M 8/5 - Return signed syllabus ASAP. Bring $10 for vocabulary (cash or check made out to Harrison High School)
M 8/12 - Summer Reading Assignment due today
Thursday, August 1
Learning Goal(s): Reflect on personal qualities and characteristics; produce a short narrative; meet your new Honors World Lit community; understand class policies and procedures
Targeted Standards(s): ELAGSE9-10W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. a. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events. b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. c. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole. d. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative. ELAGSE9-10W10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Agenda:
- Complete welcome sheet; complete TRSS forms.
- Discuss the syllabus and review class procedures
- Read The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
- Ponder and Respond—Is there a moment that has turned you into who you are today or that provided you with the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson? Plan to share this with classmates as an ice-breaker.
- Icebreaker activity: Underline your most important sentence, bracket the most important phrase, then circle the most important word. You will share your whole response with a classmate, and just your word with the class.
- Read the syllabus and have parent sign - due Monday, Aug. 5
- Bring $10 for vocabulary (cash or check made out to Harrison High School) - due Monday, Aug. 5
- Bring required IAN supplies (100+ sheet composition book, glue stick, scissors) - due Wednesday, Aug. 7
- Completed summer reading assignment - due Monday, Aug. 12
Friday, August 2
Learning Goal(s): Apply skills for close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences; set writing goals for timed writing.
Targeted Standard(s): ELAGSE9-10L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Use parallel structure.* b. Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative, adverbial) to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations. ELAGSE9-10L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Use a semicolon (and perhaps a conjunctive adverb) to link two or more closely related independent clauses. b. Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation. c. Spell correctly. d. Produces legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization.
Agenda:
- Submit signed syllabus & vocabulary money
- Compose a response to the timed writing prompt (writing baseline assessment) - 1 hour
- Read & annotate chapter 1 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor: “Every Trip is a Quest” (text here)
- Identify elements of the quest in The Bee Tree
- Read the syllabus and have parent sign - due Monday, Aug. 5
- Bring $10 for vocabulary (cash or check made out to Harrison High School) - due Monday, Aug. 5
- Bring required IAN supplies (100+ sheet composition book, glue stick, scissors) - due Wednesday, Aug. 7
- Completed summer reading assignment - due Monday, Aug. 12