Week of Tuesday September 23 & Thursday 25, 2014 - 2Green & 4Green

Post date: Sep 22, 2014 5:28:10 PM

This is a primarily black week, meaning I will only see you on Tuesday 9-23 and Thursday 9-25.

Here are our Learning Targets for the week:

from Activity 1.3 - Analyze multiple forms of communication (an illustration, a speech, and a poem) to identify major ideas; and Generate a definition with textual support.
from Activity 1.4 - Analyze a literary work to identify the relationship between tone, imagery, and diction; and Support claims with appropriate textual evidence.

Specific activities:

SAT Question of the Day, every day
finish Activity 1.3 > writing prompt, page 11, in Google Docs. Share it to my share address: ahernhuish@rsu73.com (finish this for homework, due before the class start on September 25, 2014)
start and finish Activity 1.4, prompts to be published in Google Docs. Share it to my share address: ahernhuish@rsu73.com

Goals for the week, in addition to the Springboard work:

make sure we all have working rsu73.com Gmail accounts (all folks in 2Green are set with this! Woot!)
make sure we all have working Springboard accounts (http://regionalme.springboardonline.org)
make sure we all have working noredink accounts (http://noredink.com)
make sure all work is passed in (I will be responsible for reminding, collecting, organizing, etc.)

Work that will be included for the 9-29-14 eligibility check:

the exemplification quiz for the academic vocabulary (please pass in any improvements that you had to make, if you were part of a "re-teach" group)
the patriotism web on p. 7 > 2Green folks who haven't passed this in, I'll push this into the 9/30-10/14 eligibility checks
the writing prompt from p. 7 > 2Green folks who haven't passed this in, I'll push this into the 9/30-10/14 eligibility checks
annotations from pp. 8-11

New work from this week that will also be collected, and may end up in the 9-29-14 eligibility check:

exemplification quizzes for the literary terms - to be given on September 23, 2014
writing prompt on p. 11 (do a GDoc share with me before class on September 25)
annotations, chart, and #5 from Activity 1.4 (I will be checking annotations in class on 9-25, following up on September 29)
prompts 1 & 2 from Activity 1.4 (share this to my Gmail account by Monday morning, September 29 at 7:30am)

Homework:

Assigned 9-23, due 9-25: finish the writing prompt associated with Activity 1.3: America's Promise > share it to my Gmail address: ahernhuish@rsu73.com
Due Monday September 29, read and do light annotating on Activity 1.5 (focusing on passages that show the tone that the author shows toward America, from the beginning of the piece to the end)
Due Monday, September 29, take a pre-test on our first Quack list (Quizlet HERE) > print the results
Due Tuesday October 7, set yourself up with a noredink account and take the pre-test