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1. Monday

2. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework TUESDAY HOMEWORK: TEWWG Key Passage Analysis • Submit the properly formatted final copies on time • 4-line heading (first & last name, my name, AP Literature & period, due date) • Centered Assignment Title • Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced throughout, correct margins • Turn in a hard copy (beginning of class) as well as a copy to turnitin.com; both should be on time FRIDAY BEFORE CLASS Period 1 turnitin.com 7:30 AM Period 6 turnitin.com 1:00 PM Period 7 turnitin.com 2:00 PM

3. Past, Present, FutureTUESDAY • Discussions 1 & 2: Key passages from the end of the novel • Consider & Organize Ideas for your Summative Key Passage Analysis Essay • Monday: No school for students • Write your summative key passage analysis essay • Dissect your prompt, write your draft thesis, organize your ideas, draft your body paragraphs • Make-up Discussion at lunch on Wednesday! • Palmer Writing Center is open Wednesday from 3:15-4:00! • Writing Conclusions + Draft more of your summative key passage analysis • Peer and self edit and revise • Proofread and turn in! • Independent Novel Assignment

4. Life Is a Journey: TEWWG Standard Colorado Academic Standards: 2. Reading for All Purposes and 3. Writing & Composition Objectives: students will be able to show what you know about organizing a key passage analysis of a coming-of –age novel • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the novel’s plot, setting, and characters, including explaining the narrative technique of frame narration • Identify and explain literary elements that define Hurston’s style, including symbols and motifs in the novel • Discuss the author’s use of language and narrative voice as it relates to theme, characterization, tone, and plot Relevance: What we say and how we say it, our actions, our attitudes, and our appearances leave impressions on others. Essential Questions: • What is happiness? Are we able to be in command of our own happiness or is it out of our control? • What is significant in developing our psychological and moral growth? What kinds of experiences lead to the discovery of self-identity? • What role do gender, class, race, or society have in structuring relationships? How should power in a relationship be distributed? • How are we defined or represented by our surroundings? • How does language shape meaning? What purpose and effect do literary devices and stylistic techniques serve in creating meaning?

5. Activities: Develop & Apply Purpose: to show what you know about analyzing the coming-of age novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by structuring a cohesive, close analysis essay that addresses an AP-style Free Response Question #3 on pivotal moments Tasks: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THUS FAR? • Dissect the assigned AP prompts • Discuss passages that may serve to address the prompt; see additional worksheet to guide your understanding = MAKE-UP AT LUNCH WEDNESDAY • Select passages; re-read closely and annotate, then organize ideas • Draft a closed thesis statement based on the prompt • Write draft body paragraphs (see next) Please use the handouts and models to guide your writing process USE CLASS TIME TO WORK AND ASK QUESTIONS (OF PEERS AND ME)

6. Structuring Key Passage Body Paragraphs While Walls’ incident with the Barbie doll may seem incredible enough, her demonstrations of just how difficult and precarious life was for her and her siblings continues at their new home in Battle Mountain. The excitement and danger of fire is revisited in a passage on pages 60-61 when Jeannette and Brian experiment with a lethal combination of chemicals and matches in what Walls refers to as “the laboratory,” a wooden shed in the far corner of the dump, which contained stored “toxic and hazardous” waste. In the passage about the fire in the shed, Walls further develops the motif of fire to help readers understand the way her life as a child was very close to spiraling out of control at any moment. After mixing a combination of chemicals together in a jar, she and Brian throw in a match to what see what will happen. From the jar “a cone of flame shot up with a whoosh like a jet afterburner,” trapping the kids in the shed, while “the flames [spread] toward the door, eating up all that dry old wood in no time.” The imagery and figurative language Walls uses to describe the explosion that ensues evokes the malevolent power of fire. Previously, Walls established the fire motif as something that once almost killed Jeannette. Here, it is even more consuming, presented with a combative intensity and with the ferocity of an animal attacking not only Jeannette but now a family member. The motif evolves into a larger symbol of her life and a reminder of the dangers that surround and can destroy their lives. As Rex Walls points out, the zone between the fire itself and the surrounding atmosphere “was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order.” Symbolically, the fire is a demonstration of the excitement and chaos of the Walls’ life, moving from place to place, dodging loan collectors and the law, and the tenuousness of her situation. Like what happens to “the laboratory” itself, she is left without much in the way of structure or guidance from her parents and is constantly is at risk of accident and, like “whoosh” of a “jet afterburner,” she will feel the repercussions of her father’s rash decisions and changing moods. More and more, the children are left to fend for themselves. The only thing that keeps her life from a permanent dip into turbulence is her own toughness or random luck, as demonstrated in this passagewhen Rex rescues his kids because he just happened to be in the area on his way home from work. This is one of the last times, however, that Rex will be there to rescue his children when they need him. In fact, as the memoir progresses, it becomes more evident that Rex himself is the element—the “fire”—that threatens to envelop his family in chaos.

7. WEDNESDAYActivities: Develop & Apply Purpose: to show what you know about analyzing the coming-of age novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by structuring a cohesive, close analysis essay that addresses an AP-style Free Response Question #3 on pivotal moments Tasks: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THUS FAR? 6. Write draft body paragraphs 7. Revise, edit, etc. your body paragraph AND make sure you are incorporating illustrations correctly 8. Write an introductory paragraph AND a concluding paragraph 9. Put it all together, in order! 10. Revise, edit, and proofread the entire essay! Don’t Forget: The Palmer Writing Center is open today from 3:15-4:00!

8. Review & Release HOMEWORK: TEWWG Key Passage Close Analysis Essay • Submit the properly formatted final copies on time • 4-line heading (first & last name, my name, AP Literature & period, due date) • Centered Assignment Title • Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced throughout, correct margins • Turn in a hard copy at the beginningof class Friday • Turn in a turnitin.com Friday BEFORE class • Period 1 turnitin.com 7:30 AM • Period 6 turnitin.com 1:00 PM • Period 7 turnitin.com 2:00 PM

9. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework THURSDAY ANY QUESTIONS? Homework: TEWWGKey Passage Close Analysis due tomorrow before/at the beginning of class! Submit the properly formatted final copies on time • 4-line heading (first & last name, my name, AP Literature & period, due date) • Centered Assignment Title • Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced throughout, correct margins • Turn in a hard copy at the beginning of class Friday • Turn in a turnitin.com Friday BEFORE class • Period 1 turnitin.com 7:30 AM • Period 6 turnitin.com 1:00 PM • Period 7 turnitin.com 2:00 PM Major Works Information Organizer for TEWWG due by the end of class tomorrow

10. Past, Present, Future THURSDAY • Their Eyes Were Watching God Major Works Information organizer (A.K.A. Novel/Play Review Guide) • Major Works Information Organizer for TEWWG • TEWWG Key Passage Close Analysis due tomorrow! • Finish your Major Works Information Organizer for TEWWG • Independent Novel Research Assignment • TEWWG – The Dating Game!!

11. Life Is a Journey: TEWWG Standard Colorado Academic Standards: 2. Reading for All Purposes and 3. Writing & Composition Objectives: students will be able to review what you know about the novel as a whole in preparation for the AP Exam in May! • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the novel’s plot, setting, and characters, including explaining the narrative technique of frame narration • Identify and explain literary elements that define Hurston’s style, including symbols and motifs in the novel • Discuss the author’s use of language and narrative voice as it relates to theme, characterization, tone, and plot Relevance: What we say and how we say it, our actions, our attitudes, and our appearances leave impressions on others. Essential Questions: • What is happiness? Are we able to be in command of our own happiness or is it out of our control? • What is significant in developing our psychological and moral growth? What kinds of experiences lead to the discovery of self-identity? • What role do gender, class, race, or society have in structuring relationships? How should power in a relationship be distributed? • How are we defined or represented by our surroundings? • How does language shape meaning? What purpose and effect do literary devices and stylistic techniques serve in creating meaning?

12. Activities: Obtain & Apply Purpose: to review by identifying important plot elements, characters, literary devices & structures for TEWWG and organize it into a document for future review Task(s): • Have out your novel and additional handouts for TEWWG • Unit guide (pink) • Reading Guide (white) • Structure/perspective/genre notes • Close Reading Ritual charts (from discussions) • Hist/Bio research notes (green) • Look at the model of a Major Works Information Organizer • As a group, discuss elements of the Major Works Information Organizer; complete it with pertinent information Outcome: Work on your Major Works Information Organizer; there are basically 15 sections, have at least ½ filled in by tomorrow!

13. Review & Release HOMEWORK: TEWWG Key Passage Close Analysis Essay • Submit the properly formatted final copies on time • 4-line heading (first & last name, my name, AP Literature & period, due date) • Centered Assignment Title • Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced throughout, correct margins • Turn in a hard copy at the beginningof class Friday • Turn in a turnitin.com Friday BEFORE class • Period 1 turnitin.com 7:30 AM • Period 6 turnitin.com 1:00 PM • Period 7 turnitin.com 2:00 PM

14. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework FRIDAY Turn in the hard copy of your TEWWG Essay! While you wait… Re-read the back of the novel’s cover! Share and compare ideas with someone (especially if they have a different copy, green or gold) Could anything here be used for your Major Works Information Organizer from yesterday? What have you completed of this? Homework: Independent Novel Research Make sure your research is complete & you have book in hand by Wednesday!

15. Major Works Information OrganizerAre you on track? • Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God • Author: Zora Neale Hurston • Genre: novel, bildungsroman/coming-of-age; (black literature; American southern lit.) • Characteristics: fictitious, book-length prose; novel a dealing with the formative years of a character, in particular, his/her psychological development and moral education; beginning in the U.S. in 1800s by those of African descent. • Biographical: Female novelist, folklorist, anthropologist living from 1891-1960; born in Alabama to large family; child during era of Jim Crow laws; moved to Eatonville, Florida (one of 1st black towns); attended Barnard College in NY and Columbia; criticized (representation of race/use of language) and praised • Historical: writing during Harlem Renaissance (1920s, NY, “New Negro Movement”); still time of segregation; TEWWG published 1937 • Plot Outline: Janie, now a 40-year-old woman, returns to Eatonville to tell her story to Phoeby; As a youth, Janie’s perception of love/marriage conflicts the marriage her Nanny arranges to Logan Killicks; Restless and unsatisfied, she takes off with Joe Starks, who creates Eatonville; A fractured relationships, Joe dies and she inherits his wealth; Janie falls in love with Tea Cake and has many adventures with him; Climactically, in the Muck, Tea Cake is bitten by a rabid dog during a hurricane; He becomes jealous (Mrs. Turner’s brother) and confused and Janie must shoot him in self defense; Tried, she is found not guilty; she returns to Eatonville to live in peace. • Setting: early 1900s, West Florida (rural); Eatonville, Florida • POV: 3rd person, use of free indirect discourse; framed in Janie’s story to Phoeby • Opening Scene: After the introduction of men and women’s pursuit of dreams, the narrator describes the “porch sitters” and how they watch the approach of Janie Starks. They are appalled by her physical appearance, overalls and long braids, and pass judgement about where she has been and what she has been doing. Janie does not acknowledge them. They are indignant and hope that Phoeby, who goes to greet her friend, will find out what happened. Significance: The opening introduces several of the thematic ideas presented throughout the novel including gender, judgement, community, and race. It sets up a contrast between the judgmental porch sitters and Janie, who has pursued her dreams. It provides the narrative framework for the entire novel, Janie retelling her story, and reveals the protagonist as an independent, self-reliant woman. • And so on…

16. Past, Present, Future FRIDAY • Their Eyes Were Watching God Major Works Information organizer (A.K.A. Novel/Play Review Guide) • TEWWG Key Passage Close Analysis due! • Major Works Information Organizer for TEWWG • Homework: Independent Novel Research • Finish your Major Works Information Organizer for TEWWG • Independent Novel Research • TEWWG – The Dating Game!!

17. Activities: Obtain & Develop Purpose: to review by identifying important plot elements, characters, literary devices & structures for TEWWG and organize it into a document for future review Task(s): • Have out your novel and additional handouts for TEWWG • Unit guide • Reading guide • Structure/perspective/genre • Symbols/motifs/etc. (on back of Close Reading Ritual charts) • Hist/Bio • As a group, discuss elements of the Major Works Information Organizer; complete it with pertinent information Outcome: Turn in your Major Works Information Organizer (with movie version in background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUi8N5ZaNs)

18. Review & Release HOMEWORK:Independent Novel Assignment Coming Soon… • Dating Game Intro & Prep; Homework = Independent Novel Assignment • The Dating Game; Return the novel to the library! Homework = Independent Novel Assignment • Independent Novel Assignment Due!