Week 10 Plans

Lesson Plans

Week Nine March 21

English I
Week 9
Monday
Fix your memoir and essays.
I will slice and dice a couple of memoirs and essays.
Review Grammar Check List
Revise your work
Circle Time
Tuesday
prompt: What do you think of when you hear the word poetry?
WDJ: Accessible-easy to approach
Grammar: A complete sentence has a subject verb and complete thought. Share examples. See notes

Tool Box: Poetry is rhythmic compressed language that uses images and comparisons to appeal to a reader’s imagination and emotions.
Activity:
Read Tupac Poems
Music and Poetry
Wednesday
prompt: How are music and poetry related?
WDJ: morose-gloomy, sullen, and despondent
Grammar: Grammar Notes for Benchmark
Tool Box: Personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, symbol
Activity:
View ads on You Tube and Discuss
Ads in poetry assignment
Thursday
Prompt Free Write or read
Grammar Notes for Benchmark March 29th (frag, run-on, commas)
Introduce Poetry and Music Assignment
Benchmark Review create posters for fiction, nonfiction, vocabulary and grammar
Friday
prompt: Free write or review for your novel quiz
WDJ: haughty- stuck up
Grammar: Run-on sentence is two sentence squished together as one. See notes
My aunt and I walked to the store we bought eggs and milk.



Tool Box: Review poetry terms

Activity:
Novel Lit Circle and reflection
 
Remember Please bring in your song lyric Monday for your poetry project

Fiction Test Terms

Parts of Speech

Lesson Plans for the Week of March 14th

Week 8
English I
Monday
 Journal: Free write and share with a friend
 Vocab: quiz
 Apathetic, Nostalgic, Critical, Indolently, Whimiscal
 Grammar Review: Simple, Complex, Compound Sentences
 Present character projects
 Grammar
 A simple sentence- subject verb and complete thought
 Compound sentence- two sentence held together with a comma and coordinating conjunction or a semicolon
 Complex sentence- a complete sentence with extra information
 A comma CANNOT hold two sentences together
 Grammar Examples
Find the subject and verb in each sentence
Then label the type of sentence
 Because of budget cuts, class sizes will increase.
 Class sizes may increase, although data suggests this change may hurt student performance.
 Federal budget cuts could affect a wide range of programs.
 Tax increases could help fund many successful federal programs, but many Americans are against tax increases.
Tuesday
 Journal: What is the difference between direct and indirect characterization?
 Vocab: Enthusiastic, palpable, arrogant, sympatric
 Create a compound sentence with a semicolon
 Complete character projects
 WALL-E fiction review
Wednesday
 Journal: What conflicts and themes were present in the Film WALL-E?
 Define: Zealous, Detached, Cask and Apathetic
 Write a sentence complex sentence and use a comma
 Read the Gift of the Magi and complete the fiction practice test
 Fiction test tomorrow
 Bring your novels you may complete your lit circle project after the test
Thursday
 Fiction test
 Complete your lit circle work due tomorrow
Friday
 Channel One
 Journal on current events
 Discussion of events
 Review fiction test
 Lit Circles

Awesome Book Trailer by Celeste Call

Week Seven Plans March 7th -March 11 2011

Monday
Journal: What is the difference between tone and mood? How can you tell the author’s tone? How does setting affect mood?
Vocab See list from Most Dangerous Game
Lesson
Give students white boards and watch the below. Have students fill in the answer.
Quiz and assignment on THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
Video Version http://ww
w.youtube.com/watch?v=LBC7Rown13Q
Tuesday
Prompt: Have you ever hurt someone you love? How did you hurt them?
WDJ: acclaim-applaud, great approval
Grammar: Write sentences on the board and label each part of speech and parts of speech work sheet
Tool Box: Protagonist, Antagonist, Dynamic, Static
Listen to The Scarlet Ibis

Wednesday
Lit Circles Friday (you will need your novels in class tomorrow for a character project)
Character project due March 16th
Fiction test March 17th
Prompt: What is the setting of Ibis? What is the mood? Give an example of foreshadowing from the first page.
Vocab: Use acclaimed and indolently in a complete sentence. Lab the parts of speech in the sentence.
Complete the Scarlet Ibis
Complete Ibis Group work

Thursday
prompt: What do you think of when you hear the word fiction? What fiction terms do you know and understand? Place the terms on the yellow sheet hanging on the door.
WDJ: Accessible-easy to approach
Grammar: A complete sentence has a subject verb and complete thought. Share examples.
Character project assignment
Use your novels to create your character project
See video and discuss direct and indirect characterization.
Characterization
Direct characterization: stating traits or telling. He is brave.
Indirect: showing traits from action or dialogue. He saved the baby from the burning building.
What traits did the protagonist in the video have? What traits where direct? What traits were indirect?
Friday
prompt: How does the author of your novel develop characters? Directly or indirectly?
WDJ: morose-gloomy, sullen, and despondent
Grammar: Find the subject and verb
Boys stink.
Girls smell.
The car was red with blue stripes.
Activity: Complete the lit term chart using your novel.
Present your lit circle jobs and discuss your work.
Literary Terms
We will be using these literary terms throughout the school year.

We will use the following terms:
Character Antagonist Protagonist
Diction Denotation Connotation
Imagery Mood Plot
Exposition Rising Action Climax
Falling Action Resolution Conflict
Flashback Foreshadowing Suspense
Point of View Setting Style
Theme Tone Figures of Speech
Metaphor Simile Oxymoron
Personification Alliteration
Character


Antagonist
.

Protagonist


Imagery
.

MOOD
Plot
PLOTLINE
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Conflict
External Conflict


Internal Conflict
Flashback

The movie Titanic is told almost entirely in a flashback.

What are some other films that contain flashback to help tell stories?

Holes
Willy Wonka
Think of some more…
Foreshadowing
Can you think of an element of foreshadowing?
Suspense
Point of View
Setting
Style
Style is the distinctive way in which an author uses language.
Word choice, phrasing, sentence length, tone, dialogue, purpose, and attitude toward the audience and subject can all contribute to an author’s writing style.

Theme
Tone


Figures of Speech
Metaphor
Simile
Irony