2 February 2015 To-Do List -- 1st Period

● PULL OUT your “If Death stopped for you…” worksheet AND your Venn Diagram worksheet.

● ALSO, PULL OUT your questions for Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” in your packet.

AFTER pulling your homework out, discuss your personification of Death with your partners.

● Do you all have similar or different ideas of what Death would look like? Why?

● Do you all think Dickinson’s personification of Death is weird or do you understand it? Why?

● Homework Check/Opening Discussion

● Finish group annotation of Whitman’s “Dirge for Two Veterans”

● Introduce Emily Dickinson through her poetry

○ Read aloud: “Because I could not stop for Death,” “Hope is the thing with feathers”

● Alternative Reading TimeHomework

● Free Write Worksheet: PICK an issue that you have been bothered by or have been thinking about lately. BRAINSTORM/RESEARCH your issue. DUE TOMORROW!!

● Be working on the ACT practice test! TOMORROW is the next Q-and-A session!

2 February 2015 To-Do List -- 2nd Period

● PULL OUT your “If Death stopped for you…” worksheet.

● ALSO, PULL OUT your answers to the questions for Whitman’s poems and Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” in your packet.

AFTER pulling your homework out, discuss your personification of Death with your partners.

● Do you all have similar or different ideas of what Death would look like? Why?

● Do you all think Dickinson’s personification of Death is weird or do you understand it? Why?

● Homework Check/Opening Discussion

● Finish group annotation of Whitman’s “Dirge for Two Veterans”

● Introduce Emily Dickinson through her poetry

○ Read aloud: “Because I could not stop for Death,” “Hope is the thing with feathers”

● Alternative Reading TimeHomework

● Free Write Worksheet: PICK an issue that you have been bothered by or have been thinking about lately. BRAINSTORM/RESEARCH your issue. DUE TOMORROW!!

● Be working on the ACT practice test! TOMORROW is the next Q-and-A session!

3 February 2015 To-Do ListPULL OUT your free write mini-research guide that you did for homework last night. DO NOT LOSE THESE RESEARCH NOTES!

On the back of your free write worksheet, WRITE at least 4 sentences that:

● Discuss any new things you learned about your issue from the research and brainstorming you did.

● Discuss how your research has affected your understanding of the issue. Do you look at the issue ANY differently now?

● Opening Discussion and ACT Q-and-A session

● Powerpoint: Emily Dickinson, her life, and her poetry

● Begin small-group annotation of “Because I could not stop for Death”

Homework● Free Write: Write a poem or narrative

(whichever one best fits YOU) that communicates how you feel about your chosen issue NOW, since you have seen how the outside world deals with the issue. DUE ON FRIDAY!!

● Be working on the ACT practice test!

4 February 2015 To-Do ListGET ONE colored pencil (a dark colored one) from the front of the room. PULL OUT and REVIEW your notes on transcendentalism and realism in your packet. USE the colored pencil to:

● UNDERLINE important words/ideas in your notes.

● ADD comments, connections, and new thoughts to your notes.

● MARK any part of the notes that is unclear or confusing.

● Opening activity

● Small-group annotation of Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death”

○ Instructor reviews and adds at the end

● Alternative Reading Time

Homework● Be working on your FREE WRITE that

expresses your voice on an issue! DUE FRIDAY!!

● Be working on the ACT practice test! TOMORROW is the next ACT Q-and-A session!

5 February 2015 To-Do ListGET ONE red pen from the front of the room. REVIEW your notes on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson in your packet. REVIEW your annotations and your answers to the poems’ questions.

USE the red pen to:

● UNDERLINE important words/ideas in your notes.

● ADD comments, connections, and new thoughts to your notes.

● MARK any part of the notes that is unclear or confusing.

● Opening Activity, ACT Q-and-A session, Review

● Finish small-group annotation of Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death”

● Time to work on Free Write

Homework● WHITMAN/DICKINSON TEST

TOMORROW! Study:• Your packet notes, annotations and answers

to the questions.• Your Venn diagram• Your small-group annotation sheet

● Finish your FREE WRITE that expresses your voice on an issue! DUE TOMORROW!!

● Be working on the ACT practice test! “Making a Play” section DUE TOMORROW for Path #2 students!!

6 February 2015 To-Do ListPULL OUT your Whitman/Dickinson packets your free write assignment. STAPLE your Research Mini-Guide to the back of your Free Write. Also PULL OUT your small-group annotation sheet and any other work from the unit!!

ALL YOU NEED OUT TO TAKE THE TEST is a pen or pencil.

USE this time to study your notes for the test!

● WHITMAN/DICKINSON TEST

● Alternative Reading Time (if you finish the test early)

Homework● Be working on the ACT practice test if you

did not turn it in today!