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English I week 7 Lessons

Monday

prompt: Free Write

WDJ: Abridge- to shorten

Grammar: Worksheet on Fragments

Frag-incomplete sentence

Tool Box: Foreshadowing- hints to upcoming events (list examples from horror movies)

Activity: Listen to Ibis (No interruptions)

Tuesday

prompt: What is the setting of Ibis? What is the mood? Give an example of foreshadowing from the first page.

WDJ: acclaim-applaud, great approval

Grammar: Write sentences on the board and label each part of speech.

Tool Box: Protagonist, Antagonist, Dynamic, Static (from Ibis)

Activity: Group Work on Ibis

Homework- study for short story test (give out study guide)

Wednesday
Film review
Find Examples of these terms in
Willy Wonka
I will be stopping the movie to point out terms

Thursday

Test and Start Novel
Friday Character Projects
Poetry Starts Monday

Enhanced English Week 7

• Week 7 Enhanced English
  
• Poetry
  
• Monday
  
• Channel One
  
• Journal: Try using your vocab words in a short poem.
  
• Vocab page 11
  
• Write a complex sentence and label the parts of speech in the sentence.
  
• Poetry and food lesson. Lesson II
  
• Tuesday/ Writing Test
  

1)In the pink poetry books read page 6 and complete the questions on page 7 with your assigned partner.

2) On your own read page 8 and answer the questions on page 9

Your answers must be in complete sentences, and all work is due by 9:30. If Mr. Brown is happy with your work. You may watch a movies and complete the movie assignment.

• Wednesday
  
• Journal summarize the movie you saw yesterday
  
• Write five complete sentences and label the parts of speech in the sentences
  
• Review pages 6-9
  
• P. 11 I asked My Mother to Sing
  
• Thursday
  
• Journal- find your best journal entry from this year.
  
• Turn it into a poem
  
• Pages 14-16
  
• Remember to bring a song to class tomorrow
  
• And share it.
  
• Friday
  
• Journal- What will you say about the song you brought? How is it poetry?
  
• Vocab quiz
  
• Write an example of these parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction
  
• Complete pages 18-19
  

Week 6 Lesson Plans English I

Week 6 Lessons

Dates to Remember English I

• March 10^th Short Story Review
  
• March 11^th short story test
  
• March 12 Character Project Due
  
• March 15-April 15 Poetry Unit
  
• March 18^th-19^th Revise Memoir and Complete Study Island
  
• March 25^th Midterm Review
  
• March 26^th Midterm
  
• March 31 and April 1 lab day poetry project
  
• April 12-13 poetry presentations
  
• April 14^th poetry review
  
• April 15^th poetry test
  
• April 16^th-30^th Romeo and Juliet
  
• April 3^rd -14^th Odyssey
  

English One Vocab for Weeks 5 and 6

Character Project

Week 5 and 6 Vocab

Career Project Enhanced English I

Wednesday

Assignment One 20 points

http://www.bls.gov/k12/azlist.htm

Take notes on what you find. In your notes be sure to answer these questions.

What is the name of the career?

Describe the career. What do you do?

What is the average annual salary?

What the promotional opportunities?

Where is this career located?

What are the other interesting aspects of this career?

Assignment Two Draft Essay 20 points
Use each of the questions above as a paragraph in your career essay. Be sure to move smoothly from one idea to the next.

Thursday

Assignment Three 20
Revise your essay from yesterday. Create a final draft. Print two copies of the essay. Give one to Mrs. Warren and keep one for yourself.

Power Point Presentation 20 points
Create a Power Point presentation on your career. Be sure to cover all the important ideas covered in your essay. Email a copy of your presentation to Mrs. Warren at mwarren@bcswan.net

Week 5 lesson plans

English I lesson plans

English One Week Four Lesson Plans

English I Plans Week 4

Week 3 Lesson Plans Feb. 8-12

English I Plans

Enhanced English

Week 2 English I assignments

Week Two Fall 09 Lesson Plans

Monday

First period will have character education lesson. Skip the lecture on nonfiction and go to the store. Talk about the ways to tell a good story and comparisons. They do not have to write summary

 

WDJ: zealous-ardently active, devoted, or diligent.

 

Grammar: Verb- a verb is an action anything you can do is called a verb.

Find the verbs

I spoke to your parents.

Please finish your homework.

 

Tool Box: Figurative language- comparisons. Language that is not meant to be taken literally.

She was as big as a house. She smelled like a dog. Her hair glowed like fire.

 

Review characteristics of nonfiction and fill out notes

 

Activities

• Listen to Mike Birbiglia memoir on sleep walking
  

  http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=361
  

  
   

• As you listen create a list of comparisons you hear and underline the verbs in those comparisons (may have to listen to more than once)
  
• Create a summary of the memoir be sure to include:
  

  -Beginning, middle, and end
  

  -important details
  

  -what the author learned about denial (help and hurt you)
  

  -what is the value of this memoir why should other people hear it?
  

  
   

Homework

English I Complete summary on Birbiglia due Tuesday 30 points

 

Tuesday

prompt- What are some of the ways memoirs of others are important to the rest of us?

 

WDJ- disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing.

 

Grammar- Being verb- is a state of being. Being means the words be, been, being, is, are, was, were

 

Tool Box- Metaphor is a direct comparison

If dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly

 

Activities

• Go over memoir assignment sheet (will start drafting tomorrow)
  
• Go over seminar rules
  
• Discuss Mike B. story (see fall 08 plans for questions)
  
• Revise summary
  

  
   

Homework

Read My English Pages 107-114 due Friday with quiz

Memoir Draft Due Feb 12^th

 

Wednesday

Prompt- What are some of the problems you are having coming up with an idea for your memoir?

WDJ: infer- to hint; imply; suggest.

 

grammar : Helping verb-when being verbs are next to action verbs they are called helping verbs. Helping verbs help complete the action. Be, been, being, is, are, was, were, had, been, might, do, did, does, shall, should, will, would, could

She is planning a surprise party.

 

Tool Box: Review Rhetorical devices and Plot- the events in a story

 

 

Activities

 

• Activity on rhetorical devices and group work on how to structure and argument
  
• Read and answer questions on Amy Tan's Fish cheeks (see handout)
  
• Drafting for memoirs and talk about how Tan's story telling could influence their own
  
• List events, free write, outline, or start draft
  

 

Homework

Memoir draft Feb 12^th points 75 points

Final due Feb 18^th

Thursday

prompt: Free write and talk about memoirs

WDJ: critical-
Inclined to judge severely and find fault.

Grammar: define action and helping verbs (on note card)

Tool Box: Simile

Review Nonfiction and rhetorical devices

Activity: Read/listen to White House Dairy page 97 textbook and listen to online

 

 

Homework

Read My English Pages 107-114 due Friday with quiz

Memoir Draft Due Feb 12^th

 

Friday

prompt: What is your writing process?

WDJ: arrogant- Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.

Grammar: Nouns

Tool Box: Setting and features of nonfiction

Activity:

Chart images, similes, nouns, and verbs in White House Dairy

Quiz on My English and Seminar on My English

 

Check Out Photos of your classmates

Savon

Princess

Cameron

Megan

Brooke

Jessica

Dori

Ehanced Lesson Plans Week 1 semester 2

Week One Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans and presentation for week one
Homework
Supplies: Pen, Notebook, Portfolio due Friday
Please bring in photos of yourself and family due Friday


Time line Assignment and ScrapBlog
On Friday you will be asked to create a time line of your life. You can make this timeline with pictures that you bring in or with a website called scrapblog. There is an example of a timeline I made with scrapblog shown below.

If you want to use scrapblog....
1) Go to http://www.scrapblog.com/
2) Click the quick tour link http://www.scrapblog.com/tour/tour.aspx
3) Create a free account with a name and password you can remember
4) Create you scrapblog
5) Publish your scrapblog and mark public
6) Post a link to the comment section of this post below. Be sure to include your first and last name in the comment section.



Mrs.Warren's Time Line

Lesson Plans for Week 20

English I

Enhanced English

Enhanced English One Writing Project

Here is your file for your writing project. Please complete the six tasks and then print and turn in your work. Be sure once you open the writing project file to save it to your student directory. If you need any help opening or saving the assignment. Please let Mrs. Warren know.

 

Enhanced English I Writing Assignment

English I Week 19 EOC Review

Lesson Plans and assignments

We will use an EOC review guide to learn about the types of questions used on the EOC.