1.  Daily Objective: To appreciate the language, culture, and themes present in John Steinbeck’s writing  Daily Assignment:  Pass back AP Essay #9 and discuss; go over Trial Activity for next class period p. 334  RLARS for 15 minutes  With a group or on one’s own, participate in an Of Mice and Men Creative Performance, in which: You will choose one-two pages from the book to perform You will have a speaking part You will make props You will do all of this in approximately 30 minutes before the performances begin.  Complete an artistic project (w/ a group or on one’s own) that is either a triptych, collage, or movie poster

2.  Daily Objective: To appreciate the language, culture, and themes present in John Steinbeck’s writing  Daily Assignment:  Put George Milton on trial for the death of Lennie Small; each person will have a part.  If finished early, we will RLARS.  Next period, we will write our synthesis and rhetorical analysis essay on Of Mice and Men.

3.  Daily Objective: To appreciate the language, culture, and themes present in John Steinbeck’s writing  Daily Assignment:  Complete a synthesis and rhetorical analysis essay on Of Mice and Men.  Next class period: Multiple Choice and Argument essay will be completed.

4.  Daily Objective: To appreciate poetry during Socratic Seminars and other critical analysis methods; to become a better writer by modeling one’s own poems after the works of significant poets  Daily Assignment:  Read “Grass”  Read “Dog Haiku” and write a haiku  Read “Jabberwocky” and write a poem filled with nonsense words  RLARS for the remainder of class

5.  Daily Objective: To appreciate poetry during Socratic Seminars and other critical analysis methods; to become a better writer by modeling one’s own poems after the works of significant poets  Daily Assignment:  Read the poetry of William Blake—write dual poems on the same subject; one from a child’s perspective and one from an adult’s  Read “She Walks in Beauty”  Read “Ozymandias”  Read “To a Mouse”  RLARS for the remainder of class

6.  Daily Objective: To appreciate poetry during Socratic Seminars and other critical analysis methods; to become a better writer by modeling one’s own poems after the works of significant poets  Daily Assignment:  Read “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (will take a while); you will write a modern parody of two stanzas in the same style; you will have a short quiz on this when everyone is finished reading it  RLARS (until everyone is done with Mariner)  Read “next to of course god america i”—write a poem with no capitalization or punctuation