English Lab
Syllabus
November 27- December 1, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
• Write in portfolios.
• Go over grades.
• Review summary writing-practice this.
• Introduce “To My Dear and Loving Husband.”
• Write vocabulary words and definitions-go over these.
• Review poetic terms.
• You are to read and write a summary over the introduction about Anne Bradstreet and the poem. These are due on Tuesday.
• If have time, read and go over the poem and complete “After Reading the Selection.”
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
• Write in portfolios.
• In lab to write criterion entry.
• Discuss/collect the summaries and attach to rubric.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
• Write in portfolios.
• Work on outlining. We will use the material from Bradstreet.
• Selection quiz.
• Work on parallelism and pronouns.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
• Write in portfolios.
• Introduction to Benjamin Franklin.
• Define aphorisms/ discuss if there are any from students’ countries/native language.
• Assign aphorisms. Go over them.
• Use outlining techniques for reading comprehension.
• You will select a quotation to write an essay.
• Discuss red dot books.
Friday, December 1, 2006
• Write in portfolios.
• If ready, quiz over Ben Franklin and aphorisms.
• Red dot book reading/testing/ writing.
Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
11.2.2 Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, repetition of the main ideas, organization of language, and word choice in the text.
Reading
11.3.1 Analyze characteristics of subgenres, types of writings such as satire, parody, allegory, and pastoral that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic genres.
• Satire: using humor to point out weaknesses of people and society.
11.3.7 Analyze the clarity and consistency of political assumptions (statements that take for granted something is true), beliefs, or intentions in a selection of literary works or essays on a topic.
11.3.8 Analyze the philosophical arguments presented in literary works to determine whether the authors’ positions have contributed to the quality of each work and the credibility of the characters.
11.3.3 Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author’s style, and the sound of language achieve specific rhetorical (communication) or aesthetic (artistic) purposes or both.
11.3.8 Analyze the philosophical arguments presented in literary works to determine whether the author’ positions have contributed to the quality of each work and the credibility of the characters.
Writing Applications:
11.5.3 Write reflective compositions that:
• explore the significance of personal experiences, events, conditions, or concerns by using rhetorical strategies, including narration, description, exposition, and persuasion.
• draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that illustrate the writer’s important beliefs or generalizations about life.
Monday, November 27, 2006
English 11 Honors
English 11 Honors
Syllabus
November 27-December 1, 2006
Trimester II
Week Three
Monday, November 27, 2006
• To Kill A Mockingbird Check/discussion. Need to set due date for end of novel.
• Introduce Olaudah Equiano p. 56. Listen to the selection from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano pp. 57-65. Quiz on Tuesday.
• Hand out article over “Out of Africa.” You need to read and “talk to the text” for Wednesday. We will use this article for practicing annotative bibliographies.
• You might want to have some sort of rough draft or some thoughts over what your first Reading Transactional Journal might be.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
• In lab to type first Reading Transactional Journal. Final is due on Friday attached to rubric.
• Quiz over from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
• Go over vocabulary 2 words today (if have time). Test is on Friday.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
• Test over Part I of To Kill A Mockingbird.
• Introduce annotative bibliography writing.
• Work with article “Out of Africa.”
Thursday, November 30, 2006
• Work on annotative bibliographies from web sites.
• Discuss project.
• Finish any work not covered.
Friday, December 1, 2006
• Test over vocabulary 2 words.
• Final Transactional Reading Journal #1 is due.
• Read To Kill A Mockingbird novel.
Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
11.1.1 Understand unfamiliar words that refer to characters or themes in literature or history.
11.1.3 Analyze the meaning of analogies encountered, analyzing specific comparisons as well as relationships and inferences
Reading
11.2.2 Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, repetition of the main ideas, organization of language, and word choice in the text.
11.2.4 Make reasonable assertions about an author’s arguments by using elements of the text to defend and clarify interpretations.
Read and interpret autobiographical narratives
Identify Allusions
11.2.5 Analyze an author’s implicit and explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
11.3.2 Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.
11.3.5 Analyze or evaluate works of literary or cultural significance in history
Writing:
11.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, achievement of purpose, and mechanics.
11.4.12 Revise text to highlight the individual voice, improve sentence variety and style, and enhance subtlety of meaning and tone in ways that are consistent with the purpose, audience, and form of writing
11.4.5 Enhance meaning using rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy and the issuance of a call for action.
Syllabus
November 27-December 1, 2006
Trimester II
Week Three
Monday, November 27, 2006
• To Kill A Mockingbird Check/discussion. Need to set due date for end of novel.
• Introduce Olaudah Equiano p. 56. Listen to the selection from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano pp. 57-65. Quiz on Tuesday.
• Hand out article over “Out of Africa.” You need to read and “talk to the text” for Wednesday. We will use this article for practicing annotative bibliographies.
• You might want to have some sort of rough draft or some thoughts over what your first Reading Transactional Journal might be.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
• In lab to type first Reading Transactional Journal. Final is due on Friday attached to rubric.
• Quiz over from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
• Go over vocabulary 2 words today (if have time). Test is on Friday.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
• Test over Part I of To Kill A Mockingbird.
• Introduce annotative bibliography writing.
• Work with article “Out of Africa.”
Thursday, November 30, 2006
• Work on annotative bibliographies from web sites.
• Discuss project.
• Finish any work not covered.
Friday, December 1, 2006
• Test over vocabulary 2 words.
• Final Transactional Reading Journal #1 is due.
• Read To Kill A Mockingbird novel.
Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
11.1.1 Understand unfamiliar words that refer to characters or themes in literature or history.
11.1.3 Analyze the meaning of analogies encountered, analyzing specific comparisons as well as relationships and inferences
Reading
11.2.2 Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, repetition of the main ideas, organization of language, and word choice in the text.
11.2.4 Make reasonable assertions about an author’s arguments by using elements of the text to defend and clarify interpretations.
Read and interpret autobiographical narratives
Identify Allusions
11.2.5 Analyze an author’s implicit and explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
11.3.2 Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.
11.3.5 Analyze or evaluate works of literary or cultural significance in history
Writing:
11.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, achievement of purpose, and mechanics.
11.4.12 Revise text to highlight the individual voice, improve sentence variety and style, and enhance subtlety of meaning and tone in ways that are consistent with the purpose, audience, and form of writing
11.4.5 Enhance meaning using rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy and the issuance of a call for action.
English 9A
English 9 syllabus
November 27-December 1, 2006
Trimester II
Week Three
Monday, November 27, 2006
• Test over “The Most Dangerous Game.”
• Remind/review information over the “I AM” poem. This is due on Tuesday.
• Introduction to Personal Narrative. Go over ideas. Rough draft is due tomorrow. We will be in lab on Tuesday to enter it.
• Vocabulary is due on Wednesday. Test is on Thursday.
• Reminder about red dot book tests/projects.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
• Collect “I Am” poems; be sure to attach rubric.
• Type rough draft of Personal Narrative. Peer edit these on Thursday.
• Show grades.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
• Begin the short story “Poison.” Work on study guide. Quiz on Thursday.
• Work on “Rainbow Revision” on Personal Narratives.
• Go over Vocabulary Two words-quiz on Thursday.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
• Quiz over vocabulary 2 words.
• Quiz over the short story “Poison.”
• Hand out vocabulary three. This is due on Wednesday, December 6.
• Homework for Monday, December is Chapter 17- Using Modifiers Correctly- pp. 223-230.
Friday, December 1, 2006
• In-service for teachers.
• Periods 1 and 2 do not meet.
Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
9.1.1 Identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words and understand the origins of words.
9.1.2 Distinguish between what words mean literally and what they imply and interpret what the words imply
Reading: Literary Response and Analysis
9.3.6 Analyze the trace an author’s development of time and sequence, including the use of complex literary devices, such as foreshadowing (providing clues to future events) or flashbacks (interrupting the sequence of events to include information about an event that happened in the past).
9.3.7 Determine character traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration.
9.3.8 Interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, and ironies (the contrast between expectation and reality), in a text.
9.3.11 Evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style, including the impact of diction and figurative language on tone, mood, and theme.
Writing: Processes
9.4.1 Discuss ideas for writing with classmates, teachers, and other writers and develop drafts alone and collaboratively.
9.4.2 Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, and appropriate modifiers.
9.4.3 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, content, and mechanics.
9.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, content, and mechanics.
Writing: English Language Conventions
9.6.3 Produce legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization.
9.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, content, and mechanics.
9.4.11 Edit and proofread one’s own writing, as well as that of others, using an editing checklist with specific examples of corrections of frequent errors.
9.4.12 Revise writing to improve the logic and coherence of the organization and perspective, the precision of word choice, and the appropriateness of tone by taking into consideration the audience, purpose, and formality of the context.
9.6.3 Produce legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization
Reminders:
Don’t forget to read red dot books.
Chapter on modifiers is due on Monday, December 4.
Due date is Tuesday, December 12, 2006
November 27-December 1, 2006
Trimester II
Week Three
Monday, November 27, 2006
• Test over “The Most Dangerous Game.”
• Remind/review information over the “I AM” poem. This is due on Tuesday.
• Introduction to Personal Narrative. Go over ideas. Rough draft is due tomorrow. We will be in lab on Tuesday to enter it.
• Vocabulary is due on Wednesday. Test is on Thursday.
• Reminder about red dot book tests/projects.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
• Collect “I Am” poems; be sure to attach rubric.
• Type rough draft of Personal Narrative. Peer edit these on Thursday.
• Show grades.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
• Begin the short story “Poison.” Work on study guide. Quiz on Thursday.
• Work on “Rainbow Revision” on Personal Narratives.
• Go over Vocabulary Two words-quiz on Thursday.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
• Quiz over vocabulary 2 words.
• Quiz over the short story “Poison.”
• Hand out vocabulary three. This is due on Wednesday, December 6.
• Homework for Monday, December is Chapter 17- Using Modifiers Correctly- pp. 223-230.
Friday, December 1, 2006
• In-service for teachers.
• Periods 1 and 2 do not meet.
Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
9.1.1 Identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words and understand the origins of words.
9.1.2 Distinguish between what words mean literally and what they imply and interpret what the words imply
Reading: Literary Response and Analysis
9.3.6 Analyze the trace an author’s development of time and sequence, including the use of complex literary devices, such as foreshadowing (providing clues to future events) or flashbacks (interrupting the sequence of events to include information about an event that happened in the past).
9.3.7 Determine character traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration.
9.3.8 Interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, and ironies (the contrast between expectation and reality), in a text.
9.3.11 Evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style, including the impact of diction and figurative language on tone, mood, and theme.
Writing: Processes
9.4.1 Discuss ideas for writing with classmates, teachers, and other writers and develop drafts alone and collaboratively.
9.4.2 Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, and appropriate modifiers.
9.4.3 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, content, and mechanics.
9.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, content, and mechanics.
Writing: English Language Conventions
9.6.3 Produce legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization.
9.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, content, and mechanics.
9.4.11 Edit and proofread one’s own writing, as well as that of others, using an editing checklist with specific examples of corrections of frequent errors.
9.4.12 Revise writing to improve the logic and coherence of the organization and perspective, the precision of word choice, and the appropriateness of tone by taking into consideration the audience, purpose, and formality of the context.
9.6.3 Produce legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization
Reminders:
Don’t forget to read red dot books.
Chapter on modifiers is due on Monday, December 4.
Due date is Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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