English Lab
December 4-8, 2006
Trimester II
Week Four
Monday, December 04, 2006
• Write in journal.
• Introduction to Benjamin Franklin. Aphorisms on board. Answer questions about them
• Read pp. 15-16. Write vocabulary words and definitions.
• Show introduction to Benjamin Franklin.
• Taking notes strategy.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
• Summary writing over introduction.
• Read “Poor Richard’s Almanac” using reading strategy.
• Work on “Building Language Arts Skills.”
• Discuss research project.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
• Research material over “Poor Richard.”
• Work on outlines.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
• Introduce/discuss/chart information over “Poor Richard” and Benjamin Franklin.
• Continue with research. Discuss PowerPoint presentation.
• Test over Benjamin Franklin on Friday.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Test over Benjamin Franklin.
• Work on PowerPoint/research.
• Read red dot books if have time.
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.
Writing Applications:
11.5.9 Write academic essays, such as an analytical essay, a persuasive essay, a research report, a summary, an explanation, a description, or a literary analysis that:
• Develops a thesis.
• Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
• Includes accurate information from primary and secondary sources and excludes extraneous information.
• Makes valid inferences.
• Supports judgments with relevant and substantial evidence and well-chosen details.
• Uses technical terms and notations correctly.
• Provides a coherent conclusion.
Monday, December 04, 2006
English 9A
English 9 A
December 4-8, 2006
Trimester II
Week Four
Monday, December 04, 2006
• Begin the unit over “Using Modifiers Correctly,” pp. 223-239 Chapter 17 in English Workshop books.
• Go over these in class.
• Review red dot book assignment. Begin reading each day.
• Hand out sheet over “Poison.” This is the problem solving sheet.
• Homework finish- modifiers.
• Vocabulary Four is due on Wednesday.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
• Read red dot books at beginning of hour.
• Continue with misplaced modifiers. Quiz over this on Thursday.
• Discuss the project.
• Update any red dot book material.
• Introduction to the short story “The Birds.”
• Read the story using reading strategy.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
• Read the first few minutes in class.
• Go over Vocabulary words. Test is on Friday.
• Review for misplaced modifier quiz.
• Begin “The Birds.”
Thursday, December 7, 2006
• Read the first few minutes.
• Quiz over misplaced modifiers.
• Continue with “The Birds.”
• Discuss comparison/contrast.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Continue with “The Birds.”
• Red dot book reading.
• Vocabulary three test.
Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
9.1.1 Identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words and understand the origins of words.
Reading: Literary Response and Analysis
9.3.2 Analyze interactions between characters in a literary text and explain the way those interactions affect the plot.
9.3.3 Explain how voice and the choice of a narrator affect story
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
Red dot books are due on Wednesday, December 13, 2006
December 4-8, 2006
Trimester II
Week Four
Monday, December 04, 2006
• Begin the unit over “Using Modifiers Correctly,” pp. 223-239 Chapter 17 in English Workshop books.
• Go over these in class.
• Review red dot book assignment. Begin reading each day.
• Hand out sheet over “Poison.” This is the problem solving sheet.
• Homework finish- modifiers.
• Vocabulary Four is due on Wednesday.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
• Read red dot books at beginning of hour.
• Continue with misplaced modifiers. Quiz over this on Thursday.
• Discuss the project.
• Update any red dot book material.
• Introduction to the short story “The Birds.”
• Read the story using reading strategy.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
• Read the first few minutes in class.
• Go over Vocabulary words. Test is on Friday.
• Review for misplaced modifier quiz.
• Begin “The Birds.”
Thursday, December 7, 2006
• Read the first few minutes.
• Quiz over misplaced modifiers.
• Continue with “The Birds.”
• Discuss comparison/contrast.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Continue with “The Birds.”
• Red dot book reading.
• Vocabulary three test.
Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
9.1.1 Identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words and understand the origins of words.
Reading: Literary Response and Analysis
9.3.2 Analyze interactions between characters in a literary text and explain the way those interactions affect the plot.
9.3.3 Explain how voice and the choice of a narrator affect story
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
Red dot books are due on Wednesday, December 13, 2006
English 11 Honors
English 11 Honors
December 4-8, 2006
Trimester II
Week Four
Monday, December 04, 2006
• Introduction of Annotated Bibliography.
• Model with article “Out of Africa.”
• Vocabulary three words due on Wednesday with test on Friday.
• You must have articles from web site.
• To Kill A Mockingbird book talk on Friday. Test on Monday, December 11.
• Transactional Journal # 2 due on Tuesday, December 12.
• Final Transactional journal due on Friday, December 15.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
• Discuss Power Point project using research material.
• Read Ellison’s quotation on p. 67 and reflect over what it reveals about seeking an “examined life.”
• Show fine arts transparency “Ben Franklin” by David Martin. We will make predictions about Ben Franklin’s life.
• Read Introduction to Benjamin Franklin.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
• Go over vocabulary words for Lesson three.
• Continue/finish with Benjamin Franklin. Possible quiz on Thursday.
• Work/finish annotated bibliographies.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
• Quiz over Benjamin Franklin material.
• Work on Power Point presentations. These will be shown on Thursday, December 14, 2006.
• Finish any material we did not cover.
• To Kill a Mockingbird.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Vocabulary three test.
• Book talk over To Kill A Mockingbird.
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.
December 4-8, 2006
Trimester II
Week Four
Monday, December 04, 2006
• Introduction of Annotated Bibliography.
• Model with article “Out of Africa.”
• Vocabulary three words due on Wednesday with test on Friday.
• You must have articles from web site.
• To Kill A Mockingbird book talk on Friday. Test on Monday, December 11.
• Transactional Journal # 2 due on Tuesday, December 12.
• Final Transactional journal due on Friday, December 15.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
• Discuss Power Point project using research material.
• Read Ellison’s quotation on p. 67 and reflect over what it reveals about seeking an “examined life.”
• Show fine arts transparency “Ben Franklin” by David Martin. We will make predictions about Ben Franklin’s life.
• Read Introduction to Benjamin Franklin.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
• Go over vocabulary words for Lesson three.
• Continue/finish with Benjamin Franklin. Possible quiz on Thursday.
• Work/finish annotated bibliographies.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
• Quiz over Benjamin Franklin material.
• Work on Power Point presentations. These will be shown on Thursday, December 14, 2006.
• Finish any material we did not cover.
• To Kill a Mockingbird.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Vocabulary three test.
• Book talk over To Kill A Mockingbird.
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.
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