Week 18
Week 18 January
01/03/2023-01/05/2024
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 - Tuesday
No school
Wednesday
Start Entry Task
Review the following for a test this Friday:
The proper use of commas; see Comma Rules in Google Classroom
The three sentence types, simple, compound, and complex.
All Students-
Start argumentative essay; "How can schools cultivate a sense of patriotism without promoting exclusion or fostering blind loyalty?" (See Google Classroom)
The outline and rough draft will be handwritten and due at the end of class next Tuesday, 1/09.
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Continue yesterday's assignment (See Google Classroom)
Friday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
Sentence type and comma test
SSR/Remember, the three assignments that are linked to the Individual Reading Project are to be done by January 23rd.