AP Seminar: Period 1
Monday: 1.) Analyze student anchor and make appointments for writing conference 2). RSVP to Gem of The Ocean by August Wilson @ South Coast Repertory
HW.) Canva Project: The Purpose of Education: SELECT YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE FROM THE SELECTIONS WE HAVE READ. Then, visit www.canva.com and create an Instagram Post with the quote, corresponding question and a caption that explains the quote’s importance. DUE on GOOGLE CLASSROOM by next Monday 10/9.
Tuesday:1.) Socratic Seminar Reflection 2.) Turn in Canva Project 3.) Poll Everywhere: Perspectives on Educational Inequality.) “Read Between the Lines” Mural by David Botello
H.W. Sign up for Writing Conference: appointments , 2). RSVP to Gem of The Ocean by August Wilson @ South Coast Repertory 3.) Notebooks DUE FRIDAY
FOR TOMORROW’s PSAT: GO TO THE NORTH GYM if you will not be taking the PSAT
Wednesday: PSAT: GO TO THE NORTH GYM, if you will not be taking the PSAT
Thursday: 1.) Bias and Credibility: What is it? What is the relationship between these terms? Does an authors’ bias automatically discredit their argument? 2.) Background is Bias: “Read Between the Lines” Mural by David Botello
Friday: 1.) Notebook Self-Assessment 2.) “Read Between the Lines” Mural by David Botello
H.W. Watch Biography Video and Read “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes
English 3P Honors: Period 2,5, 6
Monday: 1.) Progress Check 1.3 Evaluation
H.W. Summarize Chapters 8-10 of The Namesake
Tuesday: 1.) Reading Check Summarize Chapters 8-10 2.) The Namesake Literary Circles
Wednesday: PSAT
Thursday: 1. Read Ch. 11-12
Friday: 1.) Ch. 11-12 Summary Check 2.) Literary Circles
Mexican American Literature: Period 3
Monday: 1.) Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea Silent Reading. Rosario Castellanos “Silence Concerning an Ancient”
Tuesday 1.) Rosario Castellano
Wednesday: “Senior Picture Day” by Michele Serros Roundtable Discussion 2. Obituary
Thursday: 1.) Sustained Reading Into the Beautiful North 2. “Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone” by Rosario Castellanos
Friday: 1.) Sustained Reading Into the Beautiful North
Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson
Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African Americans, decade by decade, over the course of the 20th century. His plays have been produced at regional theatres across the country, including on Broadway, and all over the world. In 2003, Wilson made his professional stage debut in his one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. His work garnered many awards including Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990); a Tony Award for Fences; Great Britain’s Olivier Award for Jitney; and eight New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, Jitneyand Radio Golf. Additionally, the cast recording of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received a 1985 Grammy Award and Wilson received a 1995 Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Wilson’s early works include the one-act plays The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecomingand the musical satire, Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Wilson received many fellowships and awards including Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships in playwriting, the Whiting Writers Award and the 2003 Heinz Award. He was awarded a 1999 National Humanities Medal and received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He was an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 1995 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2005, Broadway renamed the theatre located at 245 West 52nd Street as The August Wilson Theatre. He was posthumously inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Wilson was born and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Penn., and lived in Seattle, Wash., at the time of his death. He and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero, had two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula Carmen.