Friday, April 27 -

Objective: By the end of class, students will review in order to prepare for the Keystone Exam.

DO NOW 

Continue to answer 20 Wall Questions.

Propaganda Jeopardy

Four ways to help prepare students for the Keystone Exams in the next two weeks:

Three Academic ways to help prepare students for Keystone:

• AFFIXES (prefixes and suffixes)
• KEYSTONE VOCABULARY
• TEST TAKING STRATEGIES 
•  Some Samples
• multiple choice strategies 
• connotations and denotations
• Read boxed information at top of passage
• skim and find (if in quotes, it is in the passage)

Fourth Way :

• Confidence
• Motivation 
• Stamina / Perseverance
• Grit

TEDTALK - Video

Wednesday, April 25 - Propaganda and Wall Review

Objective: By the end of class, students will review propaganda techniques and review in order to prepare for the Keystone exam.

DO NOW
If you have not finished your benchmark, please get your chrome book and do so now. It is for a grade, so do your best. Use multiple choice strategies.


THEN:
20 questions on handout. Information to help you answer them can be found on walls in the room. Feel free to walk around and find the answers.

For my second period class - we need to review the question, "how does an author CONSTRUCT an argument (from FDR speech - green book page 225)


Also the word LITERARY. It just means "concerning the content of literature. " It makes the question sound fancier but don't let it throw you. The question would be the same without this word. 

Questions will include this adjective in questions...
Example - What is the main difference between literary fiction and literary non-fiction? 



Direct Instruction


Propaganda Jeopardy

Tuesday, April 24 - Benchmarks

Objective: By the end of of class, students will take benchmark exam in order to determine grade level skill ability.

DO NOW

Get your chrome book.
Log on with your Student ID and Password.
Go to School Net. 
Make sure Pop-Ups are NOT blocked ( little red "x" in upper right hand corner of screen.
Go to Acuity Assessments.
Take English 2 assessment.You do not have to do # 26 ( the constructed response).

Monday, April 23 - Propaganda

Objective: by the end of class, students will  review and analyze propaganda in speeches in order to prepare for the Keystone exam.

DO NOW

Propaganda review sheet

Direct Instruction

Propaganda techniques




Guided

Green Book - 222 - 224 - and multiple choice questions for Roosevelt speech
   Analyze how Roosevelt constructs his argument to convince Congress and the American people to enter WW2?

How do you approach answering this prompt?  

• Consider text structure (do you notice if it is problem / solution or cause effect or description, etc ??)
• Consider propaganda techniques ( do you notice any repetition, use of statistics, generalities, emotional appeal, etc?/)
• Consider how he uses FACTS (logical appeal) 

Thursday, April 19 - Non-Fiction - Speech - Fact vs Opinion

Objective: By the ned of class, students will analyze speech in order to prepare for the Keystone exam.

DO NOW

 Fact Or Opinion Handout

Direct Instruction / Guided

Read 219 - 220 and answer multiple choice questions

Independent

Random Multiple choice questions ( answer them without reading the passage)
.

Wednesday, April 18 - Essential Non-Essential Information / Fact vs Opinion

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze non-fiction (speech) to determine fact vs opinion in order to prepare for the Keystone exam.

DO NOW

Complete the constructed response for the Hurricane Sandy article. You have 10 minutes.

Explain how the author of the Hurricane Sandy Article (page 212-216) used specific organizational structures (bold subheadings, map and graph) to help the reader interpret the information. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Direct Instruction

FACT VS OPINION

A fact as any statement that can be proven to be true OR false. THEREFORE, concern yourselves less with whether the statement is accurate and TRUE - RATHER, focus more on whether each statement can be proven right OR wrong.

An OPINION, on the other hand, is a judgement not based on any fact or knowledge. Is is often based more on feelings or emotions.

FACT VS OPINION PPT 

Guided

Many speeches use propaganda to make false statements that appear to be facts but are not true. This is different than offering an opinion. 

Read in Green Keystone book - pages 218-221.


propaganda jeopardy

Tuesday, April 17 - Text Structure andOrganization ( Non-Fiction)

Objective: By the end of class students will analyze text structure and organization in order to prepare for the Keystone exam.

DO NOW - write down in notebook - 

Other Organizational Features of NON-FICTION
1. Titles
2. Headings and/or subheadings
3. Bullet points
4. Boldface type
5. Italics

6. Illustrations and/or photographs

7. captions under the photos

8. Charts and graphs

9. Maps

10. Diagrams

Direct Instruction

Read questions first for the Hurricane Sandy Article - pages 216 & 217. Answer any if possible without reading the text.

Guided / Independent

GO back and complete multiple choice questions. THEN:

CRQ - You can write it in book under the multiple choice if you want - I will grad it right out of your book:
Explain how the author of the Hurricane Sandy Article (page 212-216) used specific organizational structures (bold subheadings, map and graph) to help the reader interpret the information. Use examples from the text to support your answer.