We'll Serve Them Chicken Soup on Toast!

October!  Already!?  Time sure flies when--oh, never mind.  We'll start placing bets on when the first snow will fall, while we rake up leaves and analyze rhetoric this week.  Also, novels are still front and center--the only actual homework you'll have--so keep turning those pages, kids.  Whoopy once whoopy twice . . .

MONDAY, 10/1 Focus: Literary Analysis (11-12.RL.1; 11-12.RL.3)
Novels, continued
• Barbarians--Section 1 Discussion ( Read Section 2 by Wednesday)
• Gatsby--Chapter 1 discussion, Chapters 2 & 3 preparation
• Focused reading time

TUESDAY, 10/2 Focus: Literary Analysis/Writing ( 11-12.RL.3; 11-12.W.5)
Someplace essays
• Style sheet #1
• Feedback and opportunity
Novels: Gatsby, Chapters 2 & 3
• Reading check
• Discussion
• Read Section 2 (4-6) by Friday

WEDNESDAY 10/3 Focus: Writing Production ( 11-12.W.4; 11-12.W.5)
Rhetorical Analysis
• Attempt #1 Reviewed: Feedback
• Attempt #2: Redo
Novels: Waiting for the Barbarians
• Reading check
• Asking questions
• Read Section 3 (to end) by Monday

THURSDAY 10/4 Focus: Reading Key Ideas and Details (11-12.RI.4; 11-12.RI.5)
Joyas Voladoras
• Reading the layers: whole class discussion
• Response:  groups

FRIDAY 10/5 Focus: Literary Analysis (11-12.RL.1; 11-12.RL.2
Novels: Gatsby, Section 2
• Reading check
• Discussion:  structure and character development
• Read Section 3 (to end) by Tuesday