Summary Rubric!

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Weekly Agenda 9.26-9.30

AMERICAN VOICES Module

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review Ortiz’s Style,

-annotations, comprehension, and vocabulary

-close look at Narrative Structure

HW for TUESDAY, Write an Alternative ending

If able, in small groups students will work on one assigned story and complete annotations and questions.

WEDNESDAY

SSR

Total and turn in Reading Journal. NO ENTRY DUE FOR TODAY.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Consider the qualities of a “monologue”

Performance Task: NonFiction Narrative

-prewriting: Interview, or record evidence

-exposition

-dialogue

HW DUE FRIDAY: Read one of the small-group reading selections and complete the comprehension questions, no summary necessary. AND, complete the "Read It" questions under the conventions section.

In-Class Small Group Work
-reading circles
-early drafting

Models

Rubric

Presentation: Speaking and Listening Rubric

HW Finish Draft 1: Exposition, Body with descriptive details and "I thoughts" and Conclusion, for Tuesday.  

Draft 2 for Tuesday, Prepare typed final to present from for WEDNESDAY.

Weekly Agenda 9.19-9.23

AMERICAN VOICES Module

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review Kennedy’s Style, compare to Quindlen’s.

-annotations, comprehension, and vocabulary

-language of persuasion

-syntax

HW READ “American History” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and complete annotations and comprehension check, FOR THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY

SSR

#5

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Review Ortiz Cofer’s Style,

-annotations, comprehension, and vocabulary

-close look at Narrative Structure

Write an Alternative ending, FOR FRIDAY

If able, in small groups students will work on one assigned story and complete annotations and questions.

Consider the qualities of a “monologue”

Performance Task: NonFiction Narrative

-prewriting

HW FInish Prewriting for MONDAY.  

NEXT: Sample NonFiction Narratives; including dialogue.

Next WED, choose one independent, on-line, reading selection.  Assessment.

Weekly Agenda 9.12-9.16

AMERICAN VOICES Module

MONDAY-TUESDAY

In “My Perspectives” read and discuss the essential question:

“What does it mean to be American?”

-review academic vocabulary relevant to the unit

-read launch text: “Music for my Mother,” summarize and respond to the quickwrite prompt:

--share out ideas

NEXT, review the Concept Vocabulary on page 12, and then read and mark up “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen.  

-make sure to mark up text and respond to the “Close Read” questions in the margins.  

LASTLY, answer questions on p17.  #s1-6

WEDNESDAY

Review and Label, peer/self grade Kindred Essay

Connect Kindred to the American Voices module

SSR #4

THURSDAY Early Dismissal 1:05

FRIDAY

Review and Discuss Textbook activities.

-examine analogy of a quilt (p19)

-media presentation

Begin reading “The Immigrant Contribution” by John F. Kennedy (p23)

HW Finish reading and answer questions #s1-6 (p45)

NEXT WEEK→

Review Kennedy’s Style, compare to Quindlen’s.

“American History” by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Weekly Agenda 9.6-9.9

KINDRED

MONDAY→ LABOR DAY

TUESDAY

Practice finding evidence for terms

-how much is enough

-how to embed in sentence

-how to cite.

WEDNESDAY

Collect Quizzes

Get Independent Books

SSR

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Read Interview with Butler

Read Prompt, mark up text, prepare for Timed Writing

-quaker share potential evidence in support of prompt

Friday Timed Writing

Journal #3: For credit, complete in 1 class sitting.  

-4 paragraphs

-No 2nd person

-direct evidence

Next Week: American Voices module in My Perspectives