English I - Week of November 17, 2014

Monday, November 17
Standards: W9.1, SL9.1, and SL9.4

Objective: Students will write about their understanding and perception of Hip Hop Culture from the perspective of their own personal experiences.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• "Hip Hop Culture"
• Quick Write (QW)
• Pair Share
• Class Share

Homework

• News Article Summary - due Friday
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st. 

Tuesday, November 18

Standards: W9.1, SL9.1, and SL9.4

Objective: Students will read the Source Notes and answer two questions based upon what they have read.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• "Hip Hop Culture"
• Recap
• Source Notes and Questions
• Whole Class Discussion

Homework

• News Article Summary - due Friday
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st.

Wednesday, November 18

Standards: RI9.2, RI9.4, and RI9.6

Objective: Students will complete a first reading of the text, circling unfamiliar words.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• "Hip Hop Culture"
• Discuss Source Notes Questions
• First reading of text

Homework

• News Article Summary - due Friday
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st.

English III - Week of November 17, 2014

November 17

Standards: RL11.2, RL11.3, and RL11.5

Objective:  Students will read the play with volunteers reading a chosen role. Focus will be on characterization and rising action.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• The Crucible, Act I (1100 - 1106)

Homework

• News Article (Summary or Newsela Quiz - Due Friday)
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st. 

November 18

Standards: RL11.2, RL11.3, and RL11.5

Objective:  Students will read the play with volunteers reading a chosen role. Focus will be on characterization and rising action.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• The Crucible, Act I (1106 - 1116/17)

Homework

• News Article (Summary or Newsela Quiz - Due Friday)
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st. 

November 19

Standards: RL11.2, RL11.3, and RL11.5

Objective:  Students will first listen to a presentation on Germany by our Foreign Exchange student learning about the history, culture, castles, and education system of Germany. Students will then read the play with volunteers reading a chosen role. Focus will be on characterization and rising action.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• Germany Presentation
• The Crucible, Act I (1116/17 - 11)

Homework

• News Article (Summary or Newsela Quiz - Due Friday)
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st.

English III - Week of 11-10-14

As Monday and Tuesdays were non-student days, the class schedule begins on 11-12-14.

November 12 - Wednesday

Standards: RI 11.4 and RI 11.6

Objective: Students will engage in pre Crucible reading activities to prepare them for The Crucible.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• Read "Why I Wrote The Crucible" (1095 - 1096)
• Answer questions in the packet
• Read "Circumstantial Evidence" (in the packet)
• Answer question at the end of the reading

Be prepared to discuss the question the last five minutes of class.

Homework

• News Article (Summary - or Newsela Quiz) - due Friday
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st.
• Did you complete your essay corrections?

November 13 - Thursday

Standards: R 11.1 and R 11.3

Objective: Students will work on their outside novel and Dialectical Journal (DJ).

Agenda

• Warm-up
• Silent Novel Reading and DJ

Homework

• News Article (Summary - or Newsela Quiz) - due Friday
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st.
• Did you complete your essay corrections?

November 14 - Friday

Objective: Students will demonstrate their acquisition of weekly vocabulary terms through their vocabulary test. 

Homework

• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st.
• Did you complete your essay corrections?

Vocabulary 11-10-14

Here are the words for this week. Notice that there are only 15 words because we have a shortened week.

1.       Credibility – trustworthiness

2.       Permeate - infuse

3.       Linger - remain

4.       Embrace – hug, cling to

5.       Legacy - tradition

6.       Benefactor – helper

7.       Chronic – habitual

8.       Cynical – distrustful of human sincerity

9.       Delve – dig into

10.   Diligent – pursue with attention to detail

11.       Eradicate – totally destroy

12.       Relevant – connect, important

13.       Subsequent – coming after

14.       Application – putting to use

15.       Credible – worth of belief, trustworthy

English I - November 5 - 7, 2014

November 5

Objective: Students will compare their analytical summary of the text in which they use textual evidence to summarize and discuss the text. DOK 2: Summarize

Agenda

• Warm-up
• Complete Summarizing and Responding
• Share in small group
• 3 Whole class shares

Homework

• News Article Summary - due Friday

November 6

Standards: W9.1, W9.2, W9.4, W9.8, and W9.9

Objective: Students will use the text chart created in class and the text to gather concrete details which may be used for responding tot he prompt they have chosen.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• Choose a prompt

Homework

• News Article Summary - due Friday
• Dialectical Journal - due Dec. 1st. 

November 7

Objective: Students will demonstrate their acquisition of vocabulary terms through our weekly vocabulary test.

Agenda

• Vocabulary Test

Homework

• Dialectical Journal - due December 1st 

English III - November 5 - 7, 2014

November 5

Standards: W11.4, W11.10, SL11.1, and SL11.4

Objective: Students will respond to QW prompt to begin thinking and writing about as well as discussing accusation. DOK 1: thinking=recall

Agenda

• Warm-up
• Discuss Essay Correction Assignment
• The Crucible
• QW1
• Vocabulary

Homework

• News Article
• Summary or Newsela Quiz - due Friday
• Essay Corrections - due Nov 12th

November 6

Objective: Students will recall/learn literary terms (vocabulary) that will be discussed during The Crucible.

Agenda

• Warm-up
• Unit Vocabulary
• Student
• Give 1, Get 1

November 7

Objective: Students will demonstrate their acquisition of vocabulary terms through our weekly vocabulary test.

Agenda

• Vocabulary Test

Homework

• Essay Corrections - due November 12th
• Dialectical Journal - due December 1st
  

Extra Credit Opportunity - "Dead man's Cell Phone"

Hello All,

I am offering 20 pts. extra credit to any of my students who attend a viewing of "Dead Man's Cell Phone" which is being put on by the Desert Hot Springs Theater Department. To receive this extra credit, you must bring me a playbook from the play along with your ticket stub.

Essay Correction Assignment

To receive the full 40 pts for the Essay Correction Assignment which is due Wednesday, November 12, 2014, you will need to follow these steps:

1. Access your Google Classroom for this course
2. Click on the Native American Culture Essay Assignment
3. Click to view the comments that I have made
4. Reply to each comment with the changes errors being addressed in that comment
5. Send me an e-mail, vblevins@psusd.us, letting me know that you have made all the corrections

If you scored less than 70 pts. on your essay and you would like to raise your essay score and grade int he course, follow these steps:

1. Make all essay correction by completing the above five steps
2. Make a copy of the assignment by clicking on "Make a Copy"
3. Re-write the essay incorporating the changes from the comments and correction into the revised essay. 
4. Turn it in.

If you have any problems with re-writing your essay, please come and see me in my room at lunch or after school on Mondays or Wednesdays.

Outside Novel Dialectical Journal

Hello Students, Parents, and Guardians,

Included in this post are links to the direction for completing the Dialectical Journal you will write in response to the outside novel you have chosen . Please be advised that the assignment is slightly different depending on whether you are one of my ninth or eleventh grade students. Please click on the appropriate link for your grade level.

English I Link
English III Link