Friday, October 11, 2013

October 14, 2013 - October 18, 2013


Monday – No School for Students (Teacher In-service day)


Tuesday
·         Reading 8 – Students will read the narrative essay, “Harriet Tubman…” (p. 485) together as a class and focus on identifying the main idea and supporting details within the essay. Students will complete a double-entry journal as they read the selection to identify significant quotes and respond to these.

·         Reading 7 – Students will read pages 408-409 in textbook on “essays.” We will discuss together the purpose of an essay, audience, and the different types of essays that writers use. Students will be assigned to bring in a magazine or newspaper article of their choice. They must summarize the article/essay and identify the author’s purpose for writing it and the audience it was intended for. This assignment is due Tuesday of next week. Students will then complete the first two columns of a KWL chart before they read an essay from the textbook. Students will begin reading the essay, “Life without Gravity” in the textbook (p. 424) and complete the “L” column of the chart as they read and also complete talking to text notes as they read.

·         Practical Literature 10 – As a class, students will continue reading part one of “Fahrenheit 451” together. Students will complete discussion questions for part one as we read. We will discuss these at the completion of part one.


Wednesday
·         Reading 8 – Students will read the narrative essay, “Harriet Tubman…” (p. 485) together as a class and focus on identifying the main idea and supporting details of the essay. Students will complete a double-entry journal as they read the selection to identify significant quotes and respond to these.

·         Reading 7 – Students will continue reading “Life without Gravity” from the textbook and working on completing the “L” column of the chart and talking to text notes. When finished, students will complete the critical thinking questions on page 428 and after you read questions on page 429 focusing on main idea.

·         Practical Literature 10 – As a class, we will discuss the questions for part one together and students will also identify and discuss the literary devices from part one. Students will have a quiz on part one tomorrow.



Thursday
·         Reading 8 – As a class, we will continue reading “Harriet Tubman…” and students will continue to add to their double-entry journal as we read. When finished, students will complete the critical thinking questions on page 496 and the after you read questions on page 497.

·         Reading 7 – Students will finish the questions and KWL chart for “Life Without Gravity.” As a class, we will discuss the KWL chart together on the board and the questions that students completed. We will discuss what the main idea of the essay was and how we figured out what it was. Students will turn in their work today.

·         Practical Literature 10 – Students will take a quiz on part one of “Fahrenheit 451” today. They will then continue reading the book (part two) and will complete discussion questions for part two.


Friday – No School for Students (Act 80 Day)

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