WEEK 5: FICTION/POETRY

 RESOURCES:  Syllabus| RACER| Zinc + Springboard | Bronx Masquerade 58-107- (AUDIO) | Bronx Masquerade (TEXT) | Vocab List 4| Character Logs (12-18)| Bronx Audio (107-167)

MONDAY
1. Read the novel Bronx Masquerade.  You will need to have read PAGES 60-110 before Friday.
2. Update character logs
3. Compete vocab list #4.
4. Narrative Writing: Think about a time when you faced a challenge. Write a story about that time, including how you dealt with the challenge and what its outcome was. Be sure to narrate an event or a series of events and to include specific details so that the reader can follow your story. Put story in Narrative section of notebook and refer to notes on 4-Point Writing.
HW: Narrative Writing

TUESDAY
1. Writer's Workshop: Revise narrative from Monday lab using STORY strategy for organizing info.
HW: Read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.

WEDNESDAY
1. Notes: TPCASTT (strategy for breaking down poetry)
2. Watch the beginning of 13th (Netflix) by Ava Duvernay and discuss the dark history leading to the Harlem Renaissance and the birth of writers like Langston Hughes
3.Read Harlem by Langston Hughes and use TPCASTT strategy to answer questions about poem.
4. 2-Pointer: Write a paragraph explaining a time someone you know or yourself had a dream deferred.
HW: Harlem questions, read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.  Quiz on Friday

THURSDAY
1. Group Work: Analyze your assigned poem using TPCASTT.  Do a gallery walk for 5 poems.
2. Review for Quiz on Friday covering pgs. 60-107 (Tanisha-Amy).
3. Write a poem for Open Mic #3.
HW: Harlem questions, read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.  Quiz on Friday

FRIDAY
1. Quiz on pgs 60-107 (Tanisha-Wes), vocab list #3 and notes from this week (Hint: TPCASTT)
2. Open Mic #3: Share poems to class.
HW: Read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.  Quiz on Friday