Week Seven ( March 28-April1)

Week 7	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	Highlight and Annotate Marigolds Students are to complete handout as they annotate. Annotate means to:  Highlight the examples of plot events (rising action events, climax, falling action, resolution), characterization using STEAL), Figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification, and analogy), and conflict (Internal and external) so that they can discuss/write about how the author uses those tools to convey a Universal Theme.	Monday- read Marigolds, Highlight and Annotate in class. Homework: Do questions 1-10 pp. 193* Go to LACER for Homework Help It is open from 3-5 and often 6. Make sure you think about the author’s use of literary elements to convey/develop the theme of the work. Convey Develop Suggest Express Communicate Articulate Get across Propose advocate
Tuesday	Discuss Inference and Motivation in Marigolds	Continue to Read Bless Me Ultima Questions on Chapters 9- 12*
Wednesday	Correct and Discuss Questions 1-10 on Page 193	Outline Constructed Response Essay Write an essay that compares and contrasts “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier with “Thank You M’am” by Langston Hughes. Focus on how the themes and the works are similar and different. What kind of changes do the speakers/narrators in the story go through? Use evidence from the texts to support your ideas. *
Thursday	Discuss How the Historical Context affects the text.	Begin Draft 1 of your essay: Analyze the theme of  “Thank You M’am by Langston Hughes. How do the stories dialogue, use of different types of conflict, characterization and your inferences reveal the theme. *
Friday Holiday	Holiday	Bring Draft 1 of Essay to class on Monday: 12-point font, New York Times font, triple space, 1-inch margins. Finish Bless Me Ultima *