8-25-14 to 8-29-14

Monday

·         Academic English 7 – Introduction to course, classroom rules and expectations, etc.

 

·         Honors English 7 - Introduction to course, classroom rules and expectations, etc.

 

·         Academic English 8 – Introduction to course, classroom rules and expectations, etc.

 

·         Honors Reading 7 – Introduction to course, classroom rules and expectations, etc.

 

·         Practical English 10 - Introduction to course, classroom rules and expectations, etc.

Tuesday

• Academic English 7 – Assign textbooks; Getting to know your classmates activity/team-building activity

 

• Honors English 7 - Assign textbooks; Getting to know your classmates activity/team-building activity

 

• Academic English 8 – Assign textbooks; Getting to know your classmates activity/team-building activity

 

• Honors Reading 7 – Assign textbooks; Getting to know your classmates activity/team-building activity

 

• Practical English 10 - Assign textbooks; Getting to know your classmates activity/team-building activity

 

Wednesday

• Academic English 7 – KWL group activity – Sentences

 

• Honors English 7 – KWL group activity - Sentences

 

• Academic English 8 – Introduction to proper versus common nouns; activities 1-3 in packet

 

• Honors Reading 7 – Discuss Accelerated Reader guidelines. Class will go to library to check out a novel for Accelerated Reader for marking period 1.

 

• Practical English 10 – Diagnostic preview – parts of speech; KWL: parts of speech

 

Thursday

• Academic English 7 – Kinds of sentences and complete subjects and predicates (textbook p. 32-39).

 

• Honors English 7 – Sentences (types, parts, fragments, run-ons, etc.) Group activity: teach a lesson on sentences.

 

• Academic English 8 – Proper versus common nouns; activities 4 and 5 in packet

 

• Honors Reading 7 – Reading survey; Groups will brainstorm and recall reading strategies that they already know. Discussion of reading strategies that will be used throughout the year.

 

• Practical English 10 – Parts of speech: nouns (p. 3 – 6)

 

Friday

• Academic English 7 – Compound subjects and compound predicates and finding the subject (p. 43-47).

 

• Honors English 7 – Sentences lesson project: students work in groups to work on their lesson.

 

• Academic English 8 – Appositives – Activities 6, 7, 8

 

• Honors Reading 7 – Introduction to RACERS strategy. Students will practice together responding to a prompt using the RACERS strategy. They will also read an article in class and apply the RACERS strategy to respond to a writing prompt

 

• Practical English 10 – Parts of speech: nouns (p. 3 – 6); Review A: classifying nouns (p. 6)