Past Lessons

Monday, November 11, 2013

Period 9 - Week 11

Tuesday - Single Period
  • Do Now: Put the following on your desk...
  •     - Workbook (p. 139)
  •     - Colored Marker
  •     - Composition Book
  •     - 10 Blank Flash Cards
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  • Learning Target
  •     What are two strategies you can use in order to study vocabulary words in preparation for the vocabulary test on List IV?

  • Word Study
  •      1.  You will be graded to day on how much you get done during this period! You can earn up to  100 points!
  •      2.  You must complete the following by the end of the period...
  •            - Make ten vocabulary flashcards.
  •            - Workbook pages 139-140
  •      3.  When done have a teacher grade your work!

  • Don't Forget:  Quiz Friday on Vocabulary List IV

Wednesday - Double Period
  • Begin Independent Reading Before the Bell Rings!
  •      1. Start New Entry:  See new entry poster for format!!
  •      2. Answer Reader Response:  
  •           - 3 Questions about your book
  •           - 2 Predictions or Inferences
  •           - 1 Important Idea

  • New Words for Vocabulary List V
  •      - impersonal (personality, personal, impersonally) not related to feelings or emotions; having no personality.
  •      - conscious (consciously, unconscious) to be awake or know; sensitive; on purpose
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  • Learning Target: What are some ways to determine the important events in a novel?

  • Read Aloud/Think Aloud
  •     - Read Chapter 23 (p.223)
  •     - Focus on Determining Importance
  •     - Authors use various methods to show us what is important including: repetition  order in which events occur, details or speeches by characters and many others.

  •     - Determining Important Ideas
  •        Example 1 - Page 224 "Fine. Let them think what they want."  Jenna has been uncomfortable with this issue for a while.   HS kids often have to battle public reputations in order to understand individual people, and that is not easy.  Jenna's decision is a difficult and important one, and it shows she is more mature than she was earlier in the book.

  •      Example 2 - Page 225 "He's a friend of Michael MacKenzie, right?" These comments reveal Jenna in another light: she has "heard a few things," and she tries to define Joe, but she is judging him just as she did Amy.  This shows Jenna to be a complex, believable high school girl.

  • Class Conversation
  •    - Why does Jenna talk to Amy?
  •    - Why does Amy leave?
  • Learning Target: Can you and your team summarize the important ideas in a text?

  • Summary/Flashback Activity
  •    -  How do you summarize? Identify the most important ideas and put them together.
  •     - In groups, find examples of prior events that build up to the Flashback Scene in chapter 23.
  •     -  See chapters (Chapters 7, 8, 15 for event leading up to the flashback. check out chapter 23 for the flashback scene.)

  • Progress Reports: Have them signed and brought in tomorrow.  This is a homework grade worth 100 points!


Thursday - Single Period
  • Do Now: Copy
  •   Entry Title:  The Parts of a Single Paragraph Essay About a Novel
  •   1.  Topic Sentences - Includes the title, author, genre and restates the main idea of the question/prompt.
  •   2. Body Sentences - Examples, Textual Evidence and/or Explanations that prove your Topic Sentence is true.
  •   3. Closing Sentences - A final sentence that restates (not copies) the Topic Sentence. It make the paragraph "feel" completed.

  • Mini-lesson: The parts of a single paragraph essay about a novel.

  • Work on paragraphs. Due end of the period.

  • Vocabulary Bee

  • Homework: Hand in paragraph for a grade tomorrow. You will be graded on having a beginning a middle and an end to your paragraphs.
Friday - Double Period
  • Do Now
  •   - Get ready for Vocabulary Quiz
  •   - Pen or Pencil?
  •   - Everything off your desk?
  •   - Turn in your essay if done.

  • Hand in Single Paragraph Essay if done.

  • Take the Vocab Quiz

  • When Done...
  •     - Finish your single paragraph essay or...
  •     - Independently Read until all quizzes are handed in. No entry needed!

  • New Words for Vocabulary List V
  •      1. impersonal (personality, personal, impersonally): not related to feelings or emotions; having no personality.
  •      2. conscious (consciously, unconscious): to be awake or know; sensitive; on purpose
  •      3. tragedy (tragic, tragically): an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as an accident, crime, or natural disaster.
  •      4. perspective: a point of view or feeling about something.

  • Read Aloud/Think Aloud
  •     - Finish the Book Chapters 24 and 25 (p.233-245)
  •     - Focus: Summarizing Information
  •     - Summarize the conversation between Jenna and her mother. "I can't help feeling he'd be alive if it weren't for me."

  • Classroom Conversation
  •      1. Why does Jenna feel guilty? Is she guilty?
  •      2. Why does her mom feel guilty?  Is she guilty?
  •      3. How might guilt affect Michael's life?
  •      4. What might happen during the rest of the day that begins the last chapter?
  •      5. What might happen over the next six months?

  • Hand out Progress Reports
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