1. Sophomores
Q2 Week 3

2. Mastery Assignment: Due Friday, December 9th
Can improve grade one full letter grade
Must complete each section of the assignment for credit:
3-page typed argumentative essay with three different sources
Essay Revision Session with an English teacher
5-10 PowerPoint presentation of your paper and why you deserve redemption
Must present in front of the class and get their (and the teacher’s) approval for a grade change

3. Group Competition:
Must earn Raider bucks as a group, but each person can pick their own prize
Focus on positive behaviors
Decide possible prizes

4. My Opinion Monday: 10/24
What is your opinion of poetry? Do you love it or hate it? Why? Any favorite or least favorite authors?

5. Tuesday

6. Text Says Tues: 10/25
After watching the clip on Tupac, make a T-chart in your comp book that analyzes his ethos (credibility).
What aspects of his life make him credible and like the rose from the poem?
What aspects of his life make his unreliable and unlike the rose from the poem?

7. Rhetorical Analysis with Tupac
1) Read and annotate the poem
Symbolism: A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning.
The color red stands for love or romance.
A ladder may stand as a symbol for a connection between the heaven and the earth.
A dove represents peace or hope for the future
What is the symbolism in “The Rose That Grew from Concrete”?

8. Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject Tone
The author and speaker are both Tupac Shakur since the poem is autobiographical. He had a difficult childhood with his drug abusing mother, but he eventually become very successful.
Occasion
When was the text written? What events in Shakur’s life led to this text?
Audience
Who does the author hope to impact with this text? Who does he hopes follows his advice?
Purpose
Why was the text written? What goals did the author have in mind? (think of the lesson he wants to teach people)
Subject
What is the main idea or topic of the text? How does he reveal this subject? What literary device does he use?
Tone
What is the author’s attitude toward the subject?

9. Comp Book: Text Says Tuesday 10/25
Using the short video, jot down some new information you have learned about Maya Angelou.
What happened to her when she was a young girl?
What time period did she live in?
Documentary titled: Maya  Angelou: And Still I Rise, from directors Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack

10. Rhetorical Analysis with Angelou
1) Read and annotate the poem
Simile: a figurative comparison between two unlike things that uses like/as
Ex: My room looked like a hurricane had passed through it.
Repetition: repeating certain words, phrases, or lines for effect
Ex: Martin Luther King repeats the phrase “I have a dream” multiple times throughout his speech
Find, label, and explain the literary devices in the poem.

11. SOAPStone: Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject Tone
Who is the author? What information do you know about this person?
Occasion
When was the text written? What events led to this text?
Audience
Who does the author hope to impact with this text?
Purpose
Why was the text written? What goals did the author have in mind?
Subject
What is the main idea or topic of the text?
Tone
What is the author’s attitude toward the subject?

12. Wednesday

13. Wordy Wednesday: 10/26
Lit Device Practice: Match each example with the correct literary term:
Diction, metaphor, simile, symbolism, and repetition
1) Reading is like taking a trip to a foreign land. 2) I rise. I rise. I rise. 3) “I’m a black ocean” 4) Using slang like “I’se” or “ain’t” 5) The tacks in the staircase representing obstacles in life.

14. Activities to do during silent reading:
1) Silently Read
2) Fill out Weekly Reading Log
3) Reading Conferences

15. Thursday

16. Rhetorical Analysis with Gilman
1) Read and annotate the poem
Personification: giving human characteristics to something nonhuman.  
Ex. The fire ate all my secrets as I burned my old diary pages. 
Allusion: Referencing a famous work or person in an other text.
Ex. He acted like a real Romeo with the ladies.
Find, label, and explain the literary devices in the poem.

17. SOAPStone: Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject Tone
Who is the author? What information do you know about this person?
Occasion
When was the text written? What events led to this text?
Audience
Who does the author hope to impact with this text?
Purpose
Why was the text written? What goals did the author have in mind?
Subject
What is the main idea or topic of the text?
Tone
What is the author’s attitude toward the subject?