Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Objective: Students will study academic vocabulary.
Agenda:
1. Partner Vocabulary poster.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Objective: Students will study academic vocabulary in context.
Agenda:
1. Journal: What type of music do you listen to? What effect does your favorite music have on you?
2. Article: Rap Music
3. Vocab practice.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Objective: Students will recognize different literary devices in poetry and understand the author's purpose in using them.
Agenda:
1. Review parallel structure:
Parallel structure practice
More Parallel structure practice
2. Interactive reader, page 223 - 228
Wednesday/Thursday, January 25/26, 2012
Objective: Students will understand the purpose of idioms and practice decoding common idioms and will read poetry to understand imagery.
1. Idioms practice
2. Poetry - Interactive Reader, page 217
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Objective: Students will be able to identify literary elements in a poem.
1. Review connotation
2. Review literary devices
3. Read and discuss the poem "Ode to Mi Gato"
4. Team competition, find the literary device.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Objective: Students will understand positive and negative word connotation
Agenda:
1. Review vocab on pages 134 of interactive readers
2. Make word chart (bottom of page 134)
3. Read "An Hour with Abuelo"
4. Find 10 words that have some type of connotation and decide if they are positive or negative
5. Answer questions in the margins.
Wednesday/Thursday, January 18/19, 2012
Objective: Students will analyze poetry for mood and theme.
Agenda:
1. Finish poetry analysis from yesterday
2. Oranges - annotate
3. Lead in Chunk - Oranges
4. Oranges - Quiz
5. Final Draft - Ode.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Objective: Students will analyze poetry for them
Agenda:
Journal:
What does one have to do to write a poem? What needs to be included?
1. Choose a poem to work on with a partner.
2. Observe, Question, Interpret
Friday, January 13, 2012
Objective: Students will analyze poetry for theme and practice the writing strategy: fluency
Journal: Which is better: being a child or being an adult? Explain your answer.
1. Framed poetry response
2. Your ode
Wednesday/Thursday, January 11/12, 2012
Journal:
Describe a childhood memory. Use details such as a specific location, names of people, descriptions, etc.
Objective: students will be able to identify figurative language in a lyric poem.
1. Review yesterday's notes.
2. Read "Ode to Los Raspados" and mark observations.
3. Identify figurative language and symbolism in the poem.
4. Comic strip
5. Write your own ode
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Journal:
1. Finish intro to poetry
2. Figurative Language overview
Monday, January 9, 2012
Journal:
Describe one event from the last three weeks. Give details and be specific.
1. Review CaHSEE scores
2. Intro to Poetry
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