College Prep Unit 5 : Dangerous Choices
What is this unit about?
Our choices are shaped by our definitions.
What questions will we explore?
Why are we doing this?
Although people may share a common language, words become indecipherable if there is not a common definition. We need to know what we mean when we say "wrong" and "right" if we are going to understand one another. If we don't calibrate how we define our words, they become meaningless.
This unit is taking a different approach than what we've done before. This unit is about asking you, the student, to come up with your own definition of a word and back up your case with logical evidence. In order to do that, you'll need to read and observe carefully; you'll confer with your classmates; you'll write regularly in class; and you'll participate in Socratic Seminars. All of this will help you think more deeply about how these words define the choices you make in your life.
You are closer than you've ever been to your Sophomore year right now. Work today so that you not only prosper in Freshman year, but thrive next year.
At the beginning of the year, we developed a working definition of Safe Space. This unit requires us to re-establish and maintain Safe Space. In our study of the Holocaust and human behavior, we will grapple with difficult and challenging material, and we will develop our own individual set of criteria to determine courage, responsibility, evil, justice, and moral behavior.
We will continue to cultivate scholar’s habits of mind. Let's do our best to meet the expectations we established as a class and strive for excellence.
Week One (2/3 – 2/6)
Week Two (2/9 – 2/13)
Night Reading Assignment Due: pp. 1-20 + questions + vocabulary + extended response
● Common Formative Assessments (CFA) : This will be a portion of the Semester Two Final Exam.
Think of this as a pre-test. Your score will not factor into your current grade. It provides me with information about how I can prepare you to demonstrate mastery by the end of your freshman year.
● Socratic Seminar
● Continue reading and discussing Night
Week Three (2/16 – 20) : Defining Courage
Night Reading Due Monday 2/16: pp. 21- 41
Week Four (2/23 – 2/27) : Defining Responsibility
Night Reading Due 2/23: pp. 42-65
● Socratic Seminar
● Timed Writing: Responsibility
● Responsibility practice essay
Week Five (3/2– 3/6) : Defining Evil
Night Reading Due 3/2: pp.66-84
● Socratic Seminar
● Timed Writing: Evil
● Evil Practice Essay
Week Six (3/9 – 3/13)
Night Reading Due 3/9: pp. 85 – 120
Week Seven (3/16 – 3/20)
● 1st Timed Essay Assessment
Week Eight (3/23) – 3/27)
Week 9 (3/30 – 4/3): The Great Debate! Defining Justice
Below find digital copies of the "right there in the text" guided reading questions, vocabulary, and "author/text & me" extended response prompts. Reading Assignments #1 & #2 are the first document (pp. 1-40).
*For Reading Assignment #3 pp. 41-65, develop your own "right there in the text" questions + "author & me " extended response prompt. There are no guided questions and extended response prompts. You have practiced with those I have provided. Now create your own.
What is this unit about?
Our choices are shaped by our definitions.
What questions will we explore?
- Who are we obligated to help?
- What is courage?
- What is evil?
- What is justice?
Why are we doing this?
Although people may share a common language, words become indecipherable if there is not a common definition. We need to know what we mean when we say "wrong" and "right" if we are going to understand one another. If we don't calibrate how we define our words, they become meaningless.
This unit is taking a different approach than what we've done before. This unit is about asking you, the student, to come up with your own definition of a word and back up your case with logical evidence. In order to do that, you'll need to read and observe carefully; you'll confer with your classmates; you'll write regularly in class; and you'll participate in Socratic Seminars. All of this will help you think more deeply about how these words define the choices you make in your life.
You are closer than you've ever been to your Sophomore year right now. Work today so that you not only prosper in Freshman year, but thrive next year.
At the beginning of the year, we developed a working definition of Safe Space. This unit requires us to re-establish and maintain Safe Space. In our study of the Holocaust and human behavior, we will grapple with difficult and challenging material, and we will develop our own individual set of criteria to determine courage, responsibility, evil, justice, and moral behavior.
We will continue to cultivate scholar’s habits of mind. Let's do our best to meet the expectations we established as a class and strive for excellence.
Week One (2/3 – 2/6)
- Refresh, rethink, revise, re-norm class goals and expectations
- Semester Exam Corrections (due by the end of this week)
- Anticipation Guide: Pre-reading Statements
- Distribute Night and begin reading Preface (author's purpose)
- Homework: Reading Assignment #1 (see Daily News for details)
Week Two (2/9 – 2/13)
Night Reading Assignment Due: pp. 1-20 + questions + vocabulary + extended response
● Common Formative Assessments (CFA) : This will be a portion of the Semester Two Final Exam.
Think of this as a pre-test. Your score will not factor into your current grade. It provides me with information about how I can prepare you to demonstrate mastery by the end of your freshman year.
● Socratic Seminar
● Continue reading and discussing Night
Week Three (2/16 – 20) : Defining Courage
Night Reading Due Monday 2/16: pp. 21- 41
- How do you develop criteria? (guided, group, and independent practice)
- Where do you find evidence?
- Socratic Seminar
- Timed Writing: Courage
- Homework: Courage practice essay
Week Four (2/23 – 2/27) : Defining Responsibility
Night Reading Due 2/23: pp. 42-65
● Socratic Seminar
● Timed Writing: Responsibility
● Responsibility practice essay
Week Five (3/2– 3/6) : Defining Evil
Night Reading Due 3/2: pp.66-84
● Socratic Seminar
● Timed Writing: Evil
● Evil Practice Essay
Week Six (3/9 – 3/13)
Night Reading Due 3/9: pp. 85 – 120
- PARCC TESTING (10, 11, 12)
Week Seven (3/16 – 3/20)
● 1st Timed Essay Assessment
- Socratic Seminar
Week Eight (3/23) – 3/27)
- Final Timed Argument of Definition Essay
Week 9 (3/30 – 4/3): The Great Debate! Defining Justice
Below find digital copies of the "right there in the text" guided reading questions, vocabulary, and "author/text & me" extended response prompts. Reading Assignments #1 & #2 are the first document (pp. 1-40).
*For Reading Assignment #3 pp. 41-65, develop your own "right there in the text" questions + "author & me " extended response prompt. There are no guided questions and extended response prompts. You have practiced with those I have provided. Now create your own.
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