Questions I ask when reading:

Did you venture through the passage to discover if it is fiction or non-fiction?

So, now you have a purpose:

• Do you see characters? Do you see text features? Is it a poem? (This helps determine what kind of questions you need to ask yourself while reading.)

• What are you going to be looking for?

• What is important in your question stems?

• Have you highlighted/boxed key words in the question?

• Were you able to eliminate any of the answer choices?

• Have you used your "scratch" paper to take any important notes from your question stems?

• Have you found your proof/evidence?

Writing:  All essays will be typed on the computer. 

We will be working on the computers on complete essays for the remaining portion of this year. 

We began with stretching sentences and moved to writing introductions and conclusions.

We have worked with main idea paragraphs.

We will continue working on full essays.

Main Idea = topic + point

Essays will be 4 paragraphs including:

1 - introduction paragraph  =  (Hook/Introduction Style Sentences, Controlling Idea (CI), Preview points #1 and #2

2 - Main Idea #1 with supporting elaboration and evidence and a personal story tie-in. Wrap-up sentence needed at the end.

3 - Main Idea #2 with supporting elaboration and evidence and a personal story tie-in. Wrap-up sentence needed at the end.

4 - concluding paragraph  =   (Outro Hook, restate the CI, Look back to Points #1 and #2, Advice)

Unit 7 Westward Expansion

Unit 8 The Holocaust