"Two Kinds" Close read with a partner
Analogies WS 45 ("Analogies Aren't Scary")
Pass back papers
Check the Grade Portal
How can the IXL diagnostic inform your goals and your decisions for IXL and NEWSELA?
HW:
Peer Review of Speech
"Two Kinds" Close read with a partner
Note: If you did not revise your Speech Components Self-Review, please prioritize that.
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IXL info: Analytics, Diagnostic
Workshop (Speech due by end of period)
HW: Flip Videos due Monday
"Two Kinds": read and answer questions
Writing conferences with Mrs. Humer
HW:
- 1)IXL
- 2) Speech Revisions due Friday (Please email to alert me that you've updated your speech)
- 3) Flip Videos due Monday
Vaping presentations
Harrison Bergeron film with questions
Parallel Structure mini-lesson
HW: DUE FRIDAY....
- IXL
- Revisions of Speeches (If you earned less than 30/38 on your analysis, you must resubmit your Flip Video to account for the additional components.
3/18 & 3/19: CLASSES DUE NOT MEET DUE TO IL ASSESSMENT OF READINESS
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Speech draft self analysis. Use this electronic form.
Flip Grid practice.
HW: (BY MONDAY MORNING)
IXL due tomorrow.
"Harrison Bergeron" close reading questions
For a copy of the short story "Harrison Bergeron," click here.
Speech draft self analysis. Use this electronic form.
Listening Quiz
Pass back papers
Workshop
- Paragraph component break down
- Feedback from Mrs. Humer
HW: Logs and drafts due tomorrow.
Workshop:
- Independently
- Three before me
- Paragraph component break down
Pass back papers
HW: Speech drafts due on Wednesday
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- IAR: IL Readiness Assessment Practice Packet
- Infographic group share-out with "look fors" (2 ex. each of logos, pathos, ethos appeals)
- Parallelism practice problems share-out
- "Save the Last Word" for speeches (NEWSELA articles)
HW:
- Quiz over clauses relationships
- Review paragraph criteria for speech
- Workshop for "Far From Home" Speech
IMPORTANT DUE DATES
- Speech draft....3/13
- Speech final....3/15
- Speeches delivered....week of 3/18
SPECIAL NOTE: Students will take the IRA (Illinois Reading Assessment, formerly referred to as PARCC) the week of 3/18
- Launch of "Far From Home" Speech
- Slideshow: protest/persuasive techniques
- Select NEWSELA articles related to Women's History issues: (choose 1)
- Carrie Chapman Catt Suffrage Speech
- Amelia Earhart, Women in Science/Aviation
- Megan Red Shirt Shaw Harvard Speech
HW: Logs, quiz, and GQ IDEA for women's speech
- Read "I Have a Dream".
- Reread article about leftovers. Code article for ethos/pathos/logos.
- Create an infographic with your partner on one of the "fun" topics brainstormed in class last week. Incorporate two examples of each appeal in your infographic.
- Quiz over appeals.
HW:
- Be ready for a quiz tomorrow over subordinating conjunctions.
- Hand in the written response for the book circle book.
- NEWSELA Opinion piece: rethinking leftovers
- Literary analyses: looking for ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing (e.g. "The Mending Wall," Shakespeare's Henry V monologue ["St. Crispian's Day"])
- Tinkering...incorporating ethos, logos, and pathos in persuasive writing.
- Clauses...flipping the dependent and the independent clauses
HW:
Logs and GQ IDEAs due tomorrow.
NOTE: You MAY write your response on the rethinking leftovers article read for bellwork today, However, you must still log on to NEWSELA and read an additional article and take the quiz attached to it.
- The Great Gilly Hopkins
- Writing Prompt: Choose one of the themes (legacy, difficulty journeys, separation from family, leaving home, education). Write an extended response in which you describe the presence of that theme in your book circle book and connect it to events in your life.
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Bellwork:
IXL: Trace an Argument
Clauses: ID the relationship, WS p. 7-8
Listening Activities:
- Quiz over "What Straight A Students Miss"
- notes over Self Compassion TED Talk.
"Save the Last Word" prep work.
Practice problems: ethos, logos, pathos.
HW:
- Quiz over book circle book.
- Finish letter to yourself.
- IXL lessons due Friday.
Reading Independently
Notes:
- Clauses, Day 2 (finding the relationship and IXL practice)
- Ethos/Pathos/Logos (definitions, IXL practice)
NEWSELA article related to your book circle topic assigned.
HW:
- Logs and GQ IDEAS (no SRACE due to having completed one in class on Friday or over the weekend for homework).
- Finish your book circle book.
- Read the assigned NEWSELA article.
NO School! Presidents' Day!!
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Complete a Lit Response (SRACE) related to something in your book circle book.
Pass back graded rubrics for writing and identification tasks. Celebrate successes!
NOTE: I've decided to scrap the poetry test.
Book Circles (get caught up; correct quizzes; find key excerpts)
HW:
- Read to the third benchmark of your book circle book.
- 2/13 NEWSELA reading logs, NEWSELA quiz, and reading responses
Pack back yellow poetry packet. Review key concepts.
Jeopardy!
Study for poetry test on Tuesday.
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Pass back papers.
"Mending Wall" analysis.
Book Circle Groups meet to:
- reread text
- correct quizzes
- read aloud
HW:
Poetry unit test on Monday.
Quiz over Sec. 1 of book circle novels.
Peer Review of Poetry Writing Task.
St. Crispian's Reflection
HW:
- Yellow stapled poetry packets are due on Friday!
- IXL skills are due Friday!
- Your second book circle meeting is Friday!
Book Groups
St. Crispian's Reflection
Peer Review of Poetry Identification Task
HW:
- Yellow stapled poetry packets are due on Friday!
- IXL skills are due Friday!
- Your second book circle meeting is Friday!
Poem recitations (2nd group of 8).
St. Crispian's comprehension questions in groups; youtube clips comparison.
watch clip of Speak book circle with four Peterson students. See expectations for book circles.
HW:
See below.
How many books did you read Q2? Close read for St. Crispian's Day w/ 4 questions.
Poem recitations (1st group of 10).
Book groups.
HW:
- Poem recitations (2nd group of 9 goes tomorrow).
- Logs and responses due Wednesday, 2/6.
- Read through the first section of your book circle group. Be prepared to meet on Wednesday, 2/6.