Lesson Plans for December 9-12 (Friday no school 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 35 minutes every night. The next AR Test will be Nov 26.

• 100 point each = 300 points per grading period - next deadline is Nov 26 
• 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. Do FLOCABULARY worksheets.  Quiz on Vocabulary when unit is complete.
• SS Homework: Read and watch the news. Read about American History.

 

Language Art Lessons: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening

Warmups - none this week

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

Poem

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost 

Because I could not stop for Death (712)

  by Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – 
He kindly stopped for me –  
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –  
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility – 

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –  
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –  
We passed the Setting Sun – 

Or rather – He passed us – 
The Dews drew quivering and chill – 
For only Gossamer, my Gown – 
My Tippet – only Tulle – 

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground – 
The Roof was scarcely visible – 
The Cornice – in the Ground – 

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads 
Were toward Eternity – 

- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395#sthash.DoqQ8sP0.dpuf

Because I could not stop for Death (712)

  by Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – 
He kindly stopped for me –  
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –  
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility – 

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –  
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –  
We passed the Setting Sun – 

Or rather – He passed us – 
The Dews drew quivering and chill – 
For only Gossamer, my Gown – 
My Tippet – only Tulle – 

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground – 
The Roof was scarcely visible – 
The Cornice – in the Ground – 

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads 
Were toward Eternity – 

- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395#sthash.DoqQ8sP0.dpuf

Reflection

1. What is the extended metaphor in this poem or what is the comparison here to a bigger idea?
2. What does Frost mean when he says "miles to go before I sleep?"
3. Your reaction and thoughts? 

• Poetry Terms: pg 242-243 in Writers Inc. 
• iambic- an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, 

Stanza - a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains

• couplet - two line stanza
• triplet - three line stanza
• quatrain - four line stanza
• quintet - five line stanza
• sestet- six line stanza
• septet - seven line stanza
• octave- eight line stanza

 

• Extended Metaphor –  A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
  
  The Form of this Poem 
   Frost the Author and his poem
  
  
  

 Language Arts 

Core 1

Vocabulary - Power Plus Lesson 3

Readings - "A Christmas Carol" adapted version 
Theme and Symbols

Writing Essential Questions

• How do Award Winning Writers from the Scholastic Awards 2013, convey ideas about writing basic elements in fiction, non-fiction, drama, journalism and microfiction? 
• What are the elements of each genre?

Writing

• Research revision and publication 
• Personal Memoir 

Essential Questions 

• What is the relationship between information, data and research?
• What Reading Strategies do we use with non-fiction vocab? 

Cores 2,3

Vocabulary - Flocabulary "The Battle of Brooklyn"
Words, definitions, usage, sentences and test

Technology Integration

• Revision in Google Drive

RTI - Mon + Tue = Math

Wed + Thur = Reading

Friday = Core class with SSR

Social Studies 

CNN Student News

Watch this special broadcast and take notes on the organizer. Discuss the news of the day in small groups and whole class.

History Alive! (brown text) 102-140

Chapter 8: Creating the Constitution
Create and maintain Text Outline and Notes
Test this week

• Early Quarrels 
• Shay's Rebellion
• Constitution
• States
• Resolution
• Slaves
• 3/5
• Chief

Essential Questions

• EQ: What factors helped forge our nation?
• EQ: What document changed the world?          

Cornell Notes, chapter summary 
CNN Student News for events, and geography
Discussion of world news, reflection and commentary. 

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

Flash Fiction Scholastic Award Winner 2013

Jump The Shark

Scholastic Award Winner 2013 Flash Fiction

Marley Townsend, Age: 14, Grade: 9th 

Tamalpais High School
Mill Valley, CA 94941

On the day of your death, rain will fall in slanted, angry lines across your bedroom window. You will watch, from somewhere around the ceiling, as nobody cares to notice.
They will say you tripped. You tangled your cursed clumsy feet up and smashed into the posts of your cheap Ikea bed (förböveln!), leaving a murky pond of metallic blood on your landlord’s new carpet. It will be your final mission. He will curse you and your leaky cerebral matter later with a finger raised to the sky, his glasses askew. But you did not trip.

It is exceedingly important you don’t believe what they say.

At first, it’s the lack of sound that will bother you. It’s as if death has eaten all the noises, swallowed them whole. You can’t hear the couple downstairs arguing. You can’t hear your landlord as he mutters, disgusted at his dying mother. Because death, like theaters and libraries, is a silent beast, all teeth and nails.

But eventually you start to enjoy the newfound hush. You will start to subtitle things. Go ahead. Make children swear. Make a morose middle-aged banker tell his boss, quite solemnly, that he prefers bubble baths to the traditional scented candles. It will make you laugh silently, your translucent shoulders quaking with bored mirth. It will pass your time.

Do not attend your funeral. It will only make you angry. Your third-grade teacher, Mrs. Turnpike, will mouth embarrassing stories while the funeral home director eats all the free buffet food. You will notice he really likes champagne. Afterwards, you slash the tires of his new Hyundai. Whisper in his ear that he’s a cheap bastard as he stares at it in sweaty anger, rubbing his too-big ears anxiously with pancake palms.

They bury an empty coffin. Your body disappeared while in the morgue. A potbellied reporter will sigh. Nudge a female cop named Elsie with an elbow. Take a sip of his decaf, and say, “damn shame, that is. Damn shame. Can I have your number?”

Read the newspaper instead. You will find a neat, two-by-four article in the back, a picture of you, cropped accordingly, next to a column of nice things. You think it looks like ants. They call you a child prodigy, and a young, tragic victim. Again, they will say you tripped. “Such a sad thing, he jumped the shark at 21.” It will not mention your drinking problem. Or the twenty thousand in cash you lost, red-faced, in Vegas last year. Breathe. You sound wonderful.
Another article will brief the city on the business, and then you will slip away from their minds like failed reality TV show. You will notice it is smaller than your obituary, and it mentions the drinking. Don’t cry about it. Mourn your wandering corpse, then haunt a Goodwill. Doze off in an alleyway, and wake to find a homeless man crying into his coat, yelling at someone named Rachel through snot and sour tears. Throw things, have silent tantrums, and run on water. Go to France. Break the law, then remember, somewhat loathingly, that you are invisible. You start to feel the silence; it weighs on you, twenty-odd pounds of bored frustration.

They will never find your killer. You know it was murder. Someone shadowy who climbed in through an unlocked window, and smashed your face with a signed Sammy Sosa bat. Wonder, dryly, if it was corked. You never liked baseball much.

Your tongue will start to feel dry. Your feet, eternally wrapped in old Christmas socks, will start to fade, and your arms will cave in on themselves. You know your time is ticking. It’s been only a year since your death. You won’t want to go. But you are tired. Every floating, faltering step feels like a marathon in molasses to you.

Return to your apartment, small, dark, and occupied by an up-an-coming British DJ named Paul. Wander the halls, before coming to a stop in your old room. There is nothing but a faded purple stain, a flimsy reminder of a kid who died a clumsy fool.
Lay down. Paul will be beat-boxing lonely in the corner. Be glad you can’t hear him.
Give a last glance at the ceiling. It is speckled with age, a clump of fungus, and a tiny nest of spiders. You will feel suddenly warm.

Close your eyes.

It will be raining. Angry slants beat the window, and you can hear them, a final word in your aching ears. They are like delicate drums, simple, mindless rhymes to a strange poem. Probably spiritual. You don’t care.

Let it put you to sleep.

You will never wake up again.

Scholastic Winners 2013

Writing With Style - Revising Pieces for Submission to Scholastic Writing

Writing with Style - Writers Inc pages 123-132

1. Name three stylistic reminders
2. Why use anecdotes?
3. Why use metaphors?
4. What is parallelism and why use it?
5. General or specific? Write a statement to argue which words (nouns, verbs and adjectives) are best and why.
6. What is primer style? Why not use it?
7. What is passive style? Why not use it?
8. Look at pages 87-88. What is jargon?
9. What is cliche?
10. Why avoid these two?

Lesson Plans for Dec 2-6, 2013

HOMEWORK - LA Students must read 3 AR books per grading period and take 3 AR tests which count toward your grade. Plan to read 35 minutes every night. The next AR Test will be Nov 26.

• 100 point each = 300 points per grading period - next deadline is Nov 26 
• 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. Do FLOCABULARY worksheets.  Quiz on Vocabulary when unit is complete.
• SS Homework: Read and watch the news. Read about American History.

 

Language Art Lessons: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening

Warmups - none this week

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

Poem

 

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Because Video English Class Version  

Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible.
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

Because I could not stop for Death (712)

  by Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – 
He kindly stopped for me –  
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –  
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility – 

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –  
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –  
We passed the Setting Sun – 

Or rather – He passed us – 
The Dews drew quivering and chill – 
For only Gossamer, my Gown – 
My Tippet – only Tulle – 

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground – 
The Roof was scarcely visible – 
The Cornice – in the Ground – 

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads 
Were toward Eternity – 

- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395#sthash.DoqQ8sP0.dpuf

Because I could not stop for Death (712)

  by Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – 
He kindly stopped for me –  
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –  
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility – 

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –  
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –  
We passed the Setting Sun – 

Or rather – He passed us – 
The Dews drew quivering and chill – 
For only Gossamer, my Gown – 
My Tippet – only Tulle – 

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground – 
The Roof was scarcely visible – 
The Cornice – in the Ground – 

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads 
Were toward Eternity – 

- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395#sthash.DoqQ8sP0.dpuf

Reflection

1. Underline the rhyme and/or rhythm in the poem.
2. What is the BIG metaphor in this poem?
3. Your reaction and thoughts? 

• Poetry Terms: pg 242-243 in Writers Inc. 
• Literary Terms -extended metaphor -
• Extended Metaphor –  A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

Explanation of extended metaphor - Death=Gentleman Caller

Emily Dickinson Bio in Pictures and Words
 

 Language Arts 

Core 1

Vocabulary - Power Plus Lesson 3

Readings
See the blog   

Writing Essential Questions

• How do Award Winning Writers from the Scholastic Awards 2013, convey ideas about writing basic elements in fiction, non-fiction, drama, journalism and microfiction? 
• What are the elements of each genre?

Writing

• Research revision and publication 
• Personal Memoir 

Essential Questions 

• What is the relationship between information, data and research?
• What Reading Strategies do we use with non-fiction vocab? 

Cores 2,3

Vocabulary - Flocabulary "The Battle of Brooklyn"
Words, definitions, usage, sentences and test


  Concepts- Reference Writers Inc text

• Good sources
• Taking notes
• Writing Plan 251
• Plagiarism - 255-258
• Citing Sources 264
• MLA Style 259
• 
  

  In Google Docs you will have  

  1. Notes
  2. Writing Plan
  3. Draft
  4. Revised
  5. Final with Sources

Technology Integration

• Create a blog using Google Blogger
• Use Drive for peer revisions
• Use of tabs for taking notes
• Collaborate to collect data using these tools

RTI - Reading 

• New Schedule - Reading on Wed, Thur and Friday
• Skills to practice
• SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) on Friday

Social Studies 

CNN Student News

Watch this special broadcast and take notes on the organizer. Discuss the news of the day in small groups and whole class.

History Alive! (brown text) 102-140

Chapter 8: Creating the Constitution
Create and maintain Text Outline and Notes

• Early Quarrels 
• Shay's Rebellion
• Constitution
• States
• Resolution
• Slaves
• 3/5
• Chief

Essential Questions

• EQ: What factors helped forge our nation?
• EQ: What document changed the world?          

Cornell Notes, chapter summary 
CNN Student News for events, and geography
Discussion of world news, reflection and commentary. 

Revising You Research Paper

Use this checklist to revise your paper. Then create a final copy. Save the final to your Google Docs as Final.  Format the paper and print it out. Post it on your blog.

Your Writing Checklist - see Writers Inc 284 for Assessment Rubric

1. Introduction Paragraph -  First sentence that grabs the readers attention - a hook. A thesis statement that tells the main idea.  
2. Paragraph that supports the topic with details
3. Paragraph that supports the topic with details
4. Conclusion - restate your thesis and summarize your main points
5. Works Cited page - see Writers Inc page 283 with three references
6.