Agenda, Week of May 20thth
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Monday, May 20th
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Tuesday, May 21st
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Wednesday, May 22nd
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Thursday, May 23rd
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Friday, May 24th
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Civil War Photoshop
Images!
Students will be finishing the images and annotated MLA
citations that they began last week.
Images are historical portraits related to students’ lit.
circle novels. Annotations should indicate the connection to the novel and
provide short biographical information.
Reminder: Civil War Map Quiz on Thursday.
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Emancipation and
African American Soldiers of the Union.
We’ll start at the primary source – The Emancipation Proclamation itself and then make connections to
a reading on the famous 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
Of course, we’ll need to see a select scene from the
feature film Glory to supplement
today’s readings.
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1. Lit Circle Novels – Read and Annotate in class today.
Bring novels and composition notebooks.
Goal: Annotate
both to aid in Friday’s discussion and also as a support of final Civil War
essays at the end of the unit. See
Monday for this week’s annotation focuses.
* This final week
the annotation focus will be students’ choice.
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1. Civil War Map
Quiz!
Identify 11 Confederate States, Neutral Slave States of
the Union and several of the cities and battle sites that we added to the maps
last week. Also: You will be asked to
label one site that relates to your lit. circle novel.
2. Close read: Primary Source – General Grant’s
reflections on surrender at Appomattox.
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1. Students will get final
Civil War essay prompts today and will choose one to answer using a thesis
statement.
2. We’ll be looking at
examples of thesis statements and students will be asked to write a rough
draft of a thesis, or an educated opinion that answers the prompt they have
chosen.
3. We’ll finish the week
with the assault on Ft. Wagner, S.C. from the movie Glory, and a discussion on the contributions, inequalities and
achievements of Blacks in the Union Army.
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Annotation
Requirements: 1. In composition
notebook 2. Three longer or five
shorter annotations per week 3.
Textual evidence and p. # are included 4. Analysis and thinking around the text
is complete: Extend your thoughts to fruition with examples and connections to
your life or our learning on the Civil War.
5. One paragraph minimum per annotation.