Mon 8/20 - Complete your reading of the literary analysis Antigone articles. Annotate for use in your embedded assessment essay. (article 1 here, article 2 here, article 3 here)
Thurs 8/23 - Complete all Unit 1 practice activities on Sadlier Connect
Fri 8/24 - Vocabulary Unit 1 assessment; present your book talk in class (handout here)
Upcoming Due Dates:
Mon 8/27 - Bring a typed, printed draft of EA2 for peer review in class today. NO PRINTING IN CLASS. Have your Antigone paper packet completed for a progress check today (packet here).
Mon 8/27 - Technology form due today - show your initialed document to your teacher. You should be enrolled in all digital systems, and have completed your first 45 minutes of Membean and your diagnostic assessment on NoRedInk.
Fri 9/14 - Independent reading one-pager assignment and presentation due (calendar here; assignment here) - Continue to read your independent novel!
Monday, August 20
Learning Goal(s): Make strategic use of digital media to share work, find resources, learn vocabulary and skills, and demonstrate your knowledge of language standards.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. ELAGSE9-10L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Agenda:
- Meet in the computer lab to set up all digital systems (technology forms here).
- If not yet submitted, your group’s Antigone guided reading questions are due when you walk in today. (question packet here; rubric here) Complete the group member assessment and reflection sheet (on the rubric) before submitting your rubric to your teacher.
- Read the passage at the beginning of the unit for our Sadlier Connect Unit 1 vocabulary words and introduce all 20 words. You will complete all unit assignments by 11:59 on Thursday before our vocabulary unit assessment on Friday. Credit for your online work will be part of the unit assessment grade.
- Take the NoRedInk diagnostic assessment.
- Begin planning/outlining/drafting your Embedded Assessment for Antigone. Use your textbook, three articles, and the Antigone: Embedded Assessment 2 packet (packet here).
- Complete all Unit 1 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - Thursday, 8/23 by 11:59 p.m.
- Prepare for vocab assessment - Friday 8/24
- Prepare book talk (handout here) - Friday, 8/24
- Register for all digital systems and initial each box on Technology Agreement - Monday, 8/27
Tuesday, August 21
Learning Goal(s): Practice revisiting a writing prompt to plan and outline an essay; use primary and secondary evidence to support your analysis of a text.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. b. Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns. c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims. d. Establish and maintain an appropriate style and objective tone. e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for level 1 (parts of speech).
- Language Checkpoint: review the relative pronouns “that” and “which” (page 348 in SB); complete the four sentences, determining whether to use “that” or “which.” Review essential and nonessential elements.
- Review the literary concept of foils. On page 357 in SpringBoard, respond to questions 7 and 8. How might your responses to these questions help you shape your essay?
- Take notes in IAN on thesis statements as you prepare for your Antigone essay (presentation here).
- Continue planning/outlining/drafting your Embedded Assessment for Antigone. Use your textbook, three articles, and the Antigone: Embedded Assessment 2 packet (packet here).
- Complete all Unit 1 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - Thursday, 8/23 by 11:59 p.m.
- Prepare for vocab assessment - Friday 8/24
- Prepare book talk (handout here) - Friday, 8/24
- Register for all digital systems and initial each box on Technology Agreement - Monday, 8/27
Wednesday, August 22
Learning Goal(s): Conduct critical discussions with peers on informational texts; practice analyzing various forms of art through the Feldman Model; Practice description in narrative writing.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment; ELAGSE9-10W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. a. Come to discussions prepared having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for level 1 (parts of speech).
- Analyze paintings for their portrayal of characters/scenes from Oedipus/Antigone - Employ the Feldman method of art analysis and add notes to IAN (handout here; presentation here). After we have examined and analyzed several paintings as a class, analyze a piece independently in your IAN.
- Take notes in IAN on thesis statements as you prepare for your Antigone paper (presentation here).
- Continue working through your Antigone: Embedded Assessment 2 packet (packet here).
- Complete all Unit 1 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - TOMORROW by 11:59 p.m.
- Prepare for vocab assessment - Friday 8/24
- Prepare book talk (handout here) - Friday, 8/24
- Register for all digital systems and initial each box on Technology Agreement - Monday, 8/27
Thursday, August 23
Learning Goal(s): Apply skills for close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences to poems.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and closely analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. ELACC9-10L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for level 1 (parts of speech).
- Read/analyze “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (poem here); draw scenes from the poem on your urn (handout here) as you listen to the poem.
- Use the TPFASSTT model (handout here) and compose a theme statement (you may want to use your IAN resource on theme!).
- If time, work with a partner to write a short narrative based on an urn.
- Complete all Unit 1 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - TONIGHT by 11:59 p.m.
- Prepare for vocab assessment - TOMORROW
- Prepare book talk (handout here) - TOMORROW
- Register for all digital systems and initial each box on Technology Agreement - Monday, 8/27
Friday, August 24
Learning Goal(s): Demonstrate your knowledge of SAT vocabulary; Compose a literary analysis essay using a digital platform.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. ELAGSE9-10W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Agenda:
- Meet in the computer lab!
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for level 1 (parts of speech).
- Take the Sadlier Connect Unit 1 vocabulary assessment.
- Independent Novel - complete a short book talk in a group of your peers! Meet to discuss the elements you completed on your book talk handout (handout here).
- Type your Antigone essay - bring a printed draft to class on Monday for peer review.
- Prepare a typed, complete first draft of your Antigone paper for peer review (no printing in class) - Monday, 8/27