Monday 8/1/16

• INTRODUCTION TO ANALYSIS: reading and analyzing visual art as a text (PPT)
• CLOSE-READING ACTIVITY: The Expansionist by Francis Davis Millet (GoogleArt image, High Museum image) and American Progress by John Gast (YouTube image) 
• SMALL-GROUP ACTIVITY: brainstorming thematic concepts (graphic organizer) 

Wednesday 8/3/16

• ART ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION: The Expansionist by Francis Davis Millet (GoogleArt image, PPT, detail/characterization graphic organizer)  
• PROSE ANNOTATION & ANALYSIS: Dombey and Son FRQ2 (prompt and graphic organizer)
• SMALL-GROUP ACTIVITY: brainstorming thematic concepts (graphic organizer)  
• HOMEWORK: reading and annotation of "The History Teacher" by Billy Collins

Friday 8/5/16

• MINI-LESSON: allusion (Tabatha Astacio video, Vantage Learning video, Eric Buffington video, WarnerJordanEducation video)
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: allusion in Watership Down (text)  
• SOCRATIC SEMINAR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: analysis of "The History Teacher" by Billy Collins (notes from )
• PRE-ASSESSMENT: AP English Literature Exam multiple-choice and free-response question (MC answers submitted to Socrative room LHS125)   
• HOMEWORK: college application essay draft due at 11:59 Monday 8/8/16 to www.TurnItIn.com  

Tuesday 8/9/16 

• SMALL-GROUP WORK: analysis of ideas, organization, word choice, syntax, and voice in successful college application essays (personal writing rubric, sample essays from Tufts University, Johns Hopkins University, Connecticut College)
• PEER REVIEW: college application essay draft via www.TurnItIn.com (peer review questions in GoogleDoc)

Thursday 8/11/16

• MINI-LESSON & INTRODUCTION: frame narrative (Boyd's PPT, WarnerJordanEducation video) in Frankenstein
• SELF-REFLECTION: Pre-Assessment multiple choice (AP Exam MC log) 
• SMALL-GROUP DIFFERENTIATION: Pre-Assessment multiple choice questions (The Mill on the Floss passage)
• INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY: contact information via GoogleForm 
• PEER REVIEW: college application essay draft via www.TurnItIn.com  (peer review questions in GoogleDoc) 

Monday 8/15/16 

• SMALL-GROUP ANALYSIS: highlighting activity for College Board samples of Pre-Assessment FRQ 2 (Cardinal Wolsey soliloquy from Henry VIII)
• SELF-REFLECTION: Pre-Assessment FRQ essay 
• READING AND ANALYSIS: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" audio visual and text with illustrations (albatross facts, reading questions)   
• INDEPENDENT WORK: summer tasks (GoogleGroups discussion board, GoogleDoc for quotations and research,  Membean.com vocabulary)  

Wednesday 8/17/16

• READING AND ANALYSIS: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" audio visual and text with illustrations (albatross facts, reading questions, albatross allusion political cartoon)     
• FRAME NARRATION READING & ANALYSIS: Frankenstein letters  
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passage 1 (from letter IV of Frankenstein) 
• PEER REVIEWS DUE at 11:59pm: PeerMark assignment of three drafts via www.TurnItIn.com  (peer review questions in GoogleDoc)

Friday 8/19/16

• READING DUE DATE 1: Frankenstein Letters 1-4 and Chapters 1-2 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passage 2 (from chapter 2 of Frankenstein)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: student-led discussion of character, conflict, figurative language, theme in Frankenstein Letters 1-4 and Chapters 1-3 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer) 
• SELF-REFLECTION: plans and revisions based on college application essay PeerMark feedback (GoogleForm) 
• INDEPENDENT WORK: revision of college application essay, summer tasks (GoogleGroups discussion board, GoogleDoc for quotations and research,  Membean.com vocabulary)  

Tuesday 8/23/16

• CONFERENCING: college application essay revisions
• INDEPENDENT WORK: college application essay revision
• SELF-REFLECTION: plans and revisions based on college application essay PeerMark feedback (GoogleForm)
• INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY: contact information via GoogleForm  
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: reading and analysis of Frankenstein Chapters 3-8 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: summer tasks (GoogleGroups discussion board, GoogleDoc for quotations and research,  Membean.com vocabulary) 
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: revision of college application essay due at 11:59 via www.TurnItIn.com  

Thursday 8/25/16

• READING DUE DATE 2: Frankenstein Chapters 3-8 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passage 3 (from chapter 8 of Frankenstein)
• SPEED-DATING CONVERSATIONS: student-led discussion of character, conflict, figurative language, theme in Frankenstein Chapters 3-8 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)  
• CONFERENCING: college application essay revisions
• INDEPENDENT WORK: PeerMark assignment of one revision via www.TurnItIn.com  (peer review questions in GoogleDoc)  
• INDEPENDENT WORK: summer tasks (GoogleGroups discussion board, GoogleDoc for quotations and research,  Membean.com vocabulary)
• HOMEWORK: reading and annotation of  euthanasia paired poems ("How Annandale Went Out" and "To the Mercy Killers")

Monday 8/29/16 

• SMALL-GROUP COLLABORATION: analysis and question-creation for euthanasia paired poems ("How Annandale Went Out" and "To the Mercy Killers")
• COLLABORATION: speed-dating discussion activity for euthanasia paired poems ("How Annandale Went Out" and "To the Mercy Killers")
• INDEPENDENT WORK: essay outline for euthanasia paired poems ("How Annandale Went Out" and "To the Mercy Killers")
• INDEPENDENT WORK: PeerMark assignment of one revision via www.TurnItIn.com  (peer review questions in GoogleDoc) 
• CONFERENCING: college application essay revisions 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: reading and analysis of Frankenstein Chapters 9-12 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)
• PEER REVIEW DUE at 11:59pm: PeerMark assignment of one revision via www.TurnItIn.com  (peer review questions in GoogleDoc) 

Wednesday 8/31/16

• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: FRQ 1 annotation practice and essay outline  
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: reading and analysis of Frankenstein Chapters 9-12 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: summer tasks (GoogleGroups discussion board, GoogleDoc for quotations and research,  Membean.com vocabulary) 
• ASSESSMENT: ESSAY DUE at 11:59pm: college application personal narrative to be submitted via www.TurnItIn.com 

Friday 9/2/16

• READING DUE DATE 3: Frankenstein Chapters 9-12 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer) 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: student-led discussion of character, conflict, figurative language, theme in Frankenstein Chapters 9-12 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)  
• INDEPENDENT WORK: summer tasks (GoogleGroups discussion board, GoogleDoc for quotations and research,  Membean.com vocabulary)
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT:  Membean.com minutes DUE

Wednesday 9/7/16

• ONLINE DISCUSSION POSTS & QUOTATIONS/SETTING RESEARCH DUE: GoogleGroups questions and responses for choice novel(s) [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried], GoogleDoc for quotations and setting research
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passages 4 & 5 (from chapters 10 & 12 of Frankenstein)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: complex characterization of Frankenstein and Creature (character analysis graphic organizerFrankenstein character analysis.pdf )
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• SMALL-GROUP WORK: reading and analysis of Frankenstein Chapters 13-17 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)

Friday 9/9/16

• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: individualized quiz via Membean.com  
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: FRQ 1 annotation practice and essay outline (thesis statement submitted via Socrative) 
• READING DUE DATE 4: Frankenstein Chapters 13-17 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)  
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passages 6 (from chapter 13 of Frankenstein)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: student-led discussion of character, conflict, figurative language, theme in Frankenstein Chapters 13-17 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer) 

Tuesday 9/13/16

• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: theme statements for choice novel [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried]
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: FRQ 3 theme essay on choice novel [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried] (potential topics)
• ASSESSMENT PREPARATION: analysis of Socratic seminar topic (graphic organizer, seminar survival guide) 
• ASSESSMENT: FRQ 1 poetry essay 

Thursday 9/15/16

• READING DUE DATE 5: Frankenstein Chapters 18-21 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passage 7 (from chapter 16 & 17 of Frankenstein), answers submitted via Socrative
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: collaboration about answers to Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passage 7 (from chapter 16 & 17 of Frankenstein)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK & FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: analysis and integration of textual evidence   
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: student-led discussion of character, conflict, figurative language, theme in Frankenstein Chapters 18-21 (critical reading questions & quotations organizer) 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: discussion of prompts FRQ 3 theme essay on choice novel [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried] (potential topics)

9/19-23/16 

• Henry County Schools fall break

Monday 9/26/16 

• READING DUE DATE 6: Frankenstein Chapters 22-24 including Walton's Letters (critical reading questions & quotations organizer)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passages 10-12 (from chapter 24 and Walton's Letters of Frankenstein)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: student-led discussion of character, conflict, figurative language, theme in Frankenstein Chapters 22-24 including Walton's Letters (critical reading questions & quotations organizer) 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: preparation for FRQ 3 theme essay on Frankenstein (potential topics, essay outline organizer)

Wednesday 9/28/16

• ASSESSMENT:  FRQ 3 theme essay on choice novel [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried] (potential topics) via www.TurnItIn.com 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: question composition and brainstorming FRQ 3 theme essay on Frankenstein (potential topics, essay outline organizer)
• INDEPENDENT WORK & CONFERENCING: outlines for FRQ 3 theme essay on Frankenstein (potential topics, essay outline organizer)
• INDEPENDENT WORK: Applied Practice multiple-choice questions for passages 10-12 (from chapter 24 and Walton's Letters of Frankenstein)
• INDEPENDENT or SMALL-GROUP WORK: preparation for thematic Socratic seminar for Frankenstein, choice novels [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried], and supplementary texts  including Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (graphic organizer, seminar survival guide)  

Friday 9/30/16

• ASSESSMENT: FRQ 3 theme essay on Frankenstein (prompt selected from potential topics at beginning of class) 
• INDEPENDENT or SMALL-GROUP WORK & CONFERENCING: preparation for thematic Socratic seminar for Frankenstein, choice novels [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried], and supplementary texts  including Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (graphic organizer, list of texts, seminar survival guide) 

Tuesday 10/4/16

• VOCABULARY MINUTES DUE: 150 minutes (3 weeks) minimum via Membean.com
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: individualized quiz via Membean.com   
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (analysis organizer, screenplay, LitCharts) 

Thursday 10/6/16

• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (analysis organizer, screenplay, LitCharts) 

Tuesday 10/11/16

• INDEPENDENT WORK: BrightBytes survey 
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (analysis organizer, screenplay, LitCharts)  
• UNIT 2 INTRODUCTION:
• guided reading from choice novels 
• CHOICE NOVEL SELECTION: Complete GoogleForm. 
• INDEPENDENT or SMALL-GROUP WORK & CONFERENCING: preparation for thematic Socratic seminar for Frankenstein, choice novels [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried], and supplementary texts  including Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (graphic organizer, list of texts, seminar survival guide) 

Thursday 10/13/16

• UNIT 2 INTRODUCTION:
• CHOICE NOVEL SELECTION: Complete GoogleForm. 
• MINI-LESSON: Vanitas and Dutch Masters art (text excerpts, PowerPoint)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: close-reading and annotation of Vanitas text excerpts (analysis questions)
• CLOSE-READING & ANNOTATION: thematically-related poetry (poetry packet) 
• INDEPENDENT or SMALL-GROUP WORK & CONFERENCING: preparation for thematic Socratic seminar for Frankenstein, choice novels [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried], and supplementary texts  including Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (graphic organizer, list of texts, seminar survival guide)  

Monday 10/17/16 

• SMALL-GROUP WRITING WORKSHOP: Unit 2 Vanitas poetry (packet)
• INDEPENDENT or SMALL-GROUP WORK & CONFERENCING: preparation for thematic Socratic seminar for Frankenstein, choice novels [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The Things They Carried], and supplementary texts  including Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (graphic organizer, list of texts, seminar survival guide)

Wednesday 10/19/16 

• DISCUSSION ASSESSMENT:  thematic Socratic seminar for Frankenstein, choice novels [A Tale of Two Cities, Watership Down, The The Things They Carried], and supplementary texts including Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (graphic organizer, list of texts, seminar survival guide)