Daily Schedule

Tuesday, Jan. 7

• Welcome & course overview (syllabus)
• Diagnostic Reading test

OPTIONAL HOMEWORK:

• Download the SAT Daily Practice app from College Board onto your phone
• Getting Started with Khan Academy

Wednesday, Jan. 8

• Getting started with Khan Academy
• Setting your SAT goals
  • College search page on collegeboard.org
  • Goal setting form
• Begin first additional assignments (articles & videos on Khan Academy)

Thursday, Jan. 9

• Lesson: General Reading Test Strategies & Strategies for Reading the Fiction Passage
• In-class practice

Friday, Jan. 10

• Continue practicing with Fiction passages
• Lesson: Vocabulary in Context questions

Monday, Jan. 13

• Lesson: The Big Picture (Main Idea & Purpose questions)
• Time to practice on Khan Academy

Tuesday, Jan. 14

• More practice with main point/purpose questions & vocab in context
• Khan time

Wednesday, Jan. 15

Warm up

• Lesson: Paired Questions (15% - 20% of the questions on the reading test ask, "Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question. There's a strategy for dealing with these.)
• Practice: see how many paired questions you can answer in 10 minutes
• Khan Academy practice time

*If you miss class, you can still work through the day's lesson and practice by going through this chapter from The Complete Guide to SAT Reading, by Erica Meltzer. Practice questions are at the end, along with answer explanations.

Thursday, Jan. 16

Practice Reading Test #10 (This is the first GRADED practice test for the class. You will take the reading test from practice test #10 on Khan Academy. When you finish, you need to show me your score. I will show you how to get the conversion score that will go into the gradebook.)

Please use the remainder of the class time to work on Khan Academy SAT practice.

DUE Sunday night: 150 minutes of practice time on Khan

Tuesday, Jan. 21

• Lesson: Paired Passages
• In-class practice with paired passages
• Khan time

Wednesday, Jan. 22

• Warm up: Paired Passages section (pages 956-958)
• Lesson: Graphics & Data Analysis Questions
• In-class practice with paired passages
• Khan time

Thursday, Jan. 23

• Graphics & Data Analysis, cont.
• Khan time

Friday, Jan. 24

Practice Test (Writing & Math-No Calculator)

Monday, Jan. 27

Practice Test (Math-Calculator)

Tuesday, Jan. 28

• Lesson w/practice: Writing & Language Foundations
• In-class practice on noredink.com
• Khan time

Wednesday, Jan. 29

• Warm up: Sentence Fragments
• Lesson w/practice: Punctuation (Commas, Semicolons, Colons & Dashes)
• Khan Time

Thursday, Jan. 30

• Warm up: Punctuation (practice handout)
• Lesson: Redundancy (practice handout)
• Lesson: Combining Sentences (practice handout)
• Khan Academy practice time

Friday, Jan. 31

Khan work day (today's class is only 45 min. long; for the second half of class you'll be at the registration assembly)

Monday, Feb. 3

• Warm up
• Lesson: Idioms & Word Choice
• Khan Academy practice time

Tuesday, Feb. 4

Khan work day

Wednesday, Feb. 5

• Warm up
• Lesson: Paragraph Cohesion & Sentence Placement
• Khan work time

Thursday, Feb. 6

• Warm up: Practice Writing & Language Test #2, questions 12-22 (review of skills/question types)
• Lesson: Relevance & Purpose Questions

Friday, Feb. 7

• Review with practice test questions
• Khan work time

SNOW DAY!

Monday, Feb. 10

• Warm up: review
• Lesson: Parallelism & Logical Comparisons
• Practice

Tuesday, Feb. 11

Review general reading test strategies

Practice Reading Test (ON PAPER)

Wednesday, Feb. 12

Practice Writing & Language Test & Math-No Calculator Test

Thursday, Feb. 13

Practice Math with Calculator Test

Friday, Feb. 14

TBD