Planning Your Week:
Friday, 12/7 - Vocabulary Unit 7 assessment; Magic Lens Level 4 assessment
Upcoming Due Dates:
Monday, 12/10 - Final exam exemption forms due to teachers by today
Friday, 12/14 - Complete reading of final independent reading book due; be ready for your presentation
Monday, December 3
Learning Goal(s): Examine Schindler’s development through the film.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. 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:
Tuesday, December 4
Learning Goal(s): Examine Schindler’s development through the film.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. 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:
Wednesday, December 5
Learning Goal(s):Analyze World War I poetry for literary elements
Targeted Standards: 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.) ELAGSE9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and 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. ELAGSE9-10RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Agenda:
Thursday, December 6
Learning Goal(s):Analyze World War II immigration policies.
Targeted Standards: 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.) ELAGSE9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and 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. ELAGSE9-10RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Agenda:
Friday, December 7
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.
Agenda:
Friday, 12/7 - Vocabulary Unit 7 assessment; Magic Lens Level 4 assessment
Upcoming Due Dates:
Monday, 12/10 - Final exam exemption forms due to teachers by today
Friday, 12/14 - Complete reading of final independent reading book due; be ready for your presentation
Monday, December 3
Learning Goal(s): Examine Schindler’s development through the film.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. 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:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for all four levels.
- Continue viewing Schindler’s List and completing the guided viewing questions from the packet.
- If time, begin the written responses from your packet.
- Study Unit 7 vocabulary words and Magic Lens level 4 - vocabulary & Magic Lens assessments on Friday, 12/7
- Continue reading independent novel #3 - due in class on Friday, 12/14
Tuesday, December 4
Learning Goal(s): Examine Schindler’s development through the film.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. 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:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for all four levels.
- Complete the Synonyms and Antonyms practice for Unit 7 vocabulary.
- Finish viewing Schindler’s List as needed.
- Complete the “what I learned” paragraph & “Oscar Schindler” paragraph from the packet. This is silent, individual work. Turn in your packet when you finish - this is homework if not completed in class.
- If time permits, students read their independent novels, due next Friday.
- Study Unit 7 vocabulary words and Magic Lens level 4 - vocabulary & Magic Lens assessments on Friday, 12/7
- Continue reading independent novel #3 - due in class on Friday, 12/14
Wednesday, December 5
Learning Goal(s):Analyze World War I poetry for literary elements
Targeted Standards: 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.) ELAGSE9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and 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. ELAGSE9-10RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for all four levels.
- Read the Wilfred Owen poem (handout here) “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (1921), and complete TP-FASSTT analysis (handout here) (Use the this resource for links to audio recordings)
- Ponder and Respond: After the losses of World War I - how is The United States feeling about other countries? How might this affect the United States’s policies on immigration?
- Study Unit 7 vocabulary words and Magic Lens level 4 - vocabulary & Magic Lens assessments on Friday, 12/7
- Continue reading independent novel #3 - due in class on Friday, 12/14
Thursday, December 6
Learning Goal(s):Analyze World War II immigration policies.
Targeted Standards: 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.) ELAGSE9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and 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. ELAGSE9-10RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for all four levels.
- Study Unit 7 vocabulary words with a partner.
- Read Immigration/Emigration policies and documentation for WWII (handout here) and discuss.
- View the video on The Voyage of the St. Louis (video here), and read the written account (here). Complete an analysis on the written account through the handout.
- Study Unit 7 vocabulary words and Magic Lens level 4 - vocabulary & Magic Lens assessments on Friday, 12/7
- Continue reading independent novel #3 - due in class on Friday, 12/14
Friday, December 7
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.
Agenda:
- Complete the Unit 7 vocabulary and Magic Lens level 4 assessments.
- Continue to read your independent reading novel.
- Continue reading independent novel #3 - due in class on Friday, 12/14