Week Nineteen - May 15 to May 19
May 15: Review for the final.
May 16: Review for the final.
May 17: Review for the final.
May 18: Review for the final.
May 19: Review for the final.
- Read "A Sound of Thunder"
May 16: Review for the final.
- "A Sound of Thunder" questions
May 17: Review for the final.
- "A Sound of Thunder" video and finish questions
May 18: Review for the final.
- Discuss the final exam and what's on it
- Missing Work Time
May 19: Review for the final.
- 3rd: Missing Work
- 7th: Final Exam Review
Week Eighteen - May 8 to May 12
May 8: Review for the final.
May 9: Review for the final.
May 10 Review for the final.
May 11: Review for the final.
May 12: Review for the final.
- We're out tomorrow
- "Geraldo, No Name" Final Exam Review
May 9: Review for the final.
- "Cancer Survivors" Nonfiction Review
May 10 Review for the final.
- "American History" Day 1 (review)
May 11: Review for the final.
- "American History" Day 2 (review)
May 12: Review for the final.
- Go over "American History" answers
- Missing Work
Week Seventeen - May 1 to May 4
May 1: Deliver an effective presentation.
May 2: Deliver an effective presentation.
May 3: Deliver an effective presentation.
May 4: Deliver an effective presentation.
- Attach your slideshow if you will present
- Mini-Lesson: Giving a good speech, being a good listener
- Speeches
May 2: Deliver an effective presentation.
- Speeches
May 3: Deliver an effective presentation.
- Speeches
May 4: Deliver an effective presentation.
- Make-up Speeches
- Missing Work Time
Week Sixteen - April 24 to April 28
April 24: Edit an informative essay.
April 25: Create an effective presentation.
April 26: Create an effective presentation.
April 27: Create an effective presentation.
April 28: Practice speaking skills.
- Discuss Speech
- Peer Editing
- Finish and Submit Informative Essays
April 25: Create an effective presentation.
- Discuss Speech format and layout
- Start creating Presentation
April 26: Create an effective presentation.
- Severe weather location
- Discuss Speech graphics and text choices
- Continue creating Presentation
April 27: Create an effective presentation.
- Review Speech presentation appearance
- Finish creating Presentation
- Add source slide
April 28: Practice speaking skills.
- Review Speech rubric
- Mini-Lesson: Giving a good speech, being a good listener
- Practice and finalize speech to give Monday-Wednesday
- Homework: Record your speech and attach it to the assignment on Google Classroom
Week Fifteen - April 17 to April 21
April 17: Conclude an informative essay.
April 18: Format an informative essay.
April 19: Conclude an informative essay.
April 20: Counselor Day
April 21: Conclude an informative essay.
- Review writing project
- Talk about good conclusions
- Write conclusion
April 18: Format an informative essay.
- Go straight to Commons Thursday
- Review writing project
- MLA format our papers
- Start talking about Works Cited pages (finish tomorrow)
April 19: Conclude an informative essay.
- Go straight to Commons tomorrow
- Create Works Cited page
- Check ALL in-text citations
April 20: Counselor Day
- Counselor Presentations
April 21: Conclude an informative essay.
- Finish and submit papers
Week Fourteen - April 10 to April 13
April 10: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
April 11: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
April 12: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
April 13: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
- Bellringer
- Review writing project
- Discuss in-text citations
- Discuss proper source usage
- Write body paragraph 1
April 11: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
- Review writing project
- Review in-text citations and proper source usage
- Write body paragraph 2
April 12: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
- Review writing project
- Review in-text citations and proper source usage
- Catch up through body paragraph 2 (check at end of class)
April 13: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
- Review writing project
- Review in-text citations and proper source usage
- Write body paragraph 3
Week Thirteen - April 3 to April 7
April 3: Begin initial research for an informative essay.
April 4: Begin initial research for an informative essay.
April 5: Finish research for an informative essay.
April 6: Start writing an informative essay.
April 7: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
- Introduce Essay and Speech
- Pick a topic and have it approved
- Begin finding sources
April 4: Begin initial research for an informative essay.
- Bellringer
- Review good sources and note-taking strategies
- Find three reliable sources and begin taking notes
April 5: Finish research for an informative essay.
- Bellringer
- Review good sources and note-taking strategies
- Finish taking notes over the three sources - be ready to start writing Monday
April 6: Start writing an informative essay.
- Bellringer
- Review writing project
- Discuss the components of an introduction
- Write your introduction by the end of class
April 7: Start writing the body of an informative essay.
- Bellringer
- Catch-up Day
Week Twelve - March 20 to March 24
March 20: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 21: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 22: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 23: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 24: Begin initial research for an informative essay.
- Review Macbeth 5.3-5.5
- Read pages 207-219 (5.6-5.8) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: Pick one of the four themes. Explain how the ending of the play is a good example of that theme.
March 21: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Discuss Test
- Review Macbeth Act 5
- Finish Theme Tracker questions 1, 2, and 3
- Submit Theme Trackers
March 22: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Act 5
- Macbeth Test - Questions 1, 2, and 3
March 23: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Macbeth Test - Questions 4, 5, and 6
March 24: Begin initial research for an informative essay.
- Introduce Essay and Speech
- Catch-up day
Week Eleven - March 13 to March 17
March 13: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 14: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 15: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 16: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 17: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 3.4
- Read pages 123-129 (3.5-3.6) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: How could you describe Lennox's tone in his long speech in 3.6? What words and phrases help you see his tone?
March 14: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 3.5-3.6
- Read pages 131-145 (4.1) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: What effect does Shakespeare's use of repetition create when the witches are speaking? In other words, how does it make readers feel when they hear the witches' speech?
March 15: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 4.1
- Read pages 147-177 (4.2-4.3, SUMMARIZE 157-167) + Theme Tracker
March 16: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth through Act 4
- Read pages 179-189 (5.1-5.2) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: Lady Macbeth keeps washing her hands repeatedly. How does this help show us the theme of guilt?
March 17: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 5.1-5.2
- Read pages 191-205 (5.3-5.5) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: Identify one of the pieces of figurative language Macbeth uses in his speech about his wife's death in scene 5. Tell me what he's trying to suggest by making this comparison.
Week Ten - March 6 to March 10
March 6: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 7: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 8: Rock the NWEA.
March 9: Rock the NWEA.
March 10: Rock the NWEA.
- Read pages 97-105 (3.2-3.3) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: In a constructed response, explain how Macbeth is already becoming a dynamic character.
March 7: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 3.2-3.3
- Read pages 107-121 (3.4) + Theme Tracker
- Video
- Exit Ticket: Explain how the appearance of Banquo's ghost helps us better understand the theme of guilt.
March 8: Rock the NWEA.
- NWEA
March 9: Rock the NWEA.
- NWEA
March 10: Rock the NWEA.
- NWEA + Catch-up day
Week Nine - February 27 to March 3
February 27: Use close reading to analyze drama.
February 28: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 1: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 2: Use close reading to analyze drama.
March 3: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Finish Act 1 Theme Tracker and submit for a progress check grade
February 28: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth Act 1
- Read pages 49-61 (Scenes 2.1 and 2.2) + Theme Tracker
- Watch Videos (4 minutes)
- Exit Ticket: There are no true flashbacks in Macbeth. However, Lady Macbeth probably experiences one when she looks at King Duncan sleeping in his bed at the beginning of the scene. What does she seem to see and remember when she looks at him?
March 1: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 2.1 and 2.2
- Read pages 63-77 (Scene 2.3) + Theme Tracker
- Watch Video (3 minutes)
- Exit Ticket: Infer why you believe Malcolm and Donalbain leave the country immediately after their father is killed.
March 2: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 2.3
- Read pages 79-95 (2.4 through 3.1) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: In a constructed response, Explain Macbeth's reasoning for wanting Banquo killed.
March 3: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth 2.4-3.1
- Multiple Interpretations Lesson
Week Eight - February 20 to February 24
February 20: No School
February 21: Use close reading to analyze drama.
February 22: Explain the figurative meaning of a phrase and why it's used.
February 23: Use close reading to analyze drama.
February 24: Use close reading to analyze drama.
February 21: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Bellringer
- Review Macbeth scenes 1-2
- Read pages 11-23 (Scene 3) + Theme Tracker
- Watch video (1 minutes)
- Exit Ticket: Summarize the three prophecies given to Macbeth and the one prophecy given to Banquo.
February 22: Explain the figurative meaning of a phrase and why it's used.
- Bellringer
- Review Macbeth scene 3
- Read pages 25-35 (Scenes 4 and 5) + Theme Tracker
- Watch video (4 minutes)
- Exit Ticket: At the end of this scene, Macbeth uses a metaphor. What does he compare the king’s son, Malcolm, to? What does he mean with this metaphor?
February 23: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Review Macbeth scenes 4 and 5
- Read pages 37-47 (Scenes 6 and 7) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: Explain how Lady Macbeth’s behavior toward King Duncan is a perfect example of dramatic irony. This has two requirements: What do we know that Duncan doesn’t know? What emotion does it create within the reader when we have this knowledge
February 24: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Macbeth Act 1 Review (do aloud; answer some questions as a group and some on paper)
Week Seven - February 13 to February 17
February 13: Review timed writing skills.
February 14: Review timed writing skills.
February 15: Use close reading to analyze drama.
February 16: Use close reading to analyze drama.
February 17: Demonstrate understanding of the revision process.
- Bellringer
- Continue Timed Essay
February 14: Review timed writing skills.
- Bellringer
- Finish Timed Essay
February 15: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Bellringer
- Assign Theme Tracker
- Watch Shakespeare biography
- Watch 1.1 video (2 minutes)
February 16: Use close reading to analyze drama.
- Bellringer
- Read pages 3-9 (Scenes 1-2) + Theme Tracker
- Exit Ticket: Characterize Macbeth so far. How would you describe him, based on the tales others have been telling about him?
February 17: Demonstrate understanding of the revision process.
- Bellringer
- Read Quote Response Essay feedback on Classroom carefully
- Revise and resubmit your essay by the end of the period
Week Six - February 6 to February 10
February 6: Review constructed response method
February 7: Review constructed response method.
February 8: Review constructed response method.
February 9: Revise an argumentative timed writing.
February 10: Review five-paragraph essay structure.
- Bellringer
- Notes: Constructed Response format
- We Do: What claim is Ed Sheeran trying to make about lavish lifestyles in "Beautiful People"?
- Beautiful people
Drop top, designer clothes
Front row at fashion shows
"What d'you do?" and "Who d'you know?"
Inside the world of beautiful people
Champagne and rolled-up notes
Prenups and broken homes
Surrounded, but still alone
Let's leave the party
- Beautiful people
- You Do: Constructed Response #3
February 7: Review constructed response method.
- Review Constructed Response Format
- Look at song Constructed Response feedback
- Practice: Constructed Responses 5, 6, and 7
February 8: Review constructed response method.
- Bellringer
- Constructed Response Feedback
- Can High School Teachers & Students See Eye to Eye? | Middle Ground - YouTube
- Answer questions over article
February 9: Revise an argumentative timed writing.
- Review directions & outline from Dress Code essay
- Highlight
- Claim/Thesis in yellow
- Three topic sentences in green
- Textual evidence in blue
- Your explanation of evidence in light gray
- Conclusion in pink
- Add transition words/phrases
- Revise essays based on teacher comments - DO NOT HIGHLIGHT NEW MATERIAL
February 10: Review five-paragraph essay structure.
- Bellringer
- Review Timed Essay Structure
- Start Timed Essay - Quote Response
Week Five - January 30 to February 3
January 30: Create an argument in a timed writing setting.
January 31: Snow Day
February 1: Snow Day
February 2: Review arguments.
February 3: Review argument standards.
- Bellringer
- Reminder: Essay structure and paragraph structure
- Timed writing - finish
- Introduction: Introduce/summarize the topic. Provide a main claim/thesis.
- Body Paragraph 1: Provide a topic sentence (sub-claim). Back it up with two pieces of evidence and your explanation.
- Body Paragraph 2: Provide a topic sentence (sub-claim). Back it up with two pieces of evidence and your explanation.
- Body Paragraph 3: Bring up your counterclaim. Summarize the other side's best argument. Explain why their argument is not great and your side is better.
- Conclusion: Restate your main argument and evidence
January 31: Snow Day
February 1: Snow Day
February 2: Review arguments.
- Bellringer
- Discuss essay issues we've seen so far
- Edit and finish essay from yesterday
February 3: Review argument standards.
- Bellringer
- Review argument terms and rhetorical strategies
- Minimum Wage video warm-up
- Exit Ticket: Which side is more convincing to you? What did they say that you found most convincing? Which rhetorical strategy was most effective, in your opinion
Week Four - January 23 to January 27
January 23: Create an argument using reliable sources.
January 24: Create an argument using reliable sources.
January 25: Create an argument using reliable sources.
January 26: Create an argument in a timed writing setting.
January 27: Create an argument in a timed writing setting.
- Read the articles and highlight key evidence (two big ideas and counterclaim)
- Create an outline:
- Thesis statement
- Topic sentence 1 (big idea)
- Evidence to support it
- Topic sentence 2 (big idea)
- Evidence to support it
January 24: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Review Essay Assignment
- Finish Outline
- Topic sentence 3 (counterclaim)
- How would you shoot it down
- Conclusion
- Topic sentence 3 (counterclaim)
- Submit your outline
January 25: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Bellringer
- Look at next week's agendas and go over the coming argument essay
- Review Outline Assignment
- Finish and Submit Outline
January 26: Create an argument in a timed writing setting.
- Bellringer
- Go over arguments from last class
- Review Thesis/Claim Practice
- Reminder: Essay structure and paragraph structure
- Dress Code Timed writing - start today
- Introduction: Introduce/summarize the topic. Provide a main claim/thesis.
- Body Paragraph 1: Provide a topic sentence (sub-claim). Back it up with two pieces of evidence and your explanation.
- Body Paragraph 2: Provide a topic sentence (sub-claim). Back it up with two pieces of evidence and your explanation.
- Body Paragraph 3: Bring up your counterclaim. Summarize the other side's best argument. Explain why their argument is not great and your side is better.
- Conclusion: Restate your main argument and evidence.
January 27: Create an argument in a timed writing setting.
- Bellringer
- Reminder: Essay structure and paragraph structure
- Timed writing - finish
- Introduction: Introduce/summarize the topic. Provide a main claim/thesis.
- Body Paragraph 1: Provide a topic sentence (sub-claim). Back it up with two pieces of evidence and your explanation.
- Body Paragraph 2: Provide a topic sentence (sub-claim). Back it up with two pieces of evidence and your explanation.
- Body Paragraph 3: Bring up your counterclaim. Summarize the other side's best argument. Explain why their argument is not great and your side is better.
- Conclusion: Restate your main argument and evidence
Week Three - January 16 to January 20
January 16 - No School
January 17: Create an argument using reliable sources.
January 18: Create an argument using reliable sources.
January 19: Create an argument using reliable sources.
January 20: Create an argument using reliable sources.
January 17: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Bellringer
- Find your second reliable source
- Create your own research-based argument
- Claim
- 3 pieces of evidence (one pathos, one ethos [cite your source], and one logos) - CITE SOURCES (According to X...)
- Summarize the counterclaim
- Shoot down the counterclaim
- Re-emphasize your claim
January 18: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Bellringer
- Finish Argument Writing
- If we have time: evaluate a partner's argument
January 19: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Bellringer
- Discuss arguments from last class
- Notes: Essay structure
January 20: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Bellringer
- Notes: Paragraph structure
- Quick-hit Thesis/Claim Practice with argumentative essay prompts
- Read the argumentative essay prompt and underline verbs
Week Two - January 9 to January 13
January 9: Analyze an author's argument.
January 10: Analyze an author's argument.
January 11: Create a basic, 7-sentence argument.
January 12: Create a basic, 7-sentence argument.
January 13: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Bellringer
- Technology article and questions
January 10: Analyze an author's argument.
- Bellringer
- Technology article and questions
January 11: Create a basic, 7-sentence argument.
- Review Argument elements, and review Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDdNUxWGwk
- Discuss "Tweeting about a Pop Quiz" argument (claim, evidence, counterclaim)
- Create a mini-argument:
- Claim
- 3 pieces of evidence (one pathos, one ethos, and one logos)
- Summarize the counterclaim
- Shoot down the counterclaim
- Re-emphasize your claim
January 12: Create a basic, 7-sentence argument.
- Finish yesterday's argument
- Exit Ticket: Come up with a topic you want to argue next class
January 13: Create an argument using reliable sources.
- Bellringer
- Read feedback on Twitter article and model a good answer
- How to avoid plagiarism
- Citing sources (According to)
- Source list
- Nothing copied and pasted
- Changing wording significantly
- Have your topic approved
- Exit Ticket: Find 1 of your 2 reliable sources and have them approved (think about ethos)
Week One - January 3 to January 6
January 3: Analyze how an author structures an argument.
January 4: Analyze how an author structures an argument.
January 5: Analyze an author's argument.
January 6: Analyze an author's argument.
- Bellringer
- Reminder of Expectations
- Bellringers
- Cell phones
- Assigned seats
- Review Arguments
- "Daylight Savings" Article (review claim, counterclaim, evidence)
January 4: Analyze how an author structures an argument.
- Bellringer
- Review Arguments (claim, evidence, counterclaim), purpose (persuade, inform, entertain), and rhetorical strategies (ethos, pathos, logos)
- "Doing Nothing is Something"
- Argument Analysis Questions 1-10
January 5: Analyze an author's argument.
- Bellringer
- Review argument
- Start "Doing Nothing is Something"
January 6: Analyze an author's argument.
- Bellringer
- Finish "Doing Nothing is Something"
- Go over answers