Monday, September 29, 2014

Oct 6-Oct 10

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

  • Acuity question review
  • Tell Tale Heart open book  CPS quiz
  • Irony Detective


Tuesday: Bring a book
Bell Work:


Lesson:

  • HONORS:  SAT Narrative
  • Unit 1 Common Assessment CPS
  • Read a book,  and teacher read aloud



Wednesday: 
Bell Work:  Copy Adjective chart pg 39 in grammar notebook


Lesson:

  • SAT Narrative Due
  • Ask questions from warriner's pg 39 and students pair up with wipe board and marker to answer questions.
  • 1st and 2nd Hour go over Tell Tale Heart Summary for advisory
  • Go over how to write a found poem  Notebook
  • Read and choose page from books, newspapers, Landlady or Tell Tale Heart

Thursday:  
Bell Work:  Finish selecting words for the found poem


Lesson:

  • School House Rock Adjectives
  • Go over Articles, Demonstarative Adjectives and sentences:  Warrinier's pg 39-41
  • Honors SAT vocab unit 1 test
  • Use pencil to write poem in stanza
  • then color in poem
  • Teacher Read Aloud


Friday:
Bell Work:  Review Noun, Pronoun, Adjective:  Warrinier's exercise 11 pg. 44.  If they miss more than 5 they will be assigned excercise D during advisory.


Lesson:

  • Grade the bell work.
  • Teacher read aloud

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Sept 29-Oct 3

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:
  • HONORS:  SAT vocab 1.3 review
  • Write 2 sentence summary of Jack the Ripper articles in Socrative and evaluate answers,.
  • Type poem into Blog--label the post


Tuesday:  Library
Bell Work:


Lesson:

  • Pick up Landlady and Jack the Ripper articles for participation grade.
  • Introduce Tell Tale Heart with Holt Online
  • Go through to Dramatic Irony and then meet the writer
  • Begin: 


Wednesday:
Bell Work: Indefinite Pronoun chart page 36


Lesson:

  • discuss Indefinite pronouns and do pg 37 orally
  • HONORS:  SAT narrative
  • Irony Ppt
  • Introduce Tell Tale with Holt Online--Paraphrasing and vocabulary
  • Listen to Tell Tale Heart  (15 minutes)  follow along pg 376



Thursday:  
Bell Work: in groups summarize what has happened so far in the story.

Lesson:

  • HONORS:  Narrative
  • Finish Listen to Tell Tale Heart   follow along pg 376
  • Remind the students "The narrator has an active imagination" and together write a character analysis of this thesis statement.  
  • Discuss Tell Tale Heart (elements of Fiction)
    • Who is the protagonist (narrator even though he is a bad guy)
    • Antagonist (narrator's own mind)
    • What is the conflict? (Internal)  
    • Where is the climax? (when he confesses)
    • What is the theme? (Don't let your imagination run away with you.  Sometimes guilt can over come you)
    • Examples of irony?
  •  Homework:  Do Putting it all together" - Tone Analysis ws on Tell-Tale Heart on paper


Friday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

  • HONORS:  SAT vocab 1.3 Test
  • Pass back papers
  • Use Chromebooks to:
    • Poe links on Bb
    • Tell Tale Heart Vocab with Quizlet
    • Review Irony with Irony Detective with Socrative

Monday, September 22, 2014

Sept 22-26

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:  Acuity Testing


Tuesday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

  • Acuity Testing
  • While students are acuity testing pick up poems and read over them.  Meet with students to discuss as they finish

Wednesday:  
Bell Work:  Write this sentence as many different ways as you can.  "We played in a pile of fall leaves"  (There is a notebook lesson)


Lesson:

  • First read "Jack the Ripper" article 1 with a pencil
    • Summary
    • Unknown words
  • Class discuss with questions from the teacher
  • Highlight words that support how the author feels about conclusion of this mystery.
    • Put answers in Answer Garden on Bb




Thursday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:
  • First read "Jack the Ripper" article 2 with a pencil
    • Summary
    • Unknown words
  • Class discuss with questions from the teacher
  • Highlight words that support how the author feels about conclusion of this mystery.
    • Put answers in Answer Garden on Bb

Friday:
Bell Work:  Choose the best answer to support statements from the text.


Lesson:

  • #1:  Highlight words that support how the author feels about conclusion of this mystery.
    • Put answers in Answer Garden on Bb

Friday, September 12, 2014

Sept 15-19

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:  Read Characterization Papers


Lesson:

  • Go over Characterization papers.  Final Copy due Thursday.
  • Pronoun Lesson:  
    • Go over pg 31 and do pg 32 orally



Tuesday:
Bell Work:
  • Pronoun Lesson:  Put definition of pronouns in grammar notebook from Ppt
Lesson:
  • School House Rock Pronoun and go over rules again
  • 2nd and 5th go over quotation marks
  • Read and discuss the poem The Listeners (old Lit book pg 180)
  • Listen to the YouTube song "The Listeners"
  • In groups create a T-chart comparing the characters, setting and mood of The Landlady and The Listeners
  • Present charts

Wednesday:
Bell Work: Pronoun worksheet

Lesson:

  • Write a dialogue on the ending of The Landlady




Thursday:  Library
Bell Work:


Lesson:

  • Pick up Characterization Final Draft
  • Give out the poetry packet and talk about:  Tanka, Cinquain, or Limerick
  • Look at other examples
  • Write a poem
  • Poem due tomorrow



Friday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

  • Go over Landlady/Listeners chart
  • Work on Poem:  Due Tuesday

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Sept 8-12 test

Monday:   Discuss where to go if a fire
Bell Work:  Find one piece of dialogue in the story that creates

Objective:

  • Recognize how an author develops the points of view of characters by revealing thoughts, feelings, actions and spoken words
  • Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience create suspense.  


Lesson:

  • Discuss Fire routes
  • Go over Landlady worksheet
    • 1st - 3rd Hours:  go over questions as a class and examples of correct answers.  Students may re-write answers for points (due tomorrow)
    • 5th-7th Hours:  Students who received 19 or 20 will help others with their answers.  They may re-write answers for points. (due tomorrow)
  • Go over the Landlady test
  • Characterization worksheet.  2 people do Billy and 2 do Landlady then share answers



Tuesday:  Firedrill at 9:00
Bell Work:

Objective:

Lesson:

  • Pick up answer re-writes
  • As a class write thesis statement for each character.

  • Billy Weaver was innocent and not observant of his surroundings.
  • The landlady seemed friendly by showed a side of insanity


    • Do characterization worksheet


    Wednesday:
    Bell Work: vocab "narrate"

    Objective:

    Lesson:
    • Quotation lesson:  
      • Look at direct quotes in The Landlady.  Share a quotation rule that you notice.
      • Quotation rules -- put them in grammar notebook
      • Vocab "narrate"




    Thursday:  Library Lab
    Bell Work:


    Lesson:
    • Students log into google/chrome
    • go to blogger.com
    • blog title is  NPSlastname2019 (add number if more than 1 person with last name NPS2berg2019
    • Post Six Word Memoir Ppt.  (Save as a GIF first)
    • Layout:  Links
      • Blackboard
      • Mrs. Berg's blog


    Friday:
    Bell Work:

    Objective:

    Lesson:

    Monday, September 1, 2014

    Sept 2-6

    Monday:  NO SCHOOL


    Tuesday:  Library
    Bell Work:  Honors:  finish book and movie elements of Fiction.  Finish book summary from Friday.  Pick up all bell work.

    Objective:
    • Students will analyze the thoughts, words, and actions of a character to provoke a decision or impacts the development of the plot.
    • Demonstrate an understanding of how differences in points of view of the characters and the audience create effects as suspense, drama, or horror.

    Lesson:
    • Honors:  SAT Quiz 
    • Read Aloud "The Landlady" 
    • Go to library last 20 min

    Wednesday:
    Bell Work:  Read Silently and 6 word summary in writing journal


    Lesson:
    • Do vocab for vocab Facade
    • Begin 2nd read of The Landlady and take 2 column notes on unfamiliar words, foreshadowing and characterization
    • Test over story Friday


    Thursday:  
    Bell Work:  Complete 2nd read of Landlady and notes

    Lesson:
    • Review the story as a class
    • Do Worksheet on Landlady
    Friday:
    Bell Work:  Read Silently and summarize in writing journal


    Lesson:

    • Pick up Questions and character analysis paper
    • Take Landlady quiz