Planning Your Week:
Tuesday, 3/3 - Bring in a poster board or trifold board by today for your Levels of Hell project
Friday, 3/6 - Unit 3 vocabulary quiz (word list here)
Upcoming Due Dates:
Monday, 3/9 - Groups present Levels of Hell projects (here)
Tuesday, 3/10 - Participate in the Dante and Justice Seminar Assignment (here)
Friday, 3/13 - Complete your IR book and bring your Still Life project to class! (here)
Resources:
Text: Dante’s Inferno Class Text
Levels of Hell Assignment & Rubric here
Instructions for finding articles here
Seminar Assignment & Rubric here
Writing Discussion Questions handout here
Analyze This here
CRAAP Test here (only used for articles that come from a non-CDL source)
Monday, March 2
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Tuesday, March 3
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Wednesday, March 4
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Thursday, March 5
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Friday, March 6
Learning Goal(s): Demonstrate your knowledge of grammar and SAT vocabulary by taking the assessments. Compose and revise/edit informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)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. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. 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:
Tuesday, 3/3 - Bring in a poster board or trifold board by today for your Levels of Hell project
Friday, 3/6 - Unit 3 vocabulary quiz (word list here)
Upcoming Due Dates:
Monday, 3/9 - Groups present Levels of Hell projects (here)
Tuesday, 3/10 - Participate in the Dante and Justice Seminar Assignment (here)
Friday, 3/13 - Complete your IR book and bring your Still Life project to class! (here)
Resources:
Text: Dante’s Inferno Class Text
Levels of Hell Assignment & Rubric here
Instructions for finding articles here
Seminar Assignment & Rubric here
Writing Discussion Questions handout here
Analyze This here
CRAAP Test here (only used for articles that come from a non-CDL source)
Monday, March 2
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for levels 1 and 2.
- Vocabulary Practice: Complete the synonyms and antonyms activities for unit 3 vocabulary words on pages 38-39.
- Read your IR novel (10 minutes).
- Introduce the Levels of Hell group project (assignment here). Choose your groups, begin planning and drafting your paragraphs. Bring a poster board no later than Tuesday to finalize your project.
- Study for your Unit 3 vocab quiz on Friday
- Continue preparing for the seminar: find and print an article on justice/crime/sin/punishment, complete Analyze This for your article, write five open-ended discussion questions) - Seminar on Tuesday, 10/15.
- Work on your Levels of Hell project as needed - group presentations are scheduled for Monday, 10/14.
- Continue reading your IR book - Still Life presentations due March 13th!
Tuesday, March 3
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens sentence for levels 1 and 2.
- Read your IR novel (10 minutes).
- Continue the Levels of Hell group project (assignment here). In your groups, draft and edit your paragraphs. Add all elements to your poster - presentations on Monday!
- Study for your Unit 3 vocab quiz on Friday
- Continue preparing for the seminar: find and print an article on justice/crime/sin/punishment, complete Analyze This for your article, write five open-ended discussion questions) - Seminar on Tuesday, 10/15.
- Work on your Levels of Hell project as needed - group presentations are scheduled for Monday, 10/14.
- Continue reading your IR book - Still Life presentations due March 13th!
Wednesday, March 4
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Meet in the computer lab (Vanbo 9234) to type your Levels of Hell paragraphs. Continue to work with your group to complete your project poster.
- Study for your Unit 3 vocab quiz on Friday
- Continue preparing for the seminar: find and print an article on justice/crime/sin/punishment, complete Analyze This for your article, write five open-ended discussion questions) - Seminar on Tuesday, 10/15.
- Work on your Levels of Hell project as needed - group presentations are scheduled for Monday, 10/14.
- Continue reading your IR book - Still Life presentations due March 13th!
Thursday, March 5
Learning Goal(s): Compose informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations. Evaluate the consequences of our choices as humans and assess what is sin as it is presented throughout history, religion, and other cultures. With this knowledge, determine how justice is presented throughout other cultures.
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.ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
- Study vocabulary for 10 minutes to prepare for tomorrow’s vocabulary quiz!
- Meet in the computer lab (Vanbo 9234) to type your Levels of Hell paragraphs. Continue to work with your group to complete your project poster.
- Study for your Unit 3 vocab quiz on Friday
- Continue preparing for the seminar: find and print an article on justice/crime/sin/punishment, complete Analyze This for your article, write five open-ended discussion questions) - Seminar on Tuesday, 10/15.
- Work on your Levels of Hell project as needed - group presentations are scheduled for Monday, 10/14.
- Continue reading your IR book - Still Life presentations due March 13th!
Friday, March 6
Learning Goal(s): Demonstrate your knowledge of grammar and SAT vocabulary by taking the assessments. Compose and revise/edit informational paragraphs with valid evidence and explanations.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)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. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. 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:
- Take the Vocabulary Unit 3 quiz.
- When you’re finished with the quizzes, continue reading your IR book.
- When the class is finished quizzing, meet in your Levels of Hell group projects to put finishing touches on your poster and plan your presentation for Monday.
- Study for your Unit 3 vocab quiz on Friday
- Continue preparing for the seminar: find and print an article on justice/crime/sin/punishment, complete Analyze This for your article, write five open-ended discussion questions) - Seminar on Tuesday, 10/15.
- Work on your Levels of Hell project as needed - group presentations are scheduled for Monday, 10/14.
- Continue reading your IR book - Still Life presentations due March 13th!