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Please bring the following items for class:
1 One subject notebook, OR create a binder section in a multi-level notebook, only 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:
Q 1 Classwork or Assignment information
Q 1 Classwork or Assignment information
September/Oct review and adjustments
September/Oct review and adjustments
LHS & ESL III Expectations, Resources reminders, Performance vocabulary study, Cross-over curriculum vocabulary study.
Unit 1: How do our perceptions change as we learn?
Unit 1: How do our perceptions change as we learn?
The Language of ELA
Reading 1 Historical fiction selection: Girl with a Pearl Earring novel excerpt
Reading 2 A Wabanki Perspective
Reading 3 Your Reflection Can Be Lonely - Interview
Pre-reading vocabulary study in multiple word forms
Literary words Identification and practice: setting, figurative language-> simile, metaphor, imagery ; Theme and tone
Skill areas: Analyze text for a purpose ; extract author's point of view; agree or disagree and argue
Reading for meaning
Writing experience: Explain how figurative language develops character
Comparative medium: Film segments of Girl w/ a Pearl Earring
Grammar focus: using comparative language structures
Local history and Art connections: Web Quest
Writing for a purpose
Components of the Analytical Essay
Q 2 Classwork or Assignment information
Q 2 Classwork or Assignment information
The Language of Science
Reading Science articles:
Mendel and the Laws of Heredity
Grammar & vocabulary: mixed use of verb tenses; expressing emotion in historical context
Writing: character role-play using letter format
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species
Selections in readings and video segments
Social Studies connect: social Darwinism in the mid-1900s and its effects
Q 3 Classwork or Assignment information
Q 3 Classwork or Assignment information
Unit 3 - What Makes a Community?
Unit 3 - What Makes a Community?
Reading about the African-American experience in the United States
Readings on coexisting communities, including animal species and humans.
Grammar study:
embedded questions
adverb clauses of time and troublesome adjectives review
present and past conditional tenses
Word study and spelling:
suffixes (-ist / -or / -er)
Euphemisms
Greek and Latin roots
Writing and Speaking:
summary writing and explaining
creating an original script - > dramatical presentation
formal requests (e-mail)
presentational format writing - research and synthesis
Unit 3 Presentation timeline:
Unit 3 Presentation timeline:
Q 4 Classwork or Assignment information
Q 4 Classwork or Assignment information
Unit 2:
Reading 1: interacting with, and analyzing narrative poetry
Grammar study: Habitual Past tenses
Short writing assignment: Narrative poetry
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