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Phone 650-922-0598
Email-wilson222@gmail.com  or michael.wilson@mvla.net
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6/10-6/14
MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail

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5/6-5/10
Monday
Intro to Iran Contra affair

Background lecture on key historical events/people

Watch film Coverup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDdItm-PDeM

Tuesday
Block with Trish watching the Reagan film

Thursday/Friday
Work on Unit Exam
Due end of class on Friday


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4/8-4/12
Monday
First day of Spring Quarter
1/2 class
Begin Biography on Fitzgerald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J82Us_i9KTc
HW- none

Tuesday
Finish  Biography on Fitzgerald
HW- none

Wednesday/Thursday
In Class Essay on Gatsby

Friday
Intro to the 1980s!

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3/18-3/22
Monday
Final Gatsby Quiz
Gatsby Discussion

Tuesday
Gatsby presentation groups-Groups meet and prepare presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1006PC9oZKuhR2538ClZtxOiwiGd_jU-EIHaKVG4gfkQ/edit#slide=id.g9797f6642_0_10

Presentations should include the following:
-5-15 slides
-A well thought out argument about your topic.  This should read like a thesis.
-4-8 significant quotes that relate to your topic.  Be able to explain the significance.
-An assertion about how your argument is related to Fitzgerald's "ought" statement
-some colorful design elements
-Some sort of conclusion


Thursday/Friday
Gatsby presentations

3/11-3/15
Monday
Gatsby EPQ
HW- read chapter 5 in GG

Tuesday
Finish discussing EPQ
Gatsby Groups meet and begin identifying examples in the novel
HW Read GG Chapters 6 and 7 for Thursday

Thursday
GG cont.
HW-Read Ch 8

Friday
GG cont
HW-Finish GG for Monday
3/4-3/8
Monday
Finish Modern Times

Tuesday
Discuss MT sheet

HR Website group work.  finish the site

Intro to Gatsby/Fitzgerald
Read ch 1 1nd 2 in Gatsby by Thursday

Thursday
Gatsby Discussion Groups

Friday
Harlem Renaissance Symposium



2/24-2/28
Monday
Modernism cont. 
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Listen/read poem.  Small groups meet and discuss/analyze poem.  Write a 1 page response to the poem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY
Tuesday
Modernist Poem Read Around

Begin watch in Modern Times
Work on Modern Times sheet
Link to Modern Times on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPilyrEzC4
Thursday
Finish Modern Times

Friday
LINC class
2/19-2/22
Tuesday-Thursday
Modernist poem packet.
HW-write a 1 page response to your poem from the poem packet
Present your analysis to the class.

Thursday
Finish Poem Packet
HW-Write your own "Modernist" poem and bring it to class on Tuesday

Assign the Harlem Renaissance Website-HW for the next week is to work on this.

Friday
LINC class on website design.




Semester 2
Week 1  2/11-2/15

Monday

Catcher in pop culture
Will Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRrs_X4OUkU

John Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUnQ-wOPGUE
Life of the Buddha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsN7NLs-0jI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-eQ3tV9Zbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5TmpQwzxOc

Tuesday
Intro to new unit- The Boom Years
Intro to modernism- Art Slide Show
HW- Research and write up a one page definition of modernism-bring definition to class

Wednesday
Modernism continued-  Modernist poems-reading, analysis and presentations

HW- Write a 1 page explication of your assigned modernist poem

For Seniors
Poem by Aja Monet

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4650745/aja-monet-my-mother-freedom-fighter



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2/4- 2/8  Last Week of Semester

Monday
Catcher-John Green video
Discuss key scenes in Catcher

Tuesday
Catcher Cont.
Work on Lit Circle Project

Thursday
Lit Circle Presentations

Friday
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Week 15  1/22-1/25


Monday
MLK Day

Tuesday
Guest Speaker in Hearthside

Wednesday
Catcher in the Rye-
Lit circle project sheet.
HW for the next 2 weeks-Read 2 chapters of Catcher per night. 

Thursday
Catcher chapters 3 and 4

Friday
Chapters5/6


Week 14 1/14-1/18

Monday
Finish Turner Thesis Graphic displays-  groups meet and share-discuss a few class examples

Lit circles-check in and discuss first lit circle quiz

HW-ALL WEEK-READ LIT CIRCLE BOOK

Tuesday
Begin watching Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel packet


HW-ALL WEEK-READ LIT CIRCLE BOOK

Thursday
Rebel cont-discussion

Intro to Catcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSR8J6LUaT8

HW-ALL WEEK-READ LIT CIRCLE BOOK

Friday-
Lit circle meeting-discussion sheet. Lit Circle/Rebel
Assign Lit circle project- attached below
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Week 13  1/7-1/11

Monday-
1/2 period
Intro to new unit,  America Grows Up
Selecting Lit Circle Book-
Always Running, Caucasia, Looking for Alaska, or Huck Finn

Hw-None


Intro to Turner Thesis
RAP- How would you describe the American character?  What makes us different/particular?  What historical forces/events have shaped how we are in the world?  Is there continuity (have we basically maintained a particular character), or has our character changed over time?
Discuss RAP

Get Lit Circle Books/groups
HW- Read Turner Thesis- annotate and select your three favorite quotes
Read Lit Circle Book-to page 30 by Friday

Wed-
Discuss Turner Thesis-Discussion questions or graphic depiction of key ideas,themes, quotes
HW- Read Lit Circle Book-to page 30 by Friday

Thursday
Turner Thesis cont.
Graphic Depiction of the ideas presented in the Turner Thesis.  In pairs, students will draw/create a graphic/narrative image that expresses the key ideas from Turner.  Your creation must include multiple elements/ideas from Turner. 

Time Permitting-  Review of classic American songs and how these songs reflect/promote themes about  America.
SSR- Lit Circle Book

Friday
First lit circle meeting.  You must be to page 30!!! There will be a reading quiz :)

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Week 10. 12/3-12/7

Monday-Thursday
Nixon film
Vietnam/The Things They Carried

HW- Read The Man I Killed for Tuesday, Speaking of Courage for Wednesday, and Lives of the Dead for Thursday
We will briefly discuss each of these stories at the beginning of each class.

Week 9  11/26-11/30

Monday
Extreme Partner Quiz -On the Rainy River
HW- Read "How To Tell A True War Story"

Tuesday-
Reading check
Transcendentalism Essay Assigned-Due Next Tuesday
Begin watching Vietnam Film-Dear America
Extra Credit Assignment- Write a letter to or from a character in the book.
HW-Read  "The Sweetheart of The Song Tra Bong"

Thursday-
Discuss Song Tra Bong
Watch more of letters home

Friday-
Work on Trans. Essay
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Week 7 11/5-11/9

Monday
Sunflower Sutra Cont.  Discussion and Questions sheet

HW- write the Beat Poem

Tuesday

Beat Poem readings
Intro to the Beat Symposium-selected groups

HW-2 pages of notes on Beat research

Thursday
Group Work on Beat Presentation
HW-Work on Beat Presentation

Friday
Intro to Tim O'Brien and The Things They Carried (TTC)
HW-Beat Presentation and reading TTC
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Week 6  10/29-11/2

Monday
Finish discussing Dead Poets
Collect DPS packet
Intro to The Beats

Tuesday
Beats cont.
Beat Poet Project assigned
Alan Ginsberg's America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJq2DUyzSdg

Sunflower Sutra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A_tDB7t5eg
Assign Beat Poem
HW- Beat Poem and Presentation

Wednesday
Halloween Party

Thursday
With Trish all day
HW- Beat Poem and Presentation

Friday
Alan Ginsberg cont.
Sunflower Sutra
HW- Beat Poem and Presentation


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Week 5  10/22-10/26

Monday
Transparent Eyeball Presentations

HW- None

Tuesday
Begin Dead Poets Society

HW-work on Dead Poets Packet

Thursday
Finish DPS

Hw-DPS Packet

Friday
Intro to Beat Poets
HW-None

Week 4   10/15-10/19
Monday

Thoreau Cont-Walden
Thoroughly Thoreau packet
Intro to Transparent Eyeball assignment-due next Monday

Tuesday
TE project samples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-OtjwiBtI
http://musicvideoswiz.com/song/Molly%20Tuttle/Walden/


Thoreau cont- begin reading Civil Disobedience
HW-Work on TE project

Wednesday
Immigration Teach-in- Hearthside Lounge
HW-Work on TE project

Thursday
Civil D cont.
HW-Work on TE project

Friday
HW-Work on TE project

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Week 3   10/8-10/12

Monday

"Self-Reilance" EPQ

Video on childlike wonder-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCHn1cWhOg
RAP-write a response to the video clip

Intro to Transcendentalism cont. 
Discuss key quotes from Self-Reliance



Tuesday
Finish discussion of  Emerson's "Self-Reliance" -

Conformity-big deal or not?
 Watch and discuss the Asch video on conformity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA

Milgram- Obedience to Authority
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9l_puxcrlM

Dangerous Conformity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjP22DpYYh8&feature=plcp&context=C3476ef2UDOEgsToPDskISJjYGpPomMBNuGB34GTlt

HW- none

Wednesday
PSAT
Thursday
Transcendentalism Cont.

Slid show lecture introducing Thoreau and the Hudson River School
Take notes on slide show.
Begin reading Walden by Thoreau

HW- read the first 2 pages of Walden

Friday
RAP-  Thoreau writes that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."  What does he mean by this?  Do you agree?   Do you see others living in desperation?  Do you live that type of life?  What is the alternative?

Walden cont.-class reading of Walden

We will do these on Monday
"Thoroughly Thoreau"
Introduce Transparent Eyeball assignment


-Week 2  10/1-10/5

Monday
Intro to Romanticism
Pair and share nature reflection write-ups
Read intro sheet to romanticism-discuss how different from enlightenment philosophy
Listen and respond to music samples

Tuesday-
Intro to Transcendentalism
Read and discuss Emerson's Nature

Wednesday
Emerson cont.

Thursday
Film in Trish's class
Homework-Read "Self-Reliance" in The American Reader.  It is found on page 106.  Select 4 quotes from the text and write a 3-5 sentence response to the quote.  Due Monday!!
PSAT is on Wednesday at your home school!


Friday
Linc class-Design Thinking
Homework-Read "Self-Reliance" in The American Reader.  It is found on page 106.  Select 4 quotes from the text and write a 3-5 sentence response to the quote.  Due Monday!!
PSAT is on Wednesday at your home school!
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Week 1
Monday
Intro to American Lit.- Discuss syllabus
HW- Letter to your teachers






Tuesday-
Intro to Dissent

RAP-  What is dissent?  What role has dissent played in the development of Western culture?  If our revolution is an act of dissent, what were we dissenting from?

RAP 2- Why were the "dark ages" dark?  Who, or what, turned on the light?

Intro to Enlightenment thinking-
Western Civ. discussion- Intro. to Locke


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw

Write a short response to the video.  If we are to look beyond the obvious comedic content, what truths does this clip express?  What are we to learn from this? What makes it funny?

Western Civ-notes

Wednesday-
Begin reading excerpts from John Locke's "Second Treatise on Government" (1690)

HW- Finish reading/annotating Locke for class on Thursday




Thursday
Continue reading/discussing excerpts from John Locke's "Second Treatise on Government" (1690)
Locke cont.-  Small group discussion of Locke-Locke Questions

Friday
Small group discussion of Locke-Locke questions

Intro to Romanticism
Music RAP-
HW-Read the first page of Romanticism Explained Packet.  Complete the Nature reflection assignment and bring your response to class on Monday.  We will share them with the class and then we will read Emerson's essay "Nature."


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