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Instructors name: Devin Ayers Week of: 03/10 03/14 Course/Grade: Grade 12 AP Literature and Composition Unit Name: The Things They Carried

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: SL.11-12.1; SL11.12-3; SL11-12.4-6; RI.11-12.1; RI11.12-4; W.11-2.1; W11-12.4; W11-12.5 Essential Question(s): How do the things you carry every day define who you are? How do we write an effective analysis essay? Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Students who require it will receive extended deadlines for writing assignments and/or shortened reading. Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Students

Resources/Materials Teacher: Students: Novel: The Things They Carried AP rubric for writing about literature

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: direct observation This Week: direct observation/essay rough draft/peer editing/essay second draft/Socratic dialogue Unit: direct observation/essay rough draft/peer editing/essay second draft/Socratic dialogue Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in essay writing. They will show their learning through work on an FRQ timed writing based on a prompt. FRQ writing prompt: In a well-organized essay, please describe some of the things you carry on your person on a regular basis. You may choose to stay with one aspect of your daily life (such as the things you carry to school), or you may choose to describe multiple contexts (such as the things you carry to the gym, the things you carry to work, and the things you carry to school). Include items that are shared (nearly all students carry notebooks) Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) Due-

and items that are individual to you (i.e. you may carry kettle bells with you each week to a workout). After describing the items you carry, describe they show who you are, your aspirations and your character. Please be sure to cite specific examples from you own life. Think of your life as the text for this essay. TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in essay writing. They will show their learning through work on an FRQ timed writing based on a prompt.

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WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in essay writing. They will show their learning through peer analysis of a rough draft using the AP standard rubric as a guideline.

Assignment(s) DueRough draft: FRQ writing assignment Reading: through page 58 in The Things They Carried

THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in essay writing. They will show their learning through peer analysis of a rough draft using the AP standard rubric as a guideline.

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FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in speaking and listening and in literary and rhetorical analysis. They will show their learning through Socratic dialogue.

Assignment(s) DueReading: through page 117 in The Things They Carried Second draft: FRQ writing assignment Socratic dialogue: The Things They Carried, through page 117