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Instructors name: Devin Ayers Week of: 12/02 12/06 Course/Grade: Grade 11 AP Language and Composition Unit Name: Politics and Government

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: RL11-12.1; RL11-12.3; RL11-12.5; RI11-12.1; RI11-12.5; W11-12.2; W11-12.5; SL11-12.1; SL1112.3; SL11-12.4; L11-12.1; L11-12.2; L11-12.6 Essential Question(s): What significant social/political issues are you aware of that effect our world today? How do they affect your own life? How does Orwell blend narrative and analysis to achieve the desired effect in Shooting an Elephant? Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Students who require it will receive extended deadlines for writing assignments and/or shortened reading. Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Students will relate their personal experience with significant social issues to the material found in the weeks reading by writing an essay based on a prompt from the Norton Reader related to the reading. Resources/Materials Teacher: Students: Norton Reader AP Writing Rubric Peer Editing Worksheet

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: direct observation This Week: direct observation/writing assignment Unit: direct observation/writing assignments/Socratic dialogue/Project Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetInstructor absent. See separate substitute instructions. TUESDAY Instructor absent. See separate substitute instructions. WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in rhetorical analysis in the context of AP multiple choice questions. They will show their learning by discussing answers to AP practice questions as a whole class. Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) Due-

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Assignment(s) DueAP practice questions

THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in rhetorical analysis. They will show their learning by answering short response questions based on a reading in the Norton Reader. In pairs, students will choose a reading from the Politics and Government section of the Norton Reader. Together, they will read the piece and answer the short response questions at the end. Each pair will share out at the end of class. FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills in rhetorical analysis, close reading, and speaking and listening. They will show their learning through Socratic dialogue.

Assignment(s) DuePair work: Short response questions

Assignment(s) DueSocratic Dialogue