Weekly Snapshot, May 6-10, 2013
English III Lit
Micki Ray
Unit 4, Part 2: The Modern Age [1900-1940]
Rhetorical Focus: Literary Analysis—Similar themes/topics in multiple texts
Writing Skills Focus: Comparative Tone Analysis
Grade 11 Standards Covered: Standard 3, Standard 7, Standard 9, and Standard 10
Monday, May 6, 2013
Learning Targets:
 I can determine the themes, topics, and rhetorical features of a work.
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 I can compare/contrast the treatment of similar themes, topics, and rhetorical features in 2 or more
texts from the same period.
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Agenda:
1. Background on the Harlem Renaissance
2. Analyze poetry by Hughes, Cullen, McKay, and Bontemps.
3. Connect to modern themes of alienation, isolation, frustration.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Learning Targets:
 I can determine the themes, topics, and rhetorical features of a work.
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 I can compare/contrast the treatment of similar themes, topics, and rhetorical features in 2 or more
texts from the same period.
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Agenda:
BR: Background on Modern Age/Robert Frost
1. Read “Acquainted with the Night,” “Mending Wall,” “Out, Out,” and “The Death of a Hired Man.”
2. Analyze the connection to modern themes and the devices used to create the desired EFFECT.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Learning Targets:
 I can determine the themes, topics, and rhetorical features of a work.
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 I can compare/contrast the treatment of similar themes, topics, and rhetorical features in 2 or more
texts from the same period.
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Agenda:
BR: Background on Ernest Hemingway
1. Read “The End of Something.”
2. Analyze the connection to modern themes and the devices used to create the desired EFFECT.
3. Read “Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy” and compare to other Modern works.
Thursday, May 9-Friday, May 10, 2013
Learning Targets:
 I can determine the themes, topics, and rhetorical features of a work.
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 I can compare/contrast the treatment of similar themes, topics, and rhetorical features in 2 or more
texts from the same period.
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Agenda:
1. Read “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” Richard Wright.
2. View short film from Literature in Performance.
3. Analyze the connection to modern themes and the devices used to create the desired EFFECT.