Hon. Am. Lit Wednesday Sept. 6
Objectives/Essential Question: Can You…
•RL.5/RI.5- Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her narration, exposition, or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging or creates mystery, tension, or surprise.
W.1- Construct an argument about what it means to be an American Teenager
Agenda:
•Roll Call- Seating Chart-
•fire drill- parking lot
•School opening days blurb
•Syllabus/Notecard/Placard/ Table Group Mandala
•Syllabus turned in by Monday
•Get Text Books, then put them in your locker
•“What do you know?” A-L
•American Teenagers work
•Quickwrite: What does it mean to be American? Is this a good thing or bad thing? What makes it so?
•Be thinking about which book you would like to read in this beginning unit: The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, or Into the Wild
Homework:
•“What do you know?” A-L
•Land on your book for this unit
•American Teenagers work
