Today's agenda:
1) Daily Activity
2) Check Essential Lit assignments
3) 1984 videos and discussion
4) BNW videos and discussion
5) 1984/BNW end of book discussion questions and then share out as a class
6) Give out S&F

Coming up:
1) Read pages 1-25 in S&F
2) Dystopia Projects are due on Thursday!

Today's agenda:
1) Daily activity
2) Lit circle seminars
3) Game!

Coming up:
1. You have an Essential Lit assignment due on Monday
2. Your dystopia projects are due on Friday of next week

Today's agenda:
1. Daily activity
2. Discuss benchmark 2 corrections
3. Review Estrella passage and example essays
4. Close reading passages for 1984 and BNW
5. Write a thesis paragraph and topic sentences for each
6. Work on your Dystopia project

Coming up:
1. Any outline benchmark corrections are due by Friday
2. Prepare for your lit circle seminars this week
3. You have an Essential Lit assignment due on Monday
4. Your dystopia projects are due on Friday of next week

Today's agenda:
1) Daily activity
2) Discuss Data mining and how much you care that you are constantly being surveiled
3) Watch dystopia video created by the ACLU
4) Discuss topics from 1984
5) Lit Circle Seminar 3

Coming up:
1) Your benchmark corrections (outlines) are due on Friday if you are going to do them
2) You have an Essential Lit assignment due on Monday
3) Your dystopia project is due on Thursday of next week

Today's agenda:
1. Daily Activity: Unknown Citizen
2) Review Sound Patterns from Essential Lit
3) Compare 1984 and Brave New World to today
4) Discuss the Dystopia project

Coming up:
1. Any outline benchmark corrections are due by Friday
2. Prepare for your lit circle seminars this week
3. You have an Essential Lit assignment due on Monday
4. Your dystopia projects are due on Friday of next week

Today's agenda:
1) BENCHMARK 2

Today's agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Lit circle seminar on 1984 or BNW
3) World building for 1984 and BNW
4) Review Essential lit assignment from Monday
5) Poetry annotations

Coming up:
1) Streetcar essay due by midnight tonight
2) Poetry response due at the same time
3) Benchmark on Monday (MC only)
4) Be prepared for lit circles next week

Today's agenda:
1) Daily activity
2) Review Benchmark
3) Practice with Multiple Choice questions (see me if you were not here and want a copy of the practice test)
4) Review Open Ended Essay thesis statements/ paragraphs (see handout)

Coming up:
1) You will have a literature circle seminar tomorrow on 1984 or BNW
2) Your Streetcar essay is due on Friday by Midnight
3) Your PR is due at the same time
4) You will have your third benchmark on Monday--all multiple choice.
4) Be ready for Literature circle seminars next week!

Today's agenda:
1) Daily activity
2) Review Benchmark passage
3) Finish peer editing of papers
4) Lit circle seminar on 1984 or BNW


Coming up:
Your MWDS is due tonight!
Be ready for your second Lit Circle Seminar on Friday
Finish your Streetcar Essay for Friday
Poetry response due on Friday
Benchmark on Monday

3 Hour Delay

We only have 43 minutes in class today, so we are going to be working on the peer edit of your Streetcar essays, and reviewing the rubric.

Remember, tomorrow you will have your first literature circle seminar, so you need to make sure that you have read the pages your group had determined.

Also, your Streetcar MWDS is due tomorrow by midnight!