Week 12
Week 12 November
11/13/2023-11/17/2023
Applicable Common Core College and Career Readiness Standards
Text Types and Purposes:
Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
Establish and maintain a formal style.
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Establish and maintain a formal style.
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
Monday:
Idioms Words of the Week -
Take a rain check - Postphone a plan.
Ignorance is bliss - You are better off not knowing some things.
Wild goose chase - Futile chase
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
organize – to form into a coherent unity or functioning whole.
paraphrase – a statement that says something that another person has said or written in a different way.
refer – to look at or in (or something) for information
Proper use of comma review; see Comma Rules in Google Classroom - you will be quizzed and tested regularly.
Gold Group -Kylie, Yamilette, Brooklyn, and Brailyn.
Yellow Group - Lucas, Edelmiro, Domanik, Jake, Zoya, and Brycen.
Red Group - All others
All Groups - Sentence writing Day 1
Create 5 paragraphs based upon the sentence prompts. (see handout)
Each paragraph will consist of four to five sentences.
Tuesday:
Start Entry Task
All Groups - Sentence writing Day 2
Create 5 paragraphs based upon the sentence prompts. (see handout)
Each paragraph will consist of four to five sentences.
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
All Groups - Sentence writing Day 3
Create 3 paragraphs based upon the sentence prompts. (see handout)
Each paragraph will consist of four to five sentences.
Thursday:
Extended writing assignment - Harlee, Kolton, Kylie, Janie, Tyla
Brooklyn, Mason, Brailyn, and Edelmiro
All others - Sentence writing Day 4
Friday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
idioms/academic nouns and verbs/sentence type/ comma test
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