April 27- May 1

Objective:

Monday: 27th Red Day
Bell Work:


Lesson: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7

• Show good research papers
• Look at own research paper and pass out rubric
• Look at comics
• Parallel worksheet 
• Elements of Fiction
• Go through practice MAP test

Tuesday: 28th Gray Day
Bell Work:


Lesson: 2 - 4 - 5 - 6

• Show good research papers
• Look at own research paper and pass out rubric
• Look at comics
• Parallel worksheet 
• Elements of Fiction
• Go through practice MAP test

Wednesday: 30th Red Day
Bell Work:


Lesson: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7

• MAP test in Library Lab

Thursday: 31st Gray Day
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• MAP test in Library Lab

Friday: 1st 
Bell Work:


Lesson:  Play Games

April 20 - 24

Objective:

Monday: 20th Red Day
Bell Work: Go over conditional verbs


Lesson: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7

• Conditional Verbs
• Subjunctive
• Conditonal
• Close read Ansel Adams
• As a group go through the questions on Ppt and choose answers 
• Grade active and passive voice

Tuesday: 21st Gray Day
Bell Work: go over conditional verbs


Lesson: 2 - 4 - 5 - 6

• Conditional Verbs
• Subjunctive
• Conditonal
• Close read Ansel Adams
• As a group go through the questions on Ppt and choose answers 

Wednesday: 22nd Red Day
Bell Work:


Lesson: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7

• Grade Active and passive voice
• Introduce Gerund in Warriner's pg 105-106
• Put students into groups
• Students follow this lesson in the 8 Red English blog

Thursday: 23rd Gray Day
Bell Work:


Lesson: 2 - 4 - 5 - 6

• Grade Active and passive voice
• Introduce Gerund in Warriner's pg 105-106
• Download the Snagit App and Extension --Mrs. Berg will show you how.
• Research the grammar topic that you were assigned using the links below:
• Active Voice  Warriner's 200-201
• Passive Voice  Warriner's 200-0201
• Imperative Mood
• Subjunctive Mood
• Subject Verb Agreement Warriners 156 (you need to use them incorrectly and then be corrected in your comic)
• Gerund  Warriners 105-106
• Positive Connotation
• Negative Connotation
      3. After you UNDERSTAND your grammar topic, open Make Belief Comix and create a 2-3 slide comic strip using your grammar topic correctly.  
• Here is a video showing with directions on how to create a Make-Belief Comix
• Make sure your comic uses your grammar topic correctly and will correctly teach others. 
     4.  After you create your comic strip, you will need to screen capture it with the Snagit Extension
• Here is a video showing you  how to capture your comic using the Snagit Extension.
• You will use the extension which is at the top of your screen.
     5.  After you capture the image, you will upload the image to your blog.
• Here is a video showing you how to upload your comic to your blog.

Friday: 24th 
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Do parallel worksheet with socrative

April 13-17

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Comma Lesson
• Do Comma Ppt and discuss each rule
• Pass out packet for students to work on
• Students go through comma info on Holt online
• Grade comma worksheet
• Honors:
• Do Comma Ppt and discuss each rule
• Pass out packet for students to work on
• Read "Gun Shy" silently

Tuesday:
Bell Work: colon definition


Lesson:

• Do Kahoot it "Hard and Fast Rules of Grammar"

Honors:

• 
  

Wednesday:  Red Day
Bell Work:  Do slide 2-3 of Grammar Review


Lesson: 1 - 3- 5- 7

• Read short story "Button, Button" aloud in class and discuss.  
• Pass out Story Elements-
• Students match with a partner and then discuss that element about the story "Button, Button"
• Discuss the story as a class
• Comma or Semicolon - Warriners pg 34-35

Thursday: Gray Day
Bell Work:  Do slide 2-3 of Grammar Review


Lesson: 2 -4 - 5 - 6

• Read short story "Button, Button" aloud in class and discuss.  
• Pass out Story Elements-
• Students match with a partner and then discuss that element about the story "Button, Button"
• Discuss the story as a class
• Comma or Semicolon - Warriners pg 34-35

Friday:
Bell Work: Do slide 4-5


Lesson:

• Grade Active and Passive Voice
• Do Element Review Worksheet 

April 6-10

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:  Show Connotation on the board --go over


Lesson:

• Finish Video
• Publish Video and post link into student blogs
• While it is publishing, do the connotation ws

Tuesday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Grade Denotation worksheet
• linked on blog pages 
• Kahoot -- story elements
• Kahoot -- Participle
• Library

Wednesday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Students watch and listen to videos -- Make comments on one thing you like and one thing you would change
• Read silently Four O'clock
• Answer multiple choice 1-5 through socrative

Thursday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Answer questions 7-8 in short answer Socrative and evaluate answers
• Participle ws

Friday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Short classes (MAP Assembly)
• Kahoot - Irony
• Kahoot -- figurative Language

March 30-April 3

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:  Paper due Thursday at the start of class, but will show how to begin WeVideo on Thursday.  Video due Tuesday so they have Power Hours to work on it.

• Teacher will look over notes to make sure everyone is finished
• Show how to use Easy Bib using biography.com and search Anne Frank.  Need to add title, author and pub. date.
• Go over MLA guide
• Title (see scoring guide)
• Spacing
• Font and Font type
• Indention
• Works Cited page (see scoring guide)
• Parenthetical citation (see scoring guide)

Tuesday:
Bell Work:  Connotation, Denotation While I grade notes


Lesson:

• Notes due today
• Use easybib to do citations
• Use Purdue Owl for in text citations (parenthetical citations)
• Work on paper

Wednesday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Do short modeling lesson on WeVideo
• Tell how and where to save images
• Have students share tips 
• Finish paper and begin video (Due Friday)

Thursday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Work on Video

Friday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Work on Video

March 23-27

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:  Work on Smarter Balanced example for writing paragraph of informative paper (15 min)


Lesson:

• Use informative essay anchor piece (9th grade) to discuss expectations. (20 min)
• Introduction/ Hook
• Topic/Thesis and 3 supporting details
• Paragraph topic sentences
• Transitions
• topic specific words - do these need to be defined for the audience?
• Conclusion
• Introduce a few songs about historical events and have students guess what the songs are about. Have students discuss the meaning and the history involved. Examples: Alan Jackson, "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning" about 9/11, U2, "Pride (In the Name of Love)" about Martin Luther King Jr.
• Play the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and just have students listen. Ask if anyone has heard the song before and if they know who sings the song. Then show the video.  Ask students to listen to the lyrics. Brainstorm what they can remember of the lyrics. Play the song a third time and have the students look at they lyrics. Discuss what events, people, and places they know of and what ones they do not.

Tuesday:
Bell Work:  Finish Monday's work and pick up


Lesson:

• Library lesson on researching using library online resources all hour

Wednesday:  
Bell Work:  Finish Monday's work and pick up


Lesson:

• Students will look at a brief description of the lyrics to the song.
• Divide class into 16 partners and each group look at a different "year". Go over them as a class.
• Discuss with class that some topics are more difficult to research.
• Students choose a topic by tomorrow.
• Discuss MLA and what is expected in their paper. (Info on Bb)
• Purdue Owl - MLA formatting guides
• Example MLA format
• Rubric checklist
• Evaluating Websites Video (2:30)

• Homework: choose a topic--due tomorrow

Thursday:
Bell Work:  Do pg 167-168 on Note taking


Lesson:

• Students must choose their topic by filling out survey. May not choose "Wheel of Fortune" it is the one the teacher will demonstrate
• Taking Notes: (20 min)
• Teach how to create an outline. Use anchor piece to create an outline.
• Do pg 167-168
• Begin Research and note taking (20 min)

Friday:
Bell Work:

• 
  

Lesson:

• 2-4 sources required
• Citations:  Show how to copy onto Works Cited Google Doc and use Easybib (students create Doc in class)
• Research and take notes (20 min)

March 16-20

Objective:

Monday:

• Go over LAD Fair entries:  All due on Wednesday
• Watch Chapter 1-  of the Anne Frank movie

Tuesday:

• Watch the Anne Frank Movie Chapter 11- end

Wednesday:

• Watch Video about kids playing football
• Use evidence from the video to supports each side of the debate
• Read “Should Kids Play Football?” aloud by Jennifer Shotz
• Begin answering the questions "Finding Textual Evidence"
• If time begin Friday's Assignment of taking notes

Thursday:

• Smarter Balanced test in the lab

Friday:

Write an essay Question 6:

First take notes of 4-5 facts about why football is dangerous. Read a section and then take notes, read a section and take notes.