September 19, 2016
Week 4
Monday, 9/19
Essential Question: Are there good and bad people or good and bad situations?
Group Discussion with numbered heads protocol
Teacher read + Annotate foundational excerpt from "To Die in Mexico"
Tuesday, 9/20
Group Read + Annotate Sean Penn interview of El Chapo
El Chapo Literature Circles
Wednesday, 9/21
Field Trip to Border Patrol
Thursday, 9/22
Problematizing Perspectives on People Smugglers
Handout on Border Patrol vs. Interview with smuggler vs. Claudia's story
Read and Annotate article on Elden Kidd (American People Smuggler)
Friday, 9/23
Narcocorridos and U.S. Narco-Inspired Rap
Group Analysis- Message, Theme, and Textual Evidence
Prepare Poster for Presentation
September 11, 2016
Week 3
Week 3: 9/12-9/16
Create and Perform Identity Poems + "War on Drugs" Project Launch
Monday, 9/12
Identity Poem 1st Draft
Tuesday, 9/13
Identity Poem Peer Critique
Revisions
Wednesday, 9/14
Identity Poem Final Draft
Cafe Blackout Performances
Thursday, 9/15
“War on Drugs” Project Launch
Friday, 9/16 (Nikki Absent)
Listen to a Model Podcast
Work on Podcast Handout
Independent Research Time
September 06, 2016
Week 2
Week 2: 9/6-9/9
Exploring Identity through Poetry
Tuesday, 9/6
Blackout Poetry Final Draft
Wednesday, 9/7
Warm up: Identity Web
Finish and Display Blackout Poetry
Poetry or No(etry)
Dialogical Interviews in the Park
Thursday, 9/8
Herrera Biography and Review of Literary Devices
Analysis of Herrera Poem
Friday, 9/9
Choose Identity Poem Style
Begin Identity Poem Brainstorm
Check Choice Reading Logs
Silent Choice Reading
August 29, 2016
Week 1
Week 1:
Monday, 8/29- Friday, 9/2
Welcome to high school!
Snapshot:
Team Building and Introductions- Stacking cup challenge and launchers
Class Expectations and Norms- Brainstorm, gallery walk, manifesto
Poetry and Identity Mini Project Launch- Blackout Poetry Begins
Syllabus