PERIOD 2
WARNING: This is a tentative calendar for the week. I post this to provide my students with an opportunity to preview the week and to help them plan accordingly. Sometimes things go exactly as planned and it is amazing. Sometimes they don’t because we might finish an objective faster than anticipated. Sometimes what I believed would take ten minutes at the beginning of class ends up taking an entire class. Sometimes there are some mornings when I get ideas and decide to change EVERYTHING because something else seems better. Anyways, you get the picture: TENTATIVE…otherwise known as maybe, perhaps, we will see. As my grandmother used to say, “we make plans and the universe laughs”.
Monday 9.15: Themes and Issues in Mexican American Literature
UNIT GOAL: Define identity terms as they apply to Mexican American literature and evaluate basic issues and themes.
Objective(s): After completing CORNELL NOTES on video, “Exploring the Borderlands,” students will be able to write a summary that identifies significant historical contexts and themes of Mexican American Literature.
Handouts: Cornell Notes Guide and Instructions, “Exploring the Borderlands”, Analytical Summary
Homework: Notebook due on FRIDAY! Rubric
Tuesday 9.16: Assimilation, Acculturation, & Resistance
UNIT GOAL: Define identity terms as they apply to Mexican American literature and evaluate basic issues and themes.
Objective(s): After participating in and PHILOSOPHICAL CHAIRS DISCUSSION, students will be able to use academic behaviors and practice discourse of scholarship to discuss and define ASSIMILATION, ACCULTURATION, and RESISTANCE and evaluate the importance of each term to the study of cultural identity.
Handouts: Philsophical Chairs, (Handout)
Homework: Notebook due on FRIDAY! Rubric
Wednesday 9.17: SOCRATIC SEMINAR PREP DAY
UNIT GOAL: Define identity terms as they apply to Mexican American literature and evaluate basic issues and themes.
Objective: After annotating Noah Remnick’s article “Why Ethnic Studies is Good for California, and America?” students will be able to practice academic behaviors to discuss the value of Ethnic Studies in a Socratic Seminar.
Handouts: Socratic Seminar Evaluation Guide, Questioning Guide
Homework: Notebook due on FRIDAY! Rubric
Thursday 9.18: SOCRATIC SEMINAR DAY
UNIT GOAL: Define identity terms as they apply to Mexican American literature and evaluate basic issues and themes.
Objective: After annotating Noah Remnick’s article “Why Ethnic Studies is Good for California, and America?” students will be able to practice academic behaviors to discuss the value of Ethnic Studies in a Socratic Seminar.
Handouts: Socratic Seminar Evaluation Guide, Questioning Guide
Homework: Notebook due on FRIDAY! Rubric
Friday 9.19: Guest Speaker, Dr. Paul Apodaca
UNIT GOAL: Define identity terms as they apply to Mexican American literature and evaluate basic issues and themes.
Objective: After completing notes on Dr. Paul Apodaca’s lecture on oral narratives and indigenous cultures, students will be able to define and evaluate the importance of cultural literacy by completing an analytical summary.
Handouts: Analytical Summary
Homework: Notebook due on TODAY! Rubric