Lesson Plans Oct 7-11 Friday off for Students!

HOMEWORK - LA Students must read 3 AR books per grading period and take 3 AR tests which count toward your grade. Plan to read 30 minutes every night. Next AR Tests is Tuesday Oct 15.

• 100 point each=300 points per grading period
• Your score on the AR test is your grade

• LA Homework: Read your choice of AR book on your level for at least 30 minutes each night. Finish Warm-ups. Quiz on Vocabulary on Friday.
• SS Homework: Read and watch the news. Read about American History.

 

Language Art Lessons: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening

Warmups

• Monday - freewrite
• Tuesday - poem and literary terms
• Wednesday - vocabulary and skills
• Thursday - review 
• Friday - test 

Poem

• Poem - "A Time to Talk" by Robert Frost
• Poetry Terms: pg 242-243 in Writers Inc. 
• Literary Terms -
  

A Time to Talk

Robert Frost 

When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don't stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven't hoed,
And shout from where I am, 'What is it?'
No, not as there is a time talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.

Reflection:

1. What happens in the poem and why? 

2. What is the theme of this poem? 

3. How do you relate?

Poem Reflection  

Slide Show

 

Robert Frost Biography Synopsis

Born on March 26, 1874, Robert Frost spent his first 40 years as an unknown. He exploded on the scene after returning from England at the beginning of WWI. Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, Frost became a poetic force and the unofficial "poet laureate" of the United States. He died of complications from prostate surgery on January 29, 1963.

 Robert Frost Video

 Language Arts 

Essential Questions: What elements are included in a good presentation? What is the best way to revise a presentation?
Lessons

• Revising checklist on 434
• Revising - to improve the thought and details that carry your message
• Revising using Google Drive/Presentations and peers
• Presentation must include one or two song lyrics, 3-10 pictures of song writer of music (CD cover) and your personal reflection in paragraph form of why you like the song. How do you relate to the song? What does it remind you of? How does the music help the lyrics?

Cores 2 & 3 

Create a Slide Presentation using Google Presentation about a singer/songwriter of interest. Present this to the class. 

Core 1 

Lesson: "Dangerous Happiness" using Close Reading

See other post on this blog.

Technology Integration

• Create a Google Drive account
• Use Drive for presentations
• Use Drive for peer revisions
• Create a contact list
•  Collaborate to collect data using these tools

RTI - Reading 

• Skills on Compass Learning  - individually assigned
• Skills to practice
• SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) on Friday

Social Studies

Chapter 3: The English Colonies in America, pages 35-47
Homework: Study and reread the textbook for information. Take good notes.  Watch, read or listen to the news. Map of the colonies due on Tuesday.


Essential Questions

• EQ: How were the 13 original colonies settled by the British?
• EQ: How did the settlement origins reflect upon the colony?

Cornell Notes, chapter summary 
CNN Student News for events, and geography