1. Short Story Fair

- Circulate through displays and answer questions for Part I of Journal 9

- Bulwer-Lytton Sentences

2. Short Story Writing Activity

HW: Organize Journals for Collection Tomorrow

- Journal Order

1. Poetry Friday

- Overview of Poetry Project

- Read "The Street" by Octavio Paz and "Afterglow" by Jorge Luis Borges

-Complete Poetry Analysis Worksheet and Introductory Paragraph

HW: Complete Poetry Analysis Worksheet and Introductory Paragraph

1. Read Solzhenitsyn's "One Word of Truth Outweighs the World" (248) as a class

2. Read R.K. Narayan's "Father's Help"

individually and complete LRJ

-Answer follow-up question: Slozhenitsyn claims that "violence does not and cannot flourish by itself, it is inevitably intertwined with LYING" (248-249). Does "Father's Help" support or contradict this assertion?

HW: Finish LRJ for "Father's Help"

1. Short Story Writing Activity #1

2. Hand out Short Story Writing Project Prompts and review

3. Hand out Kafka's Metamorphosis and read page 3

HW: Read up to 2nd paragraph of page 9

1. Discuss last night's reading of Metamorphosis

3. Finish Ch. 1 in groups and complete Study Guide for Ch.1

3. Start Outlines for three possible short story plots.

HW: Complete the outlines (any form you wish: brainstorm, character map, plot diagram, etc.) for 3 possible story ideas.

1. Meet with partner to discuss short story outlines and choos one to pursue.

2. Complete "Getting to Know Your Hero" Paragraphs

3. Read Kafka's Metamorphosis through page 24

HW:

1. Develop a six panel storyboard with one image and one sentence per panel to plan out your story.

2. Print out Poetry Project Guidelines

1. Review CEE paragraph method

2. Sample CEE paragraph with Shelley's "Ozymandias"

3. Poetry Friday: Choose your Own Adventure... Poem

HW: Finish Poetry Friday Assignment

Work on Short Stories for Tuesday Rough Draft

1. Finish Group Poem Presentations

2. Journal #11 "Symbolism in Metamorphosis"

3. Read Ch. 2 of Metamorphosis to page 27

4. Work on Short Story Rough Drafts

HW: Rough Draft of Short Story Project due tomorrow

1. Short Story Peer Review

2. Journal #12 "Kafka Notes"

3. Read some of Ch. 2 as a class

HW: Finish Ch.2 and answer Study Guide Questions for Ch.2

Final Draft of Short Story due Thursday

1. Journal 13- Writer's Conference

2. Complete Writing Goals Sequence

HW: Short Story Final Draft due Tomorrow

1. Read Kafka's letter to Brod

2. Read 1st half of Ch. 3 of Metamorphosis (to pg. 44)

3. Work on Metamorphosis Vocabulary Sentences

HW: Finish Vocabulary Sentences

1. Poetry Friday: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

- Annotation as a class

- Discussion

- Review of Analysis

 -Work Time

HW: Finish Assingment Portion of Poetry Friday

-1 paragraph response to 2 stanzas of "13 Ways..."

-Poem of 14th Way

-A paragraph describing your poetic choices

1. Finish Metamorphosis and work on Active Reading Guide

2. Answer Questions for Ch. 3 Study Guide

3. Introduce Vocabulary Activity

HW: Complete Metamorphosis Vocabulary Activity

1. Read Freedman's "Kafka's Obscurity" together and create intial response paragraph

2. Read Wilhem Emrich's essay and respond in a paragraph

HW: Finish paragraph responses to Kafka Non-Fiction.

1. Review of last night's critical responses and Freud Psychoanalysis Review

2. Take Metamorphosis Final Test

HW: None

1. SSR Project Introduction

2. Journal #14: Grammar Intro- Complete Sentences 1

3. Long Sentence Example

4. Process Papers for Students

HW: Review Grammar work for Test on Monday

1. Finish Process Papers PPT for successful writing strategies

2. Journal 14 (cont.)- Complete Sentences 2

3. Poetry Friday: Sonnets

HW: Complete Sonnet Analysis Homework

Study for Grammar Test for Monday

1. Complete Sentences Test

2. Journal 15- "Growing Up":

Take a position on the following prompt and defend it in a one-page paper. Use evidence from your own experience, literature, or historical events to defend your position.

Do you think society encourages children to grow up too fast? Explain why/ why not?

3. Read articles related to controversy surrounding Catcher in the Rye before strating our reading tomorrow.

HW: None

1. J.D. Salinger Powerpoint and notes on Biography

2. Journal 16- Catcher Themes and Symbols:

- Identify something in your world that is an example of hypocrisy or "phoniness". Is it possible to change the factors that create this environment?

3. Read Chapter 1 of The Catcher in the Rye (TCITR) and part of Chapter 2

HW: Finish reading to page 26

1. Reading Quiz for TCITR pp. 1-26

2. Journal 17- Protagonist Prompt

-Discussion

3. Read Ch.4 as a class

HW: Finish through Ch. 7 (p. 52) of TCITR

1. Reading Quiz for TCITR pp. 27-52

2. Journal 18- "Childhood's End"

-Discussion

3. Read Ch.8 & 9 as a class

HW: Finish through Ch. 11 (p. 81) of TCITR

1. Reading Quiz for TCITR pp. 27-52

2. Poetry Friday- Tone, Halloween, and "The Raven"

3. Listen to Christopher Walken rendetion of "The Raven"

HW: 1. Partners- Finish Tone poems- 20 lines using ten of the tone words from Poe's "The Raven"

2. Read Ch. 12-14 of TCITR (pp. 82-104)