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This Week’s Agenda- Unit 1: Flowers for Algernon

Please check Google Classroom for all daily assignments including specific handouts and tests that you may miss while you are out of school.

Monday 9/4-LABOR DAY

1. Enjoy your day off!

Tuesday 9/5: LESSON 9

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1. Locate the MPO you completed about whether the Rorschach is a valid psychological assessment.

2. Share your MPO with your group member to the left of you. 

3. Use MPO Peer Editing checklist to review their outline. 

   1. Ensure your partner’s thesis statement contains the claim and at least three reasons. 

   2. Revise the thesis statement as needed.

4. Look to see if they:

5. (1) incorporate relevant evidence from the text; 

   (2) acknowledge an opposing claim; and 

   (3) use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify claims and counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

6. Give your partner the completed checklist.

7. (1) Discussing missing or incorrect information

   (2) acknowledge things they did well

8. Revise/write your argument  response. 

9. (1) incorporate relevant evidence from the text; 

   (2) acknowledge an opposing claim; and 

   (3) use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify claims and counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

10. Complete and Submit Argument response

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12. Be sure you:

​Wednesday 9/6: LESSON 10

1. Read Progress Report 4 in groups from “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes.

2. FFA Digital Reading Log: 

   1. How does the surgery change Charlie? 

   2. How do the author’s choices contribute to your understanding 

3. of the impact of the surgery on Charlie?

4. Add information to the before/after surgery chart.

   1. Include details from the class claims chart, our conversation, and Progress Reports 1-4 of “Flowers for Algernon.”

5. Read Progress Reports 5-8 in your groups.

6. Finish Before/After Surgery Chart

Thursday 9/7: LESSON 11

1. Listen as I share various information about the words “smart” and “intelligent.” 

2. Take notes in your reading log.

3. Discuss the following questions:

   1. Is being “smart” the same as being “intelligent”?

   2. How are these two concepts explained in “Flowers for Algernon”?

4. FFA Digital Reading Log: SLide 9

   1. View Rorshach Powerpoint 

   2. Decribe the 9 images

5. Inkblot Activity

Friday 9/8: LESSON 12

1. Read Progress Report 9 with a partner.

2. As you read, continue filling out the before/after surgery chart.

3. Compare two excerpts:

   1. “What do you notice is different between these two quotations?”

4. Prepare for Socratic Seminar Handout

   1. How does the surgery 

of those changes and 

their impact on Charlie?

Do you think Charlie’s life has been improved or worsened as a result of his surgery?

How do the author’s choices contribute to your understanding 

change Charlie? 

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THE ONLY THING YOUR STUDENT SHOULD WORRY ABOUT EACH DAY IS WHAT IS POSTED ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM.