Week of January 5 - 9, 2015

Post date: Jan 5, 2015 2:15:33 PM

Friday January 9, 2015

• Two SAT Questions of the Day (the ones for January 8th and 9th) - SAT Question of the Day site is HERE, in case you missed and would like to practice
• Viewing Quack #4 video and taking down definitions and "tacky cheats."
• revisiting the end of 2.5's activities by viewing the Proctor and Abigail alone scene, followed by a quick discussion of the director's interpretation of the scene
• Activity 2.6
• Activity 2.7 - finish at home - either as an individual (I will speak with you if I want you to work alone) or via GDocs.

Homework due on Tuesday 1/13/15

• read Activities 2.8, 2.9, and 2.10
• finish the Activity 2.7 Writing Prompt (dramatic scene, p. 111)
• Quack list #4 quiz
• NoRedInk: Commonly Confused Words (except for 2G's P.C., 4G's S-L.F. and K.G.)

Upcoming due date:

NoRedInk: Subject-Verb Agreement due on 1/15/15 (except for 4G's Al.Di., J.C., and K.G.)

January 7, 2015

• We will have a quick review of the Activity 2.1 work and look at the assignment mind map I created for Unit2's Embedded Assessment 1: Creating and Performing a Dramatic Scene
• 2.4 - group work on the graphic organizer, using texts. Made a "juxtaposed Crucible men" poster, as a pre-writing strategy for the writing prompt associated with Activity 2.4 (p. 105)

• 2.5 - we will jigsaw this and "cross-pollinate" our notes

Homework due on Friday 1/9/15:

• Activity 2.4's writing prompt (p. 105) - make sure it's MLA formatted and submitted with the proper GDocs naming structure, or I will not accept it.
• read and lightly annotate 2.6 & 2.7

January 5, 2015

2.2 & 2.3 (on online Springboard)

Homework due on Wednesday 1/7/15:

Springboard work

1. all of Activity 2.1
2. finish annotations and graphic organizers, Activities 2.2 and 2.3
3. study new Unit 2 academic vocab and literary terms

Other work

• pre-test Quack #4 (you've probably already done this - just do it again)
• review Act One of The Crucible (look for and annotate for "various conflicts" in preparation for Activity 2.8)
• NoRedInk: Commonly Confused Words assignment - due on 1/13/15 @ 7am, Subject-Verb Agreement assignment - due on 1/15/15 @ 7am