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