Friday, June 2 - Student Survey and Self-Reflection

Objective: By the end of class, students will complete student survey and write a self-reflection in order to improve writing skills.

DO NOW

Student Survey

Direct Instruction

Self-Reflection

Write three paragraphs about yourself according to the guidelines distributed. One paragraph is about your name, the next about your family, and finally about how you identify yourself. 

The guidelines are just that - GUIDELINES. They are designed to make you think. DO NOT answer each little question individually. Your writing should be three cohesive paragraphs.

Entitle this "SELF-REFLECTION" and share with me on google docs.

Thursday, June 1 - HOMS

Objective: By the end of class, students will self reflect in a writing assignment in order to improve writing skills and prepare to read House on Mango Street.


Direct Instructions

Read together vignettes of House on Mango Street.


Guided / Independent

Complete resume.
Complete Self- Refection essay.
Complete questions for vignettes read to date so far.

Wednesday, May 31 - period 6/7

Objective: By the ned of class, students will self reflect in a writing assignment in order to improve writing skills and prepare to read House on Mango Street.

DO NOW


Direct Instructions

Read the first 4 vignettes of House on Mango Street.

Guided / Independent

Choose one of the two sets of questions and begin to answer on google docs. You must write the question.


Continue to work on your SELF_REFLECTION essay that you started yesterday:
1. Introduction
2. Paragraph about your name
3. Paragraph about your family
4. Paragraph about your identity
5. Conclusion

Tuesday, May 30 - period 6/7

Objective: By the ned of class, students will self reflect in a writing assignment in order to improve writing skills and prepare to read House on Mango Street.

DO NOW


Direct Instructions

Read the first 4 vignettes of House on Mango Street.

Guided / Independent

Choose one of the two sets of questions and begin to answer on google docs. You must write the question.


Continue to work on your SELF_REFLECTION essay that you started yesterday:
1. Introduction
2. Paragraph about your name
3. Paragraph about your family
4. Paragraph about your identity
5. Conclusion

Tuesday, May 30 - Cover Letters

Objective: By the end of class, students will write resume, email cover letters and apply for actual summer jobs in order to gain employment.

DO NOW

When your Resume is complete, save it, and save ANOTHER COPY as a PDF. Make sure you do not save your only copy as a PDF because in the future you will need to make changes. However, for today, when you send your resume out, you want to send it a a PDF so no one can make any changes to it.

Guided / Direct Instruction

REview EMAIL COVER LETtERS
Also click on the link that will show you sample cover letters for guidance. You must submit a cover letter, separate from your resume by the end of the class today for a grade.

GOOGLE SEARCH - "SUMMER JOBS FOR TEENS IN PHILADELPHIA"

Use directions from the "email cover letter" site to write a cover letter for a job. Be sure to highlight your strengths and focus more on how you can help them, rather than how they can help you. Do not send anything until I proof read it.

Wednesday, May 24 - RESUMES

Objective: By the end of class, students will have a draft of a professional resume in order to prepare to gain employment.

DO NOW

USE resume graphic organizer to brainstorm and get information on paper before transferring to the resume template.

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Direct Instruction

Review resume templates - coral, swiss or spearmint

Resume Action verbs

REview EMAIL COVER LETtERS

Choose a resume template

Guided

OBJECTIVE
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE  (includes volunteer, community service, etc)
SKILLS (computer skills, shop skills, communication skills, etc)
AWARDS or EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

As a High School Student, put education first before experience. Be sure to highlight your shop area under education. 

Experience can include volunteer positions, special projects and of course, any employment.

When describing experience, bullet point responsibilities and skills that you have to perform that responsibility. Use resume ACTION verbs.

Try not to be too "wordy";  be short and concise and be very careful with spelling and grammar.

HEADLINES = 14 point type
Name of school, companies, etc - 12 point 
bullet point Copy = 11 point type
ALL TIMES ROMAN

Independent

Share your resume with me as soon as you start working on it so I can help you individually as you progress.

Objective: By the end of class, students will complete fiction assessment, review multiple choice strategies and practice review for genres of poetry, fiction and drama in order to prepare for the Keystone exam.


DO NOW

Explain the following in your own words:

Describe an overweight person using one positive connotation and one negative connotation.

What literary form is Hamlet's "To be or not to BE"  written in?

What is the most ESSENTIAL sentence in the introduction of a research paper?

Direct Instruction

Believe in yourself
Work Hard
Never Give up
Learn from Your mistakes
Have fun

Guided / Independent

Practice Keystone Games


genre game - multiple choice

genre concentration game

soccer poetry - figurative language review

genre scatter game 

elements of fiction scatter game

elements of drama scatter game

elements of poetry scatter game


Check for Understanding 

Individual student checks during independent work