Nonfiction Unit
Daily Schedule
Monday, August 24à First Day of School (2 hour delay schedule)
Assigned seats
Survey Questions
HW: None
Tuesday, August 25
Rules and Regulations
Narrative Writing assignment—brainstorm
HW: You must have a topic for your narrative for tomorrow’s class. Notebook and signed rules are due by Friday!
Wednesday, August 26
Check for notebooks and rules
Work on introductions (handout)
Emerson quote assignment—due on Friday!
My sample introduction
Hw: Notebooks and signed rules due Friday. You must have an Emerson quote filled out on block for presentation on Friday. Complete introduction is due on Friday!
Thursday, August 27
Check for notebooks and rules
Comma instruction and practice
HW: Notebooks and signed rules are due Friday. You must have an Emerson quote filled out on block for presentation tomorrow. Complete introduction is also due tomorrow—we will be using them in class.
Friday, August 28
Check for notebooks and rules
Presentation of Emerson quotes
Work with introductions (checklist)—hand in
HW: Work on the body of your paper! Due on Wednesday.
Monday, August 31
Fragment/Run-on review
Conclusion work
Comma review—quiz on Thursday!
HW: Complete rough draft for Wednesday. Finish comma review for tomorrow.
Tuesday, September 1
MLA set up
Go over comma review
HW: Finish rough draft for tomorrow.
Wednesday, September 2
Check rough drafts
Read “Flightsend”
Constructed Response work on “Flightsend”
HW: Comma quiz tomorrow.
Thursday, September 3
Take comma quiz
Finish constructed response
Begin nonfiction notes
HW: Final typed paper is due on Wednesday, September 9
Friday, September 4
Finish nonfiction notes
Purpose and bias practice
Read background on John Smith
Read half of Smith’s “General History of Virginia” aloud and work on summary puzzle together
HW: Final typed paper is due on Wednesday, September 9. Finish puzzle if needed.
Tuesday, September 8
Go over Smith puzzle
Large group questions on Smith
Learning target discussion
Read background on William Bradford
Begin reading “Of Plymouth Planation” –actively discuss (do an exit slip here for comprehension)
HW: Typed final paper is due tomorrow!
Wednesday, September 9
Collect papers
Review/Continue reading “Of Plymouth Plantation”—actively discuss
Small groups to answer questions based on exit slips
HW: None
Thursday, September 10
Go over Bradford questions
Learning targets
Persuasive charts
Notes on connections between texts
Practice
HW: Finish practice questions on connections between texts
Friday, September 11
Go over practice connections between texts
Introduction on slavery-- fugitive slave law and abolition
Split into groups to read selected chapters of Douglass—hand out questions
Begin reading
HW: None
Revised as of September 21
Monday, September 21
Continue working in Douglass groups
Persuasive charts
Begin presenting information
HW: None
Tuesday, September 22à ASVABS (periods 1-4)
Wednesday, September 23
Finish group presentations
Assign Jacobs groups with questions
HW: Fill out persuasive chart of your chapter for tomorrow.
Thursday, September 24
Finish group work
Begin presenting
HW: Have charts filled out for tomorrow.
Friday, September 25
Library to benchmark / SAT review
Monday, September 28
Finish presenting
Go over charts
Notes on main idea and summary
HW: Main idea and summary practice is due tomorrow.
Tuesday, September 29
Go over practice
Background on Transcendentalism
Read background on Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and answer questions
HW: Answer pre-reading questions about “Walden” Also, fill out persuasive chart for tomorrow.
Wednesday, September 30
Discuss the pre-reading questions
Split students into small groups for paragraph analysis of “Walden”
Discuss/present
HW: None
Thursday, October 1
Finish discussing/presenting on “Walden”
Work on persuasive techniques chart
Notes on author’s argument (Revolutionary for rhetorical devices)
Use the persuasive chart for ethos, pathos, logos practice
HW: Finish chart to be collected tomorrow.
Friday, October 2
Collect charts
Short review of Revolutionary War
Read “The Crisis” and answer questions
Go over
HW: None
Monday, October 5
Listen to “Speech in the Virginia Convention” and answer questions
Ethos, Pathos, Logos sheet (In Rev Unit Folder)
HW: Complete assigned numbers of ethos, pathos, logos sheet
Tuesday, October 6
Go over homework
Finish ethos, pathos, logos sheet
More practice
HW: Finish practice—Quiz on Thursday
Wednesday, October 7
Read Amy Tan’s “Pretty Beyond Belief”—answer questions
Review of style, tone, argument, purpose, main idea, summary
HW: Other Keystone practice
Thursday, October 8
Go over Keystone practice
Ethos, Pathos, Logos quiz
HW: Test on Tuesday
Friday, October 9
Review
HW: Nonfiction test Tuesday
Tuesday, October 13
Nonfiction test