Monday, February 26th – All Classes

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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

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🖋️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)

Wednesday, February 21st – Rhetoric & Comp (Hour 6)

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STUDY/NOTES: Building Argument – Research Direction & Claim Evidence Cycle (slides on GClassroom if you missed or need a review)

READ: Excerpts from Writing Analytically by Rosenwaser & Stephen (examining binaries p. 94 – 95 & claims/evidence thinking p. 137 – 139)

DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassro

Wednesday, February 21st – DC English 8 & English 8

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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

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🖋️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)

Thursday, February 15th – All Classes

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STUDY/NOTES: Intro. to Lit. Theory – Sociological Lenses (slides on GClassroom + links to Harry Potter clips we used for discussion)

TO-DO: Keep reading – note targets 🎯 for your books 2/20, 2/26, & 3/4 (schedules given in class & also available on the slides on GClassroom)

PAST DUE: Teacher-ready Cited Commentary (CCR) was due in Dropbox as MSWord doc 2/13 (that was Tuesday). Move it to the submissions folder when it is ready. Be sure it has MLA citations including a works cited page.

Wednesday, February 14th – All Classes

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STUDY/NOTES: “Danger of a Single Story” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

READ: The Sociological Approach to Literature (handout)

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TO-DO: Keep reading – note targets 🎯 for your books 2/20, 2/26, & 3/4 (schedules given in class & also available on the slides on GClassroom)

PAST DUE: Teacher-ready Cited Commentary (CCR) was due in Dropbox as MSWord doc YESTERDAY 2/13 (Move it to the submissions folder when it is ready. Be sure it has MLA citations including a works cited page).