Honors English 9 Weekly #4

September 18-22 , 2017

This Week in 102:

1. Monday Socratic Seminar Persepolis 2 Reflection #1
Using your Socratic Seminar notes, reflect on what you understand of the novel and
the discussion we had.
Persepolis 2 - Read pages 91- end of book for Wednesday, September 20.
2. Tuesday One Word Bio Revision #2/Persepolis 2 Reflection #1
Both are due today
3. Wednesday Socratic Seminar Persepolis 2 page 91-End
Using your Socratic Seminar notes, reflect on what you understand of the novel and
the discussion we had. Bring FIVE questions as your ticket in the door.
Use the discussion cards and drop into the box at the Socratic seminar table for
credit.
4. Thursday Socratic Seminar Persepolis 2 Reflection #2
Using your Socratic Seminar notes, reflect on what you understand of the novel and
the discussion we had.
5. Friday Persepolis Literary Analysis Topic Proposal
Using your Socratic Seminar notes, reflect on what you understand of the novel and
the discussion we had.
Create a topic to analysis by answering ONE of the following questions about
Persepolis. This will be used to produce a 800-1,000 word formal essay in which you
will use evidence from the text to answer the question.
 1. How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?
2. If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a
different audience, how and why might it differ?
3. How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
4. Which social groups are marginalized, excluded, or silenced within the text?
5. How does the text conform to, or deviate from, the conventions of a particular
genre, and for what purpose? (For example is this a history text?)
6. How has the text borrowed from other texts, and with what effects?

Learning Objective for the Week:

Students will be able to respond in discussions and in writing, using personal, literal,
interpretative, and evaluative stances, to works of non-fiction by using the exemplar
text of Persepolis.
Students will be able to use strategies before, during, and after reading to aid in the
construction and enhancement of meaning by reading and annotating the Persepolis.
Students will be able to engage in informal writing assignments (i.e. reader response,
freewriting, focused freewriting, prediction, response journals, dialectical notebook
entries, and other pieces of writing that they do not take through the entire writing
process) by using a writers journal.

Students will be able to engage in formal writing assignments that require utilization of
all stages of the writing process by using the writers journal for pre-writing and rough
drafts
Does American Historian Howard Zinn have a point, or does the act of breaking the law weaken the morality of the
protest?