October 16, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. Bring any props or costumes and review your script. Presentations
of the scene will be tomorrow/Friday!!
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: What do you remember about Romeo and Juliet and the
prologue from last quarter?
Agenda
1. New Seating Chart
2. Journal
3. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 1 Scene 1
i. Acting out scenes
October 17-18, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Bring any props or costumes and review your script. Presentations
of the scene will be today!!
New Homework Assigned:
1. Vocabulary Unit 4 packet is due Monday.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Do you have any questions about the scene you are presenting
today?
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 1 Scene 1
i. Acting out scenes
ii. Scene Wrap up
1. Highlight in pink evidence of the threat the prince
makes to the two families.
2. Brainstorm Green Words that are evidenced in
Act I scene 1 and write them next to evidence in
the script.
3. Brainstorm Green Words and Character Traits to
describe Benvolio and Tybalt.
a. What are Benvolio and Tybalt an example
of?
3. Vocabulary Unit 4
October 21, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Vocabulary Unit 4 packet is due.
New Homework Assigned:
2. The Vocabulary Unit 4 test is this Thursday/Friday. Original
sentences will be part of the test, and will include prepositional
phrases and infinitives.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Complex Character Goal and Scale- Reflection 1
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Complex Character – definition
i. Question: Based on the definition of Complex
Character, are any of the characters in the play we have
met so far complex? What evidence proves this?
3. Vocabulary Unit 4
a. Check packet
b. Intro review of prepositional phrases and infinitives
October 22, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. The Vocabulary Unit 4 test is this Thursday/Friday. Original
sentences will be part of the test, and will include prepositional
phrases and infinitives.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: What are dreams? What purpose do they serve?
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 1 Scene 4
i. Plot advancement and character introduction
1. Question: Based on the definition of Complex
Character, is Mercutio a complex character?
What evidence proves this?
2. Question: How are Romeo and Mercutio foils of
each other? What evidence proves this?
b. Act 1 Scene 5- Act 2 Scene 1
i. Video with guiding questions.
3. Vocabulary Unit 4
a. Practice for test if time
October 23, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. The Vocabulary Unit 4 test is this Friday for all classes. Original
sentences will be part of the test, and will include prepositional
phrases and infinitives.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Write a sentence with a prepositional phrase using one of our
vocabulary words. Write a sentence with an infinitive using one of our
vocabulary words.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 1 Scene 5- Act 2 Scene 1
i. Video with guiding questions.
3. Vocabulary Unit 4
a. Practice for test if time
October 24, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. Finish “Close Reading of Romeo’s Soliloquy” for Monday if not
done in class Friday.
2. The Vocabulary Unit 4 test is this Friday for all classes. Original
sentences will be part of the test, and will include prepositional
phrases and infinitives.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Definition of Close Reading- Reading with deliberate purpose
to interact with the details of the text and make meaning of the text.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 2 Scene 1 – “Close Reading of the Soliloquy”
i. Steps to Close Reading
ii. Mark the “sections” of the soliloquy
iii. Teacher Model
iv. Begin answering text-dependent questions
October 25, 2013
Homework Due: Vocabulary 4 packet
New Homework Assigned:
1. Finish “Close Reading of Romeo’s Soliloquy” for Monday if not
done in class Friday.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal:
Agenda
1. Vocabulary Unit 4 Test
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 2 Scene 1 – “Close Reading of the Soliloquy”
i. In partners finish the analysis protocol of the passage
ii. Each student will answer the five questions for the
passage.
October 28, 2013
Homework Due: “Close Reading of Romeo’s Soliloquy”
New Homework Assigned: Finish the “Complex Character Closure
Question” for tomorrow if not done in class today.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Describe how the process of Close Reading helped you better
understand Romeo’s soliloquy. Describe any challenges you had with
the Close Reading process.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 2 Scenes 3-6 with Complex Character Closure Question
i. Identify Green Words from the scenes
October 29, 2013
Homework Due: the “Complex Character Closure Question”
New Homework Assigned: Vocabulary Unit 5 packet is due
Thursday/Friday.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Share “Complex Character Closure Question” responses
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Vocabulary Unit 5
3. Romeo and Juliet
a. Act 3 Scene 1 with Complex Character Development Focus
October 30, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned: Vocabulary Unit 5 packet is due
Thursday/Friday.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal:
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Finish Act 3 Scene 1 with Complex Character Development
Focus
b. Chart Plot Line of events through climax
3. Complex Character Goal and Scale
a. Complete second reflection
October 31-November 1, 2013
Homework Due: Vocabulary Unit 5 packet
New Homework Assigned:
1. Bring any props/costumes for your scene on Monday.
2. Finish the “Complex Character Graphic Organizer” for Monday.
3. “Soliloquy Close Reading Question” corrections due Monday if
student chooses to revise.
4. Vocabulary Unit 5 Test is next Wednesday with appositives
application in sentences.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Appositives Warm Up – write the definition on your
prepositions sheet.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Check Vocabulary Unit 5
3. Romeo and Juliet
a. Review “Close Reading assignment for Romeo’s Soliloquy”
and show teacher sample. Students can make corrections if
they choose.
b. Complex Character Final Project
i. Use graphic organizer to prove that one character is
complex in the play. Give specific evidence and
inferences. Use the “analysis sentence starters” to help
you.
c. Acting Groups prepare for presentations on Tuesday.
November 4, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Props/costumes for your scene.
2. “Complex Character Graphic Organizer”
3. “Soliloquy Close Reading Question” corrections due if student
chooses to revise.
New Homework Assigned:
1. Vocabulary Unit 5 Test is Wednesday with appositives application
in sentences.
2. “Plot Advancement” piece of Complex Character Project is due
Wednesday.
3. Romeo and Juliet Application Test is this Thursday/Friday.
Review all notes on foil, protagonist etc.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal:
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Complex Character Final Project
i. Analyze how the complex character from the play
advances the plot. Give specific evidence and
inferences. Use the “analysis sentence starters” to help
you.
1. Use Red Pen to mark key terms in prompt
question that need to be included in the answer.
b. Acting Groups prepare for presentations on Tuesday.
November 5, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. Vocabulary Unit 5 Test is Wednesday with appositives application
in sentences.
2. “Plot Advancement” piece of Complex Character Project is due
Wednesday.
3. Romeo and Juliet Application Test is this Thursday/Friday.
Review all notes on foil, protagonist etc.
4. Complex Character Thesis Statement is due Thursday/Friday.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Plot line
b. Play presentations
c. Complex Character Final Project
i. Prove the character is complex through their
development of a theme.
1. Use Red Pen to mark key terms in prompt
question that need to be included in the answer.
2. Write a thesis statement that incorporates a green
word theme that the character develops.
a. Example – Thematically Tybalt’s character
develops the idea that extreme hate can
never end happily, and often destroys lives.
November 6, 2013
Homework Due:
1. “Plot Advancement” piece of Complex Character Project is due.
2. Vocabulary Unit 5 preparation for test.
New Homework Assigned:
1. “Romeo and Juliet Application Test is this Thursday/Friday.
Review all notes on foil, protagonist etc.
2. Complex Character Thesis Statement is due Thursday/Friday.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Agenda
1. Vocabulary Unit 5 test with appositives application
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Complex Character Final Project
i. Prove the character is complex through their
development of a theme.
1. Use Red Pen to mark key terms in prompt
question that need to be included in the answer.
2. Write a thesis statement that incorporates a green
word theme that the character develops.
Example – Thematically Tybalt’s character develops the idea that
extreme hate can never end happily and often destroys lives.
November 7-8, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Complex Character Thesis Statement is due
New Homework Assigned:
1. Complex Character Significant Interactions assignment is due
Tuesday.
2. A hard copy of a piece of Renaissance art will be due on
Thursday/Friday. If you have a color printer, please use it.
a. Students cannot use
i. “School of Athens”
ii. “Mona Lisa”
iii. “The Last Supper”
iv. Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (vanEyck)
v. Marriage of the Virgin (Raphael)
vi. David (Michelangelo, Donatello)
vii. Peasant Wedding (Bruegel)
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal: Third reflection for the Goal and Scale of the Complex
Character Standard.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Complex Character Final Project
i. Prove the character is complex through their
interactions with other characters.
1. Use Red Pen to mark key terms in prompt
question that need to be included in the answer.
2. Give specific evidence and inferences. Use the
“analysis sentence starters” to help you.
b. Final Test
November 12, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Complex Character Significant Interactions assignment is due
New Homework Assigned:
1. A hard copy of a piece of Renaissance art will be due on
Thursday/Friday. Your chosen art piece must have a minimum of 3
characteristics of the Renaissance evident. If you have a color
printer, please use it.
a. Students cannot use
i. “School of Athens”
ii. “Mona Lisa”
iii. “The Last Supper”
iv. Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (vanEyck)
v. Marriage of the Virgin (Raphael)
vi. David (Michelangelo, Donatello)
vii. Peasant Wedding (Bruegel)
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the
theme. Common Core Standard R.9-10.3
Journal:
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Using Art to Define the Renaissance
a. Guest Speaker
November 13, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. A hard copy of a piece of Renaissance art will be due on
Thursday/Friday. Your chosen art piece must have a minimum of 3
characteristics of the Renaissance evident. If you have a color
printer, please use it.
a. Students cannot use
i. “School of Athens”
ii. “Mona Lisa”
iii. “The Last Supper”
iv. Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (vanEyck)
v. Marriage of the Virgin (Raphael)
vi. David (Michelangelo, Donatello)
vii. Peasant Wedding (Bruegel)
2. Vocabulary Unit 6 packet is due on Monday
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Art to Define the Renaissance project – Students have goal and
scale
Journal: Complete first reflection on the Goal and Scale sheet for the
project.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Using Art to Define the Renaissance
a. Question: What does the phrase “Art imitates life” suggest to
us? – class discussion
b. Question: Where do artists get their inspiration for their
work? – class discussion
c. Question: How does art give us clues about what is important
to people at a certain time? – class discussion
d. Phantom Towers and Iwo Jima Photo
i. Apply the previous three discussion questions to these
two art pieces.
e. The School of Athens
i. Apply three discussion questions to this art piece
ii. Apply characteristics of the Renaissance to this piece
1. Humanism, Secularism, Individualism and
Classicism.
a. This is what you will be doing to your
chosen Renaissance art piece during the
block class this week.
November 14-15, 2013
Homework Due:
1. A hard copy of a piece of Renaissance art will be due. Your chosen
art piece must have a minimum of 3 characteristics of the
Renaissance evident.
New Homework Assigned:
1. Vocabulary Unit 6 packet is due on Monday.
2. Individual student response and turnitin.com receipt answering the
Essential Question in context of Renaissance art is due Tuesday.
Remember to use evidence and inference in your 7-8 sentence
response.
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Thursday/Friday
November 21st/22nd.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Art to Define the Renaissance project – Students have goal and
scale
Journal: What characteristics of the Renaissance are visible in School of
Athens? What evidence proves the characteristics are there?
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Overview of QQN assignment
3. Using Art to Define the Renaissance
a. The School of Athens
b. Apply three discussion questions to this art piece
i. Question: What does the phrase “Art imitates life”
suggest to us?
ii. Question: Where do artists get their inspiration for their
work?
iii. Question: How does art give us clues about what is
important to people at a certain time?
c. Apply characteristics of the Renaissance to this piece
1. Humanism, Secularism, Individualism and
Classicism.
a. This is what you will be doing to your
chosen Renaissance art piece during the
block class this week.
d. Partners Project
i. Steps to complete the project
1. Choose how you are going to format your final
project.
2. With assigned partner complete analysis of both
art pieces – evidence, inference, and green word
and highlight them correctly.
3. Label the characteristics of the Renaissance that
your evidence and inference are analyzing.
4. Prepare for final presentationaddressing/including the requirements on the Goal
and Scale for this project.
a. Final Presentation on Tuesday– extra credit
for formal dress!!!
i. Must be formal in nature and clearly
organized.
ii. Each partner shares their response to
the essential question.
iii. Both partners share in presenting the
characteristics of the Renaissance
evident in the art pieces and provide
evidence, inference and green words to
support their findings.
November 18, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Vocabulary Unit 6 packet is due
New Homework Assigned:
1. Vocabulary Unit 6 Test is on Wednesday.
2. 1st and 4th hours- signed progress report is due tomorrow!
3. Individual student response and turnitin.com receipt answering the
Essential Question in context of Renaissance art is due tomorrow.
Remember to use evidence and inference in your 7-8 sentence
response.
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Thursday/Friday
November 21st/22nd.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Art to Define the Renaissance project – Students have goal and
scale
Journal: Complete second reflection on the Goal and Scale sheet for the
project.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Check Vocabulary Unit 6
3. Using Art to Define the Renaissance
a. Partners Project
i. Steps to complete the project
1. Choose how you are going to format your final
project.
2. With assigned partner complete analysis of both
art pieces – evidence, inference, and green word
and highlight them correctly.
3. Label the characteristics of the Renaissance that
your evidence and inference are analyzing.
4. Prepare for final presentationaddressing/including the requirements on the Goal
and Scale for this project.
a. Final Presentation on Tuesday– extra credit
for formal dress!!!
i. Must be formal in nature and clearly
organized.
ii. Each partner shares their response to
the essential question.
iii. Both partners share in presenting the
characteristics of the Renaissance
evident in the art pieces and provide
evidence, inference, and green words
to support their findings.
November 19, 2013
Homework Due:
1. 1st and 4th hours- signed progress report is due.
2. Individual student response and turnitin.com receipt answering the
Essential Question in context of Renaissance art is due.
New Homework Assigned:
1. Vocabulary Unit 6 Test is on Wednesday.
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Thursday/Friday
November 21st/22nd.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Art to Define the Renaissance project – Students have goal and
scale
Journal: Color code your “Response to Essential Question”
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Using Art to Define the Renaissance
1. Practice/Give presentation- addressing/including
the requirements on the Goal and Scale for this
project.
a. Final Presentation on Tuesday– extra credit
for formal dress!!!
i. Must be formal in nature and clearly
organized.
ii. Each partner shares their response to
the essential question.
iii. Both partners share in presenting the
characteristics of the Renaissance
evident in the art pieces and provide
evidence, inference, and green words
to support their findings.
November 20, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. Corrections for the Complex Character Project are due by Tuesday
of next week. Tutoring is available tomorrow at conference hour
and after school!
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Thursday/Friday
November 21st/22nd.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Art to Define the Renaissance project – Students have goal and
scale
Journal: Final Reflection for “Renaissance Goal and Scale”
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Vocabulary Unit 6 Test
3. Using Art to Define the Renaissance
a. Finish presentations
November 21-22, 2013
Homework Due:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Thursday/Friday
November 21st/22nd.
New Homework Assigned:
1. Corrections for the Complex Character Project are due by Tuesday
of next week. Tutoring is available today at conference hour and
after school!
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday
November 27th.
d. If you don’t have time to finish the “families analysis” finish
for Monday.
3. Vocabulary Units 4-6 cumulative test will be on Thursday/Friday,
December 5th/6th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
Journal: With shoulder partner share QQN theme responses and green
words from chapters 1-3.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Quiz over chapters 1-3
b. “The Families” analysis project
3. Using Art to Define the Renaissance
a. Finish presentations if needed
November 25, 2013
Homework Due:
a. If you don’t have time to finish the “families analysis” last
class it is due today.
New Homework Assigned:
1. Corrections for the Complex Character Project are due by Tuesday.
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday
November 27th.
3. Vocabulary Units 4-6 cumulative test will be on Thursday/Friday,
December 5th/6th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
Journal: In groups of 4, share QQN Essential question responses for
chapters 1-3.
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Discussion of quiz over chapters 1-3
b. “The Families” analysis project- present findings
November 26, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Corrections for the Complex Character Project. Turn in the
original assignment with the corrections.
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday
November 27th.
2. Vocabulary Units 4-6 cumulative test will be on Thursday/Friday,
December 5th/6th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
Journal: Mini lesson – Works Cited page and Citations for Bias Paper
corrections
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Discussion of quiz over chapters 1-3
b. Begin “Applied Practice” close reading passage with
questions.
November 27, 2013
Homework Due:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird- Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 QQN and receipt.
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 4th.
2. Vocabulary Units 4-6 cumulative test will be on Thursday/Friday,
December 5th/6th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
Journal: Mini lesson – Applied Practice Close Reading: Question 1
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Quiz over chapters 4-7
December 2, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 4th.
2. Vocabulary Units 4-6 cumulative test will be on Thursday/Friday,
December 5th/6th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
Journal: Mini lesson – Applied Practice Close Reading: Question 2
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Review of Vocabulary Unit 4
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Socratic Seminar chapters 1-7
December 3, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 – there will be a quiz over the
reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 4th.
2. Vocabulary Units 4-6 cumulative test will be on Thursday/Friday,
December 5th/6th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
Journal: Mini lesson – Applied Practice Close Reading: Question 3
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Review of Vocabulary Unit 5
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Discussion of Quiz over chapters 4-7
December 4, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 QQN and Turnitin.com Receipt
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 15 – there will be a quiz over
the reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 11th.
2. Vocabulary Units 4-6 cumulative test will be on Thursday/Friday,
December 5th/6th.
3. Renaissance Projects corrections due December 12th/13th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Determine a theme or central idea of the text and analyze in detail
its development over the course of the text, including how it
emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.
Journal: Discussion of theme green word from QQN
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Quiz over chapters 8-11
3. Paper pass back
December 5-6, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 15 – there will be a quiz over
the reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 11th.
2. Renaissance Projects corrections due December 12th/13th.
3. The last day to turn in any late work is Wednesday, December 11th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Determine a theme or central idea of the text and analyze in detail
its development over the course of the text, including how it
emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.
Journal:
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Vocabulary Units 4-6 Cumulative Test
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Discussion of quiz over chapters 8-11
b. Introduce Theme Analysis Assignment with Goal and Scale
4. Portfolio paper pass back
December 5-6, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 15 – there will be a quiz over
the reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 11th.
2. Renaissance Projects corrections due December 12th/13th.
3. The last day to turn in any late work is Wednesday, December 11th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Determine a theme or central idea of the text and analyze in detail
its development over the course of the text, including how it
emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.
Journal:
Agenda
1. Journal
2. Vocabulary Units 4-6 Cumulative Test
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Discussion of quiz over chapters 8-11
b. Introduce Theme Analysis Assignment with Goal and Scale
4. Portfolio paper pass back
December 9, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 15 – there will be a quiz over
the reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 11th.
2. Renaissance Projects corrections due December 12th/13th.
3. The last day to turn in any late work is Wednesday, December 11th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Determine a theme or central idea of the text and analyze in detail
its development over the course of the text, including how it
emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.
Journal: Why did you choose the green word you did to focus on for the
theme analysis? When do you see the theme for the first time in the
story?
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Theme Analysis Assignment with Goal and Scale
i. Define academic vocabulary from the standard, and
identify key terms that are required in the analysis
sections.
ii. Identify evidence of the theme’s emergence in the text.
1. Complete analysis protocol of the evidence –
paraphrase and inference
iii. Use analysis sentence starters and academic vocabulary
to begin inference and analysis section.
December 10, 2013
Homework Due:
New Homework Assigned:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Read Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 15 – there will be a quiz over
the reading.
b. Complete the QQN and upload it to turnitin.com
c. QQN, receipt and reading must be done for Wednesday,
December 11th.
2. Renaissance Projects corrections due December 12th/13th.
3. The last day to turn in any late work is Wednesday, December 11th.
4. Finish the Close Reading Passage assignment for tomorrow if not
done in class today.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Determine a theme or central idea of the text and analyze in detail
its development over the course of the text, including how it
emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.
Journal:
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Theme Analysis Assignment with Goal and Scale
i. Identify evidence of the theme’s emergence in the text.
1. Complete analysis protocol of the evidence –
paraphrase and inference
ii. Use analysis sentence starters and academic vocabulary
to finish inference and analysis section. *Due at the end
of class
b. Close Reading passage with questions
i. Choose two of the remaining test questions that you got
wrong.
1. Define any terms in the answer you don’t know.
2. Find two pieces of evidence in the text that would
support the correct answer. Make one inference
from your two pieces of evidence. *Finish for
homework if not done in class today.
December 11, 2013
Homework Due:
1. Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 15 QQN and turnitin.com receipt.
2. Close Reading Passage assignment is due
New Homework Assigned:
1. Renaissance Projects corrections due December 12th/13th.
2. The last day to turn in any late work is Wednesday, December 11th.
Learning Goals:
1. Essential Question: What are enduring questions/conflicts that
individuals and their cultures grappled with through history that
are still relevant today?
2. Determine a theme or central idea of the text and analyze in detail
its development over the course of the text, including how it
emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.
Journal:
Agenda
1. Journal
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
a. Quiz over chapters 12-15
3. Discussion/grading of Vocabulary units 4-6 final test