Week 15
Week 14 December
12/04/2023-12/08/2023
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:
NOTE: Your Christmas short story final draft is due before the start of the class period today. To be turned in to Google Classroom
Remember the late work policy!!
Start Entry Task
Study the following idioms. You will be tested on them this Friday.
Idiom - a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people.
Do not forget to rewrite this week's idioms and academic words on your rewrite handout daily! Do not fill it out beforehand.
Idioms Words of the Week -
Turn a blind eye - To refuse to acknowledge the truth.
Spill the beans - To leak a secret.
I have got it in the bag - Guaranteed success.
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
summarize – explain the main points.
synthesize – combine the parts into a coherent whole.
trace – review in detail, step by step
Review the proper use of commas; 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 -
Review sentence type and comma rules
Start Documentary
Tuesday:
Start Entry Task
Do not forget to rewrite this week's idioms and academic words on your rewrite handout daily! Do not fill it out beforehand.
All Groups -
Continue documentary
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
Do not forget to rewrite this week's idioms and academic words on your rewrite handout daily! Do not fill it out beforehand.
All Groups -
Quiz
Continue documentary
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Remember to rewrite this week's idioms and academic words on your rewrite handout daily! Do not fill it out beforehand.
All Groups -
Complete documentary and documentary questions
Friday
Start Part 1 Entry Task
idioms/academic nouns and verbs/sentence type/ comma test
If all the above is complete, SSR.