Lesson Plans Sept 15-19
Homework for Language Arts Classes
- READ for 30 minutes every night.
- 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 are character traits revealed in literature?
- What is Close Reading?
- How do we evaluate writing and take away lessons to become better writers?
- Collections 8 Text
- Collections Text 8 by HMH, "My Favorite Chaperone"
- Writers Inc, "Writing a Book Review" 221-226
EQ: How do we evaluate writing and take away lessons to become better writers?
- Evaluating writing in pairs: informative and explanatory text-based writing
- Writing categories: Reading/research (2x), Development (3x), Organization (2x), Language/Conventions (1x)
- DOE Writing Rubric
- Writers Inc text 221-226
Plans for Core 1
WritingScholastic Art and Writing Awards website
Topics for Critical writing
Writers Inc 188-191
Evaluating writing on a rubric - summer book reviews
Freewriting
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.
Several Topics
for Critical Essay
1. Pollution
2. Education
3. Literacy of girls (Malala)
4. Recreation in Milton
5. Dog park
6. Green spaces
7. Changing the school day
8. Changing the way we learn
9. Sports injuries and what to do
10. Keeping the streets clean
Reading
STAR testing
Close reading
"My Favorite Chaperone"
Speaking
Presentations
Plans for Cores 2, 3
WritingWriting well developed answers to questions
Evaluating writing on a rubric - summer book reviews
Freewriting
Writing about your AR book during Warm-up
Reading
STAR Testing
Close reading
Reading "My Favorite Chaperone"
Writers Inc "Writing a Book Review" 221-226
Speaking
Presentations
Poetry
You Can't Write a Poem about McDonalds
Ronald Wallace
Noon. Hunger the only thing
singing in my belly.
I walk through the blossoming cherry trees
on the library mall,
past the young couples coupling,
by the crazy fanatic
screaming doom and salvation
at a sensation-hungry crowd,
to the Lake Street McDonald's.
It is crowded, the lines long and sluggish.
I wait in the greasy air.
All around me people are eating—
the sizzle of conversation,
the salty odor of sweat,
the warm flesh pressing out of
hip huggers and halter tops.
When I finally reach the cash register,
the counter girl is crisp as a pickle,
her fingers thin as french fries,
her face brown as a bun.
Suddenly I understand cannibalism.
As I reach for her,
she breaks into pieces
wrapped neat and packaged for take-out.
I'm thinking, how amazing it is
to live in this country, how easy
it is to be filled.
We leave together, her warm aroma
close at my side.
I walk back through the cherry trees
blossoming up into pies,
the young couples frying in
the hot, oily sun,
the crowd eating up the fanatic,
singing, my ear, eye, and tongue
fat with the wonder
of this hungry world.
Poem copied into Warm-up packet and read to class. Reread and mark the sensory lines in the poem.
Discussion of
- literary devices:sensory language: descriptions and comparisons readers can see, feel, taste, and smell
- simile - a comparison using like or as
- first-person voice
- lyric poem
Can a good poet write a poem about anything?
What do you think of this poem?
Wednesday and Thursday Warm-Up
Wednesday
Make a T chart: one side is sensory language and the other is similes. Make a list from the poem of examples of each.
Thursday copy the following
The personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they) are grouped into one of three categories:
First Person, Second Person, Third Person Pronouns
First-person narrative is a narrative mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the writing.
Wednesday and Thursday Warm-Up
Wednesday
Make a T chart: one side is sensory language and the other is similes. Make a list from the poem of examples of each.
Thursday copy the following
The personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they) are grouped into one of three categories:
- First person: I and we
- Second person: you
- Third person: He/She/It and They
First Person, Second Person, Third Person Pronouns
First-person narrative is a narrative mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the writing.
Social Studies - Core 4
Homework for Social Studies- Core 4
Read, listen to or watch the news for homework. Be prepared to write about what you heard or saw.
Complete the Country project for Friday - see below.
CNN Student News
Complete the Country project for Friday - see below.
CNN Student News
Watch this special broadcast of news.
Take notes on the graphic organizer and turn it in for a grade.
Discuss the news of the day in small groups and whole class.
Take notes on the graphic organizer and turn it in for a grade.
Discuss the news of the day in small groups and whole class.
History Alive! (brown text)
Chapter 3 and 4 open book Test: The English Colonies in America - read for review and complete the Review of Text worksheet and the Summary Questions # 1-10.
Chapter 3 and 4 open book Test: The English Colonies in America - read for review and complete the Review of Text worksheet and the Summary Questions # 1-10.
Chapter 4: Life in the Colonies - read for review and complete the Review of Text worksheet
HOMEWORK - Country Project: Research information about Syria.
2 Flags of Syria
Fill in the information and include the flag, map and worksheet. See the handout and post. Due Friday, September 19.
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