Day 1:
o Journal: Experiencing
Anxiety
o Note Guide: The Age of
Anxiety
o Pair work – Students
choose one topic from the
outline and research it
using the internet
o Use Google Slides
to create
presentations
o Share with
teacher; prepare
to present in class
tomorrow
(students
teaching
students)
o Q&A; recap
Day 6
o Journal: War
o Poem: “The Glory of War-
An Alternative Viewpoint”
o Video: Yeats’ “An Irish
Airman Foresees His
Death”
o View, analyze,
and
compare/contrast
above two in one
paragraph
Day 2 Day 3
o Student presentations o Handout: Tone
o Note taking on o Individual
classmates’ reading/notes
presentations o Informal
o Video: WWI (Clip from discussion
All Quiet on the Western o How to analyze poetry
Front) step-by-step
o Ticket-Out-the-Door: o “Suicide in the
recap important Trenches” by
ideas/events pertinent to Siegfried
understanding the Age of Sassoon
Anxiety o Address symbolism,
imagery, tone, and
figurative language
o Annotate “Dreamers”
(Siegfried Sassoon); due
by end of class/beginning
of class tomorrow
o Class Poll
o Look Ahead: Memorize a
poem to recite
Day 7 Day 8
o Quick Review: Poetry o Journal: Calvin and
Tips Hobbes
o Start: Poetry Recitation o Continue: Poetry
o Peer Evaluation Recitation
o Feedback o Peer Evaluation
o Feedback
o Look Ahead: Prepare for
Socratic Seminar
o *The following
articles for
discussion will
Day 4 Day 5
o Quick Write: o Quick Write: Choose
Compare/contrast 1-2 lines from
yesterday’s two poems yesterday’s poems
(*focus on tone) and
o Pair work – Venn diagrams analyze/comment on
related to quick write imagery and author’s
o Start: Read, tone (*practice MLA)
annotate, and o Share
compare/contrast out/whole
“The Unknown group
Citizen” by W.H. workshop
Auden and “The o Comparative
Soldier” by Analysis
Rupert Brooke o Mini review
o Ticket-Out-The-Door: lecture
relating poems to the Age o Using
of Anxiety (partner share) thinking
o Look Ahead: Memorize a maps to
poem to recite organize
essays
o Q&A
o Look Ahead:
Memorize a poem to
recite
Day 9 Day 10
o Quick Write: Dependence o Journal: Reflection
o Lecture on Kafka; take on First Day of Group
notes Work
o Begin reading The o Continue reading
Metamorphosis in groups The Metamorphosis
(Ch. 1); take notes, answer in groups (Ch. 2);
guiding questions, look up take notes, answer
vocab, etc. guiding questions,
o Goal Setting look up vocab, etc.
o Look Ahead: Prepare for o Q&A
Socratic Seminar
o How to recite poetry be available in o Look Ahead: Prepare
o Choose one poem the OneDrive: for Socratic Seminar
covered so far 1. “Absurd and
and memorize it Absurdity:
to present to the Themes and
class tomorrow Ideas in
o Pair Share Existentialist
Thought”
2. “Existentialist”
article
3. “Angst: Dread,
Anxiety, and
Anguish:
Themes and
Ideas in
Existentialist
Thought”
Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14 Day 15
o Preview Ch. 3 of The o Quick Write: Harmful o Preview Ch. 3 of The o Socratic Seminar o Review academic
Metamorphosis, defining Expectations Metamorphosis again, o Review lit analysis and tone, thesis writing,
any initially difficult vocab o Continue reading Ch. 3 of defining any initially argument strategies and creating strong
prior to reading; read in The Metamorphosis, difficult vocab prior to o Introduce: Essay topics for introductions
small groups after, taking taking notes, answering reading; continue The Metamorphosis o Writer’s Workshop
notes, answering guiding guiding questions, reading in small groups o Students will be o Theses and
questions, looking up looking up vocab, etc. after, taking notes, given time to introduction
vocab, etc. o Q&A answering guiding explore the paragraphs
o Goal Setting o Prepare for Socratic questions, looking up topics o Goal Setting
o Prepare for Socratic Seminar vocab, etc. o Q&A
Seminar o Short Video: “Great o Ticket-Out-the-Door:
Books: Kafka’s Declare essay topic
Metamorphosis”
o Q&A
o Prepare for Socratic
Seminar
 Day 16 Day 17 Day 18 Day 19 Day 20
o Writer’s Workshop o Writer’s Workshop o Writer’s Workshop o Writer’s Workshop o Computer Lab:
o Continue o Continue o Continue o Finalize drafts Typing final
drafting/revising drafting/revising drafting/revising draft of essay
o Essay Self-
Assessment