Week Twenty-One A Separate Peace

Weekly goal: Have an understanding of prepositional phrases, Have studnets understand

figurative elements in A Separate Peace chapters 1-5, Have students get a rough draft of the
Kroger essays to paper conference
Objectives:
Have students understand what prepositional phrases are
Students will be able to show their full understanding of A Separate Peace chapters 1-5
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