Introduction to Canvas & Squarespace.
How to read a poem.
Reading and annotating, “Doors Opening, Closing.”
HW: re-read the poem, and annotate for a) What do I notice? and b) What does it (the poem) mean?

Picture day!
Reviewing poetry rules.
Lecture on “Great Books discussion method”
Discussion of poem (practicing routines, pre-post discussion writing, note taking)
HW: If you have not done so, finish reading Salman Rushdie’s novel over Friday and the weekend.

Reviewing course expectations, and posting your signed form into Canvas, as an assignment.
Killer Kane and the growth mindset.
In-class writing assignment; ¶ on “The Man Who Swallowed a Bird”
Using Squarspace to submit your (and to read others’) writing.
HW: Use “Genius Scan” after taking a picture of your signature of the Course Expectations, to submit the assignment into Canvas. More on “Genius Scan” and how to use it can be found here.
Also, post your paragraph on “The Man Who Swallowed a Bird” onto Squarespace. Read ALL of these paragraphs, and choose the three best (in your opinion—from either 1st or 3rd period).

How we share (and comment upon) writing, publicly.
Reading and circling vocabulary (annotation technique).
Voting on “best” paragraphs on the poem, and reviewing those.
HW: For homework, scholars will review an Rushdie essay about the novel’s connection to Frank Baum’s children’s novel The Wizard of Oz and the American film by the same name. Read page 9 through the middle of page 16 in “The Wizard of Oz,” by Salmon Rusdie.

Reviewing argument structure in body ¶s—”What I think, and why I think it.”
Reviewing the ¶s we already read in class.
Once done with our three, in class, writers, we will look at three ¶s from other class, in small group.
Revising your new paragraph.
Watching two videos about our summer reading author, Salman Rushdie.
HW: Post your revised paragraph as a REPLY to your first draft. If you haven’t finished reading the selection on “Wizard of Oz,” do that.