Week 19
Week 19 January
01/08/2023-01/12/2024
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
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.
Idioms Words of the Week -
Cherry on top - To make something that is already good even better
Cool as a cucumber - Calm and serene, often in a difficult situation
Cream of the crop - The very best of a group
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.
All Students-
Continue 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 tomorrow, 1/09.
Tuesday:
Start Entry Task
Continue yesterday's assignment (See Google Classroom)
The outline and rough draft is due at the end of class today.
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
Continue yesterday's assignment (See Google Classroom)
Start editing the rough draft.
Note: Do not forget to look at the Lucky 13 handout in Google Classroom for tips on beginning sentences, paragraphs and the skillful use of transition words.
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Complete your final draft, which is due at the end of class today (See Google Classroom)
Do not forget to read your work out loud. Does it flow, make sense and is it clean?
Friday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
Idiom/ AV/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.