Essential Questions:
1. Why do writers often turn to nature as a medium for their purposes?
2. How is the context of an author’s life reflected in his/her works?
A. Opening Assignment: Practice EOC Passage (10)
B. Section II Vocabulary Test
Turn in vocabulary organizers before you take the test.
C. Go over requirements for on-demand writing test.
1. Stand Alone Prompt (choose between 2) for 40 minutes
2. Argumentative for 90 minutes
D. Go over the definition of each type of writing.
E. Examine a sample prompt for informative requirement.
Use the planning template.
F. Examine a sample prompt for argumentative requirement.
Analyze a sample response.
Use the argumentative graphic organizer.
G. Go over procedures for poetry literature circles (running record and poetry analysis template)
1st, 4th, 5th, and 7th periods: Go over poetry analysis template.
H. Poetry Literature Circles (Coleridge's "Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind"; Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"; Shelley's "To Night"; Blake's "Night"; Keats' "To Autumn"; Clare's "First Love")
1. Why do writers often turn to nature as a medium for their purposes?
2. How is the context of an author’s life reflected in his/her works?
A. Opening Assignment: Practice EOC Passage (10)
B. Section II Vocabulary Test
Turn in vocabulary organizers before you take the test.
C. Go over requirements for on-demand writing test.
1. Stand Alone Prompt (choose between 2) for 40 minutes
2. Argumentative for 90 minutes
D. Go over the definition of each type of writing.
E. Examine a sample prompt for informative requirement.
Use the planning template.
F. Examine a sample prompt for argumentative requirement.
Analyze a sample response.
Use the argumentative graphic organizer.
G. Go over procedures for poetry literature circles (running record and poetry analysis template)
1st, 4th, 5th, and 7th periods: Go over poetry analysis template.
H. Poetry Literature Circles (Coleridge's "Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind"; Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"; Shelley's "To Night"; Blake's "Night"; Keats' "To Autumn"; Clare's "First Love")