Month: April 2015

Weekly Objective: As students read chapters 1-3 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, students will be able to summarize important plot events and identify the narrator’s character traits and tone.

3.30 Chapter 1: Prezi & Dialectical Journal Ch.1

3.31 Chapter 1: Prezi & Dialectical Journal Ch.1

4.1 Introduction to Symbols: The Great Gatsby Chapter 2

4.2 The Great Gatsby Chapter 2

4.3 Quarter 3 Benchmarks

Weekly Objective: As students read chapters 1-3 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, students will be able to summarize important plot events and identify the narrator’s character traits and tone.

3.30 Chapter 1: Prezi & Dialectical Journal Ch.1

3.31 Chapter 1: Prezi & Dialectical Journal Ch.1

4.1 The Great Gatsby Chapter 2

4.2 Introduction to Symbols: The Great Gatsby Chapter 2

4.3 Quarter 3 Benchmark: Notebooks Due!

Weekly Objective: After completing CORNELL NOTES on video, “Foreigners in their Own Lands” students will be able to write a summary and response that identifies significant historical contexts and issues which resulted from the Mexican American War.

3.30 Introduction to Birth of Mexican American

3.31 Foreigners in their Own Land: Cornell Notes

4.1 Summarize “Foreigners in their Own Land,” Define Literary Terms, “American Progress” by John Gast

4.2 School House Rock: Manifest Destiny, Close Read The Great Nation of Futurity by John O’Sullivan

4.3 Progress Check: Summarize and Respond to “The Great Nation of Futurity” by John O’ Sullivan