September 8 - 12, 2014

This week we'll move on to our next text in our unit, Charles C. Mann's "Coming of Age in the Dawnland." Students' primary tasks will be to determine the author's purpose for writing, followed by an argumentative critique of the author's work. We'll start the week with a review of the vocabulary and a first read of the text. We'll then read the text with our own purpose as we gather clues and analyze Mann's essay. Toward mid-week, we'll introduce and begin prewriting on the writing task. Since we had a few issues with the textbook site last week, this will be done entirely on Google drive. We'll wrap up the week with a vocabulary quiz and mini-Socratic seminars on the writing task results.

• Mon: Review on the Bradford writing tasks.  "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" -- introduce vocabulary and do a first read looking for the author's purpose.
• Tues: "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" -- read a second time to complete notes on the author's purpose.
• Wed: "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" -- finish in-class notes on the authors. Begin performance task pre-writing.
• Thurs: Meet in Lab A to type up the "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" performance task rough draft.
• Fri: Vocabulary quiz.  Mini-Socratic seminars to compare notes on the "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" argument.