A Separate Peace Weekly Schedule

Week Twenty A Separate Peace and Kroger Contest

Introduction
Weekly goal: Finish semester one testing and grading, Start a Separate Peace, Get students
ready for the Kroger Contest, give students time with novels and with writing their paper
Objectives:
Get students ready for their next novel, A Separate Peace
Introduce annotations for A Separate Peace
Get students to start the Kroger contest papers
Standards: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text; 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; Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make
important connections and distinctions; include formatting; Develop the topic with well-chosen,
relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other
information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic.

Monday

Housekeeping items
Vocabulary Review and Packet Check
Student Information Sheet
Pass out book
Vocabulary Quiz
Hw: Read Chapter 1

Tuesday
WOD: Haughty- Arrogant, condescending
DOL
o John whom won the wirting contest is in my class.

Agree or Disagree Activity

Annotation guide sheet explanation
Whole group read and annotation
Small group read and finish chapter 1 annotation guide
Hw: Read and complete annotation guide for Chapter 2

Wednesday
WOD: Hedonist- One who seeks pleasure
DOL
o Mary ate a turkey sandwhich wearing a michigan state shirt
Small group share of annotations
 Journal response with evidence from the novel
o What are characteristics of a good friend and/or a bad friend?
Small discussion on novel
Hand-out and discuss essay information
Brainstorm ideas
Hw: Come to class with essay idea

Thursday
**MEDIA CENTER**
Students have time to work on papers

Friday

WOD: Fulminate- to explode with a loud noise

DOL:
o When they called her down to the office, marisa said she didnt see
nothing, so she her best friend wouldnt get in trouble.

Tables read and complete chapter 4 and annotation guide along with it
Venn Diagram to compare Finny and Gene with questions on the back
Hw: Finish Venn Diagram

Week Twenty-One A Separate Peace

Weekly goal: Have an understanding of prepositional phrases, get a rough draft of the Kroger
essays to paper conference
Objectives:
Have students understand what prepositional phrases are
Have a rough draft of papers with an understanding that we will agree on changes
during paper conferences
Connect A Separate Peace to the movie Dead Poets society
Standards: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its
development over the course of the text; Establish and maintain a formal style and
objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in
which they are writing; Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and
information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting

Monday
New seats
Introduce grammar
Go over Venn Diagrams, small group-whole group
Journal- How can jumping to conclusions about someone lead to serious
consequences?
Hw: Activity 1 for prep
Tuesday
WOD: Impetuous- rash and impulsive
DOL
o World war II was the most destructive conflict in history, because it cost more
money, damaging property, killed more people, and caused the most change
then any other war in the history.

Kahoot chapters 1-5

Go over prep packet
Go over tone and figures of speech in chapters 1-4
Hw: Read Chapter 5 and turn in rough draft for Kroger Contest

Wednesday
Turn in rough drafts
Prep. Phrase PowerPoint
Watch Dead Poets society
Paper conferences

Thursday
Quiz on chapters 1-5
Watch movie
Paper conferences
Hw: Read chapter 6

Friday
Book talk
Watch movie
Hw: Write a one page double spaced comparison between Dead Poet Society and Super
Suicide Society Squad; Read chapter 7

Week Twenty-Two A Separate Peace

Weekly goal: Finish the grammar unit and start vocabulary, finish the movie, peer edit and turn
in final copy of paper
Objectives:
Start a new vocabulary unit
Peer edit by having students give each other feedback and have agency about what
they want to change about their papers
Connect their lives to teenagers during WWII
First Socratic Seminar of the new semester
Standards: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text,
order events within it; 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; Use appropriate and varied
transitions to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the
relationships among complex ideas and concepts.; Initiate and participate effectively
in a range of collaborative discussions

Monday
Grammar Quiz
Start Vocabulary unit and packet
Finish movie
Hw: Bring in three copies of a revised rough draft

Tuesday
WOD: Paucity- Shrotage
DOL
o Despite the snow that was blinding the freezing temperatures and the heightened
threat of attack from Polar Bears the team decided to continue on with there
adventure

-Peer edit all hour with peer edit sheets

Hw: Turn in paper

Wednesday

WOD: Intuitive- instictive; untaught

DOL
o Most of the concentration Camps where located in poland the most biggest one
was auschwitz.
Turn in papers
Go over Separate Peace Quiz
Chalk Talk to get back on track for the Separate Peace
Hw: Read chapter 8 and read and annotate Your Numbers Up article

Thursday
Prezi Presentation on teenagers during WWII
Journal- How do pressures teenagers face in todays society compare to the pressures
teenages faced during WWII?
Prepare for Socratic Seminar
Hw: Read Chapter 9

Friday
Socratic Seminar
Hw: Read Chapter 10

Week Twenty-Three A Separate Peace

Weekly goal: Understand major themes and how to connect themes to other sources, Quiz on
chapters 6-9
Objectives:
Start to gain an understanding of pronouns
Understand how to find themes and how to make a theme statement
Create creative presentations and share them with the class
Standards: 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; Cite strong
and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn from the text; Present information, findings, and supporting
evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of
reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate
to purpose, audience, and task

Monday
Introduce how to find a theme
Come up with themes in A Separate Peace so far as a class
Break into groups and have groups pick themes
Introduce project
Work on Project in Media Center

Tuesday
Vocabulary Quiz
Work on projects
Hw: Chapter 11

Wednesday

Counselors come in to talk about scheduling

Pronoun presentation
Explain documents for Kroger Contest to fill out
Meet with groups

Thursday
A Separate Peace quiz and Red Slash for vocabulary
Start presentations
Hw: Read Chapter 12 and 13

Friday
Kroger Contest paper turn in
Presentations
Gallery Walk
**Winter Break School Resumes February 27**
Week Twenty-Four A Separate Peace Wrap-Up
Weekly goal: Finish up A Separate Peace, Start papers, peer-review and paper conference,
Understand pronouns and start a short vocabulary unit
Objectives:
Students will have proficiency in types of pronouns
Students will take a journal topic and expand it into a paper
Students will understand the importance of peer revision
Standards: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the
text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text; Introduce a topic;
organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections
and distinctions; include formatting; Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the
major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among
complex ideas and concepts; Write and edit work so that it conforms to the
guidelines in a style manual

Monday
Types of pronouns powerpoint
Hand out vocab
Journal: When was a time that you had to deal with loss and how did you deal with it?
Work on A Separate Peace questions 10-13 in groups
Hw: Questions

Tuesday
Introduce paper
Go down to the library and work on papers for the rest of the hour
Hw: Bring in two rough draft copies

Wednesday
WOD: Mundane- Ordinary
AP english teacher comes in to talk about AP classes
Go over questions
Peer review

Thursday
Meet in library and work on paper all hour
Meet in paper conferences for students who signed up

Friday
Introduce lit circles
Finish working on papers and paper conferences
Hw: Have Lit Circles Activity 1 done