Sass/Scow American Studies
Week of January 2
Monday
Upcoming M&M due
dates:
#1: January 10/February 7
#2: January 11/February 8
#3: January 12/February 9
#4: January 17/February 14
#5: January 18/February 15
#6: January 19/February 16
Tuesday
No school for students—
inservice day for teachers
Thursday
(Early Release)
Community Block
Z group on Sass’s side
Z group on Sass’s side
GWAG #66
Review History
final exam and DBQ
responses
Intro 1920s
Write in M&M!
Community Block
Z group on Scow’s side
GWAG #68
“Bernice Bobs Her
Hair”—time to read and
answer questions
Rural/Urban clashes
Group work
M&M writing
Write in M&M!
Friday
GWAG #67
New seating chart
Please pay attention to
due dates! You will
receive the final rotation
schedule in February.
Homework:
Wednesday
“Bernice Bobs Her
Hair”—time to read and
answer questions
Literary critique
assigned—due
Wednesday, January 11
Unit Vocabulary
Write in M&M!
Write in M&M!
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair”;
answer questions
thoughtfully and
completely
“Bernice Bobs Her
Hair” pre-drafting
questions
Bring Americans
textbook!
Work Due Today:
Bring
Americans
textbook!
Weekly Thought: Law without enforcement is only good advice.
~Abraham Lincoln
Learning Objectives:
~students will identify punctuation errors in a passage and use copy editing symbols
to correct those errors (GWAGs).
~students will examine a short story in order to compare modern ideas about
popularity with ideas from the 1920s (“Bernice Bobs Her Hair”).
~ students will answer questions about short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” in order
to help interpret a more difficult type of fiction.
~working in cooperative groups, students will classify and organize ideas about the
differences between rural and urban areas/ideas during the 1920s.
~students will write a literary critique about “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” in which they
evaluate the story’s worth to freshmen readers and publish the critique on their blog.