April 25-29

UPCOMING DATES

• Tuesday 4/26 -- AO book circles for Everyday extra credit opportunity -- bring paragraph in which you evaluate the end of the book, reflecting on the decision A. makes 
• Wednesday 4/27 and Thursday 4/28 -- In-class timed writing for EOC practice
• Friday 4/29 -- Be finished reading chapters 20-23 of Catcher in the Rye (pages 45-66)
• Monday 5/2 -- Be finished reading chapters 24-26 of Catcher in the Rye (pages 67-93)
• Monday 5/9 and Tuesday 5/10 -- American Lit EOC

RECENT DOCUMENTS

• Levithan's Everyday (abridged/shortened version)
• Levithan's Everyday (full version -- read the following chapters and pages in this PDF)
• chapters 6006-6007 (pages 35-41)
• chapters 6009-6014 (pages 43-46)
• chapters 6016-6034 (pages 48-74) 
• prompts for identity and stereotype journals, "I am not" poem/paragraph
• prompt for additional chapter and extra credit opportunity for Everyday

• "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway
• Biographical pictures of Hemingway and Close Reading groupwork assignment
• Background on the iceberg theory and six-word story (we only read the first two pages)

• Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (abridged/shortened version -- chapters 1-7 and 20-26)
• Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (full version)
• 1950s appearance vs reality

• EOC study guide from Georgia Dept of Education
• Sample Argumentative prompts (from the manuals last year and this year --
• Exotic cats as pets
• Currency reform
• Museum artifacts (and countries of origin)

COURSE CALENDAR -- full view with working links on GOOGLE DOCS  (click here)

(document starts with current week, then future weeks, past weeks start on page 9 at the very end)