agenda 6-1-2015 juniors - american short stories freshmen - fahrenheit 451
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Agenda 6-1-2015
Juniors - American Short StoriesFreshmen - Fahrenheit 451
Good Afternoon 6-1-2015Step 1: Please grab your notebook, & your
American Anthem ProjectStep 2: Start a fresh page, date it and title it
Poetry:Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockWho is J. Alfred Prufrock? How would
you characterize him?
American Anthem Presentation• Stay in your groups or get into a group
of 3 or 4.• Present your American Anthem Poster
and Analysis.• Begin by Reading your Poem to your
group.• Don’t forget to explain the images you
chose.
Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Get in groups of three of your choice:• one person will identify allusions • another metaphorical language and
rhymes• the last person will identify imagery.
What have we read this year?
Novels/Plays:● The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
● The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
● The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
● The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
Short Stories/Poems/Songs:
● How To Date a Brown Girl…, by Junot Diaz
● The Jacket, by Gary Soto● A Perfect Day for a Bananafish, by J.D.
Salinger● Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin● The Things They Carried, by Tim
O’Brien● Yellow Wallpaper, by Gillmans● Those Winter Sundays by Robert
Hayden● My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke● Reuben Bright by Edwin Arlington
Robinson● Hard Knock Life (Annie and Jay-Z)● Born in the USA● Southern Accents, by Tom Petty
Plus Summer Reading & Outside Reading Books Nonfiction and Fiction
Step 1: Please grab your notebook and UtopiaStep 2: Start a fresh page, date it and title it
Question:
What is the question to this answer...
Utopia
Good Morning/Afternoon 6-1-2015
ORB: Utopia PresentationsYou will Receive A Grading Rubric!● Step 1: Literature
Circles20 minutes
o Each person should talk for about 5 minutes
Step 2: Then everyone in your group should present their two artifacts.Everyon Propaganda Poster
Longer Works:➢ To Kill a Mockingbird (copies available)➢ Of Mice and Men (copies available)➢ Odyssey (in textbook)➢ Fahrenheit 451 (copies available)➢ Romeo and Juliet (you have a copy; also in
textbook)➢ Utopia➢ Communist Manifesto (Just Honors)
Poems/Songs:· “Sonnet 116”· “Sonnet 130”· “Sonnet 29”· Hard Knock Life (Annie and Jay-Z)
Short Stories:“The Scarlet Ibis” (in textbook)“Chrysanthemums”“All Summer in a Day” (copies available)“Persephone” (copies available)“The Veldt” (copies available)“Learning to Read & Write” by Frederick Douglass“Superman & Me” by Sherman Alexie“The Country that Stopped Reading” by Toscana“The Science of Storytelling…” by Leo Widrich
Plus Summer Reading & Outside Reading Books
Recall a person you saw today on your way to school. Describe this person and invent a story about them: Who is he/she? Where is that person going? Invent a distinct characteristic or hobby you think this person would have based on what you observed about him/her this morning.
Relay Writing