Hon. Am. Lit Thursday/Friday Sept. 7/8
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:
•Quickwrite: What does it mean to be American? Is this a good thing or bad thing? What makes it so?
•Syllabus/Note card/Placard/ Table Group Mandala
•Get your syllabus turned in by Monday
•Roll Call-Make Seating Chart-
•Write “What do you know?” A-L (at least 5 letters) if we have time
•American Teenagers work
•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 if we got here
•Land on your book for this unit- we check them out Monday.
