TLITL Weekly Highlights
Discussion
0 Get into pairs or groups of three.
0 Look through your dialectical journal assignment for the
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past week.
Review Ehrenreich’s quotes, quotations, examples, and
anecdotes in which you took note and responded.
Choose one of your dialectical journal entries for the week
and share with your partner or group members.
This should take five minutes.
At the end of five minutes, choose which classmate will
share the highlights of his/her dialectical journal entry
with the rest of the class.
Assignment 1
Due Date: October 20, 2016
0 From Barbara Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land, read
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“Introduction” to “Could You Afford to Be Poor?”
Create a Dialectical Journal in which you select 5-7
meaningful passages that adequately draw from the
beginning, middle, and end of each essay assigned for this
week.
Follow the instructions as explained on the Dialectical
Journal sheet.
Use the Prolific Characteristics to Note sheet to help you
choose your ideas in which to respond.
Your Dialectical Journals will be graded according to the
specified rubric already given to you.
Worth: 95 points
Assignment 2
Due Date: October 26, 2016
0 From Barbara Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land, read
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“Desperately Seeking Stimulus” to “Fastest-Growing Jobs of
‘06: Are You Handy With Bedpans and Brooms?”
Create a Dialectical Journal in which you select 5-7 meaningful
passages that adequately draw from the beginning, middle, and
end of each essay assigned for this week.
Follow the instructions as explained on the Dialectical Journal
sheet.
Use the Prolific Characteristics to Note sheet to help you choose
your ideas in which to respond.
Your Dialectical Journals will be graded according to the specified
rubric already given to you.
Worth: 95 points
Assignment 3
Due Date: November 2, 2016
0 From Barbara Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land, read
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“Your Local News—Dateline Delhi” to “Fake Your Way
To The Top.”
Create a Dialectical Journal in which you select 5-7
meaningful passages that adequately draw from the
beginning, middle, and end of each essay assigned for this
week.
Follow the instructions as explained on the Dialectical
Journal sheet.
Use the Prolific Characteristics to Note sheet to help you
choose your ideas in which to respond.
Your Dialectical Journals will be graded according to the
specified rubric already given to you.
Worth: 95 points
Assignment 4
Due Date: November 9, 2016
0 From Barbara Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land, read
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“Challenging the Workplace Dictatorship” to “A Society
that Throws the Sick Away.”
Create a Dialectical Journal in which you select 5-7
meaningful passages that adequately draw from the
beginning, middle, and end of each essay assigned for this
week.
Follow the instructions as explained on the Dialectical
Journal sheet.
Use the Prolific Characteristics to Note sheet to help you
choose your ideas in which to respond.
Your Dialectical Journals will be graded according to the
specified rubric already given to you.
Worth: 95 points
Assignment 5
Due Date: November 16, 2016
0 From Barbara Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land, read “Fear
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of Restrooms” to “Who Moved My Ability to Reason?”
Create a Dialectical Journal in which you select 5-7 meaningful
passages that adequately draw from the beginning, middle, and
end of each essay assigned for this week.
Follow the instructions as explained on the Dialectical Journal
sheet.
Use the Prolific Characteristics to Note sheet to help you choose
your ideas in which to respond.
Your Dialectical Journals will be graded according to the
specified rubric already given to you.
Worth: 95 points
Assignment 6
Due Date: November 30, 2016
0 From Barbara Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land, read
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“All Together” to “Postscript: Flee America.”
Create a Dialectical Journal in which you select 5-7
meaningful passages that adequately draw from the
beginning, middle, and end of each essay assigned for this
week.
Follow the instructions as explained on the Dialectical
Journal sheet.
Use the Prolific Characteristics to Note sheet to help you
choose your ideas in which to respond.
Your Dialectical Journals will be graded according to the
specified rubric already given to you.
Worth: 95 points
Assessment
Due Date: December 7, 2016
0 Look through your dialectical journals from the past six weeks.
0 Create three questions that you would like to discuss during the
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Socratic Seminar that will be held on Friday, December 9,
2016.
Bring evidence (quotes, quotations, examples, anecdotes) from
Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land as a springboard for each
of your questions.
Attach your evidence from Ehrenreich’s book to your Admission
Ticket.
This Socratic Seminar will count as a test grade.
Worth: 100 points (50 points=participation in inner and outer
circles of the seminar + 50 points=Admission Ticket with
evidence from Ehrenreich’s book.