Monday (B)
- Reading Check Quiz: Chapters 8 and 9 of The Great Gatsby
- Type I Quick Write: What did you think of the novel? What did you like? What didn’t you like? Why? Select at least one quote to reflect on.
- Circle up and Discuss: Key passages from Chapters 8 and 9 – What did you pick to highlight and why?
- Gatsby Jeopardy!: Students will participate in a review game to prepare for next class’s summative assessment for the novel. Students must take notes during the review game.
- Closing Activity: Quack! Volume 4, Part 1 (second viewing)
- Homework: Study for The Great Gatsby final test and your Quack 4.1 quiz!
Tuesday or Wednesday (A/B)
- Quiz: Quack! Volume 4.1
- Unit Test: The Great Gatsby
- Watch: “The Harlem Renaissance,” a segment from New York Up-Close: Immigration and the Industrial Revolution
- Full-Class: Students will read and analyze Langston Hughes’s “A Dream Deferred.”
- With a partner: Students will read “Lorraine Hansberry” by Peter Altman (p. 13-16, Kansas City Repertory Theatre). They will be responsible for highlighting or underlining important passages and must be prepared to discuss with the class.
- Discuss: “Lorraine Hansberry”
- Perform: We will begin performing Act 1 Scene 1 as a class.
o Parts for Act 1 Scene 1: Ruth, Walter, Travis, Beneatha, Mama
- Homework: Finish Act 1 Scene 1 for homework. Be prepared for a reading check quiz next class!
Thursday or Friday (A/B)
- Reading Check Quiz: Act 1 Scene 1, A Raisin in the Sun.
- Perform: We will begin performing Act 1 Scene 2 as a class, pausing for discussion of key passages and plot developments.
o Parts for Act 1 Scene 2: Travis, Mama, Beneatha, Walter, Ruth, Asagai
- Closing Activity: Quack! 4.2 Vocabulary, first time viewing
- Homework: If necessary, students will finish Act 1 Scene 2 of A Raisin in the Sun for homework.
