Lesson Plans April 20-24 Earth Day Week

 Earth Day April 22

Language Arts 

Warm ups: freewrite, poem, vocabulary

Essential Questions

• How does a reader draw conclusions about a text and analyze imagery and sensory details?
• EQ's: How does a writer use point of view? What is irony?
• EQs:  How does reading AR books impact your achievement level?

Vocabulary

Cores 1 Lesson 4

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of April 20-24

Common Core Assessment workbook
Writing an Argumentative Essay - practice for the upcoming Smarter Balanced Test

Analyze -1-10

• 2 articles and a student model

Practice 12-15

• 4 Sources to close read

Respond 16-17
Prewrite, plan, evidence, draft, revise, publish 16-22



Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night.  Take three AR tests before May 27 
• Finish classwork for the day
• See the board for daily assignments  

Poem

Choices

Nikki Giovanni

If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do

If i can't have
what i want to do 
then my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral

When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry

Nikki Giovanni

 

 

 

Social Studies Core 4 Homework
Listen to the news and bring in relevant, recent news stories to discuss. Write a summary and reflection of one news article for the week.

Geography Quiz

CNN Student News
EQ:What is happening in the world and how does it impact our lives?
Every day the class watches CNN Student News. Ask Jake or Gian to run the computer projector.
Discuss the news stories.

Social Studies Lessons

History Alive Text, Chapter 8: Creating the Constitution  

The Constitution  

America Gets the Constituion

 

• 8.5 States 1098.6 The Great Compromise, 110
  8.7 Slaves, 111
   8.8 Resolution: 3/5, 112
  8.9 Chief Executive  113
  8.10 Resolution: Electoral College 114
  8.11 Convention Ends, 115
  8.12 To the Nation  116
  
  Study Guide
  Test