #13: Apply Feminist/Gender Lens to “Purl”
DEADLINE: 🎯 #3 & notebook page due Monday 3/4 (end of book)
Tuesday, February 27th – All Classes
Indie Read
STUDY: Short Film “Hair Love” + Crash Course Sociology “W.E.B. DuBois & Race-Conflict Theory”
🖋️Quickwrite #12: Apply Post-Colonial/Race Lens to “Hair Love”
DEADLINE: 🎯 #3 & notebook page due Monday 3/4 (end of book)
Monday, February 26th – All Classes
Indie Read
NOTEBOOK: A little page improvement time 🕓
STUDY: Discussion Day – Crit. Lit. Group Book Club 🎯2 (share your notebook page thoughts)
DEADLINE: 🎯 #3 & notebook page due Monday 3/4 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)
THIS WEEK: Sociological Lenses – Post-Colonial & Feminist + Feedback on CCR
Friday, February 23rd – All Classes
Indie Read
🖋️Quickwrite #11: Book Club Read – Who holds the $/economic power in your book? How is class structure an issue? Are there issues of freedom related to money? Explain. [Marxist Lens Application]
STUDY/SHARE: Explore-A-Shelf activity to add books to your TBR
DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)
Thursday, February 22nd – All Classes
Indie Read
STUDY: Short Film “Umbrella” + Crash Course Sociology “Karl Marx & Conflict Theory”
🖋️Quickwrite #10: Apply Marxist/Economic Lens to “Umbrella”
DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)
Wednesday, February 21st – DC English 8 & English 8
Indie Read
STUDY/NOTES: Building Argument – Research Direction & Claim Evidence Cycle (slides on GClassroom if you missed or need a review)

🖋️Quickwrite #9: Claim & Evidence Practice – Make some kind of claim about your book club read (so far). Back it up with evidence. Explain and connect.
DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)
Tuesday, February 20th – All Classes
Indie Read
🖋️Quickwrite #8: Power Quotes – Choose one of the two following quotes. Then spend 4 minutes in your notebook developing your own thoughts.
- “There is no good and evil. There is only power and those too weak to seek it.” – Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- “Can’t seem to shake these vultures / off my trail / Power is made by power being taken / so I keep on running to protect my situation” – John Mayer “Vultures” from Continuum
STUDY: Discussion Day – Crit. Lit. Group Book Club 🎯1 (share your notebook page thoughts)
DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)
Friday, February 16th – All Classes
Read Aloud – Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pena & Christian Robinson
Indie Read
YOU CHOOSE: More Reading Time ⌛ OR work on Book Club Notebook page #1
DEADLINE: 🎯 #1 & notebook page due Tuesday 2/20 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)