Period 2 - January 2012

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Objective: Students will evaluate effective theses and review writing strategies
warm up: SSR
1. Finish Thesis review
2. Intro matching activity
3. Writing strategies carousel
4. Intro paragraph practice

Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Objective: students will be able to write a thesis sentence and intro paragraph
1. type essay
2. what is a thesis sentence
3. What should my intro paragraph look like?

Monday, January 28, 2013
Objective: Students will write introductory paragraphs
Agenda
1. Conventions practice
2. type essay
3. Intro paragraph

Friday, January 24, 2013
Objective: Students will write introductory paragraphs
Agenda
1. Conventions practice
2. type essay
3. Intro paragraph

Thursday, January 24, 2013
Agenda:
1. CaHSEE pretest
2. CaHSEE writing
3. Read or work on homework when finished

Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Agenda:
1. Warm up - using context clues
2. finish poetry evaluation page-96
3. quiz

Friday, January 18, 2013
Poetry Friday!
1. skim to preview
2. annotate poem
3. answer multiple choice questions

January 17, 2013
1. Hunger Games - Chapter 17
2. Conventions Circle
3. Vocabulary Practice

January 15, 2013
Objective: students will be able to recognize complete sentences
Agenda
1. Warm up - Journal
Make a goal for this semester and list three specific things you can do to achieve this goal.

2. Worksheet - complete sentences
3. Hunger Games - chapter 17