Week 3 lesson plans

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—prompt: What is your writing process?

—WDJ: arrogant- Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.

—Grammar: Nouns

—Tool Box: Setting and features of nonfiction

—Activity:

—Chart images, similes, nouns, and verbs in White House Dairy

—Quiz on My English

—Seminar on My English

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Tuesday

—prompt: Free Write

—WDJ: whimsical- Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability

—Grammar:  Concrete noun

—Tool Box: Image

—Activity:

—Review Nonfiction Terms

—Part of speech quiz and notes

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Wenesday

—prompt: What is the most exciting part of your memoir?

—WDJ: detached- Marked by an absence of emotional involvement

—Grammar: Abstract noun

—Tool Box: Hook

—Activity: 

—Hook due at end of class

—Lit Circles are due Friday 

—Remember Draft of your memoir due Feb. 8 (Wednesday) 

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Thursday

—Prompt: Use these words in a journal: Enthusiastic, zealous, disbelief, infer, critical, arrogant, detached

— Informal-characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary, casual, or familiar use

—Grammar: Adjective a word that describes a noun. Blue, flat, clear

—Kennedy Speech

—Please Define Each Term

—Nonfiction

—Expository

—Descriptive

—Narrative

—Persuasive

—Rhetorical Device 

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—Parallelism

—Analogy

—Restatement

—Repetition

—Figurative Language

—Metaphor

—Simile

—Imagery 

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—Friday

—Free Write

—Word of the day quiz

—How many parts of speech can you name

—Darkness at Noon

—Lit circles

—Informal

—LOL

—RU There

—TTYL

—Hey what’s up?

—Hello sir,

—I hope you are well today.

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Here are the due dates for our Nonfiction Unit

Welcome to English I

Here are the due dates for our Nonfiction Unit

Jan. 27 Timeline due

Feb. 2 Summary of Mike Birbiglia Memoir

Feb. 3 Honors Lit Circle

Feb. 6 Read pages 107-114 My English with quiz

Feb. 8 Draft of memoir

Feb. 9 Parts of Speech quiz

Feb. 10 lit circle all classes

Feb. 15 Nonfiction Test

Feb. 17 Final Memoir

Feb. 21 Memoir Presentation

Feb. 24 lit circle

audio links

Class here the links to the audio we have been listening to in class.

Mike B. (Sleep Walking)

Santa Land

Lie Game

At the start of each semester, I like to play some ice breakers. One of my favorite games is the lie game. I ask my students to tell one whole lie or one whole truth about themselves, and then the class has to guess who is telling the truth. This year I want to invite you to try this game. Write that terrible essay, "What I did on My Summer Vacation." Make the essay a whole lie or a whole truth, and then the class will guess which it is. Keep your essay about 500 words but make sure you write a complete essay. Happy lying.

Not in the mood for an essay. Make a poster about your summer at glogster. Here is my summer poster.

I tried a new media project. A Prezi about my summer 2011. All my friends are pregnant, and I traveled a bunch. Enjoy and make one of your own.

Summer 2011 on Prezi

Yo. Grover what's a preposition?

Lesson Plans for Jan. 3-17

—EOC Review

—Tuesday Jan. 3

—EOC DATES

—Tutoring Jan. 4-6 and Jan. 9-11

—All exams are at 8am on Jan. 17

—Assignments

—EOC Lesson due Friday January 6th

—100 flash Cards Due Friday January 13th

—EOC Mock Test January 10th 

— EOC notes due January 12th

—Study Island due Jan. 15

—Tuesday

—Agenda

—Review EOC question words

—Read New York Time article and use high lighter to find text to support each answer

—Remember passing this test is a choice. You have to make two good decisions. 1. Read the passage 2. Highlight the answer in the passage.

—EOC Question Words

—Trace

—Support

—Summarize

—Contrast

—Infer

—Compare

—Analyze

—Formulate

—Explain

—Describe

—Predict

—Revolutionize

— Conclude

—Relate

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—Wednesday

—Best Lesson

—Explain how EOC book is like a video game cheat book

—Lessons 1-4  in EOC Coaching Book (nonfiction and basic reading skills)

—-Context clues

—-main idea

—-author’s purpose

—-author’s craft

—View Sample Student Projects

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—Thursday

—Lab to create projects for EOC review

—Friday and Monday

—Lesson on Tone

—Student presentations

—Flash cards are due

—Study Island due next week. 

—Tuesday

—Mock EOC

—Wednesday and Thursday

—Complete purple book

—Friday

—Quack

—EOC bingo

—Review questions on Mock EOC

—Jan. 17th test

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Week 15 and 16 Dec. 12-22

—English I

—Week 15 and 16 Dec. 12-22

—The Odyssey

—Unit Due Dates  for Odyssey Reading Assignments

—Sailing from Troy through The Cyclops in class page 951-968 in class Dec. 12-15th

—Cyclops summary due the Dec. 16th

—Land of the Dead though the Monsters pages 969-980 due Dec. 19th summary will be created in class in the computer lab

—Part Two of the Odyssey due with completed questions on Dec. 22

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—Monday 

—Prompt: What is myth? Complete the Oh My God Project. 

—Cornell Notes on the Odyssey

—Notes on myths

—Notes on Gods

—Read part I of the Odyssey

—Tuesday 

—Prompt:  Make a list of action adventure movies and list the heroes in the film.

—Malicious-intentionally hateful (adjective)

—grammar – Study Island 

—Tool Box

—Epic Hero

—Activity

—Read the Cyclops 957-968, create summary

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—Wednesday 

—Journal: If you were a god, what powers would you have?

—Grammar Packet

—Get out your textbook and turn to the Cyclopes section

—Complete your Cyclopes section

—Create a summary

—Thursday   

—Pessimistic- without hope, seeing the worst side of things

—Grammar: Start Grammar Packet counts as 50 point test grade. Ex One Complete Sentences.

—Tool Box: Archetypes- reoccurring images, symbols, characters, patterns, and settings that give literature unity. The occur repeatedly in the literature of all ages. What is your archetype extra credit project

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—Activities

—Illustrate and Archetype and present to a small group (picture on the front and definition on the back)  (assign each student one to do)

—Project Must include
Lab Time Monday  

—Four Summaries and illustrations

-Cyclopes

-Land of the Dead

-Monsters

-Cattle of the Son God

*Map of the journey

—Friday

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—Prompt: Can you think of a movie that uses archetypes? What archetypes does the movie depend on? Can you think of any movies with monsters?

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— Eager-feeling/showing much desire

—grammar : Grammar Packet Section Correct Sentence Fragments page 2

—Tool Box: List Archetypes on the board and review

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—Monday

—Lab must complete:

—Four Summaries and illustrations

-Cyclopes

-Land of the Dead

-Monsters

-Cattle of the Son God

*Map of the journey

—Tuesday

—prompt: Make a list of names that Odysseus is called in the poem. You can turn in list for extra credit if you can find ten names. Hint: that man skilled in all ways of contending, Laeters’ son  

—Ambivalent-having conflicting feelings towards a person/thing 

—Grammar: Sentence Varity Chart

—Tool Box: Epithets- is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing. Athena is the only one described 'grey-eyed'.

—Activities

—Create and Epithet for yourself on your id badge

—Finish the Odyssey on your own

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—Wednesday 

—prompt: Find some examples of really long similes from the Odyssey

—WDJ: Remorseful-feeling or expressing extreme guilt for ones actions

—Grammar: Packet Section (Compound Sentences 1-5)  

—Tool Box Homeric Simile- an extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration. An example from the Iliad follows:

—As when the shudder of the west wind suddenly rising scatters across the water,
and the water darkens beneath it, so darkening were settled the ranks of Achaians and Trojans in the plain

—Movie

—Thursday 1/2 day

—Movie

—Key terms  

—Define:

—archetype,

—Homeric simile,

—epithet,

—myth,

—epic hero,

— epic,

—minstrel,

— invocation,

— muse,

—god/goddess,

—imagery,

—metaphor,

—simile,

—personification,

—dramatic irony,

—tragic hero,

— tragedy,

— comedy,

—plot,

— protagonist,

— antagonist,

— author’s purpose,

— author’s style,

— diction,

— stanza,

— prose,

— paradox,

— literal,

—figurative

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