Monday, January 30, 2017

Tuesday, Jan 31 HOMS

Objective: By the ned of class, students will analyze short fiction and figurative language in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

How does it impact a child's behavior when they are told they are bad? Do you think people can escape their childhoods? Do you think people can escape the perceptions people have of them?

Direct Instruction

Before we go back to HOMS - review how to use easybib.com

Read vignettes - 76-86


Guided / Independent

Answer study guide questions for Sally.

You may rewrite your CRQ from yesterday for better grade if you have time.

check for understanding

Monday, Jan 30 - MAcbeth Act 2 - period 5

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze drama in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Matching -Macbeth Act 2

Direct Instruction

animated review

Guided

Plot structure of Macbeth to date

Discuss themes of greed, ambition, betrayal and deception.

Independent

Review ACT 2 for CRQ test tomorrow.

View film through Act 2.

Check for understanding

Review the CRQ trigger words and the steps of writing an effective constructed response.





Monday, Jan 30 - House on Mango Street

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Figurative language in HOMS. 

Direct Instruction

protests at airports

Read together -67-78

Guided / Independent

Analyze how Cisneros uses figurative language in any vignette from pages 67-78 in order to create an image. Then explain how this image is symbolic.  Be sure to use textual evidence and explain (restate, explain, quote, explain, conclude).

Friday, January 27, 2017

Friday, Jan 27 - Macbeth - Act 2

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze DRAMA in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

On the handout that you already have (LITERARY TERMS), write the definitions and an example from the text with the page #:

Paradox
Soliloquy
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Tragic Hero
Comic Relief

Direct Instruction

Read Pages 75- 83 (odd pages) - end of ACT 2.

Independent

View film through the murder.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Thursday, Period 5 - Macbeth

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze DRAMA in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

10 minutes to complete test from yesterday.

Direct Instruction

Read beginning of ACT 2. Pages 49-62 (odd pages).
Banquo
Fleance
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

Guided/ Independent

On literary terms sheet the following definitions should be complete with examples and page #'s.

Paradox
Soliloquy
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Tragic Hero

View film through the murder.





Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Thursday, January 26 - Gerlado No Last Name

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve readin comprehensive skills and make real world connections.

DO NOW

Multiple choice quiz

Direct Instruction

Read together "Geraldo, No Last Name" - pages 65-66.

View trump speech about Mexican border / wall

Guided

Research: Lives of illegal Mexican immigrants in USA


click here


Independent

With a partner, answer the following questions and EXPLAIN your answers. At the end of your document, add a reference page and use EASYBIB.COM to properly cite your sources.:

1. How do Mexican illegal immigrants get into the USA?
2. What are their living conditions once they get here?
3. Can they obtain legal identification here?
4. Can they register to vote?
5. Can they obtain a drivers license?
6. What types of jobs do they normally perform to earn $$ in the US?
7. Why do so many immigrants come to the USA? Why do they leave their families?
8. Once here, what are the statistics on ever returning to Mexico to live?
9. Should the USA build a wall? Why or why not?
10. How do you think USA should regulate the immigration process? Explain in detail.





Wed - Period 5 - MAcbeth Test - Act 1

CRQ - Choose one of the two:

Analyze the internal conflict that Macbeth has within himself on page 41 and what he decides. Use textual evidence to support your answer.

OR

Answer the "essay" / written response CRQ # 11 on the test. 

All questions are 5 points each / CRQ = 15 points

Wednesday, January 25 - HOMS

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Esperenza is very NAIVE. Explain the plot of each of the following vignettes and explain how she is naive in each one:
1. Louie, his cousin & his other cousin (page 23)
2. The family of little feet (page 39)
3. My First Job (page 53)

Direct / Guided Instruction


Read 53-64.  Choose two of those four vignettes to complete a "quote and response" sheet.

For period 6/7 - read pages 32-42 and choose two vignettes to 


Independent

EITHER Darius & the clouds OR Alice who Sees Mice study guide questions.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Tuesday - Jan 24 - HOMS - Period 6/7

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Read page - 8 & 9 - Boys & Girls

Then, consider the following quote at the end of this vignette:

"Until then, I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor." - 

Explain what Esperenza means and consider everything she has told you so far in the first three vignettes ( the move, her family, etc.)

Direct Instruction

Read together, next three vignettes. 

Guided

Then read further on your own to page 30. Choose two vignettes between pages 15-30 to complete the handout.

Independent

Carefully complete the information on the handout referring back to the text for details. Choose two vignettes to which you most closely relate.

Check for Understanding

Individual student checks during independent work.

Monday, January 23, 2017

Tuesday, HOMS -

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

HOMS Character Quiz

Direct Instruction 

Read together directions on handout. 

Guided / Independent
Choose two vignettes between pages 31and 52 (Alice - Hips)  and complete / a response chart for each of them.

Then choose two DIFFERENT vignettes to complete the journal response - identifying the quote and then responding to it.


Consider how the following has an impact on your personal self-identity:
1. Family
2. Religion
3. Physical appearance
4. Gender
5. Group affiliations (who you hang with)
6. Relationships with others (society)
7. Age
8. Neighborhood
9. Social Media
10. Morals / values

Choose three to discuss in detail, explaining how they impact who you are and how you describe yourself. Is there anything you would change that might positively influence your self-identity ( for example, if you changed your appearance, would you be treated differently by others and threefore become either a more or less confident person?)

Monday, Jan 22 - Periods 6/7 - HOMS

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehension and make real life connections 

DO NOW

How much of where you live and what kind of house you live in defines you as a person? What does it say about you? Have you ever moved and become "the new kid"? If so, describe that experience.

Direct Instruction


self identity video


Read House on Mango Street - vignettes 1 - 6.

Guided Instruction

Discuss SELF- IDENTITY. As you answer the questions on the handout provided, consider the influences in your personal life that make you who you are.

Independent

Answer comprehensive, thematic, stylistic questions as well as the personal response for each vignette on the handout provided. I will collect the "House on MAngo Street" and "Hair" questions by the end of this class.

Check for understanding

Review the answers for questions for first vignette and ensure comprehension of figurative language as well as theme.

Exit Pass

If you start to see yourself  differently (change in your self-identity), will others see you differently as well? Or will they always see you as the same??





Tuesday, January 24 - Macbeth Act 1 Review and Study Questions

By the end of class, students will analyze drama in order to improve reAding comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

WHAT ARE YOUR IMPRESSIONS OF LADY MACBETH AT THE END OF ACT 1? Describe her relationship with Macbeth.

Direct Instruction

cartoon 2 of act 1 - powtoons - review of act 1

Guided / Independent

Questions 3-9 on handout - making meanings - Act 1. 

Check for Understanding

Act 1 quiz review questions - call & response.

CRQ - Choose one of the two:

Analyze the internal conflict that Macbeth has within himself on page 41 what he decides. Use textual evidence to support your answer.

OR

Answer the "essay" / written response CRQ # 11 on the quiz.

Monday, Jan 23 - Macbeth Act 1

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze drama in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Act 1 scene 1 ends with the line - "FAIR IS FOUL AND FOUL IS FAIR." 

What does this mean? This theme or motif will carry through the entire play, so what can the reader expect? 

Direct Instruction

Hand out literary terms sheet. keep out as we read daily and complete definitions and examples as you discover them. be sure to write the quote and page 3's for examples from Macbeth.

Guided

Read pages 31-46 - FINISH ACT 1.

View through Act 1.

Tomorrow you will complete study guide questions in preparation for ACT 1 test on Wednesday.





Monday, January 23 - HOMS - Self- Identity

Objective: By the end of clas, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills and make real life connections.

DO NOW

40 points "They are without respect for all living things, including themselves." - p 29 - HOMS

Analyze the significance of this statement and discuss how their lack of respect effects people around them. 

Direct

self identity video

Read and answer study guide questions on handout provided. Keep in mind the theme of SELF-IDENTITY while interpreting the questions and answers.

Friday, January 20, 2017

Friday, January 20 - Macbeth

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze drama in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

What are the three prophecies that the witches told Macbeth?

What are the three prophecies that the witches told Banquo?

Direct Instruction

Read pages 21- 37 (odd pages) - to Act 1 / scene 6.

Guided
Answer  "Reviewing the Text" - and # 2& 3 "Shaping Interpretations" to be collected by end of class.

You can use a NEO or a seperate piece of paper to write your answers.


Review the literary terms sheet and complete dramatic irony as an example. Also, witches prophecies are examples of WHAT?

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Friday, Jan 20 - House on Mango Street

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Many things help create our self-identity. One may be where we live, and another may be our name. Discuss the importance of your name or nickname to your personal identity. Does your name have a meaning? Is it special in your family? Do your friends call you by your given name or do you have a nickname? If you have a nickname, did others assign it to you? Do you like it? Why or why not?

Direct Instruction

houses and neighborhoods

Jot down thoughts on what kind of life a kid lives who resides in each house shown. Consider their clothes, their music, they way they get around, where they hangout, what they might do for fun....(1 minute per house)

Guided / Independent

Complete questions for "My Name" and "Cathy Queen of Cats."

Continue to read pages 14-30.




Thursday - Resume Writing - Jan 19

Objective: By the end of class, students will begin resume writing process in order to apply for employment.

DO NOW

Jot down in your notebook every job you have ever had, volunteer positions, academic achievements, hobbies, athletic achievement, special skills....etc. 
Then, list some of the responsibilities you had at each of these ....just "brain dump" it for now on your "DO NOW" paper.

Direct Instruction

There are several websites you can use as a guide to create a resume, however, the following are good ones for High School students.

GOOGLE DOCS TEMPLATE

resume ACTIVE verbs

Choose one and start from the top with your personal information. Save in your google docs and share with me. We will work on these and cover letters the rest of the week.




Thursday, January 19 - Macbeth! - Period 5

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze drama in order to improve reading comprehensive skills and improve knowledge of literacy elements to prepare for Keystone.

DO NOW

In a short paragraph, explain who Macbeth, Banquo and Duncan are and what is going on in Scotland at the beginning of this drama. 

Direct Instruction

View the battle with Norway (defeat of MacDownwald - the traitor)


Guided

Read act 1 - scenes 1-3.

Independent

Answer the 'Review the Text" questions on handout provided.

Check for Understanding

Individual student checks during independent work.



Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Thursday, January 19 - House on Mango Street

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehension and make real life connections 

DO NOW

How much of where you live and what kind of house you live in defines you as a person? What does it say about you? Have you ever moved and become "the new kid"? If so, describe that experience.

Direct Instruction

Discuss the difference between a house and a home. 

Read House on Mango Street - vignettes 1 - 6.

Guided Instruction

Discuss SELF- IDENTITY. As you answer the questions on the handout provided, consider the influences in your personal life that make you who you are.

Independent

Answer comprehensive, thematic, stylistic questions as well as the personal response for each vignette on the handout provided. I will collect the "House on MAngo Street" and "Hair" questions by the end of this class.

Check for understanding

Review the answers for questions for first vignette and ensure comprehension of figurative language as well as theme.

Exit Pass

If you start to see yourself  differently (change in your self-identity), will others see you differently as well? Or will they always see you as the same??






Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Wednesday, Jan 18 - intro to Macbeth - Period 5

Objective: By the end of class, students will learn new vocabulary and analyze 16th century England in order to make real life connections.

DO NOW 
Copy words and definitions into notebooks:
GREED = 1excessive consumption of or desire for food and/or excessive desire for wealth or power. It is NEGATIVE and selfish.

AMBITION =1. strong desire for success, achievement, or distinction  // a goal. It is POSITIVE and not selfish.

FATE = The development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. 

DESTINY the particular state of a person or thing in the futureconsidered as resulting from earlier events

Direct Instruction

Discuss FATE vs. DESTINY. 

Drama Elements review

macbeth intro slideshare

Do you believe a person's true nature and personality are shaped when they are born (innate) or do you think environment is a greater factor? Explain.

Direct Instruction

Characterization powerpoint

Guided 

Read descriptions of characters from NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE  Macbeth. List 3-5 character traits for:
1. Macbeth
2. Duncan
3. Banquo
4. Malcolm
5. 3 witches
6. LADY MACBETH

Remember that you know about characters from not only what they look like, but what they say, how they act, their effects on others etc (indirect character traits).

Also, be sure to write down the three prophecies that the witches proclaim for each Macbeth and Banquo.

Read Act 1 scenes 1-3 - Macbeth

Independent

Answer study guide questions for Act 1 scenes 1-3.

Check for Understanding 



review answers

Wednesday, Jan 18 - Resume Writing

Objective: By the end of class, students will begin resume writing process in order to apply for employment.

DO NOW

Jot down in your notebook every job you have ever had, volunteer positions, academic achievements, hobbies, athletic achievement, special skills....etc. 
Then, list some of the responsibilities you had at each of these ....just "brain dump" it for now on your "DO NOW" paper.

Direct Instruction

There are several websites you can use as a guide to create a resume, however, the following are good ones for High School students.

GOOGLE DOCS TEMPLATE

resume ACTIVE verbs

Choose one and start from the top with your personal information. Save in your google docs and share with me. We will work on these and cover letters the rest of the week.





Thursday, January 12, 2017

Thursday, Jan 12 - Allusions

Objective: By the ned of class, students will analyze allusions in current media in order to improve comprehensive skills and make real life connections.

DO NOW

family guy

simpsons


Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Objective: By the end of class, students will solve riddles in order to use comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Solve riddles for extra credit

riddles answers

Monday, January 9, 2017

January 9 - Review for Non-Fiction

Objective; By the end of class, student will review for non-fiction module of Keystone  exam.

DO NOW

Non-Fiction Jeopardy review

review text structures

Monday, JANUARY 9 -

OBJECTIVE: BY THE END OF CLASS, STUDENTS WILL ANALYZE PEOTIC TERMS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSIVE SKILLS.

DO NOW

Complete figurative language definitions sheet from the DO NOW on Friday.

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Friday, January 6 - Keystone Review

Objective: By the end of class, students will review keystone related material in order to be successful on the exam next week.

DO NOW

What is a dilemna? Do you have a dilemna  right now? What is it and if you don't, make one up!

If you are asked to "provide details supporting your analysis", what are you being asked to do? What is your "analysis"??

Direct Instruction

figurative language jeopardy

Mark in your keystone books to review the Figurative Language section and the Plot/characters / setting sections for the fiction module on Monday.

Review the fiction questions. Get a partner and Choose one. 

Guided / Independent

With a partner, complete one for a story or poem that we have already read.

Finish CRQ for non-fiction from yesterday.

Check walls last time for definitions. 




Thursday& Friday , Jan 5 & 6 - Anthem of Doomed Youth - period 5

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze a poem in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

Do Now

Define literary elements on handout.

Direct Instruction

Review poem - Anthem of Doomed Youth - page 104 - keystone prep book

Guided / Independent

Paraphrase the poem, "Anthem of a Doomed Youth"

Then choose one of the two constructed responses below and use the RACER graphic organizer to answer the prompt. You can use a NEO if you want, but it must be in the proper RACER format.

CRQ

Choose a line from the poem and explain how that line supports the theme of Anthem of Doomed Youth.

OR

Analyze how the author uses figurative language in order to create a somber mood. Use examples from the text to support your answer.


Check for Understanding

Individual student checks during independent work

Closure





Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Thursday, January 5 -

Objective: By the end of class, students will review constructed response questions and multiple choice strategies and mood in order to prepare for the Keystone Exam.

DO NOW

Random Multiple choice questions that can be answered without reading the passage that went with it.

Direct Instruction 

View photos and choose a MOOD word from the word bank to describe it.
mood - ppt
mood - fall - ppt

slideshare


Review the sample keystone constructed response questions for non-fiction and assign something that we read to each one.

Guided

Choose one question from the NON-FICTION section. Then, in pairs, you will answer the questions in CRQ format. Before you start writing, discuss the prompt and possible answers. Then:

1 student will be the designated writer
1 student will search for evidence from the text

Remember: 
RESTATE / EXPLAIN / QUOTE / EXPLAIN  / CONCLUDE

Submit one CRQ per group.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Wednesday, January 4 - Anthem of Doomed Youth

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze a poem in order to improve comprehensive skills and prepare for the Keystone exam.

DO NOW

Write the definitions down in your notebooks:

Anthem - a rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause. 

Cultural ValueCulture is the sum of learned beliefs, values, and customs that regulate the behavior of members of a particular society that is considered "acceptable" in that culture. 

Direct Instruction

Discuss Anthems and cultural values. What are some of each that which we are familiar?

Guided

Read / Analyze poem on page 104 -Keystone Finish Line book.

ANTHEM OF A DOOMED YOUTH 

  • let's look at what we do know and understand, not what we do not know.
  • Annotate and paraphrase in margins.
  • Identify any figurative language you recognize (similes, metaphors, alliteration, rhetorical questions)

Anthem of Doomed Youth

doomed youth song

Independent

Paraphrase the poem, "Anthem of a Doomed Youth"

Then choose one o the two below:

Write a parallel poem that mirrors "Anthem of Doomed Youth." This means it should have:

1  - clear shift in tense (first half of poem is in present tense, second half of poem is in future tense). Poem can be a minimum of 8 lines.

2. Must have at least one example of each a metaphor, a simile and alliteration.

3. Retitle the poem to best reflect this personal account.

OR

CRQ

Analyze how the author uses figurative language in order to create a somber mood. Use examples from the text to support your answer.


Check for Understanding

Individual student checks during independent work

Closure