Monday, January 23
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT utilize the rubric and peer and teacher feedback in order to write a final draft of an essay.
Engage:
Bell work: What's the difference between its and it's?
Bell work form
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Commonly confused words practice on Noredink.com
- Typing final Character Essays - due 1/25
Materials:
Friday, January 19
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT utilize the rubric and peer and teacher feedback in order to write a final draft of an essay.
IWBAT identify and correct errors in comma usage.
Engage:
Bell work: How would you feel about digital bell work?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Comma Test
- Typing final Character Essays - due 1/25
Materials:
Character essay format:
Name, date, assignment in upper right corner
Single space
12 point font
Times New Roman or Ariel
Title 16 point font
Name, date, assignment in upper right corner
Single space
12 point font
Times New Roman or Ariel
Title 16 point font
Thursday, January 19
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT analyze my own work using a mark scheme and focus on areas of weakness and how to make improvements.
Engage:
Bell work: What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
Comma Practice due Friday
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze my own work using a mark scheme and focus on areas of weakness and how to make improvements.
Engage:
Bell work: What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Revision Stations
Comma Practice due Friday
Materials:
Wednesday, January 18
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and character essay.
Establish: IWBAT analyze my own work using a mark scheme and focus on areas of weakness and how to make improvements.
Engage:
Bell work: Write a sentence in which you use multiple adjectives with appropriate comma usage.
Comma practice due Friday
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze my own work using a mark scheme and focus on areas of weakness and how to make improvements.
Engage:
Bell work: Write a sentence in which you use multiple adjectives with appropriate comma usage.
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Revision Stations
Comma practice due Friday
Materials:
Tuesday, January 17
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT analyze another students work using a mark scheme and provide feedback for improvement.
Engage:
Bell work: Describe your weekend using only pictures.
Comma Practice due Friday!
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze another students work using a mark scheme and provide feedback for improvement.
Engage:
Bell work: Describe your weekend using only pictures.
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Comma Practice: Noredink.com - Due by Friday
- Peer revisions using mark scheme
Comma Practice due Friday!
Materials:
Friday, January 13
Equip: You will need a chromebook and essay packets.
Establish: IWBAT determine the errors in comma usage and capitalization and correct those errors.
IWABAT draft a completed essay in the appropraite order (intro, body, conclusion) while maintaining the rules of mechanics and grammar.
Engage:
Bell work: Have you chosen a side in the Oxford comma debate? Which side and why?
Challenge Question:Write a sentence in which you use a comma to set off an introductory phrase, quotations, dialogue and a list.
Establish: IWBAT determine the errors in comma usage and capitalization and correct those errors.
IWABAT draft a completed essay in the appropraite order (intro, body, conclusion) while maintaining the rules of mechanics and grammar.
Engage:
Bell work: Have you chosen a side in the Oxford comma debate? Which side and why?
Challenge Question:Write a sentence in which you use a comma to set off an introductory phrase, quotations, dialogue and a list.
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Comma and capitalization quiz
- Typing Character Essay Drafts
Materials:
Thursday, January 12
STAR Testing
Wednesday, January 11
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT determine the error in comma usage and correct that error.
Engage:
Bell work: Do you think you have a good understanding of comma usage?
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT determine the error in comma usage and correct that error.
Engage:
Bell work: Do you think you have a good understanding of comma usage?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Comma Invasion!
Materials:
comm_invasion_game.pptx | |
File Size: | 2801 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Tuesday, January 10
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT determine the characteristics of a good conclusions, recognize those characteristics in another's writing, and then use those characteristics in my own writing.
Engage:
Bell work: What's the best way to end an essay?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Notes on Comma Usage
- Elements of a conclusion
- Sample conclusions
- Conclusion writing/revisions
Materials:
commas_when_combining_sentences_and_setting_off_dialogue.pptx | |
File Size: | 104 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
commas_after_introductory_phrases.pptx | |
File Size: | 92 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Techniques for an Effective Conclusion, with Examples
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Things to Avoid in Effective Conclusions:
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Monday, January 9
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT determine the characteristics of a good introduction, recognize those characteristics in another's writing, and then use those characteristics in my own writing.
Engage:
Bell work: What's the best way to start an introduction?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Notes on Comma Usage
- Elements of an introduction
- Sample Introductions
- Introduction Options
Materials:
commas_in_series_direct_addresses_and_multiple_adjectives.pptx | |
File Size: | 112 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Friday, January 6
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT analyze a rubric using student friendly language and use the rubric to evaluate another's work.
Engage:
Bell work: What is the point of a rubric?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Notes on Capitalization
- Making the Rubric Student Friendly
- Sample Grading
Materials:
Google Doc with Rubric
rubric_worksheet.docx | |
File Size: | 14 kb |
File Type: | docx |
capitalization_rules_continued.pptx | |
File Size: | 109 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Thursday, January 5
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and composition book.
Establish: IWBAT utilize elements of the writing process in order to plan and draft an essay.
Engage:
Bell work: Why is the writing process important?
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT utilize elements of the writing process in order to plan and draft an essay.
Engage:
Bell work: Why is the writing process important?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Notes on Capitalization
- Silent Reading and Drafting
Materials:
capitalization_notes_one.pptx | |
File Size: | 76 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Wednesday, January 4
Equip: You will need a writing utensil!
Establish: IWBAT utilize elements of the writing process in order to plan and draft an essay.
Engage:
Bell work: What does it mean to have character?
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT utilize elements of the writing process in order to plan and draft an essay.
Engage:
Bell work: What does it mean to have character?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Character Essay Planning
Materials:
Tuesday, January 3
Equip: You will need a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT define what a maxim is and utilize various methods of analyzing maxims.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT define what a maxim is and utilize various methods of analyzing maxims.
Engage:
- Bell work: Have you ever come across a quote that has stuck with you in some way? What was the quote? Why did it stick with them? What does the quote have to do with them?
- Character Essay Contest: What is a maxim?
Materials:
2016-2017_imagine_schools_character_essay_contest_maxims.pdf | |
File Size: | 140 kb |
File Type: |
Wednesday, December 14
Midterms!
8:50 10:20 1st Hour Midterm
10:23 10:53 Test Prep
10:56 11:26 LUNCH
11:29 11:59 Test Prep
12:02 1:45/2:00 2nd Hour Midterm
8:50 10:20 1st Hour Midterm
10:23 10:53 Test Prep
10:56 11:26 LUNCH
11:29 11:59 Test Prep
12:02 1:45/2:00 2nd Hour Midterm
Tuesday, December 13
Equip: You will need a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT utilize skills and study practices in order to complete a practice midterm.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT utilize skills and study practices in order to complete a practice midterm.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week
- Midterm Practice Peer Grading
Materials:
Monday, December 12
Equip: You will need a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT utilize skills and study practices in order to complete a practice midterm.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT utilize skills and study practices in order to complete a practice midterm.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week
- Midterm Practice
Materials:
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
- Bell work: What is poetry?
- Christmas Blackout Poems
Materials:
why_no_two_snowflakes_are_alike.docx | |
File Size: | 15 kb |
File Type: | docx |
blackout_poetry_rules.pdf | |
File Size: | 189 kb |
File Type: |
Tuesday, December 6
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
- Bell work: What are the four sentence STRUCTURES?
- Grammar board games. Due tomorrow!
Materials:
Monday, December 5
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
- Bell work: What are the four TYPES of sentences?
- Grammar board game
Materials:
Friday, December 2
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT create questions that evaluate the skills of others when it comes to parts of speech and sentence structures.
Engage:
- Bell work: What are verbs? What are the three types of verbs we covered?
- Challenge Question: Write a sentence in which you use all eight parts of speech.
- Sentence Structures Cootie Catcher (2nd Hour)
- Grammar board game
Materials:
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
- Bell work: What is a preposition? Give me an example of a prepositional phrase.
- Sentence Structures Cootie Catcher
- Mid-term prep packet
- Grammar board game (if time allows)
Materials:
board_game_rubric.doc | |
File Size: | 33 kb |
File Type: | doc |
Wednesday, November 30
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
- Bell work: What is a pronoun? What are the types of pronouns we covered? Give an example of each.
- Notes on complex and compound-complex sentences
- Mid-term prep packet
Materials:
compound_and_compound_complex_sentences.pptx | |
File Size: | 105 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Tuesday, November 29
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
- Bell work: What is a noun? What are the four types of nouns we covered? Give an example of each.
- Notes on simple and compound sentences
- Mid-term prep packet
Materials:
simple_and_compound_sentences.pptx | |
File Size: | 111 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Monday, November 28
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT select from a range of strategies and use the most appropriate ways to locate, retrieve and compare information and ideas from a variety of texts.
IWBAT make notes using a range of different note-making formats and approaches.
Engage:
- Bell work: What is an adverb ? Give three examples of adverbs.
- Notes on sentence types
- Mid-term prep packet
Materials:
sentence_types.pptx | |
File Size: | 113 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
midterm_practice_a.docx | |
File Size: | 29 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Tuesday, November 22
Equip: You will need paper and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT select the most appropriate text format, layout and presentation to create impact and engage the reader.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT select the most appropriate text format, layout and presentation to create impact and engage the reader.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week
- Notes on sentence types
- Sentence Types scavenger hunt
- Thanksgiving mini-essay.
Materials:
sentence_types.pptx | |
File Size: | 113 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Monday, November 21
Equip: You will need a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work today.
- Review dot points from last week. Peer Grade.
- Thanksgiving Essay Prompts
Materials:
thanksgiving_essay_prompts_and_rubric.doc | |
File Size: | 252 kb |
File Type: | doc |
Monday, November 14
Equip: You will need your noodles and a writing utensil!
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
Materials: Research Project Website
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
- Bell work: Read the passage and write a one sentence summary of the text as a whole.
- Agenda and bell work
- Conducting research and narrowing topics
- Digital notecards (due November 15th)
Materials: Research Project Website
Thursday, November 10
Equip: You will need your noodles and a writing utensil!
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
Materials: Research Project Website
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
- Bell work: Take your own word dot points and combine them into one complex sentence.
- Agenda and bell work
- Conducting research and narrowing topics
- Digital notecards
Materials: Research Project Website
Wednesday, November 9
Equip: You will need your noodles and a writing utensil!
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
Materials: Research Project Website
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
- Bell work: Take your dot points from yesterday and put them in your own words. This does not mean using synonyms or changing word order. Explain them as if I am a 2nd grader.
- Agenda and bell work
- Conducting research and narrowing topics
Materials: Research Project Website
Tuesday, November 8
Equip: You will need your noodles and a writing utensil!
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
Materials: Research Project Website
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
- Bell work: According to the text, what are some of the concerns surrounding drones? Highlight three pieces of evidence from the text and WRITE THEM ON YOUR BELL WORK SHEET.
- Agenda and bell work
- Project outline and due dates
Materials: Research Project Website
Monday, November 7
Equip: You will need your noodles and a writing utensil!
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
- Bell work: Read the article and write a one sentence summary (GIST statement) of what the whole article was about.
- Agenda and bell work
- Guest speaker
Materials:
guest_speaker_worksheet.doc | |
File Size: | 26 kb |
File Type: | doc |
Friday, November 4
Equip: You will need your noodles and a writing utensil!
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week
Materials:
Thursday, November 3
Equip: You will need highlighters and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week!
- Article Dot point/word map
- Summary
Materials:
gerald_gault_interview.docx | |
File Size: | 15 kb |
File Type: | docx |
mind_map_01.pdf | |
File Size: | 23 kb |
File Type: |
Wednesday, November 2
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of
texts, supporting points with detailed textual
evidence.
Engage:
Bell work: No bell work this week!
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of
texts, supporting points with detailed textual
evidence.
Engage:
Bell work: No bell work this week!
- Bell work and agenda completion
- Finish reading Monster
- Exit Ticket
Materials:
Tuesday, November 1
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and mock trial materials.
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
- Bell work: Take the three points you put into your own words yesterday and make them into one complex sentence.
- Mock Trial preparations. Remember to work quietly or you will be completing a packet independently and losing time on mock trial preparations.
Materials:
Monday, October 31
Mix It Up Day!
Friday, October 28
This is your last day in class to work on trial preparations!
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and your noodles!
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
- Bell work: Take the three points you put into your own words yesterday and make them into one complex sentence.
- Mock Trial preparations. Remember to work quietly or you will be completing a packet independently and losing time on mock trial preparations.
Materials:
Thursday, October 27
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and your noodles!
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
- Bell work: Take the three points you put into your own words yesterday and make them into one complex sentence.
- Mock Trial preparations. Remember to work quietly or you will be completing a packet independently and losing time on mock trial preparations.
Materials:
Wednesday, October 26
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and your noodles!
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
- Bell work: Take the three points you found from yesterday and put them in your own words. Remember, this does not mean just using synonyms or changing word order. Tell me what these mean!
- Mock Trial preparations. Remember to work quietly or you will be completing a packet independently and losing time on mock trial preparations.
Materials:
Tuesday, October 25
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and your noodles!
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
- Bell work: Read the text and highlight Three impacts of humans on the bee population. Write this in your bell work sheets under Tuesday.
- Mock Trial preparations. Remember to work quietly or you will be completing a packet independently and losing time on mock trial preparations.
Materials:
alternative_assignment_for_loud_classes.doc | |
File Size: | 40 kb |
File Type: | doc |
Monday, October 24
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and your noodles!
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
- Bell work: Read the article on the back of your bell work sheet. Write a one sentence GIST statement.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Conjunctions and interjections notes
- Interjections
- Mock Trial preparations
Materials:
conjunctions_and_interjections.pptx | |
File Size: | 115 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Friday, October 21
Equip: You will need a writing utensil and your noodles!
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of texts,
supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's
use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical
features and their effects on different
readers.
IWBAT work in groups for a variety of
purposes, such as making decisions, planning, and
organization.
Engage:
- Bell work: What is the purpose of a summary?
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Preposition Songs
- Begin Mock Trial preparations
Materials:
Thursday, October 20
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
- Bell work: In six words, summarize your life so far.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- 2nd Hour: Read to pg 263
- 3rd and 5th Hour: Dot points and summary of closing arguments
Materials:
Wednesday, October 19
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT use a range of features to shape and
craft sentences that have individual merit and
contribute to overall development of the text.
Engage:
Bell work: Find the prepositional phrase and circle the object of the preposition.
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT use a range of features to shape and
craft sentences that have individual merit and
contribute to overall development of the text.
Engage:
Bell work: Find the prepositional phrase and circle the object of the preposition.
- The ball flew over the fence.
- During class, you must raise your hand.
- Over summer break, my family will go on three vacations.
- Do you think the water will rise above that mark?
- Agenda:
- Bell work and agenda completion
- Preposition Practice
- Preposition Song
Materials:
im_a_believer_lyrics.docx | |
File Size: | 13 kb |
File Type: | docx |
preposition_song_assignment.docx | |
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Tuesday, October 18
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of
texts, supporting points with detailed textual
evidence.
Engage:
Bell work: Write the subject and verb for each sentence:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of
texts, supporting points with detailed textual
evidence.
Engage:
Bell work: Write the subject and verb for each sentence:
- Trying to fit in, Sara wore the kind of clothes everyone else wore.
- Milk shot out of Joe’s nose when he couldn’t stop laughing.
- Kerry and Tina sorted the candy by color.
- Jenna went to the mall and bought three new pairs of jeans.
- Agenda:
- Bell work and agenda completion
- Finish PEE paragraphs
- Preposition activity
- Read to pg. 238
- Author's purpose notes and activity
Materials:
hills_like_white_elephants.docx | |
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File Type: | docx |
Monday, October 17
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of
texts, supporting points with detailed textual
evidence.
Engage:
Bell work: Underline the verb in each sentence and label it action or linking.
1) Mary is a really fun girl to hang out with.
2) The cat ran as fast as he could.
3) The singer bellowed the lyrics to his favorite song.
4) The girls were sad at the end of the movie.
5) Tom was dancing all night.
Evaluate: Exit Ticket
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT develop interpretations of
texts, supporting points with detailed textual
evidence.
Engage:
Bell work: Underline the verb in each sentence and label it action or linking.
1) Mary is a really fun girl to hang out with.
2) The cat ran as fast as he could.
3) The singer bellowed the lyrics to his favorite song.
4) The girls were sad at the end of the movie.
5) Tom was dancing all night.
- Agenda:
- Bell work and agenda completion
- Notes on prepositions
- Discuss plot
- Read to pg. 214
- Notes on theme
- Finding the theme
- Exit Ticket: Write a PEE paragraph answering the question: what is the theme of Monster?
Evaluate: Exit Ticket
Materials:
prepositions_and_prepositional_phrases.pptx | |
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theme.pptx | |
File Size: | 107 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
theme_flippable.pdf | |
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File Type: |
Equip: You will need your noggins!
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT evaluate meaning and impact of a range of features in own and others' discourse, including broadcast media.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week
Materials:
Thursday, October 6
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work:
- Monster pgs 110-151 (up to pg 199)
Materials:
Wednesday, October 5
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work:
- Monster pgs 110-151
Materials:
Tuesday, October 4
Equip: You will need highlighters and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's use of literary devices.
IWBAT identify, label, and use adjectives and adverbs.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail a writer's use of literary devices.
IWBAT identify, label, and use adjectives and adverbs.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week!
- 2nd Hour: Test corrections and notes on adverbs
- 3rd Hour: Notes on adverbs, adjective and adverb practice, adverb charades
- 5th Hour: Test corrections, notes on adverbs, adverb practice
Materials:
adverbs_and_adjectives.pdf | |
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adverbs_and_intesifiers_and_adjectives_.pdf | |
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adverbs_and_intesifiers.pptx | |
File Size: | 106 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Monday, October 3
Equip: You will need highlighters and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
Engage:
- Bell work: No bell work this week!
- Michelle Obama Article Dot point/word map
- Summary
Materials:
Thursday, September 29
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work:
- Monster Test
Materials:
Wednesday, September 28
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT read for a selected purpose.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work:
- Notes on Adverbs
- Monster Test
Materials:
Tuesday, September 27
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
For the poster, include the following:
1. Character name
2. Physical appearance (quote and what this says about
him).
3. Motives (quote and what this says about
him).
4. Personality(quote and what this says about
him).
5. Feelings(quote and what this says about
him).
6. Actions(quote and what this says about
him).
7. Two sentences about what this witness has contributed to the trial so far
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work: Identify and explain the idiom in the following sentence: If Mia knew we were playing with her new scooter, she'd hit the fan.
- Adjective Activity (I am...)
- Review trial so far
- Read pages 89 - 109
- Discuss key witness testimony and what it has added to the trial
Materials:
For the poster, include the following:
1. Character name
2. Physical appearance (quote and what this says about
him).
3. Motives (quote and what this says about
him).
4. Personality(quote and what this says about
him).
5. Feelings(quote and what this says about
him).
6. Actions(quote and what this says about
him).
7. Two sentences about what this witness has contributed to the trial so far
Monday, September 26
Equip: You will need composition books and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
- Bell work: Do you think Steve will be proven innocent according to the witnesses’ testimony?
- Notes on Adjectives
- Notes on Idioms
- Idioms in real life and in the book
- Illustrating idioms
- Read pg 89 - 109
Materials:
idioms.pptx | |
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File Type: | pptx |
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Friday, September 23
Equip: You will need paper and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
- Bell work: How long has Steve's trial been going on?
- Character personality test
- Whose Phone is This? Characterization Activity.
Materials:
Thursday, September 22
Equip: You will need paper and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT recall key skills and content.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT recall key skills and content.
Engage:
- Bell work: Turn in PEE paragraphs
- Galileo Testing
Materials:
Wednesday, September 21
Equip: You will need paper and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
- Bell work: How long has Steve's trial been going on?
- Grading PEE paragraphs
Materials:
Tuesday, September 20
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
- Bell work: The United States Justice System states that a person is to be viewed as innocent until proven guilty. Do you think this happens? Do you think it should be the policy? Why or why not?
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Irony activity
- Read Monster pgs 65 - 88
- Discussion Questions and Exit Ticket
Materials:
irony_activity_.pdf | |
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File Type: |
Monday, September 19
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze in depth and detail the writer's use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers.
Engage:
- Bell work: Identify the underlined word(s) as either a gerund, participle or infinitive:
- Joey's brother plans to enlist in the Navy after high school.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Notes on Irony
- TPS on Irony in Monster
- Read Monster pg 43 - 64
- Dot points
- Discussion
Materials:
irony.pptx | |
File Size: | 108 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Friday, September 16
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT analyze and respond to the range of
ideas and differing viewpoints, purposes, and
themes in a variety of related texts.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT analyze and respond to the range of
ideas and differing viewpoints, purposes, and
themes in a variety of related texts.
Engage:
- Bell work: Free-write Friday! Write at least 4 sentences!
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Steve Character Analysis
- Compare Steve to poems
- Advice Letter to Steve
Materials:
Thursday, September 15
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT categorize sentences using gerunds,
participles, and infinitives.
IWBAT analyze the structures of different
poetic forms.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT categorize sentences using gerunds,
participles, and infinitives.
IWBAT analyze the structures of different
poetic forms.
Engage:
- Bell work: Write an example sentence using infinitives.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Review homework
- Read Monster pages 28 - 41
- Discuss Conflict
- Read Langston Hughes “Mother to Son" and Gwendolyn Brookes “Speech to the Young"
Materials:
speech_to_the_young_and_mother_to_son.docx | |
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File Type: | docx |
poetrty_analysis.pdf | |
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File Type: |
Wednesday, September 14
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT categorize sentences using gerunds,
participles, and infinitives.
IWBAT read for a specific purpose.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT categorize sentences using gerunds,
participles, and infinitives.
IWBAT read for a specific purpose.
Engage:
- Bell work: Write an example sentence using participles.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Finish reading (pg 16-28)
- Dot point and summary: Read to discover what happened on the night of December 22nd.
- Analyzing maxims (3rd and 5th hour)
Materials:
gerunds_participles_and_infinitives_hw.pdf | |
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File Type: |
quote_of_the_week.pdf | |
File Size: | 88 kb |
File Type: |
Tuesday, September 13
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT categorize sentences using gerunds,
participles, and infinitives.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT categorize sentences using gerunds,
participles, and infinitives.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work: Write an example sentence using gerunds.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Gerund, participles, and infinitives activity
- Read Monster pgs 16 - 28
Materials:
verbals_sort.pdf | |
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File Type: |
Monday, September 12
Equip: You will need your composition books, Monster booklets, and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT identify gerunds, participles, and
infinitives.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT identify gerunds, participles, and
infinitives.
IWBAT analyze in depth and detail writers'
use of literary features and their effects.
Engage:
- Bell work: Tell me a funny story. Make sure it is school appropriate.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Notes on gerunds, participles, and infinitives.
- Review setting, conflict, and context clues.
- Read Monster pgs 7-16
- Three minute-pause activity
- Exit slip: Steve uses movie script directions to describe his surroundings. Do these directions help you to visualize the scenes in your mind better than a standard novel, or do you find them confusing?
Materials:
Friday, September 9
Equip: You will need your composition books and a writing utensil. Color pencils will be helpful too!
Establish: IWBAT identify and correct uses of passive voice.
Engage:
2nd Hour Code: 8F5B4
3rd Hour Code: 6E0B9
5th Hour Code: A860F
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT identify and correct uses of passive voice.
Engage:
- Bell work: Change the sentence from active voice to passive voice: People can view the dazzling meteor shower from the observation tower at the planetarium.
- Challenge Question: Write an example of an active voice sentence and passive voice sentence. Be sure to identify which is which.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Non-fiction dot point and summary
- Active and Passive Voice Quiz
2nd Hour Code: 8F5B4
3rd Hour Code: 6E0B9
5th Hour Code: A860F
Materials:
educating_the_incarcerated_summary.docx | |
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File Type: | docx |
Thursday, September 8
Equip: You will need your composition books and a writing utensil. Color pencils will be helpful too!
Establish: IWBAT identify and correct uses of passive voice.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT identify and correct uses of passive voice.
Engage:
- Bell work: Change the sentence from passive to active voice: The acceptance letter from Harvard was received by Jenny Arteaga last Tuesday.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Notes on setting, context clues, and connotations
- iMovie
- Monster booklet summary booklet and summary question
- Read pages 1-5
Materials:
setting_conflict_and_context_clues.pptx | |
File Size: | 118 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Wednesday, September 7
Equip: You will need your composition books and a writing utensil. Color pencils will be helpful too!
Establish: IWBAT identify and correct uses of passive voice.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT identify and correct uses of passive voice.
Engage:
- Bell work: Change the sentence from passive to active voice: A happy Thanksgiving is wished by me for everyone.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Active and Passive Voice INB
- Active and passive voice worksheet
Materials:
Tuesday, September 6
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work: Tell me about your weekend!
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Active and passive voice
- Anticipation Guides
- Number heads activity
- Exit Slip:
- Can humans be Monsters?
- What makes someone a Monster?
- Give one example of a real-life Monster.
Materials:
active_and_passive_voice.pptx | |
File Size: | 111 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Friday, September 2
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work: Using your article from yesterday, write a PEE paragraph explaining your views on Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws. You need two pieces of evidence and you must clarify and explain both. Use your composition books and notes!
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Dot points and own words
- Summary: According to the text, what are some beliefs millennials hold when it comes to politics?
Materials:
millennials-justicesurvey-9143-false.pdf | |
File Size: | 830 kb |
File Type: |
Thursday, September 1
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Evaluate: T-Chart
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work: What makes a good summary?
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Analyzing a summary question and finding dot points
- Finding dot points
Evaluate: T-Chart
Materials:
criminal_sentencing_in_urgent_need_of_reform.docx | |
File Size: | 93 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Wednesday, August 31
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find, cite, and analyze textual evidence.
Engage:
Evaluate: Quiz (finish for homework!)
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find, cite, and analyze textual evidence.
Engage:
- Bell work: Write a paragraph describing your socks.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Quiz: PEE paragraphs
Evaluate: Quiz (finish for homework!)
Materials:
Tuesday, August 30
Equip: You will need a good attitude and confidence!
Establish: IWBAT ace STAR testing!
Engage:
Establish: IWBAT ace STAR testing!
Engage:
- STAR Testing
Monday, August 29
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find, cite, and analyze textual evidence.
Engage:
Evaluate: PEE paragraph organizer
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find, cite, and analyze textual evidence.
Engage:
- Bell work: List and give an example of each type of noun we went over.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Reviewing Nouns and Pronouns
- PEE paragraph organizer
Evaluate: PEE paragraph organizer
Materials:
pee_paragraphing_new.docx | |
File Size: | 18 kb |
File Type: | docx |
blank_grammar_in_lit.pdf | |
File Size: | 378 kb |
File Type: |
Friday, August 26
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Evaluate: Analyzing quotes and facts
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work: Identify the nouns and verb in this sentence:
- The dentist sat next to the patient in what looked like a barber’s chair
- Complete bell work and agenda
- What is analysis?
- Analyzing Quotes and Facts
Evaluate: Analyzing quotes and facts
Materials:
Thursday, August 25
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work: Identify the nouns and verb in this sentence:
- The tall woman stepped gingerly across the puddle.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Finish Helping and Linking verbs activity
- PEEL Notes
- PEEL Paragraph
Materials:
peel_paragraphs.pptx | |
File Size: | 112 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Wednesday, August 24
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Evaluate:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work:
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Misused verbs
- Helping and Linking verbs
Evaluate:
Materials:
helping_and_linking_verbs.pptx | |
File Size: | 109 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Tuesday, August 23
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Evaluate: Evidence.
Subject-verb Agreement worksheet(3rd and 4th)
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work: What makes evidence good?
- Complete bell work and agenda
- "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell
- Text-based questions
- Finding Evidence
Evaluate: Evidence.
Subject-verb Agreement worksheet(3rd and 4th)
Materials:
textual_evidence_and_inferences.pptx | |
File Size: | 103 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
subject_verb_agreement_3rd_and_4th.pdf | |
File Size: | 123 kb |
File Type: |
Monday, August 22
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
Evaluate: Text-based questions
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT find and cite textual evidence to support my thoughts.
Engage:
- Bell work: What does P.E.E. stand for?
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Finish Pronoun patch
- Notes on Action Verbs
- "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell
- Text-based questions
Evaluate: Text-based questions
Materials:
trifles.pdf | |
File Size: | 244 kb |
File Type: |
action_verbs_and_subject_verb_agreement.pptx | |
File Size: | 112 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Friday, August 19
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT identify nouns, pronouns, and appositives and correct errors if needed.
Engage:
Evaluate: Pronoun patch
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT identify nouns, pronouns, and appositives and correct errors if needed.
Engage:
- Bell work: If you were a flavor of ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
- Challenge Question: In your own words, define an appositive.
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Nouns, pronouns, and appositives quiz
- Pronoun patch
- Pronoun shift practice
Evaluate: Pronoun patch
Materials:
Thursday, August 18
Equip: You will need your composition books, pronoun worksheet and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT recall the types of pronouns.
IWBAT correct pronoun shift errors.
Engage:
Evaluate: Pronoun shifts worksheet
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT recall the types of pronouns.
IWBAT correct pronoun shift errors.
Engage:
- Bell work: Tell me one good thing that happened to you this week!
- Complete bell work and agenda
- Review Monday-Wednesday
- ISN assembly
- Pronoun shifts
Evaluate: Pronoun shifts worksheet
Materials:
pronoun_shifts.pptx | |
File Size: | 109 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Wednesday, August 17
Equip: You will need a writing utensil. Nothing goes in Comp
books.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
Materials:
books.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
- Bell work: In one sentence, describe your favorite sock. Add an appositive phrase.
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Pronoun Shift notes
- Final Draft of "Where I'm From" Poems
Materials:
Tuesday, August 16
Equip: You will need a writing utensil. Nothing goes in Comp
books.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
Materials:
books.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
- Bell work: Draw a picture the represents where you are from.
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Personal and Indefinite Pronoun worksheet
- Peer Editing
- Making Edits
Materials:
peer_editing_front.pdf | |
File Size: | 33 kb |
File Type: |
peer_editing_back.pdf | |
File Size: | 71 kb |
File Type: |
Monday, August 15
Equip: You will need a writing utensil. Nothing goes in Comp
books.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
Materials:
books.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
- Bell work: What do you feel is the most important part of the writing process and why?
- Complete bell work and fill out agendas
- Personal and Indefinite Pronoun notes
- Peer Revision
- Making Revisions
Materials:
pronouns.pptx | |
File Size: | 109 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
indefinite_pronouns.pptx | |
File Size: | 109 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
revision_sheets.pdf | |
File Size: | 41 kb |
File Type: |
Friday, August 12
Equip: You will need your composition books, homework and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
after Jordan Tootoo, a Detroit Red Wings player.
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
- Bell work: Identify the appositive phrases and decide if they are essential and non-essential:
after Jordan Tootoo, a Detroit Red Wings player.
- Review rules and procedures
- Drafting "Where I'm From" poems
- Adding figurative language
Materials:
whereimfrompoempacket.pdf | |
File Size: | 149 kb |
File Type: |
Thursday, August 11
Equip: You will need your composition books, homework and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
Plural:
Singular Possessive:
Plural Possessive:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
- Bell work: Take the following singular noun and make it plural, singular possessive and plural possessive:
Plural:
Singular Possessive:
Plural Possessive:
- Review rules and procedures
- Review homework
- Obituary
- Drafting "Where I'm From" poems
Materials:
obituary_assignment.docx | |
File Size: | 12 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Wednesday, August 10
Equip: You will need your composition books and a
writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT identify and distinguish between plural nouns, possessive nouns, and appositives.
Engage:
Materials:
writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT identify and distinguish between plural nouns, possessive nouns, and appositives.
Engage:
- Bell work: W
- Review rules and procedures
- Bell work and agendas
- Notes on plural nouns, possessive nouns, and appositives
Materials:
nouns_continued_8.10.16.pptx | |
File Size: | 109 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
homework_8.10.pdf | |
File Size: | 131 kb |
File Type: |
Tuesday, August 9
Equip: You will need your composition books, homework and a writing utensil.
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT demonstrate how to effectively use the writing process.
Engage:
- Bell work: What are the steps in the writing process?
- Review rules and procedures
- Review homework
- Noun smackdown
- Planning "Where I'm From" poems
Materials:
where_im_from_planning.xps | |
File Size: | 63 kb |
File Type: | xps |
Monday, August 8
Equip: You will need your composition books and a writing
utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read and analyze the poem "Where I'm
From" by using close-reading and "marking the
text" strategies.
Engage:
Materials:
utensil.
Establish: IWBAT read and analyze the poem "Where I'm
From" by using close-reading and "marking the
text" strategies.
Engage:
- Bell work: Mindset Monday! What can you say instead of "This is too hard?" Think of at least 3 answers.
- Review rules and procedures
- Finishing setting up INBs
- Nouns
- Close Reading and marking the text
- "Where I'm From" poem
Materials:
nouns_8.8.16.pptx | |
File Size: | 108 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
close_reading_and_marking_the_text_8.8.16.pptx | |
File Size: | 111 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Friday, August 5
Equip: You will need your composition books and attentiveness.
Establish: IWBAT create an interactive notebook.
IWBAT follow directions the first time they
are given.
Engage:
Materials:
Establish: IWBAT create an interactive notebook.
IWBAT follow directions the first time they
are given.
Engage:
- Bell work: In your table groups, discuss the three things you are most excited about this year. Keep your voices at an elfish hum!
- Review rules and procedures
- Setting up interactive notebooks
- Blobs and Lines (if time permits)
Materials:
interactive_notebook_rubrics.docx | |
File Size: | 13 kb |
File Type: | docx |
notebook_expectations.docx | |
File Size: | 41 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Thursday, August 4th
Equip: You will need a positive attitude and a curious mind!
Establish: I will be able to analyze the course syllabus.
I will be able to collaborate on tasks in order to achieve a shared goal.
Engage:
Evaluate: Bring your composition books tomorrow!
Materials:
Establish: I will be able to analyze the course syllabus.
I will be able to collaborate on tasks in order to achieve a shared goal.
Engage:
- Bell work: Make a list of three goals you wish to accomplish this year. These goals can be academic or personal in nature as long as they are school appropriate!
- Syllabus overview
- Syllabus speed dating
- Oreo Lab
- Cup challenge
Evaluate: Bring your composition books tomorrow!
Materials:
8th_grade_language_arts_syllabus.docx | |
File Size: | 18 kb |
File Type: | docx |