Instructional materials are provided on Google Classroom- all materials are provided electronically. All materials can be found in UNIT 4.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding these assignments please contact me at lougha@dearbornschools.org or through the Remind App. If you have not yet signed up for Remind please do so immediately; remind.com/join/loughs. I am available for guidance and assistance, please use email or Remind.

Students should plan to check their email daily.

The Daily Agenda for Unit 3 is available here. If you are absent or need to review material covered in class please refer to the above link. The Daily Agenda can also be accessed through Google Classroom and is located in the Class Resources of this iBlog as a permalink.

This week’s CommonLit.org homework assignment is “The Ten Commandments.” This text is included in our unit of study due to the literary allusions made in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, this text will be studied as a literary text and not in a religious manner. The text will be examined as it relates to theme, symbolism, parallel structure, etc. This is supported by the Common Core State Standards focused on “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).

It is important for students to understand the connections between “The Seven Commandments” of Animal Farm and the biblical allusions created by Orwell as this enriches the text and allows students to develop additional levels of understanding of the novel.

If there are any questions or concerns regarding this assignment please contact me at lougha@dearbornschools.org or through the Remind App.

The Daily Agenda for Unit 3 is available here. If you are absent or need to review material covered in class please refer to the above link. The Daily Agenda can also be accessed through Google Classroom and is located in the Class Resources of this iBlog as a permalink.

The Daily Agenda for Unit 2 is available here. If you are absent or need to review material covered in class please refer to the above link. The Daily Agenda can also be accessed through Google Classroom and is located in the Class Resources of this iBlog as a permalink.

The Daily Agenda for Unit 2 is available here. If you are absent or need to review material covered in class please refer to the above link. The Daily Agenda can also be accessed through Google Classroom and is located in the Class Resources of this iBlog as a permalink.

If you have lost your Literature Circle Packet, it is your responsibility to print a new copy and be prepared for class. Please find the packet attached.

The Daily Agenda for Unit 2 is available here. If you are absent or need to review material covered in class please refer to the above link. The Daily Agenda can also be accessed through Google Classroom and is located in the Class Resources of this iBlog as a permalink.

Please refer to the attached .pdf document for the required reading for Unit 2 Book Clubs.