Week 21, Day 2
Objective: Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension
- Bell Work: Get your spiral or a sheet of notebook paper and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. Remember the guidelines (on the wall).
- Week 21 DRE
- Article: "The Man Who Stayed Behind" by Nicholas D. Kristof
- Reading Comprehension Questions over "The Man Who Stayed Behind" by Nicholas D. Kristof
Week 21, Day 1
Objective: Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension
- Bell Work: Open your textbook to page 592 or your Interactive Reader to page 258.
- Reading Comprehension Questions over "The Lost Boys" by Sara Corbett-
- Due Friday, February 3 at 4:30pm.
- We will NOT have any other time to work on this in class this week.
- Week 21 DRE will be available tomorrow.
- 60 Minute Videos about "The Lost Boys"
- "The Lost Boys" part 1
- "The Lost Boys" part 2
- Announcements/Reminders:
- Make-up English I and English II Benchmark is tomorrow. Please report to the CTE Lecture Hall immediately following the first bell tomorrow.
Week 20, Day 5
Objective: Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension
- Bell Work: Get your spiral or a sheet of notebook paper and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. Remember the guidelines (on the wall).
- Turn in signed progress report, if you have it.
- Turn in your "Dreams" Expository Essay--due by 4:30pm today.
- Grade Week 20 DRE
- Discuss "The Lost Boys" by Sara Corbett, page 592 in your textbook
- "The Lost Boys" by Sara Corbett Reading Comprehension with text evidence
- Reminders/Announcements
- Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!!!!
Week 20, Day 4
Objective: Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension
- Bell Work: Get your spiral or a sheet of notebook paper and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. Remember the guidelines (on the wall).
- Turn in signed progress report, if you have it.
- "The Lost Boys" by Sara Corbett, page 592 in your textbook
- Reminders/Announcements
- Week 20 DRE due TOMORROW
- Expository Essay due tomorrow by 4:30pm. You need to have the following complete:
- Brainstorming
- Prewriting
- Rough Draft
- Revising and Editing
- Final Draft
Week 20, Day 3
Objective: Catch-Up Day + Reading Comprehension
- Bell Work: Get your spiral or a sheet of notebook paper and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. Remember the guidelines (on the wall).
- Progress Reports
- Make-Up Work OR
- Stations OR
- Work on your Expository Essay
- By Friday at 4:00pm you need to have the following complete:
- Brainstorming
- Prewriting
- Rough Draft
- Revising and Editing
- Final Draft
Week 20, Day 2
Objective: English I Benchmark
- English I and II Benchmark TODAY!
- Report to your testing room after the first bell rings.
Week 20, Day 1
Objective: Expository Writing Process
- Bell Work: Get your spiral or a sheet of notebook paper and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. Remember the guidelines (on the wall).
- Week 20 DRE
- Benchmark Rooms for tomorrow.
- Work on your Expository Essay
- By Friday at 4:00pm you need to have the following complete:
- Brainstorming
- Prewriting
- Rough Draft
- Revising and Editing
- Final Draft
- Expository Essay Handouts:
- Expository Essay Topic Handout
- Expository Essay Outline Handout
- Reminders/Announcements:
- English I and II Benchmark TOMORROW, Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Week 19, Day 5
Objective: Expository Writing Process
- Bell Work: Get your spiral or a sheet of notebook paper and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. Remember the guidelines (on the wall).
- Grade W19 DRE
- Work on thesis statements (main idea).
- Expository Essay Handouts:
- Expository Essay Topic Handout
- Expository Essay Outline Handout
- Expository Essay Rough Draft
- Reminders/Announcements:
- English I and II Benchmark on Tuesday, January 24, 2017
- Happy Friday! Enjoy your weekend! Be safe!
Week 19, Day 4
Objective: Expository Writing Process
- Bell Work: Get your spiral and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. If your journal is not over there, use a separate sheet of notebook paper. I am still working on grading many of them, but want to go ahead and get back to writing daily. Remember the guidelines (on the wall).
- Expository Essay Topic Handout
- Expository Essay Outline Handout
- Expository Essay Rough Draft
- Reminders/Announcements:
- Week 19 DRE-due TOMORROW!
- English I and II Benchmark on Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Week 19, Day 3
Objective: Revising, Editing, and Reflection
- Bell Work: Get your spiral and get ready to do your 10 minute journal writing. If your journal is not over there, use a separate sheet of notebook paper. I am still working on grading many of them, but want to go ahead and get back to writing daily. Remember the guidelines:
- Date EVERY entry
- Write
- For 10 minutes daily
- in ink (blue or black)
- legibly
- original words
- Journals are confidential (with 2 exceptions)
- Do NOT write anything incriminating (anything that can get you in trouble.)
- "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "I Have A Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. on YouTube
- Page 662 in the textbook
- Pop Quiz--(Is it really a "pop" quiz if I announce it on here?!?!)
- Pick-up an Expository Essay Topic Handout
- Pick-up an Expository Essay Outline Handout
- Begin working on the Brainstorming and Pre-Writing for the Expository Essay.
Week 19, Day 2
Objective: Revising, Editing, and Reflection
- Bell Work: Get out a colored pen/marker/pencil and your Week 18 DRE.
- Grade Week 18 DRE
- Week 19 DRE
- Reflection Question
- Benchmark Room Assignments for next Tuesday, January 24th.
- "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Page 662 in the textbook
Week 18, Day 4
Objective: Non-Fiction Assessment, providing text evidence.
- Bell Work: Open your textbook to page 270, and get out a blue or black pen.
- Open-Book Assessment over "Blind to Failure" by Karl Taro Greenfeld, page 270
- Vocabulary Strategy Assignment
- Week 18 DRE returned-due TUESDAY, January 17, 2017
- Turn Assignments In--
- Vocab. Practice
- Vocab. Study
- "Roughing It" Questions
- "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams" Short Answer
Week 18, Day 5
Objective: Real World Activity with Empathy
- Bell Work: Get out a colored pen/marker/pencil we are going to grade a couple of things.
- If you need to finish your Open-Book Assessment over "Blind to Failure" by Karl Taro Greenfeld, page 270--let me know.
- Fun Activity!!!!
- Simulation Activity
- Reminders/Announcements:
- Week 18 DRE returned-due TUESDAY, January 17, 2017
- No School on Monday! Enjoy an extra day off.
- Have a GREAT, LONG WEEKEND!!!!!
Week 18, Day 4
Objective: Non-Fiction Assessment, providing text evidence.
- Bell Work: Open your textbook to page 270, and get out a blue or black pen.
- Open-Book Assessment over "Blind to Failure" by Karl Taro Greenfeld, page 270
- Vocabulary Strategy Assignment
- Week 18 DRE returned-due TUESDAY, January 17, 2017
- Turn Assignments In--
- Vocab. Practice
- Vocab. Study
- "Roughing It" Questions
- "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams" Short Answer
Week 18, Day 3
Objective: Non-Fiction
- Bell Work: Get a colored pen/pencil/marker out and get ready to grade.
- Short Answer Discussion-
- Good News: The Short Answer questions have been removed from the English I, II, and III tests.
- Work on any assignments from Monday and Tuesday that you haven't completed.
- Turn Assignments In--all of the following assignments should be done before the end of class.
- Vocab. Practice
- Vocab. Study
- "Roughing It" Questions
- "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams" Short Answer
Week 18, Day 2
Objective: Non-Fiction
- Bell Work: Get the handout, Mark Twain's "Roughing It", and begin reading. When finished, do the questions on the back of the page. (I will get a copy of this scanned to my blog ASAP.)
- "Blind to Failure" by Karl Taro Greenfeld
- YouTube Video Interview with Erik Weihenmayer and Oprah
- Announcements/Reminders:
- The Short Answer questions from "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams" will actually be due on tomorrow.
- I will am at a meeting all day today. Please be good for my sub.
Week 18, Day 1
Objective: Vocabulary Development
- Bell Work: Work on your Week 17 DRE and get ready to grade it.
- Grade Week 17 DRE
- Vocabulary Practice --yes, you need page numbers.
- Vocabulary Study--yes, you need page numbers.
- Vocabulary Strategy--yes, you need page numbers.
- Announcements/Reminders:
- The Short Answer questions from "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams" will actually be due on Wednesday.
- I am having to sit in on meetings today. I'm so sorry that I'm not in class. I will also be at a meeting all day tomorrow. Please be good for my subs.
Week 17, Day 5
Objective: Poetry and Paired Response Short Answer
- Bell Work: Daily Gram #13--yes, we skipped #12 (in BLUE or BLACK PEN, on your own paper, with your heading in the top right-hand corner)
- We will be doing these as your bell work for the next week or so.
- Turn them in for a grade.
- I need to see your Paired Response Short Answer Question from yesterday.
- "Stop All the Clocks" Poem
- "Do Not Stand Over My Grave and Weep" Poem
- Author Information about Langston Hughes
- "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams" poems by Langston Hughes
- Discussion Questions over "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams"
- With a partner, discuss the questions on the front of this page.
- For EXTRA CREDIT, you may create your own poem.
- Paired Response Short Answer Question for "Dreams Deferred" and "Dreams" poems
- Due Monday
- Announcements/Reminders:
- Week 17 DRE will be due Monday, January 9th, rather than today.
- Cell phones should be face-down on your desk.
- You'll get new passes by the end of next week.
- Headphones should be out of BOTH ears while I am talking.
- Pens-We use pens in this class. Bring a blue or black pen to class each day.
- Have a FANTASTIC weekend!!!!!
Week 17, Day 4
Objective: Poetry and Paired Response Short Answer
- Bell Work: Daily Gram #11 (in BLUE or BLACK PEN, on your own paper, with your heading in the top right-hand corner)
- We will be doing these as your bell work for the next week or so.
- You may keep them in the tray and write them on the same paper for the whole week, if you'd like.
- Paired Response Short Answer Question based on the two poems from yesterday.
- "Stop All the Clocks" Poem
- "Do Not Stand Over My Grave and Weep" Poem
- Both the rough draft and final draft are due tomorrow.
- Announcements/Reminders:
- Week 17 DRE will be due Monday, January 9th, rather than today.
- Cell phones should be face-down on your desk.
- You'll get new passes by the end of next week.
- Headphones should be out of BOTH ears while I am talking.
- Pens-We use pens in this class. Bring a blue or black pen to class each day.
- Dots-still doing the "good dot/bad dot" thing. Everything you do in class affects the culture of the classroom. Be nice. Do what you're supposed to do.
Week 17, Day 3
Objective: Poetry
- Bell Work: Daily Gram #10 (in BLUE or BLACK PEN, on your own paper, with your heading in the top right-hand corner)
- We will be doing these as your bell work for the next week or so.
- You may keep them in the tray and write them on the same paper for the whole week, if you'd like.
- W17 DRE-due Friday.
- Introduce Poetry
- "Stop All the Clocks" Poem
- YouTube Video from Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Reading Comprehension Questions
- "Do Not Stand Over My Grave and Weep" Poem
- New Semester Reminders:
- Cell phones should be face-down on your desk.
- You'll get new passes by the end of next week.
- Headphones should be out of BOTH ears while I am talking.
- Pens-We use pens in this class. Bring a blue or black pen to class each day.
- Dots-still doing the "good dot/bad dot" thing. Everything you do in class affects the culture of the classroom. Be nice. Do what you're supposed to do.
