Post date: Sep 05, 2011 7:49:39 PM
Monday:
Welcome/General Introduction: teacher, classroom, unit (Truth!)
Warm Up: "Let Me Tell You..." fill in the blank (share with table and turn in)
Small group activity: Conversation starters, make a folder cover based on new understandings.
Introduce unit vocab (quick overview)
Power word: Infer
Reflect on your 1st couple hours of sophomore year. What assumptions have you made? About your teachers? The students? How will this year be different for you than last year? Do you think you will feel different? Will you think differently about anything? (Turn in, writing sample).
Tuesday:
Warm Up: Read poem, "Theme For English B," make inferences.
Syllabus & Learning Target Overview
Power word: Support
Wednesday:
Check out The Things They Carried (Media Center)
Power word: Stereotype
Warm Up:What stereotypes have influenced your life? Are any stereotypes true? (Creative Journaling)
KWL chart: Vietnam War
Thursday:
Warm Up: SAT question of the day
Power word: Credibility
Patterned Way of Working: Tu Do Street, Yusef Komunyakaa
Friday:
Warm Up: SAT question of the day
Patterned Way of Working: Little Things Are Big, Jesus Colon
Reader/Writer Journal explanation.
Power Word: Pros and Cons
Stuff to cover asap:
Writing Portfolios and Learning Target Chart.
Miller Pride Activity