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Spring Semester
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Week One - January 3-5, 2018
- Personal River Project
Week Two - January 8-12, 2018
- Personal River Project Presentations
- Multiple Intelligences Inventory and Reflection
Week Three - January 15-19, 2018
- Rorschach Inkblot Test
Week Four - January 22-26, 2018
- IQ Test On Demand
- Flowers for Algernon
Week Five - January 29-February 2, 2018
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Vocabulary Homework
Week Six - February 5-9, 2018
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Dialogue and Theme Homework
Week Seven - February 12-16, 2018
- Flowers for Algernon movie + notes
- Argument Writing: An Introduction
Week Eight - February 19-23, 2018
- Chewing Gum in School's Argument
- Trump's Wall Argument
- Homework: Argument Writing Scavenger Hunt
Week Nine - February 26 - March 2, 2018
- Debate Preparation!
Week Ten and Eleven - March 5-16, 2018
- Argument Essay
- Debate Prewriting
- Checklist of Guidelines
- Peer Review
Week Twelve-Fifteen - March 19-April 16, 2018
- Poetry Vocabulary Guided Notes
- Poetry Packets
- Spoken Word and Song Videos
- Poetry Portfolio Assignment Sheet
Slave Narrative Unit - April 17-TBD, 2018
- Frederick Douglass
- Sojourner Truth
Fall Semester
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Week One - August 14-18, 2017
- Shield Projects
Week Two - August 21-25, 2017
- Solar Eclipse
- Letter to Future Self On Demand
- "My Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie
Week Three - August 28-September 1, 2017
- Holocaust Research Projects
Week Four - September 5-8, 2017
- Holocaust Research Project Presentations
- Holocaust Independent Reading Projects
Week Five - September 11-15, 2017
- Holocaust Overview Slideshow and Guided Notes
- Recipe for the Holocaust On Demand
- Propaganda
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Holocaust Independent Reading Projects
- Vocabulary Homework
Week Six - September 18-22, 2017
- The Diary of Anne Frank (play version adapted by Frances Albert and Goodrich Hackett)
- Holocaust Independent Reading Projects
- Midpoint Assignment (AP Only!)
Week Seven - September 25-29, 2017
- The Diary of Anne Frank (play version adapted by Frances Albert and Goodrich Hackett)
- Act Two Theme Tracing
- Holocaust Independent Reading Projects
- Midpoint Assignment (RP Only!)
Week Eight - October 2-5, 2017
- The Diary of Anne Frank Test and Study Guide
Week Nine - October 11-13, 2017
- Holocaust Independent Reading Project Group Presentations
- The Diary of Anne Frank Test Retake Study Materials
Week Ten - October 16-20, 2017
- Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair, and Memory"
- This I Believe
- "Be Cool to the Pizza Dude"
- "The Top 10 Lessons I Learned From Charlie Brown"
- Prince EA
Week Eleven - October 23-27, 2017
- This I Believe Jigsaw
- Dialogue Structure
Week Twelve - October 30-November 3, 2017
- Dialogue Structure
- This I Believe Rough Draft
Week Thirteen - November 6-10, 2017
- This I Believe Essay
- Peer Review
- Final Draft (due Friday 11/10) Formatting Guide
- Dystopian Stories Unit Introduction
Week Fourteen - November 13-17, 2017
- "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
- Mood, Tone, Diction, Connotation, Denotation
Week Fifteen - November 20-21, 2017
- "The Lamb to Slaughter"
- Independent Reading Project, Round 2
- Thanksgiving Break Homework and Extra Credit
Week Sixteen - November 27-December 1, 2017
- A History of the Insanity Plea
- Reading Proficiency Assessment - Nov. 28-29, 2017
Week Seventeen - December 4-8, 2017
- "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
- "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
Week Eighteen - December 11-15, 2017
- "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
- Independent Reading Project Presentations (Dec. 13-15)
- Binder and Notebook Checks!
Week Nineteen - December 18-19, 2017
- Is the US a dystopian society?