This is a general outline of this week's activities and is subject to change, based on
the needs of the students. Please continue to check the blog daily, for detailed information on class activities, assignments, requirements, and deadlines. This Week's Learning Goals: Demonstrate knowledge of characteristic of Romantic era writings. Delineate between characteristic of sub-movements within the Romantic movement. Read and analyze 19th century poetry. Identify common motifs in pieces of short fiction. This Week's Focus Standards: ELAGSE11-12RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. ELAGSE11-12RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE11-12RL3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). ELAGSE11-12RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. ELAGSE11-12L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Monday, September 17 Agenda:
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Thursday, September 20 Vocabulary Unit 2 Exercises Due! Agenda:
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Today, the class read and discussed Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" (Prentice Hall pg. 228) and worked on the analysis reading guide and chart.
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Today, we began class with Magic Lens grammar practice. Then, we continued our analysis of "The First Snowfall." Then, students were given the rest of class time to work on their USA TestPrep EOC practice in Lab 9129.
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MAGIC LENS: LABEL PARTS OF SPEECH AND PARTS OF SENTENCES Today's Magic Lens Sentence: She stopped momentarily to question her decision. Today, students began class with Magic Lens: Parts of a Sentence practice. Then, students read "The First Snowfall" by James Russell Lowell and modeled the TPCASTT poetry analysis method.
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Today's Magic Lens Sentence: Sybil, with her belongings in a twisted bag, traveled deep into the forest. Today, students took Magic Lens Level 2 notes. Then, students worked in lab 9129 on their USA TestPrep Red Dot exercises.
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This is a general outline of this week's activities and is subject to change, based on
the needs of the students. Please continue to check the blog daily, for detailed information on class activities, assignments, requirements, and deadlines. Happy Homecoming Week!! This Week's Learning Goals: Demonstrate knowledge of characteristic of Colonial era writings, rhetorical elements, and the allegorical significance of The Crucible. Understand the literary characteristics of the Romantic era. Explore real-world and historical usage of rhetoric. This Week's Focus Standards: ELAGSE11-12RL3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed)ELAGSE11-12RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. ELAGSE11-12RI2: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.ELAGSE11-12RI5: Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging ELAGSE11-12RI7: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem ELAGSE11-12RI8: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning... and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy...ELAGSE11-12L3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening. a. Vary syntax for effect, consulting references (e.g., Tufte’s Artful Sentences) for guidance as needed; apply an understanding of syntax to the study of complex texts when reading. Monday, September 10 Agenda:
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Film: The Great DebatersToday, class was shortened, due to the pep rally. In class, students finished viewing The Great Debaters and completed their viewing guides, and they were given the remainder of the class period to work on their vocabulary unit 2 exercises or to engage in independent reading.
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Film: The Great DebatersToday, students viewed the Introduction to Romanticism Part I PowerPoint (the Gothics and the Poets) and completed the guided notes. Then, students continued watching The Great Debaters and working on the viewing guide.
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Film: The Great DebatersThe Great Debaters Viewing Guide Reminders: Vocabulary unit 2 exercises due Thursday 9/20 USA TestPrep Practice Test #2 due Thursday 9/20 at 11:59 PM |