Unit 4: We Conform & Challenge, Therefore We Are

Extended Literary Texts:

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

• online text; audiobook; LitCharts notes background, plot, characters, themes, and analysis

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• online text; audiobook narrated by Huxley (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6); LitCharts notes background, plot, characters, themes, and analysis; ThugNotes synopsis and analysis

BONUS OPPORTUNITIES: 

• EOC review activities during IF Choice (multiple-choice, constructed-response, and argument document-based essay)
• Literary analysis chart for choice novel (GoogleDoc)
• AP Literature FRQ3 theme essay (prompts) for choice novel (via TurnItIn.com: class ID 12587888, enrollment password APLangLHS) 

Brave New World/Awakening Project Links:

• research project tasks; presentation sample; footnote task sample; MLA formatting (Purdue OWL)
• Group Project Calendar GoogleDoc
• Check In-Check Out GoogleForm
• Brave New World GoogleDoc, The Awakening GoogleDoc
• Screencast-O-Matic free screen-audio recording 
• Project Submission Page 

Monday 3/7/16

• Unit 4 introduction Who Said It? quotation QUIZ, answers submitted via Socrative (LHS 125)
• Unit 4 text choices (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World): background, sample reading, Q & A (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, research project tasks)
• SELF-REFLECTION DUE:  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn satire project (form)
• CONFERENCING: AP Exam registration and course recommendations for 2016-2017
• INDEPENDENT WORK: reading (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World) 
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Membean vocabulary practice   

Wednesday 3/9/16

• ASSESSMENT 1: FRQ 1 (document-based synthesis essay) under AP Exam time constraints
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Membean vocabulary practice 
• INDEPENDENT WORK: reading (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World) and discussion preparation (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer)

Friday 3/11/16

• ASSESSMENT 1: FRQ 1 document-based synthesis essay self-reflection and sample analysis
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean vocabulary minutes (90 minutes minimum for two weeks DUE) 
• reading of The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer) 

Wednesday 3/16/16

• ASSESSMENT 2: multiple-choice close reading and analysis under AP Exam time constraints, answers submitted via Socrative LHS 125
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Membean vocabulary practice 
• INDEPENDENT WORK: reading of The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer) 

Friday 3/18/16

• READING DUE DATE 1 (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World): Applied Practice multiple-choice questions (strategies), answers submitted via Socrative LHS 125; speed-dating/small-group discussion (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer)   

Tuesday 3/22/16

• ASSESSMENT 3: FRQ 2 (rhetorical analysis essay) under AP Exam time constraints 
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Membean vocabulary practice 
• INDEPENDENT WORK: reading of The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer)

Thursday 3/24/16

• READING DUE DATE 2 (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World): Applied Practice multiple-choice (strategies); speed-dating/small-group discussion (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer)   
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean vocabulary minutes (90 minutes minimum for two weeks DUE on Friday 3/25/16) 

Monday 3/28/16

• ASSESSMENT 3: FRQ 2 rhetorical analysis essay self-reflection and sample analysis   
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean vocabulary individualized QUIZ
• DISCUSSION: research project examining symbolism & setting in The Awakening AND/OR satire & allusion Brave New World (instructions, sample)

Wednesday 3/30/16

• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: FRQ 2 rhetorical analysis essay thesis & outline
• FRQ 2 ANNOTATION & WRITING: (1) annotation, (2) thesis, (3) rhetorical analysis & quotation integration, (4) organization
• GROUP WORK: research project topic and team selection
• INDEPENDENT WORK: reading of The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer) 
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Membean vocabulary practice 

Friday 4/1/16

• READING DUE DATE 3 (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World): Applied Practice multiple-choice (strategies); speed-dating/small-group discussion (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer) 
• GROUP WORK: research project topic and team selection (Check In-Check Out GoogleForm, Group Project Calendar GoogleDoc)
• HOMEWORK: Membean vocabulary minutes (120 minutes minimum DUE ON 4/15/16; GRADE EARNED WILL REPLACE 2 LOWEST MEMBEAM GRADES)
• HOMEWORK: project planning and research (Check In-Check Out GoogleForm, Group Project Calendar GoogleDoc)

Monday-Friday 4/4/16 to 4/8/16

• Henry County Schools SPRING BREAK

Tuesday 4/12/16

• WORKSHOP: FRQ 3 (argument essay) outline under AP Exam time constraints (graphic organizer) 
• GROUP WORK: research project (symbolism & setting in The Awakening AND/OR satire & allusion in Brave New World)    

Thursday 4/14/16

• MINI-LESSON: argument essay (structure, supporting evidence, counterargument, call to action) ["Migrants and Refugees," John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, 28 Sept. 2015] 
• READING DUE DATE 4 (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World): Applied Practice multiple-choice (strategies); speed-dating/small-group discussion (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer)  
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean vocabulary minutes (120 minutes minimum for three weeks DUE on Friday 4/15/16; GRADE EARNED WILL REPLACE 2 LOWEST MEMBEAM GRADES) 

Monday 4/18/16

• FINAL EXAM PART 1:  FRQ 2 (rhetorical analysis essay) and FRQ 3 (argument essay) under AP Exam time constraints 

Wednesday 4/20/16

• READING DUE DATE 5 (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World): Applied Practice multiple-choice (strategies); speed-dating/small-group discussion (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer)  
• GROUP WORK: research project (symbolism & setting in The Awakening AND/OR satire & allusion in Brave New World)  
• INDEPENDENT WORK: FRQ 1 (document-based synthesis essay) reading and preparation 

Friday 4/22/16

• FINAL EXAM PARTS 1 & 2:  FRQ 1 (document-based synthesis essay) and multiple-choice questions under AP Exam time constraints  

Tuesday 4/26/16

• GROUP WORK: research project (symbolism & setting in The Awakening AND/OR satire & allusion in Brave New World)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Membean vocabulary practice 
• BONUS OPPORTUNITY: EOC Milestone English 11 practice activities during IF Choice 

Thursday 4/28/16

• READING DUE DATE 6 (The Awakening AND/OR Brave New World): Applied Practice multiple-choice (strategies); speed-dating/small-group discussion (reading schedule, critical reading questions & quotation tasks, graphic organizer)   
• GROUP WORK: research project (symbolism & setting in The Awakening AND/OR satire & allusion in Brave New World)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: EOC Milestone English 11 instruction 

Monday 5/2/16

• GROUP WORK: research project (symbolism & setting in The Awakening AND/OR satire & allusion in Brave New World)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Membean vocabulary practice 
• HOMEWORK: EOC packet 

Wednesday 5/4/16

• PRACTICE ASSESSMENT:  EOC packet 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: EOC Milestone review
•  AP English Language Exam Review   

Friday 5/6/16

• EOC Milestone English 11 Review 
• AP English Language Exam Review 
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean vocabulary minutes (90 minutes minimum for two weeks DUE today)
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean individualized QUIZ  

Monday-Tuesday 5/9-10/16

• EOC Milestone English 11 ASSESSMENT  

Wednesday 5/11/16

• 2016 AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXAM 

Thursday 5/12/16

• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: ASSESSMENT 7 Socratic Seminar (organizer, rubric)  
• RE-ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES  

Monday 5/16/16 

• ASSESSMENT 6: research project (symbolism & setting in The Awakening AND/OR satire & allusion in Brave New World)  
• RE-ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES   
• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: ASSESSMENT 7 Socratic Seminar (organizer, rubric)  
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: AP Literature 2016 summer assignment  

Wednesday 5/18/16

• RE-ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES   
• BONUS ASSESSMENTS for Choice Novel(s) DUE (analysis chart via GoogleDoc, AP Literature FRQ3 theme essay via TurnItIn.com)

Friday 5/20/16

• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: Final Exam Socratic Seminar (organizer, rubric) 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: AP Literature 2016 summer assignment
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean vocabulary minutes (90 minutes minimum for two weeks DUE today)
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: Membean individualized QUIZ  

Tuesday 5/24/16

• FINAL EXAM PART 3: Socratic Seminar (organizer, rubric)
• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: Final Exam Socratic Seminar (organizer, rubric) 

Thursday 5/26/16

• FINAL EXAM PART 3: Socratic Seminar (organizer, rubric)