Please bring these REQUIRED items for class:
1 One subject notebook, OR create a section in your binder designated for ESL class
Chromebook
Pens and pencils
A good attitude!
Provided by teacher: A personal writing journal to be used during the course of the year. (moved to online format for 2020-21 school year)
Syllabus link below:
September review: LHS & ESL II Expectations, Resources reminders, Performance vocabulary study, Cross-over curriculum vocabulary study.
Unit 1 Introduction
Pre-reading: Poetry structure and terms
Literary terminology: characterization; setting; figurative language (simile, metaphor, imagery)
Vocabulary study
Reading for meaning
Analysis of reading: identifying setting and figurative language
Writing experience: Explaining theme in poems and our lives: reaching out.
OR Characterizations using figurative language
Grammar study: Writing points and troublesome adjectives
All-class activity: Identifying our stressors and reading about solutions.
Pre-reading: vocabulary study
Grammar focus: compound and complex sentence construction
Reading for meaning
Practice reading fluency
Reading extensions: Stress and the Brain
Presentation experience: Present a solution for reducing stress to your peers - Google slides
Transitional Readings
Pre-reading exercise: Phrasal verb and vocabulary study
Grammar focus: Various uses of "would"
Cultural connections: Non-verbal communication
Reading for meaning
Analyzing persuasive language posters, speeches, and advertisements
Persuasive Pamphlet/Poster - using persuasive language, hyperbole, fact, and opinion to convince someone to follow an important cause
Pamphlet folding video demonstration
Create a persuasive poster using Canva
Pre-reading exercise: vocabulary study
Reading for meaning
Historical Events of the African-American experience (1950s)
Summarizing events
Impact of events
Additional
Practice reading fluency
Extending knowledge: Eyes on the Prize Documentary video
The Montgomery Bus Boycott - working toward desegregation in the U.S. southern states
Reading 3: The Ravine by Graham Salisbury
Pre-reading: Vocabulary study and Teenage pressures
Word Wheels
Pressures discussion
Islands: geography, climate, natural resources
Literary words and plot line: What is a plot line and what are its features?
understanding character motivation
graphing a plot line
Reading 4: Intro to Government Systems and How to Get a Voice in Government
Pre-reading: Government Systems around the world; Vocabulary study
Root Words for identification ; word study: Root words: demo / mono / dict / theo / oligo
Sharing cultural knowledge
Political terminology relationships - Reading, speaking, considering multiple meanings of words
Political Process terminology: In What Ways does the American get a voice in government?
Processes
Identifying methods of communication to government officials in a democracy
11th Grade Link: What does it mean to be an American?