Thursday, February 16, 2012
objectives: grammar review, using
vocabulary, author's purpose/tone
1) make "pink" and "yellow" list / vocab review
2) grammar practice
3) SOAPStone
HW: vocab online practice, click
here
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
objectives: grammar review, using
vocabulary, author's purpose/tone
GRAMMAR HW "problems" in the basket
1) review writing strategies
2) vocab 9, sentences
3) introduce SOAPStone
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
HW: vocab 1-9 TEST next Wednesday, 2/22 (double weighted)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
1) grammar recap
2) vocab 9
3) FCAT Writes practice
HW: bring 5 grammar questions from online assessments (write
them down; identify the test -- you've taken 3)
Monday, February 13, 2012
1) Vocab 9 introduce: synonyms & antonyms
2) Read "Of Plymouth Plantation"
Friday, February 10, 2012
1) grammar assessment
2) SSR
Thursday, February 9, 2012
objectives: visualizing, imagery, reading
comprehension
1) finish Olaudah Equiano "picture home"
2) Explore the text "Three Sisters"
3) SSR - outside reading
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review "Bookish Report" criteria on handouts page
HW: Have you practiced all three online "Part
1" grammar formative assessments?
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
objectives: grammar formative assessments,
building reading comprehension
1) Caesar journals ON YOUR DESK
2) SSR: outside reading
3) "The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano"
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background information
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picture home -- imagery/sensory details
HW: complete grammar online (click
here)
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
objectives: background information, visualizing
during-reading strategy, fluency
1) "World on the Turtle's Back"
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read background information
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read story/ visualize
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draw story, retell story
2) review Caesar journal checklist
HW: Caesar journals due tomorrow at the beginning of class
Monday, February 6, 2012
objectives: discovering American literature
origins; building reading comprehension
1) Welcome to American Literature
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introduction/background
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essential question(s)
2) SSR: outside reading book
Book
Report Ideas click here
HW: Caesar journals due Wednesday (turn in Caesar books);
complete grammar online by Thursday click
here
Friday, February 3, 2012
objectives: summative assessment; students will
use writing data to make revisions for final draft
1) Julius Caesar quote TEST
2) Caesar, Acts IV/V questions for journal (see
checklist)
3) return rough draft "funeral speech analysis"
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focus correction areas
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readability, statistics on your word processed paper
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word process for journal
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MLA format click
here
HW: FINISH Acts IV/V questions; Caesar journal
due Wednesday (see checklist); bring OR book on Monday
Thursday, February 2, 2012
objectives: writing analysis; building reading
comprehension
1) Timed Writing
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Mark Antony's funeral speech
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your paper
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blue or black pen only
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turn in
2) Caesar quote review "game" / FORMATIVE assessment
HW: Caesar quote TEST tomorrow; grammar online, click
here
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
objectives: building vocabulary; reading
comprehension
1) Vocab 8 quiz, your paper, number 1-25, proper heading
2) SSR, Caesar, Act V / quotes as you read
3) Caesar movie clip focus: Antony's funeral speech
HW: grammar online, click
here; Caesar QUOTE TEST on Friday; journals due Tuesday
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
objectives: during & after reading strategies
1) HW in the basket
2) finish reading Act IV
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independently, silently
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plot list AS YOU READ
3) Group activity
HW: vocab 8 quiz tomorrow
Monday, January 30, 2012
objectives: self-analysis of persuasive
writing, during-reading strategy
1) return persuasive essays: analyze, reflect
2) explain HW
3) read Caesar, Act IV, independently
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plot list, journal #11, turn in
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quotes (or at home)
HW: two-column notes for Mark Antony prompt; vocab 8 quiz
Wednesday
Friday, January 27, 2012
1) Vocab #8
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review sentences/class
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7-sentence diamond/groups/5 words
2) Julius Caesar, Act III, finish
HW: click
here
Thursday, January 26, 2012
1) groups: review vocab HW (10 minutes)
2) CEA mini lesson / funeral speech
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analyzing persuasive language
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journal #10
3) SSR: outside reading book
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during-reading strategy: two (2) pages, one line
HW: finish writing journal #10/chunk; vocab 8, complete the
sentences & highlight the context
clue
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
1) SSR: outside reading book
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during-reading strategy: one page, one line
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turn in
2) Julius Caesar
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Act III, analyze rhetoric
HW: finish reading Act III -- all scenes (find
the quotes AS YOU READ)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
1) Journal #9, take notes EOL text pages 468-469
2) Julius Caesar, Act III
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persuasive language
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rhetorical strategies
HW: SSR tomorrow! bring your outside reading book!
Monday, January 23, 2012
1) Caesar Acts I & II quiz
2) introduce vocab 8
3) Caesar, Act III
HW: complete synonyms/antonyms; bring your outside reading book
tomorrow (every day)
Friday, January 20, 2012
1) Tomatoland "book-in-a-day"
HW: Caesar Acts I & II quiz on Monday (reread).
Have you picked your 2nd 9-week outside reading book yet?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
1) Tomatoland commercials
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purpose? how did they achieve the purpose?
2) Julius Caesar, Act II, scene 2,3,4
HW: read your assigned Tomatoland chapter, take notes!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
1) Julius Caesar, Act II, scene 1
2) Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook
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introduce
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pass out books (bring EVERY DAY!)
HW: view commercials click
here