Unit 6: Mapping One's Moral Compass

MONTHLY CALENDAR  (click here for larger view >>)
This semester, we will use a monthly calendar instead of weekly ones.
Even when I am late updating the blog, I am still typically updating the calendar

NOTE -- there are resources BELOW this calendar...




NOTES ON UPCOMING DUE DATES

• EOC sections on reading -- Monday May 15
• EOC sections on writing -- Tuesday May 16
• Unit Test on Moral Compass Unit -- Thursday May 18(Huck Finn novel study, Their Eyes Were Watching God and Raisin in the Sun film studies)

RECENT DOCUMENTS

Monthly Calendar

Documents that apply to multiple texts

• Study Guide for Unit Test (Ideas to Review)
• Mapping Huck's and Janie's Journeys, and Moral Development (Group Activity)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 

• Remember that you can bring in a flash drive to get the audiobook files for Huck Finn
• How the frame narrative impacts our perceptions of Aunt Rachel and her own sense of power in "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It"
• PowerPoint with Classwork Assignments
• Slide 3 - Journal prompt on sense of place
• Slide 4 - Questions on "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It"
• Notes on Naturalism PowerPoint
• Huck's Moral Conflict (Annotations and Journal Assignment)
• Plot Questions for Review

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

• Film on YouTube -- see the calendar for the times we watched each day
• Plot Questions for Review

EOC Prep

• GaDOE study guide for students and parents
• Practice Essay Assignment on the Patriot Act
• EOC Writing Prompt -- Overview and group activity
• EOC Writing Prompt -- Tips for Planning and Organization
• Revision Assistant Writing Assignment on the Patriot Act
• Log-in Info to Revision Assistant -- note: when you log in the first time, the site prompts you to change your password. If you changed it and don't remember, let me know and I can change it for you.
• Prompt
• Articles 2 and 3 - these are the two that are required but to get the signal checks to max, you may need to use the other sources as well
• For full credit, you need the signal checks to reach threes on two categories, and fours on two categories
• Before you turn in the essay to Revision Assistant, copy and paste the essay and submit it Turnitin.com for a plagiarism check (using the copy and paste upload, not single file upload)