WEEK 5: "Bronx Masquerade"

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AUGUST 30-3: 
Monday-Tuesday
1. CommonLit #4: "Conformity"
    -Highlight/annotate the types of conformity.
    -Complete Assessment Questions 1-5.
2. Score/Revise Question #3 using RACER writing strategy.

Wednesday
1. Nearpod Chapter Summaries
2. Read pages 34-64 and update character log and vocab list #3

Thursday
1. Poetry analysis using SIFT on poem "Cocoon."
2. Open Mic #2

Friday
1. Quiz on pages 34-64 (Devon-Judianne)



WEEK 4: "Bronx Masquerade"

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AUGUST 23-27: 
MONDAY-TUESDAY
1. CommonLit:"Jabari Unmasked"
    -Highlight and annotate following 7 items in class:
        1. What is the masquerade?
        2. Why is the speaker hiding themselves?
        3. Find symbolism in poem
        4. Find imagery
        5. Find figurative language (ie: simile, personification, hyperbole)
        6. Find the tone 
        7. Find the theme of the poem
2. Revise/Rewrite CommonLit short response for "Jabari Unmasked"
3. Complete SIFT strategy for Langston Hughes poem "Harlem" 

WEDNESDAY
1. Read novel in Classkick (pgs. 3-33) and update vocab list

THURSDAY
1. Read Langston Hughes' "Harlem" and complete the SIFT organizer to analyze poem. 
2. Open Mic Poem #1: 
    -Use the "Golden Shovel" method by using the line "What happens to a dream deferred" from "Harlem" and use it as your first line of a new poem you will place in Classkick.  Extra Credit if you share after quiz on Friday. 

FRIDAY
1. Quiz on pgs. 3-33 (Wes-Devon) and the vocab list #2
2. Open Mic #1

WEEK 3: Harlem Renaissance & "Bronx Masquerade"

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AUGUST 16-20: 
MONDAY
1. CommonLit: "Harlem Renaissance".
    -Annotate text for Who, What, Where, When and Why.
    -Complete Assessment Questions 1-5

TUESDAY
1. Unit 1 Pretest 
2. SRI assessment
2. Writer's Workshop:
    -Review Questions 1-5 and score short response 
    -Rewrite short response #5 in Classkick