English 12 (meeting days BCE): |
1. | Day 1: Students meet in library for Mrs. Bellin’s intro to children’s lit and for Dr. Scher’s intro to the unit. Students begin reading and evaluating children’s lit. | |||||||||||||||
2. | Days 2–3: Students take part in elementary classroom activies as assigned and continue evaluating children’s lit. |
3. | Standards 1, 3, 4 |
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ACE/AP English (meeting days ABD) |
Apr 05–Apr 08 and Apr 19–23: read Metamorphosis (345-379), focusing particularly on issues of power. Bring other critical approaches to bear also. Students use ideas presented before break for them to lead class discussion. | ||||||||||||||||
Write essay: explore the theme of personal change in the novella. Focus primarily on a single character in depth. You must provide at least six (6) quotations or examples from throughout the story in your essay. Due by 7 p.m. on April 29. |
Standards: 2, 3, 4 | |||||||||||||
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English 9 (Block 9.02 meeting days ACD; 9.03 meeting ABD; 9.06 meeting ACD; 9.08 meeting BCE) |
Plan on vocab test next week. | ||||||||||||||
This week, two activities (1/2 period each) [ Teacher determines each day how far students can go within period forRegents Prep; use remainder of period for vocab. review and for moving forward with One Fat Summer project.] | ||||||||||||||
1. From Regents Prep, Students orally review purpose and elements of Regents II (pp. 83–85). Relate that information to sample “Part II” on 85. |
Students take notes on article, 85-89; examine diagrams on 89. | ||||||||||||||
Students take test on 132-133. | ||||||||||||||
Students restate task on 91. | ||||||||||||||
Students self-test on prompt (93-94). | ||||||||||||||
Students in groups identify the specific writing task, audience, and writing purpose (85) for this exercise. | ||||||||||||||
Students write response to prompt on 85. | ||||||||||||||
Students review note-taking tips (95). | ||||||||||||||
Students in groups evaluate note-taking on 96-97, comparing with their own. | ||||||||||||||
Students apply tips on 99 to activities on 100–111 in groups. | ||||||||||||||
Students review tips on 112, write paragraphs as on p. 113. |
2. Students start One Fat Summer project, students justifying their answers to our guides and explicating theme, characterization, motivation, setting. They begin to evaluate the book: how does it compare with other readings; which is more challenging? which is better? How do they make that judgement? S tudents explore answers for first third of the novel on day 3. |
Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4 | |||||||||||||
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ELA Lab.09 (meeting day B) | |||||||||||||
Students make sure that they are succeeding with English 9 class work. |