Eng.+10+Jan.+2015

January 2015
 * Jan. 5

Vocabulary [|--All root words]. Create flash cards and practice

Review [|grammar]

Unit 2 - [|Pearson Textbook] "What Kind of Knowledge Changes Lives?"

Informational Text--p.186

Read Reagan's "Address to Students" p. 187. || Jan. 6

Read Reagan's "Address to Students" p. 187.

Grammar

Writer's Notebook-- [|Discuss 6 traits--Definition and Rubric] || Jan. 7

Grammar

Writer's Notebook || Jan. 8

P. 192 Excerpt of Touch the Top of the World || Jan. 9

Quiz

Read "The Sun Parlor" p. 220

Discuss craft from reading selections ||
 * Jan. 12-- Multiple Monday

[|Subjects of sentences]

[|Pronouns]

Writer's Notebook-- [|Discuss 6 traits--Definition and Rubric] || Jan. 13-- Too Nerdy Tuesday

[|Subject-Verb Agreement]

Writer's Notebook || Jan. 14-- Dynamic Duo Wednesday

Grammar Practice
 * [|Pronouns]
 * [|Objects]

[|Subject-Verb Agreement Uncommon Nouns and Pronouns]

Writer's Notebook || Jan. 15-- Throwback Thursday

Grammar Practice

Writing || Jan. 16-- School Spirit Friday

Work on [|Portfolio] ||
 * Jan. 19

Exam Week

Work on [|portfolio]and review [|literary terms]

>> [|Direct Objects Quiz] || Jan. 20
 * Grammar Practice
 * [|Pronoun Case]
 * [|Pronoun Case Chart]
 * [|Subjects and Predicates]
 * [|Objects]
 * [|Indirect Objects Quiz]

Work on [|Portfolio] || Jan. 21

Exam review and work on [|Portfolio]

Portfolio due at end of class. || Jan. 22

Literary Terms and Reading Portions of Exam || Jan. 23

Early Release

Grammar Portion of Exam ||
 * Jan. 26

[|Course Expectations]

[|Vocabulary words] for the week. Record part of speech, definition, and sentence for each word.

Analyzing Important U.S. Documents...

Writer's Notebook
 * [|Reading Survey]
 * What is the role of civil disobedience in a democratic society?
 * How do writers, artists and musicians engage in civil disobedience?
 * =====How do informational writers, photographers, naturalists, and reporters engage in civil disobedience?=====
 * =====How is their approach to educating or providing news a protest of political and social issues? Is it civil disobedience or unethical?===== || Jan. 27

Begin unit on rhetoric:

Read and [|annotate]

[|Patrick Henry's Speech to the Second Virginia Convention] || Jan. 28

Finish reading and annotating Patrick Henry's speech.

Review vocabulary words || Jan. 29

Discuss [|Rhetorical Devices in Henry's Speech]

Individual response:
 * What was Henry's purpose and message?
 * How was he effective/ineffective?

Review vocabulary words

Grammar--Parallel Structure


 * [|Study Island Activities] || Jan. 30

Vocabulary Quiz

[|ACT vs. SAT]

Log on to [|Collections]textbook

Use school email as login and owls##### (#=id)

Read and annotate "Letter from Birmingham Jail" p. 319
 * summarize
 * look at rhetorical devices
 * analyze

No school on Monday ||