1. 4/16/15 Do Now: -Take out something to write with and your controlling idea packet from yesterday. Homework: -Finish reading chapter 17 Content Objective: Content Objective: Students will complete the “controlling idea” question on the pursuit of happiness. Language Objective: Students will use the graphic organizer and evidence from yesterday to complete a controlling idea response.

2. Agenda: Looking Ahead: Monday: Start reading chapter 16 Tuesday: Dialectical chapters 13-16. Wednesday: Controlling Idea (Reading) Thursday: Controlling Idea (Writing) Friday: Finish ITW

3. Agenda: Infinite Jest:

4. Agenda: Extra Credit!!!: Email me your Credo and/or the final copy of your personal essay for possible submission to the Literary Magazine. -Must be thoughtfully completed. -Will count like an extension assignment: It will only help your grade and won’t hurt it.

5. 1)What is the controlling idea? 2)Use this as a lens for your reading an annotations 3)Think “what are both authors saying about the pursuit of happiness?” #findsimilarities 4)Read and annotate to find the BEST evidence of these similarities. Question #26 (Controlling Idea):

6. Agenda: What to do: Recourses for completing the response: -Notes/graphic organizer from yesterday. -Your brains. -Notes, steps, and stems for controlling idea response.

7. Agenda: Controlling Idea Paragraph: Using the song “No Such Thing” by John Mayer and the speech “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace, write a well- developed paragraph in which you use ideas from the texts to establish a controlling idea about the pursuit of happiness. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from both passages.

8. Agenda: Videos of Texts: This is Water This is Water – David Foster Wallace No Such Thing No Such Thing – John Mayer

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