Monday
· Academic English 9 – Check vocabulary definitions; review definitions, worksheet, and sentences for vocab. lesson 4A. Discuss chapter eight of Night by reviewing study guide questions. Students will read chapter nine for tomorrow.
· Practical English/Literature 11 – Prac Eng: Define new vocabulary words for list #3 on vocabulary square sheets. Students will explore and examine the absolute phrase and identify these within sentences together in class as well as independently. Students will also define gerunds and gerund phrases. They will identify these in sentences and identify their functions in sentences. Students will then differentiate between participial phrases and gerund phrases.
Prac Lit: Students will view a video on William Shakespeare that discusses his life and writings. Students will take notes as they watch the video by answering questions.
· PSSA Reading 11/12 - Students will work on lesson 6 in the PSSA book to evaluate text organization and content to determine author’s purpose.
Tuesday
· Academic English 9 – Students will discuss/analyze chapter 9 of Night and turn in study guides. Students will then view scenes from the movie,“The Pianist,” to compare and contrast using a Venn Diagram graphic organizer. Students will also be given a review sheet to prepare for the test on Friday. Students will complete the review sheet for tomorrow for homework.
· Practical English/Literature 11 – Prac. Eng: Define new vocabulary words for list #3 on vocab. square sheets. Students will also review worksheets completed on gerunds and gerund phrases from yesterday. Notes on infinitives and identify infinitives in sentences as a class.
Prac. Lit: Review questions from the video from yesterday on Shakespeare. Students will then begin to read the introduction to Hamlet while answering questions to identify key information about the play and Shakespeare’s time.
· PSSA Reading 11/12 - No Class
Wednesday
· Academic English 9 – *Periods 1 and 2 will go to the library for first half of class period today to type Twitter project and print final copy.
Students will discuss responses on their review sheets and discuss the test on Night that will be on Tuesday next week. Students will then continue to watch scenes from “The Pianist” and to compare/contrast these with the events read in Night.
· Practical English/Literature 11 – Prac. Eng: Define new vocabulary words for list #3 on vocab. square sheets. Students will practice identifying infinitives and infinitive phrases by completing exercises together and independently. As a class, we will discuss these exercises together. Students will differentiate between prepositional, participial, gerund, and infinitive phrases by completing practice exercises and worksheets.
Prac. Lit: Students will begin reading Act 1 of Hamlet and will complete study guide questions for Act 1 as they read together as a class.
· PSSA Reading 11/12 - Students will discuss lesson 6 together as a class and complete lesson 7 independently (evaluate text organization and content to determine author’s effectiveness).
Thursday
· Academic English 9 – Students will take a quiz on Vocabulary lesson 4A and then define the terms for lesson 4B. Students will also be given the worksheet to complete for lesson 4B and write sentences for this lesson on their own. Students will then continue watching scenes from “The Pianist” and complete the Venn Diagram sheet as they watch. Students will discuss their findings as a class.
· Practical English/Literature 11 – Prac. Eng: Define new vocabulary terms for list #3. Review worksheets on appositives and appositive phrases and begin chapter 3 review on phrases.
Prac. Lit: Read Act 1 of Hamlet and analyze by discussing study guide questions. Define literary devices and identify these in Act 1.
· PSSA Reading 11/12 - No Class
Friday
· Academic English 9 – Students will finish watching scenes from “The Pianist” and discuss Venn Diagrams. Students will review the test format for Night, which will be on Tuesday.
· Practical English/Literature 11 – Prac. Eng: Define new vocabulary terms for list #3. Play Scattergories review game for grammar. Test will be next week.
Prac. Lit: Students will watch scenes from the film version of Hamlet (Act 1).
· PSSA Reading 11/12 - Discuss lesson 7 together as a class to determine competency. Students will also complete the Independent Practice Test in the PSSA book at the end of Chapter 1.
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