LA and SS Lesson Plans Sept 8-12

Lesson Plans Sept 8-12

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ for 30 minutes every night. 
• Summer Reading Project - work on this. See handout.  Due Fri, Sept 12
• Really You - Project: Essay, mini-poster, presentation - see handout - due Wednesday
• Reminder: Open House Thursday, Sept 18
• Core 1: prewrite and draft a critical essay
• Core 1: go to Scholastic Art and Writing 

Language Arts 

Essential Questions

• How do good writers answer questions completely?
• How do Cornell Notes improve learning?
• What are good reading strategies and how do we use them?
• How can you improve your reading comprehension?
• How do you go about writing to a prompt?

Readings

• Texts issued: Close Reader and Collections 8 Text
• Collections Text 8 by HMH, "My Favorite Chaperone"

Writing

• September Writing Prompt: Write about a memorable moment that you had this summer. This can be a time when you found a friend, faced a struggle or worked through a challenge. 
• Prewriting Strategies

Common Core State Standards 

8W2 – Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. 

8W2a – Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

8W2b – Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.

8W2c – Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

8W2d – Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

8W2e– Establish and maintain a formal style. 

8W2f– Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.
                

Skills 
Reading Strategies: Connect, Predict, Visualize, Question, Summarize, Clarify
Close Reading of "Close Reading" 
Writing to inform

Plans for Core 1

Writing 
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards website
Writing well developed essays
Freewriting
September Writing Prompt
Writing a Critical Essay -  Writing intended to inform or convince a reader about a specific idea or topic, such as art or media reviews, persuasive essays, opinion essays, etc.

Reading
Close reading
"My Favorite Chaperone"

Speaking
Presentation of "Really Me" Posters on Wednesday

Plans for Cores 2, 3 

Writing 
September Writing Prompt
Writing well developed answers to questions
Freewriting
Writing about your AR book during Warm-up

Reading
Close reading
Reading "My Favorite Chaperone"

Speaking
Presentation of "Really Me"

Poetry

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963

Audio of Frost reading his poem

 

Nature’s first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf’s a flower; 
But only so an hour. 
Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn goes down to day. 
Nothing gold can stay. 

Analysis of poem 

Poem copied into Warm-up packet and read to class.

Discussion of literary devices: rhyme, alliteration, rhythm?

 

Social Studies - Core 4