Ms. Manning ENG 9—- Plans for the week
FOCUS AREAS DUE SOON:
Embedding Quotations 9 due October 1, 2018
Sentence Patterns 9 due October 1, 2018
CURRENT PROJECTS:
Are we Innocent? Due September 28, 2018
MONDAY: Read along and listen to chpts. 8-10 Lord of the Flies
Tuesday: Read along and listen through to end of novel Lord of the Flies
Wednesday:
SDL: 4TH HOUR.
Students will be able to:
- analyze the development of characters as they are introduced, explained, and built upon in a text.
- analyze evidence and explain how it proves analytical claims.
- organizes paragraphs to support ideas.
- incorporates transitions with variety and appropriateness.
- Explain to students they have an hour of class time today to draft their essays, using their Essay Outlines as a guide. Set a goal that all students complete a rough draft by the end of this time, and set a timer.
- Provide instructions to students that when they complete their drafts, they should move to a “waiting area,” where they begin re-reading and revising their work until another student joins them.Once another student joins them in the waiting area, students switch draft paragraphs and complete the Peer Review.
- Pull students and implement partial group workshops based on observed student needs. Provide one-on-one feedback and support.
Thursday:
SDL: 5TH HOUR
Students will be able to:
- analyze the development of characters as they are introduced, explained, and built upon in a text.
- analyze evidence and explain how it proves analytical claims.
- organizes paragraphs to support ideas.
- incorporates transitions with variety and appropriateness.
- polish writing to conform the conventions of academic English
- Prompt all students to take the Conventions Practice.
- Reveal the answer key to students and prompt them to mark all of their wrong answers. Prompt students to circle or otherwise indicate questions they got wrong.
- Explain to students that Final Product 1: Literary Analysis Essays are due Friday. Prompt students to prioritize finishing their drafts if they are not done.
- For those students on track, prompt them to use their peer and teacher feedback to revise and then review the Editing Checklist and use it to begin editing.
- Meanwhile, pull students to join you for brief 10-minute partial group grammar workshops based on the Convention Practice questions they missed. You may choose to adapt the All About Clauses and Sentence Patterns materials for use during these Workshops.
- Remind students to copy and paste their final draft.
- Prepare for today’s class by students’ Checkpoint 3: Literary Analysis Essay Drafts and giving red-yellow-green feedback. Identify students’ support needs and plan partial group workshops to hold during project time as needed.
- We recommend printing off hard copies of the Conventions Practice, so students can correct the errors with a colored pen/pencil to make their corrections easy to see.
- Prepare for the grammar partial group Workshops during Project Time by reviewing the resources in the table on page 2 of the Conventions Practice Answer Key.
FRIDAY: Complete project/turn in Complete additional focus areas
FOCUS AREAS THAT SHOULD BE COMPLETE:(Please check with your student)
THEME 9 due July 31, 2018
PLOT DEVICES 9 due August 3, 2018
PUNCTUATION 9 due August 7, 2018
ARGUMENT WRITING due August 30, 2018
RESEARCH PROCESS 9 September 12, 2018
MLA STYLE 9 due September 201, 2018
PROJECTS THAT SHOULD BE COMPLETE::(Please check with your student)
DEFINING SELF due August 10, 2018
FACT OR FICTION: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS PROJECT due August 29, 2018
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