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 diagnostic assessment on NoRedInk.
Thur 8/30 - Complete all Unit 2 practice activities on Sadlier Connect before midnight
Fri 8/31 - Vocabulary Unit 2 assessment; Magic Lens quiz
Sun 9/2 - Complete NoRedInk Embedded Quotation Practice #1
If you have purchased your own copy of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, please bring it this week! (A class set will be provided.)
Access a digital copy of Things Fall Apart here.
Access an audio version of Things Fall Apart here.
Upcoming Due Dates:
Tues 9/4 - Bring a printed, revised copy of your Antigone paper to class for peer review #2. Also: Complete partner online research for TFA, one partner must bring in a PRINTED copy of your research. (Copy the document from here.)
Thurs 9/6 - Complete all Unit 3 practice activities on Sadlier Connect before midnight
Fri 9/7 - Vocabulary Unit 3 assessment
Sun 9/9 - Antigone final essay due to TurnItIn.com
Fri 9/14 - Independent reading one-pager assignment and presentation due (calendar here; assignment here) - Continue to read your independent novel!
Click HERE for a Works Cited page for your Antigone paper!
Monday, August 27
Learning Goal(s): Practice role as a “peer editor” to improve revision skills and help create polished pieces.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10.) ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Agenda:
- Complete the Magic Lens level 1 practice sentence
- Assign Embedded Quotation Activity #1 on NoRedInk, due this Sunday before midnight.
- Vanbo’s Class: Congrats to Brian, Chloe, Michaela, and Sydney G who are exempt from this assignment!
- Annotate the Magic Lens practice sentence to prepare for Friday’s quiz.
- Bring a copy of your typed, complete first draft to class today - no printing in class. Meet in partners to conduct peer review of Antigone: Embedded Assessment 2 literary analysis essays (packet here; peer review here).
- Ponder and Respond: In your IAN, please answer the reflection questions on page 383 of your SpringBoard book.
- If time, continue reading your independent reading novel!
- Complete all Unit 2 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - due Thurs. 8/30 before midnight
- Study vocabulary unit 2 words and Magic Lens - quiz Fri. 8/31
- Complete Embedded Quotation Activity #1* on NoRedInk by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. *Students who showed mastery on this skill are exempt from NoRedInk practice this week.
- Revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback; printed copy of revised draft due Tues. 9/3 in class
- Continue reading your independent novel; Independent reading one-pager assignment and presentation (calendar here; assignment here) due Fri, 9/14
Tuesday, August 28
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 2 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - due Thurs. 8/30 before midnight
- Study vocabulary unit 2 words and Magic Lens - quiz Fri. 8/31
- Complete Embedded Quotation Activity #1* on NoRedInk by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. *Students who showed mastery on this skill are exempt from NoRedInk practice this week.
- Revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback; printed copy of revised draft due Tues. 9/3 in class
- Continue reading your independent novel; Independent reading one-pager assignment and presentation (calendar here; assignment here) - due Fri, 9/14
Wednesday, August 29 - Early Release Day (alternate bell schedule)
Learning Goal(s): Consider thematic concepts for Things Fall Apart unit.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and analyze in detail 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.
Agenda:
- Intro to PSAT skills! (add this to IAN) - Complete the PSAT reading practice passage and answer the accompanying questions. Discuss strategies for analyzing texts in a timed setting.
- Review page 223 in SpringBoard for conducting internet research to prepare for partner homework assignment, due Tuesday, September 4th: (Copy and paste this template into your HWL Google Drive folder, then invite a partner to share the document. Complete this work together, then print your work to submit to your teacher)
- Add the Unit 2 Table of Contents to IAN (handout here)
- Add the Things Fall Apart anticipation guide in IAN (here). Pick two statements you feel strongly about and write a journal entry about those items in IAN.
- As a class, add the literary terms from SpringBoard page 218 to a QHT chart.
- For your "Q" terms, look up and define each term in the Ponder and Respond section of your IAN
- Answer the “Essential Questions” on page 220 of the Introduction to Things Fall Apart in your SpringBoard textbook.
- In SpringBoard, unpack embedded assessment 1 on page 220.
- Begin activities with Things Fall Apart in Springboard textbook - complete activity 3.2 on proverbs and folktales; read, discuss, and analyze the Nigerian folktales “Why the Bat Flies at Night” and “The Lucky Fisherman.”
- Complete the culture wheel activity on pages 226-7, and create your Ibo pronunciation bookmark.
- Complete all Unit 2 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - due TOMORROW (8/30) before midnight
- Study vocabulary unit 2 words and Magic Lens - quiz Fri. 8/31
- Complete Embedded Quotation Activity #1* on NoRedInk by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. *Students who showed mastery on this skill are exempt from NoRedInk practice this week.
- Revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback; printed copy of revised draft due Tues. 9/3 in class
- Complete partner online research for TFA, one partner must bring in a PRINTED copy of your research. (Copy the document from here.) - due Tues. 9/4
- Continue reading your independent novel; Independent reading one-pager assignment and presentation (calendar here; assignment here) due Fri, 9/14
Thursday, August 30
Learning Goal(s): Examine thematic connections between proverbs and folktales; Predict how and why an author uses proverbs and fables in a novel.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and analyze in detail 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. ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.)
Agenda:
- All 10th grade classes participate in the hearing/vision screening - exact time TBA
- As needed, complete Things Fall Apart introductory activities:
- In SpringBoard, unpack embedded assessment 1 on page 220.
- Begin activities with Things Fall Apart in Springboard textbook - complete activity 3.2 on proverbs and folktales; read, discuss, and analyze the Nigerian folktales “Why the Bat Flies at Night” and “The Lucky Fisherman.”
- Complete the culture wheel activity on pages 226-7, and create your Ibo pronunciation bookmark.
- Begin reading chapters 1-4 of Things Fall Apart, tracking character traits between Okonkwo and his father to compare and contrast Achebe’s characterization (use the graphic organizer on page 228 of SpringBoard).
- Consider cultural elements of the novel: are there any cultural aspects that strike your interest so far? Remember that you will be creating a research presentation on one element of tribal culture before and after British colonization.
- Complete active and passive voice activity in SpringBoard, page 229. Write your own sentences in both active and passive voice.
- Create a double-entry journal to analyze the first four chapters of Things Fall Apart - consider Achebe’s use of motif and foil.
- Analyze the character faults of Okonkwo - discuss the first four chapters and consider how Achebe presents Okonkwo’s character. Complete the graphic organizer on page 231, then answer the ponder and respond.
- Ponder and Respond (SB pg. 232): Take a position on the question: Is it common for powerful leaders to have flawed characters? Why? How might this affect the community? Write an argumentative paragraph, using at least two pieces of text evidence, to support your position and explain how it relates to Okonkwo’s character.
- Complete all Unit 2 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - due TODAY (8/30) before midnight
- Study vocabulary unit 2 words and Magic Lens - quiz TOMORROW (8/31)
- Complete Embedded Quotation Activity #1* on NoRedInk by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. *Students who showed mastery on this skill are exempt from NoRedInk practice this week.
- Complete partner online research for TFA, one partner must bring in a PRINTED copy of your research. (Copy the document from here.) - due Tues. 9/4
- Revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback; printed copy of revised draft due Tues. 9/3 in class
- Continue reading your independent novel; Independent reading one-pager assignment and presentation (calendar here; assignment here) due Fri, 9/14
Friday, August 31
Learning Goal(s): Demonstrate your knowledge of SAT vocabulary and language skills.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10L6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. 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.
Agenda:
- Take the Unit 2 vocabulary and Magic Lens assessments.
- Enjoy your independent reading time!
- Complete Embedded Quotation Activity #1* on NoRedInk by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. *Students who showed mastery on this skill are exempt from NoRedInk practice this week.
- Complete partner online research for TFA, one partner must bring in a PRINTED copy of your research. (Copy the document from here.) - due Tues. 9/4
- Revise your Antigone essay based on peer feedback; printed copy of revised draft due Tues. 9/3 in class
- Begin Unit 3 practice activities on Sadlier Connect - due Thurs, 9/6 before midnight
- Continue reading your independent novel; Independent reading one-pager assignment and presentation (calendar here; assignment here) due Fri, 9/14