Monday or Tuesday (A/B)
- Reading Check Quiz: Act 2 Scene 3 of A Raisin in the Sun
- View: Quack! Volume 5, Part 1 (second viewing)
- Return books: Students will be reminded to return any outstanding books and to return their textbooks by next class.
- Perform: We will perform Act 3 as a class, pausing for discussion of key passages and plot developments.
o Parts for Act 3: Asagai, Beneatha, Ruth, Mama, Walter, Travis, Lindner
- If time permits… We will watch part of the film version of A Raisin in the Sun
- Homework: Study for your Quack! quiz next class. Be sure to bring your textbook!
Wednesday or Thursday (A/B)
- Quack Quiz: Volume 5, Part 1
- Note-taking: Students will take some brief notes on Imagism from a PowerPoint presentation.
- Read and Discuss: We will read Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” and Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
- Final Exam Review Guides: Students will receive a review guide for the final exam. We will review it briefly as a class and continue working on it the next day (A/B Day).
- Final Exam Essays: We will review the general topic for the final exam essay. Students will have the opportunity to begin brainstorming how they would respond to the essay. They will each receive a note card, which they will be able to bring with them to the exam.
- Writing Portfolios: Students will receive their writing portfolios back and review their papers from the year. They will be asked to look at how their writing has improved and what areas they still need to work on in their writing.
- Closing Activity: Students will receive a course summary sheet. They will have time to reflect on the year, their growth, the challenges they have faced, what they liked, and what they disliked throughout the course.
Friday (AB Day)
- Review: We will briefly review the bulleted list of works, literary movements, and concepts that students will need to focus on while they study for the final exam.
- Professor Know-It-All: Students will have 20 minutes to break up into groups of three or four and develop at least 3 questions for each of the categories listed on the review sheet.
o Students will be asked to try and think of higher-order questions in addition to standard recall questions.
o Question “starters” will be on the board to guide them while they work.
- Professor Know-It-All Challenge: Each group will then randomly draw one of the categories from a hat and they will become the “Professors” for that literary period or movement.
