1. AoW #9 - Annotate and respond using any of the responses you would like. Due Friday.
2. AoW quiz -(on Friday) see questions at the bottom of this week's AoW. Questions will also cover dependent clauses.
3. 10 things rough draft - typed due Friday.
Sentence of the week:
As both population and urbanization expand in developing nations, many more people are in harm's way.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Objective: Students will annotate non-fiction text and analyze it for main idea and support details.1. Announcements
2. AoW #9, The History of Halloween
3. Go to Library to get Things Fall Apart
This week's homework 10/24/11
1. AoW #8 - Annotate and respond using any of the responses you would like. Due Friday.
2. AoW quiz -(on Friday) see questions at the bottom of this week's AoW. Questions will also cover dependent clauses.
3. 10 things rough draft - typed due Friday.
Sentence of the week:
As both population and urbanization expand in developing nations, many more people are in harm's way.
1. Identify the dependent clause. Identify the independent clause.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Objective: Students will practice writing research questions and apply research skills.
1. Announcements
2. Quiz, AoW #8, collect HW, review quiz
3. Continue research and work online with google docs and buddy.
Wednesday/Thursday, October 26/27, 2011
Objective: Students will practice writing research questions and apply research skills.
1. Review citing structure
2. Notes and Questions
3. Work on "10 things" rough draft. Remember to write down the web addresses where you have collected information.
4. Sample
Agenda:
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Objective: Students will recognize dependent clauses and be able to cite a magazine article.
Agenda:
1. Dependent clauses, notes and practice. Conjunctions.
2. How to cite a non-fiction article.
3. Intro to Things Fall Apart
Monday, October 24, 2011
Objective: Students will analyze non-fiction text for structure, purpose, and main idea.
Agenda:
1. AoW #8 Myths About Earthquakes- annotate, mark AoW vocabulary, use any of the response options, study questions at the end.
This week's homework
1. AoW #7 - Annotate and respond using any of the responses you would like. Due to the benchmark, the AoW will be due Friday.
2. AoW quiz -(on Friday) see questions at the bottom of this week's AoW. Questions will also cover embedded quotes.
3. Benchmark review - due Block day
4. Benchmark - block day
5. Turn in all Caesar notes: Tuesday
Sentence of the week: Dr. Francks said he was “quite happy with the sentiment of reassuring people that left- handedness is not some weird disability.”
1. How do you punctuate embedded quotes?
Friday, October 21, 2011
Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of standards from unit 1. Students will analyze information and refine their research and questioning skills.
Agenda:
1. Quiz
2. Analyze your own HW
3. Research for 10 things assignment
4. Sample 10 things: 10 things you should know about the sun.
5. Citing material.
Wednesday/Thursday, October 19/20, 2011
Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of standards from unit 1. Students will analyze information and refine their research and questioning skills.
Agenda:
1. Check Benchmark Review Sheet, Review Last week's quiz
2. Benchmark
3. Review Leftie article #2
4. Finish your AoW.
5. Pass back proficiency essays: Score Scale
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Objective: Students will analyze a non-fiction document and write related research questions.
1. Writing research questions
2. Embedded quotes
3. Benchmark review
Monday, October 17, 2011
Objective: Students will analyze a non-fiction document and write related research questions.
1. Journal: Write this sentence with the hand you don't normally use:
"I have three kinds of cookies: chocolate-chip, sugar, and peanut-butter."
Once done, switch back to your normal hand and describe the experience of writing with your "wrong" hand.
2. Embedded quotes.
3. AoW #7 - On the Left Hand
4. Research questions.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Objective: Students will demonstrate knowledge of theme
1.
2. Turn in HW
3. Go over last week's pre-benchmark test
4. Finish online writing practice.
Wednesday/Thursday, October 12/13, 2011
Objective: Students will demonstrate knowledge of theme by writing a five-paragraph essay.
Agenda:
1. Questions?
2. Write Proficiency Essay
3. Re-read proficiency essay
4. Work on AoW
5. Read independently
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Obejctive: Students will discuss how knowledge affects people's decisions.
Agenda:
1. Correct colon HW
2. Go over expectations for Proficiency Essay "Once we know something, or think we do, how does that change our actions?"
3. Group brainstorm. Preparing for your Essay.
Monday, October 10, 2011Obejctive: Students will analyze persuasive appeals.
Agenda:
1. Watch video (part two) of play, Julius Caesar
2. Annotate AoW #6, Antony's funeral oration
3. Begin SMELL overview
Friday, October 7, 2011
1. While Mrs. Hrin is away at her brother's wedding, please take your pre-test seriously. Thanks!
Wednesday/Thursday, October 5 and 6, 2011
Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to determine main idea. Students will also continue to analyze and apply knowledge of ethos, pathos, and logos.
Agenda:
1. Self assess AoW homework using the rubric
2. AoW and SoW quiz on moodle:
www.smusd.org/moodle
3. Continue Analyzing Act 1, Scene 2 for ethos, pathos and logos
4. Be persuasive writing activity on moodle.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Objective: Students will analyze questions and text to determine which persuasive appeals are being used: ethos, pathos, or logos.
Agenda:
1. Review notes on ethos, pathos and logos. Analyze your survey results to determine whether you are more persuaded by logos or pathos.
2. Analyze Cassius' persuasive message to Brutus.
a. Annotate what is said
b. Identify ethos, pathos, and logos.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Objective: Students will analyze a non-fiction document and connect it to our study of Julius Caesar
Agenda:
1.Announcements/HW
2. Sentence of the Week (SoW)a
3. Annotate/Vocab for AoW#5 - Power Without Status Linked to Abuse
4. Pick how you want to respond to the article and get started!
