2014-15+Eng.+11+Sept.


 * Sept. 1

Labor Day || Sept. 2

First day of school

[|Syllabus]

[|Initial Assessment]

[|"Find Someone Who] " using U.S. History

Team-building with fairy tales--debrief social skills used or Mix-N-Match with Literary Terms || Sept. 3

[|Notes over literary movements]

Reading selection to work on annotation/reading strategies

[|"Museum Indians" by Susan Power] || Sept. 4

Reading selection to work on annotation/reading strategies

[|"Museum Indians" by Susan Power] || Sept. 5

Reading and annotation of "World on a Turtle's Back" p. 23-28

Discuss reading strategies and selection

Write reflective essay: The selection states that the twins represent the two ways of the world: the "straight mind" and the "crooked mind." Agree or disagree with this assessment of human nature. Support your decision. ||
 * Sept. 8

[|Grammar Warm-up]

Log on to [|Pearson Realize] User name: school email Password: password1 (CHANGE)

Due: Reflective essay

Discuss writing with P-Q-S. Make notes for revision.

Discuss annotation and review samples.

Reading and annotation of [|"When Grizzlies Walked Upright" and a Navajo Origin Legend.] || Sept. 9

[|Grammar Warm-up]

Compare and contrast the origin legends we've looked at. Cite support from the selections. Share with table groups.

Beginning of the Year Reading Assessment || Sept. 10

[|Grammar Warm-up]

Coyote Stories/Trickster Stories

Read and annotate p. 38-43

Discuss annotations and selection.

Compare yourself to an animal or thing in nature. What clan would you belong to? Write one paragraph. Pair-share.

Group discussion: What tricksters are admired in American society? Compare and contrast them to Coyote. What do the tricksters say about a society? || Sept. 11

[|Grammar Warm-up]

" " [|Writing on Demand"] and Attacking a Prompt

Practice with Reading Strategies || Sept. 12

[|Grammar Warm-up]

Early Colonial Lit.

[|Close reading] of excerpt from //Of Plymouth Plantation//

[|Mayflower Passenger List]

[|Letter writing] ||
 * Sept. 15

Warm-up: Breaking Down Sentences as a Reading Strategy

Finish [|Close reading] of excerpt from //Of Plymouth Plantation//

[|Mayflower Passenger List]

[|Letter writing]

Letters are due on Thursday || Sept. 16

Warm-up: [|Revising stringy sentences]

[|J. Edwards' Biography]

Begin Close Reading of excerpt from //Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God//

//Examine imagery and rhetorical techniques used in sermon.//

//Reading strategies: Context clues// || Sept. 17

Warm-up: [|Revising clichés]

[|Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt]

[|Constitution Center Website]

Read //The Declaration of Independence//

Reading Strategies: annotation and recognizing charged words || Sept. 18

Finish letter writing

Continue Close Reading of excerpt from //Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God//

Examine the persuasive techniques of the writer || Sept. 19

Grammar activities

Continue Close Reading of excerpt from //Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God// [|See pg. 15 of Pearson Close Reader] if you've lost your copy

Examine the persuasive techniques of the writer ||
 * Sept. 22

Warm-up: Review [|J. Edwards' Biography] from last week.

Complete close reading of excerpt of Edwards' sermon and examine craft/persuasive techniques used

[|Questions] || Sept. 23

Warm-up: [|Questions]

Complete close reading of excerpt of Thomas Paine's //The Crisis, Number 1//

Reading Strategies: annotation and recognizing charged words || Sept. 24

Grammar [|Independent/Dependent Clauses]

Look at modern persuasive techniques. Compare to those we've looked at over the past few days. [|Questions for group ads] media type="custom" key="26576140"
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[|Commercial Dig]--EXTRA CREDIT

[|Persuasive Techniques in commercials] || Sept. 25

NWEA TESTING || Sept. 26

[|Romanticism], [|Transcendentalism] and Gothic Lit.

Add information on lit. periods to [|Notes over literary movements] ||
 * Sept . 29

Due: [|Commercial Dig]--EX. CREDIT

Review literary movements

[|Vocabulary]

Read and annotate W. Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"

Imagery which supports mood, plot, characterization, and theme. || Sept. 30

NWEA Testing ||  ||   ||   ||