Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 2  Discuss unit and Tough Issues and Language Discuss context of book Read chapter 1 and annotate for TQEs on paper, sticky notes, or google doc

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide3 Discuss tough Issues, and uncomfortable language, and marginalized people Read Ch 2 and annotate for TQEs

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 4 Group Discussions, Of Mice and Men chapter 1 & 2

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 5  Complete Vocabulary Cubes chapter 1, 2

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 15 Discuss tough issues, uncomfortable language, and marginalized people presented in the book so far Read chapter 3 and annotate for TQEs on paper, sticky notes, or google doc


Week 2     

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 6 Discuss tough issues, uncomfortable language, and marginalized people presented in the book so far Read Ch 4 and annotate for TQEs Begin Vocabulary Cubes chapter 3 & 4

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 7 Group Discussions, Of Mice and Men chapter 3 & 4 Complete Vocabulary Cubes chapter 3 & 4

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 8  Discuss tough issues, uncomfortable language, and marginalized people presented in the book so far Read chapter 5 and annotate for TQEs  Begin Vocabulary Cubes chapter 5 & 6

​Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 9 Discuss tough issues, uncomfortable language, and marginalized people presented in the book so far Read Ch 6 and annotate for TQEs Work on Vocabulary Cubes chapter 5 & 6

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 10 Group Discussions, Of Mice and Men chapter 5&6 Complete Vocabulary Cubes chapter 5 & 6


Week 3    
UNIT 6: Marginalized People and Of Mice and Men
Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 11  Read excerpt from A Critical Study of the Novels of John Steinbeck, 1939. Complete Of Mice and Men Primary Source discussion questions.

Writing into the day: journal prompt on slide 12 Read Minorities, Marginalization, and Scapegoating in Of Mice and Men and answer the questions.

Writing into the day: journal prompt slide 13 Do something with this: http://www.ncfh.org/uploads/3/8/6/8/38685499/fs-migrant_demographics.pdf Read Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Section 1 only. Complete Article Response on Executive Order, Section 1.

Writing into the day: journal prompt slide 14 Complete Of Mice and Men One Pager

Writing into the day: journal prompt slide 15 In groups, create Vocabulary Story


Common Core Literature Standards covered in Unit 6
Key Ideas and Details:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. Craft and Structure:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Integration of

Knowledge and Ideas:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7 Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

​CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9 Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).