2015-2016+Daily+Assignments+for+American+Literature

=Daily Assignments for American Literature (2015-2016)=

Quarter 1
6 August, Monday (Day 1)
 * In-class: We read and discussed the syllabus for American Literature. We discussed the idea of having legacy and then students had to answer the question: What's your sentence? Students had to write about what they would like their legacy to be in one sentence. We then discussed the Dense Question strategy.
 * Here's a video about how "a great man is a sentence":
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 * HW: Read the Iroquois tale "The World on the Turtle's Back." Devise 5 questions based on the Dense question types listed on the chart and relating to the Iroquois creation myth you read.

7 August, Friday (Day 2)
 * In-class: We read and discussed the syllabus for American Literature. We discussed the idea of having legacy and then students had to answer the question: What's your sentence? Students had to write about what they would like their legacy to be in one sentence. We then discussed the Dense Question strategy. (See the video above for the how "a great man is a sentence."
 * HW: Read the Iroquois tale "The World on the Turtle's Back." Devise 5 questions based on the Dense question types listed on the chart and relating to the Iroquois creation myth you read.