Reminder: As your classroom contract states, NO LATE CLASS OR HOMEWORK WILL BE ACCEPTED BEGINNING TODAY. Major project work will only be accepted up to one day late at a 15% deficit.
Monday, August 19
Classwork
- Learning Objective: L11-12.6- Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.
- Do Now: Junior Vocabulary Unit 1, Quiz B
- After: Preview Junior Vocabulary Unit 2
- Then: Edit college essay for content
- Next: Begin revising on computers
- Target Practice: I can identify the meaning and accurately use words from this week's vocabulary list. +/o/-
Homework
- Enrichment: continue revising college essay at home
- Enrichment: sign-up for online American Literature textbook (click here for directions)
- Continue independent reading (written activity due August 30!)
Classwork
- Learning Objective: W11-12.10- Write routinely for extended periods of time for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
- Do Now: (In your journal) Why do you think it is important to write about a single topic over an extended period of time, rather than a group of smaller ones?
- After: Finish revising essays and word processing the final draft
- Then: Share your essay with a partner in your class and have them leave at least five comments. Address the comments by revising your essay.
- Next: Click here to submit your final draft
- Target Practice: My essay is ready to submit to colleges for admission consideration. +/o/-
Homework
- Continue independent reading (due August 30!)
Thursday and Friday, August 22 & 23
Classwork
- Learning Objective: RI 11-12.2- Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.
- Do Now: What do you think the college essay that you wrote last class has in-common with the creation myths told by early Native American tribes? Why do we feel the need to record and retell our histories?
- After: Watch "Essential Question Video" and write the essential questions in your journal
- Then: In groups, read one of the following stories: The Earth on Turtle's Back, When Grizzlies Walked Upright, excerpt from The Navajo Origin Legend
- Next: Groups answer the essential questions and the following question with detail and share with the class: What do the qualities these mythmakers see in nature show about the human traits they valued? Make sure to use at least two of the essential question words in your answer: environment, landscape, profound, cultivate.
- Target Practice: Looking at your response from the 'Do Now', has your view changed about the need to record and retell our histories? Why or why not? Use detail from today's lesson to support your answer.
- Study for Vocabulary Unit 2, Quiz A on Monday
- Continue independent reading (due August 30)
