Ms. Oing English 3

Ms. Oing English 3

Unit 1: Beginnings to 1750

Before the music ends…

• Turn in your Reading Journals to your class’ black HW tray No late work accepted on this one!

• Get out your interactive notebooks and open to page 7 & title it “Daily Oral Language Warmups”

• Get out your textbooks

DOL Warm-Up

• Put today’s date in the left margin• Copy the following two sentences into your

notebooks & do your best to correct the errors no one is sure when or how the first people

arrived in what is not called the United States They may have arrived as recently as 12000

years ago or as long ago as 70000 years.

• Do not waste room; you will need to fit another 4 of these on this page (8 sentences)

DOL Warm-Up

• Did you get them right? No one is sure when or how the first people

arrived in what is now called the United States. They may have arrived as recently as 12,000

years ago or as long ago as 70,000 years.

• If not, fix them now!

Agenda: 8/27/12

• Warmup• Unit 1 Introduction• Interactive Notebook Setup

Reminders

• today Reading Journal 1 (if you are trying for an A)

• this week AoW 2 Reflection Friday Reading Journal Friday

Unit 1: Beginnings-1750

• Open textbook to pages 2-3• Using the time line displayed, answer the

critical questions on the handout, on page 95 of your Interactive Notebooks I expect E3 students to answer only in complete

sentences• Don’t write SHORT sentences, but all 10 need to

fit on p95, so don’t waste space.• If you run out of room, you may continue on the

back of the ½-sheet (it will be stapled in) or on another piece of paper to staple over

Questions 1-5 have two parts to each question• Part 2 tends to be “under the surface”

When you have finished…

• Staple the half-sheet with the questions to the top of your p95

• On p94 in your IN, write a reflection of what you know of your birth. Topics to include: Where & when Earliest memories Do you feel like you were born into the right

family, and the right time? Ask your parents how you were as a birth and as

a baby.

• 1p = A, 3/4p = B, 1/2p = C, 1/4p = D

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DOL Warm-Up


notebooks (same page as yesterday: #7) & do your best to correct the errors Native Americans have been in North America

thirty times longer then europeans have been on the continent.

Actually colonists did not arrive in North America until the late 1500’s.


DOL Warm-Up

• Did you get them right? Native Americans have been in North America

thirty times longer than Europeans have been on the continent.

Actually, colonists did not arrive in North America until the late 1500’s.


Agenda: 8/28/12

• DOL Warmup• Grammar Review• Timeline Review• Historical Context Clues

Reminders


Grammar: Parts of Speech

• Open your IN to p17 and title “Grammar: Parts of Speech”

• Copy the following, and skip lines between:1. noun:2. pronoun:3. adjective:4. verb:5. adverb:6. preposition: 7. conjunction:8. interjection:

• Write what you think each is (even if it’s a guess)

Grammar: Parts of Speech Independent Practice• On p17 (underneath your notes/guesses from

the review), rate how confident you feel on each part of speech (1=I ROCK THIS, 8=huh?)

• Choose your BOTTOM 3 (6, 7, & 8) and do 6 grammar exercises posted on SchoolLoop for each of those parts on p16 of your IN (titled “Grammar: Parts of Speech Independent Practice”) All of the worksheets have more than 6; you

choose which 6 to do.

America’s Timeline: 1492-1750• Open your INs to p95• Looking over the answers to your questions

from yesterday, come up with 5 words (with your elbow partner) to describe this period in America’s history.

• What do you think the “theme” of this time period is?

Historical Context

• From where do we get clues about a piece’s historical period?

• On your own: Read & annotate the passage from “The History

of the Dividing Line” as directed on the worksheet.

• When finished, staple the worksheet to p97 of your IN

Homework

• On p96 of your IN, list words, phrases, and references that you think could appear in writings that would give the students of the future the historical context of this period. Title it “Today’s Historical Context”

• 1p = A, 3/4p = B, 1/2p = C, 1/4p = D

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DOL Warm-Up

• Grab your textbooks on the way in• Put today’s date in the left margin• Copy the following two sentences into your

notebooks & do your best to correct the errors1. In 1620, a small group of Puritans sailed to

America and landed in what is now Plymouth Massachusetts.

2. By following the advise of the Native Americans. Many Puritans survived the hardships of the New World.


DOL Warm-Up

• Did you get them right?1. In 1620, a small group of Puritans sailed to

America and landed in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.

2. By following the advice of the Native Americans, many Puritans survived the hardships of the New World.


Agenda: 8/29/12

• DOL Warmup• Writing: Word Choice• from The Journal of the First Voyage to America

Reminders


• next week Grammar: Parts of Speech Ind. Practice Tuesday

Word Choice

• (Take notes on p57)• How many words are there in the English

language? Current estimates: 250,000-1,072,000

• How do you choose the right one? Audience

• Relationship Purpose History/Context Denotation Connotation

Triggering Words

• On p56, draw the following table:

• Throughout the grading period, you are to come up with words that might be negatively “triggering” for certain people. Record the word, who it triggers, and why. I will check it on 9/21 for credit.

• A=20 words; B=15 words; C=10 words; D=5 words

Word Audience Why

from Journal of the First Voyage to America• Open textbooks to p15• Follow along in your books• On p99, answer the following question in a

reframed sentence If you had sponsored Columbus’s voyage, how

would you feel upon reading this account of his experience?

• Complete “Literary Focus: Journals” worksheet with your elbow partner and staple on top of p99

Processing Work

• (Homework if not finished in class)• On p98, copy & answer the following prompt:

How would you have sold the idea of traveling around the globe to people who believed it would not be worth the expense? What sort of reasons would you include? Write a convincing argument.

Title it “If I were Columbus…”

• 1p = A, 3/4p = B, 1/2p = C, 1/4p = D

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DOL Warm-Up

• Grab your textbooks on the way in• Put today’s date in the left margin (p7)• Copy the following two sentences into your

notebooks & do your best to correct the errors Many husbands and wifes died that first harsh

winter in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, many children were orphaned.

Everyone had his fears during that bitter time, as a result; many people thought about returning to Europe.


DOL Warm-Up

• Did you get them right? Many husbands and wives died that first harsh

winter in the Massachusetts Bay Colony; many children were orphaned.

Everyone had his or her fears during that bitter time; as a result, many people thought about returning to Europe.


Agenda: 8/30/12

• DOL Warmup• Grammar: Sentences• Cultural American Origin Myths

Reminders

• tomorrow AoW 2 Reflection Reading Journal

• next week Grammar: Parts of Speech Ind. Practice Tuesday

Grammar: Sentences

• open INs to p19 and take notes• What is required to make a sentence?

subject (who/what is doing ___) predicate

• verb (what is s/he/it doing or being)• complete thought

Grammar: Sentences

• Clauses independent (aka ordinate)

• stands alone dependent (aka subordinate)

• contains subject & verb but do not express complete thought

Grammar: Sentences

• How do you fix what’s broken? Attach it to something else compatible Add something to it

Grammar: Sentences

• phrase NOT the same as a dependent clause A group of words that functions as a part of

speech, such as an adjective or noun if on its own, is fragment: no subject, no verb, no

complete thought• Examples (do not need to copy)

However, there are plenty of opportunities for students to create their own jobs.

Maybe you are an outgoing person with good computer skills.

Having worked with children, you will have an advantage over less-experienced sitters.

Grammar: Sentences

• S or F: Although traditional after-school jobs are still popular. Fragment!

• S or F: I was tired. Sentence!

• My mother went to the store. Although she had many errands to run. My mother went to the store, although she had

many errands to run.

• In the pool. My little sister almost drowned in the pool.

Grammar: Sentences Reflection• HW: on p18 draw or find a picture to illustrate

each of the 4 concepts: sentence fragment dependent/subordinate clause phrase

Cultural American Origin Myths• Open your INs to p101• In your group of 4, determine who is A, B, C, &

D (you have 30 seconds to decide and write the letter at the top of p101)

Cultural American Origin Myths• Read your assigned origin myth to yourself,

then write a 1-3 sentence summary what the myth was about

• When all 4 have finished reading, report to your group in 1 minute or lessa. “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” p22b. “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” p24c. from “The Navajo Origin Legend” p26d. from “The Iroquois Constitution” p28

• Take notes when your group members give their summaries (1 sentence for each letter)

Cultural Details

• As a group, complete the 4 questions on the gold worksheet and staple to the top of p101

• On p100, write an origin myth that is either From your own culture Something that interests you

• 1p = A, 3/4p = B, 1/2p = C, 1/4p = D

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DOL Warm-Up


notebooks & do your best to correct the errors In his book Of Plymouth Plantation William

Bradford described what the Puritans believed and experienced.

The Puritans wrote the mayflower compact to settle disagreements among members of the colony.

DOL Warm-Up

• Did you get them right? In his book Of Plymouth Plantation, William

Bradford described what the Puritans believed and experienced.

The Puritans wrote the Mayflower Compact to settle disagreements among members of the colony.


Agenda: 8/31/12

• DOL Warmup• ABC Review• Color-Coding Paragraphs

Reminders

• today AoW 2 Reflection Reading Journal

Interactive Notebooks

• INs will be assessed/due on 9/28• Part of the grade will be following specific

directions (right pages on right page numbers)• I will stamp assignments when it matters to me

that they are on time, but you can include them later for reduction in points (as long as they are in by 9/28)

• All pages must be firmly attached, not falling out• If you are ever absent, check the class master

copy to see what you have missed or you will lose points.


• If you have put something on the wrong page, you may paste binder paper over it and re-do (if it cannot be erased or unglued.

• Assignments may be typed up/printed and attached to assigned page


• Table of Contents: p1: Main p5: Grammar & Vocabulary p41: Writing p91: Literature

• (Self Inventory & Unit Overview we will get to next week)


• Parent Checkins 2-3 times per grading period you will show your

INs to your parents and THEY will answer questions that I will give you, and they will sign.

Graded assignment


• Important Dates & Deadlines Ungraded Page for you to write the dates you think are

important• End of GP• Collaboration Days• Due Dates• Test Days


• Grading Period Reflection Assignment to be completed on 9/28

Interactive Notebooks: Grammar• Daily Oral Language

You know what this is!

• Daily Oral Language Reflection End of each week, write a reflection in paragraph

form addressing the following topics• Corrections you did well (and why)• Mistakes you missed (and why)• Areas you need to work on

BE SPECIFIC Checked the following Monday (or Tues if Mon is

a holiday)

• 1/2p = A, 1/4p = C

Interactive Notebooks: Grammar• Grammar Topics

Filling in as we go:• Parts of Speech• Sentences• etc

• Vocabulary Will be explained when we start next week

Interactive Notebooks: Grammar• Word Cornucopia

Write down words (and definitions) that you come across during the grading period (preferably in the curriculum/assignments/lectures) that you find• Interesting• Fun• Personally meaningful

Words that you like or that just plain strike you

• A = 20; B = 15; C = 10; D = 5• (Reflection will be done @ end of GP)

Interactive Notebooks: Grammar• Word Wall & Word Wall Practice will be

explained next week Has to do with vocabulary assignments

Interactive Notebooks: Grammar• Golden Lines

Write down quotes you come across in this class, other classes, or things you read that are somehow meaningful to you or strike you

• Golden Lines Reflection will be done/explained later in semester

Interactive Notebooks: Literature• Independent Reading Ideas & Shared Reviews

will be done 9/28• Book Review & Book Review Reflection will be

addressed later• Unit Test & Unit Test Reflection will be done @

end of GP

Interactive Notebooks: Literature• Reading Journal

You know what that is! Even if you are skipping some because you are

not trying for a 4 on the rubric, do them on the page for the week.• RJ1=8/27• RJ2=8/31• RJ3=9/7• RJ4=9/14• RJ5=9/21• RJ6=9/28

Interactive Notebooks: Literature• Reading Journal Analysis

End of each week, write a reflection in paragraph form addressing the following topics

• # of days spent reading• Time periods reading (5m, 30m, etc)• Things you tried that worked (and why)• Thinks you tried that didn’t (and why)• How much you are understanding the book• How much you are enjoying the book• How to improve reading experience• How challenged this particular book makes you feel

BE SPECIFIC

1/2p = A, 1/4p = C

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DOL Warm-Up

• Grab your textbooks on the way in• Put today’s date in the left margin (p9)• Copy the following two sentences into your

notebooks & do your best to correct the errors1. Puritanism an outgrowth of Calvinism was a

religious movement in the 16th and 17th centuries.

2. The Puritans believed that they were different than other people because the lord had selected them for salvation.


DOL Warm-Up

• Did you get them right?1. Puritanism, an outgrowth of Calvinism, was a

religious movement in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

2. The Puritans believed that they were different from other people because the Lord had selected them for salvation.


Agenda: 9/4/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Definitions• Exploration Narratives: A Journey Through

Texas

Reminders

• tomorrow Grammar: Parts of Speech Ind Practice Grammar: Sentence Illustrations

• this week Vocabulary Definitions Thursday AoW 3 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 3 Friday

Vocabulary Definitions

1. Teacher reads word

2. Class repeats word

3. Teacher reads sentence

4. Students individually guess word’s meaning

5. Repeat 1-4 to end

6. Students get definitions for HW Do NOT use word as part of definition Definitions must be 3 words or more long Definition must match both part of speech and

way word is used in sample sentence

Exploration Narrative: A Journey Through Texas• Turn IN to p103

List 3 places that you most want to “explore”. These should be new to you, if already explored by someone else. Why do you want to explore them? What would you be looking for?

• Open textbooks to p32• As you read p34-37:

Record 5 things Cabeza de Vaca and his team learned about the land or its people

Record 3 things you infer about Cabeza de Vaca through his writing style. Include reasoning why you infer• Like you did for Columbus’ journal

Rate the Explorer: Cabeza de Vaca• On p102 of the IN:

How would you rate Cabeza de Vaca’s value as an explorer? Use specific examples from the text to support.

½ page

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DOL Warm-Up

Agenda: 9/5/12

• DOL Warmup• Writing Tips: Sentence Branching• Exploration Narratives: A Journey Through

Texas

Reminders

• today Grammar: Parts of Speech Ind Practice Grammar: Sentence Illustrations

• tomorrow Vocabulary Definitions

• this week AoW 3 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 3 Friday

Writing Tips: Sentence Branching• Open your IN to pg59 and take notes• sentences that follow the same pattern in an

essay are boring show lack of maturity as a writer Examples of “same pattern”:

• same # of words per sentence• same order of parts of speech• all sentences start the same• all sentences end the same

Writing Tips: Sentence Branching• make sentences

more sophisticated through “branching” frontmiddleend

Writing Tips: Sentence Branching• I drove my car to the beach.

_______, I drove my car to the beach.• Hurriedly, I drove my car to the beach.

I drove my car, _______, to the beach.• I drove my car, radio blasting, to the beach.

I drove my car to the beach, __________.• I drove my car to the beach, praying the waves

would be good.

• In your INs, add your own front, middle, & end branches (write the sentence 3 times).

My Branches

• Throughout the grading period, examine your own writing for instances of simple sentences essays journals HW assignments reflections

• Write them down on pg58 in their original form, then re-write a branching you can use to improve it.

• A=10; B=7; C=5; D=3• due Thursday, 9/27

Exploration Narrative: A Journey Through Texas• Finish notes from yesterday (INp103)• As you read p34-37:

Record 5 things Cabeza de Vaca and his team learned about the land or its people

Record 3 things you infer about Cabeza de Vaca through his writing style. Include reasoning why you infer• Like you did for Columbus’ journal

Exploration Narrative: A Journey Through Texas• Give One, Get One

Turn to your elbow partner and “exchange observations”• S/he copies down one observation & one

inference you have that s/he doesn’t• You do the same

Rate the Explorer: Cabeza de Vaca• On p102 of the IN:

How would you rate Cabeza de Vaca’s value as an explorer? Use specific examples from the text to support.

½ page

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DOL Warm-Up

Agenda: 9/6/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Flashcards• Exploration Narratives: Boulders Taller than the

Tower of Seville

Reminders

• today Vocabulary Definitions

• tomorrow AoW 3 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 3 Friday

Vocabulary Flashcards• Share w/ elbow partner your definition• Decide which of you has the best definition• On the red line:

Write your assigned word (on the left) Write your names (on the right)

• On the lined side of the index card: LABEL & write the dictionary definition LABEL & write your definition (paraphrased)

• On the unlined side Create a graphic or symbol to represent your word

• Words/letters can be no more than 25% of total

Exploration Narratives: Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville• IN p105, textbook p38• While reading, or after reading, answer the 2

“Check Your Comprehension” questions & Critical Thinking #1 in reframed sentences.

• With your elbow partner, complete the 2 questions on the gold worksheet and staple to the top of p105

Rate the Explorer: Cardenas

• On p104 of the IN: How would you rate Cardenas’ value as an

explorer? Use specific examples from the text to support.

½ page

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DOL Warmup

Agenda: 9/7/12

• DOL Warmup• ABC Review• Paragraph Structure

Reminders

• today AoW 3 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 3 Friday

• next class DOL 2 Reflection Reading Journal 3 Analysis

• next week Vocabulary Sentences Tuesday AoW 4 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 4 Friday

Vocabulary Sentences

• 1 sentence for each word• Underline word in sentence• Must demonstrate understanding of the word• Must relate to a short story or novel you have

read in English 1 or 2 Must include name of story or novel

• Ex: Romeo made a very impetuous decision to kill himself when he thought Juliet was dead. (Romeo and Juliet)

ABC Review

• Copy the following to IN p71 Write an essay discussing the relative strengths

and weaknesses of one particular source for news. Develop your ideas so vividly that a reader will have a clear understanding of the benefits and shortcomings of a particular source of news.

ABC Review

• On IN p71 Attack the prompt

• On IN p70 Brainstorm Choose the order

• Work with your elbow partner, but write your answers in your own INs

Paragraph Structure

• Open INs to p61• Attach handout to p61• On p60, reflect which of the three colors would

be most important. What do YOU think the percentage of each should be in your paragraphs? 1/4p-1/2p

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DOL Warmup

• (SMART Notebook)

Agenda: 9/10/12

• DOL Warmup• Grammar: Adjective & Adverb Clauses• Slave Narratives

Reminders

• today DOL 2 Reflection Reading Journal 3 Analysis

• tomorrow Vocabulary Sentences BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT

• next week AoW 4 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 4 Friday

Grammar: Adjective & Adverb Clauses• (take notes on IN p21)• subordinate clause: contains subject & verb but

does not express complete thought and cannot stand alone

Grammar: Adjective & Adverb Clauses• adjective clause: s.c. used as adjective

starts with relative pronoun• that, who, whom, whose, which

or relative adverb• where, when, why

Examples: (do not copy)• Willy Higinbotham is the scientist who invented the first

computer game.• It was he who developed computer tennis.• Have you seen the computer that Higinbotham used?• Have you seen the desk where Higinbotham sat?

Grammar: Adjective & Adverb Clauses• essential/restrictive clauses provide information

necessary to identify noun/pronoun not set off with commas

• nonessential/nonrestrictive clauses add extra info about noun/pronoun whose meaning is already clear is set off with commas

Examples: (do not copy)• Tourists can visit the laboratory that employed

Higinbotham.Brookhaven National Laboratory, which employed Higinbotham, is in Upton, New York.

Grammar: Adjective & Adverb Clauses• adverb clause: s.c. used as adverb

when, because, than, where, after, before, although

Examples: (do not copy)• Charles Babbage paved the way for the computer when

he devised his “analytical engine.”• Babbage’s invention was important because it proved

machines’ ability to perform mathematical operations.• Computers can solve complicated math problems faster

than people can.

Slave Narratives

• On INp106, reflect on the following in a reframed sentence How would you feel if you were sent to another

country against your will?

• Read through “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” p p44-47

• Now that you have finished reading about another’s experiences, write a paragraph on INp106 comparing/contrasting your feelings with Equiano’s

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/11/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Review• Slave Narratives, cont

Reminders

• today Vocabulary Sentences BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT


Vocabulary Review

• Column 1: Fill in the words & parts of speech

• Column 2: Your best recollection of the definition

• Column 3: Rate your knowledge/comfort with the word now

• Column 4: The actual definition, from your chart or dictionary (for HW)

abundance (n)exquisite (adj)affliction (n)protrude (v)entreat (v)

mortality (n)subsist (v)traverse (v)dispatch (v)feign (v)

Slave Narratives

• IN p107; TB p44-47• Complete gold worksheet with elbow partner &

staple to INp107 For #4, use smart phones or do for HW

• On the bottom of the gold worksheet, write at least 5 significant words or phrases to describe Equiano (character traits)

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/12/12

• DOL Warmup• Writing Tips: Revising

Reminders

• tomorrow Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Quiz


• Be finished “catching up” your INs with anything you’ve missed by Monday; I will start collecting them then!

Writing Tips: Revising

• (Open IN to p63 and take notes)• revising: to alter something already written or

printed, in order to make corrections, improve, or update


• Two Levels of Revision: Surface

• Changing a– word– phrase– sentence

Deep• Changing the

– focus of the piece– purpose of the piece– sequence of the piece– discourse– point of view


• Revise like a STAR Substitute

• overused words• weak verbs with strong verbs• weak adjectives with strong adjectives• common nouns with proper nouns• “dead” words


Take Things Out• unnecessary repetitions• unimportant or irrelevant information• parts that might belong in another piece


Add• detail• description• new information• figurative language• development• clarification of meanings• expanded ideas


Rearrange• the sequence to produce a desired effect• the order for a more logical flow

Revising Set-Up

• On p62 of IN, write about something that bothers you. Don’t think too hard about this; I want a first-draft

with no revision whatsoever!• “First draft sneeze”

10-15mins only

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/13/12

• DOL Warmup• Quiz: Vocabulary• Breaking Down Sentences

Reminders

• today Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Quiz

• tomorrow AoW 4 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 4 Friday


Vocabulary Quiz

• Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the word bank Points will be deducted if word is misspelled

• Turn test over on desk when finished Non-disruptive electronics use is welcome once

test is completed

• Remain quiet until everyone is finished or time is up

Breaking Down Sentences

• (Open IN to p109 and take notes)• Writers in past centuries wrote in long,

complicated sentences• To break down sentences:

1. Underline vital information (who, what)2. Bracket unessential material

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/14/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Quiz Review• ABC Practice• Color-Coding Review

Reminders

• today AoW 4 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 4 Friday

• next class DOL 3 Reflection RJ 4 Analysis

• next week AoW 5 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 5 Friday


Vocabulary Quiz Reflection

• Staple or glue your returned/graded quiz to the upper half of INp29

• Complete the following sentences on the bottom half of the paper1. On this quiz I scored a _____.2. I expected to score a _____.3. The reason(s) why I did/not meet my

expectation is/are ___________________.

• Copy the words you missed (with their correct definitions) to INp37 (Word Wall)

ABC Review

• Copy the following to IN p73 Write an essay in which you identify a serious

problem facing today’s teenagers. Discuss the elements that make it a problem and suggest possible solutions. Knowing that your audience will be adults, so be sure to contrast how this problem is different (more serious, more difficult) than when they were teenagers.

ABC Review



• Work with your elbow partner, but write your answers in your own INs

Color-Coding Review

• Open INs to p61 (where you should have stapled your “Traffic Lights” notes sheet from last week)

• In your group of 4, use the colored clips to “map out” the sentences of your paragraph

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/17/12

• DOL Warmup• from The General History of Virginia

Reminders

• today DOL 3 Reflection RJ 4 Analysis

• this week 1st Draft Sneeze (what bothers you) Wednesday Vocabulary Charts Thursday AoW 5 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 5 Friday

Historical Narratives: Virginia• Open textbooks to p64 & INs to p111• (copy to p111)• historical narrative: story of real-life events

that records significant historical events firsthand: written by people who lived it secondhand/secondary: written by people who

researched it

• perspective: how an event or scene is viewed/experienced objective: based on facts; unbiased subjective: influenced by personal feelings,

interpretations, or prejudice

Historical Narratives: Virginia• As you read:

Write down 3 phrases or sentences that illustrate Smith’s subjectivity

• When finished, answer the following in reframed sentences: What impression of Smith do you get from this

account? Do you think that Smith’s account is accurate

down to the last detail? Why or why not?

An Early Settler’s Life

• On p110 in your IN, write down your thoughts (in paragraph form) about what you imagine it was like to be an early settler. Feel free to reference specific examples from the text if you like.

• A=1p, B=3/4p, C=1/2p, D=1/4p

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/18/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Definitions• from Of Plymouth Plantation

Reminders

• tomorrow 1st Draft Sneeze (what bothers you)

• this week Vocabulary Charts Thursday AoW 5 Reflection Friday Reading Journal 5 Friday

Vocabulary Definitions

1. Teacher reads word

2. Class repeats word

3. Teacher reads sentence

4. Students individually guess word’s meaning

5. Repeat 1-4 to end

6. Students get definitions for HW Do NOT use word as part of definition Definitions must be 3 words or more long Definition must match both part of speech and

way word is used in sample sentence

Historical Narratives: Of Plymouth Plantation• Open TB to p71 & IN to p113• This selection is a firsthand account, as was

the one read yesterday. Yet you might find it rather different in some ways.

• As you read, write down significant 1 way it is similar to The General History of Virginia and 2 significant ways it is different (aside from “written by different people”)

• Do golden worksheet with elbow partner and staple to top of p113

An Early Settler’s Life…For Me?• IN p112 • Building on your HW from last night, write a

critical analysis about how YOU would do as an early settler. In what areas would you excel? In what areas would you struggle? Would you want to colonize somewhere uncolonized now? Why or why not?

• A=1p, B=3/4p, C=1/2p, D=1/4p

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/19/12

• DOL Warmup• STAR Revising

Reminders

• today 1st Draft Sneeze (what bothers you)

• tomorrow Vocabulary Charts Triggering Words


• next week Unit Test Thursday Book Review Friday Interactive Notebooks Friday

STAR Revising

• Open INs to p62• Re-read your first-draft sneeze. Find 4 places to

revise: S T A R

• Indicate on the index card (by letter) which you are doing, write original, and write the revision.

• Staple to top of p62 when done

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/20/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Flashcards• Puritan Plain Style

Reminders

• today Vocabulary Charts Triggering Words

• tomorrow AoW 5 Reflection Reading Journal 5

• next week Unit Test Thursday Book Review Friday Interactive Notebooks Friday

Vocabulary Flashcards• Share w/ elbow partner your definition• Decide which of you has the best definition• On the red line:

Write your assigned word (on the left) Write your names (on the right)

• On the lined side of the index card: LABEL & write the dictionary definition LABEL & write your definition (paraphrased)

• On the unlined side Create a graphic or symbol to represent your word

• Words/letters can be no more than 25% of total

Puritan Plain Style

• (take notes on IN p115)• Puritans

came to America to escape religious persecution• strict moral code• strong work ethic

values have remained part of American ID• importance of hard work• strong faith in adversity

Puritan Plain Style

• (take notes on IN p115)• Puritan literature=moral instruction• “moved heart to righteousness”• Puritan Plain Style

short words direct statements references to ordinary, everyday objects religious ideas/references NOT written appealing to senses

Puritan Plain Style

• Open TB to p91

• Complete gold worksheet with elbow partner and staple to top of p115

What’s YOUR Style

• IN p114• Historians get much of their information about

the Puritans by the style of their writing (poetry, nonfiction accounts, sermons). If future historians were to learn of you the same way, what would YOUR writing look like? What sort of things would you write? What subjects? What words? What would give them clues to your style?

• A=1p; C=1/2p

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/21/12

• DOL Warmup• ABC Review• Topic Sentences

Reminders

• today AoW 5 Reflection Reading Journal 5

• next week Vocabulary Sentences Tuesday Unit Test Thursday Book Review Friday Interactive Notebooks Friday

ABC Review

• Glue/staple the quarter-sheet to IN p75

ABC Review



• Work with your elbow partner, but write your answers in your own Ins

• 8 minutes!

Thesis Statements

• (take notes on IN p65)• thesis: a single, clear sentence, which

expresses the central argument or idea the paper will develop. main idea topic sentence

Thesis Statements

• A good thesis: makes a claim and chooses a side and gives

reason(s) uses forceful language (must, should, is, will,

does)• What you’re writing is NOT up for discussion

as brief as possible, without losing information not too detailed or narrow

• You need room to grow your ideas sometimes previews main points

• The scientist Galileo is an important figure who should be studied due to his influence in both science and mathematics.

Thesis Statements

• Samples (do not copy)• Which one is better?

Smoking should only be allowed outdoors. Smoking should only be allowed outdoors

because of how disgusting smoke is.

• Which one is better? Racism is different in 2011 than it was in the

Seventies. Racism is different in 2011 than it was when

Rosa Parks was sent to the back of the bus.

Thesis Statement Practice

• IN p64• For the following six issues/topics, write a

sample thesis statementa. legalizing abortionb. lowering drinking age to 18c. legalizing drugsd. dress codes at schoole. legalizing gay marriagef. shorter work-week, longer hours (4 10-hour

days instead of 5 8-hour)

• Make three of them “pro” and three “con”

Thesis Statement Practice

• What’s pro vs. con?• Example:

Issue: increasing class sizes.• Pro – Class sizes should be increased to

maximum capacity in order for schools to use their available funds in more needed areas.

• Con – Class sizes should not be increased because putting more students in a classroom will have adverse effects on education.

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/24/12

• DOL Warmup• Puritan Sermons

Reminders

• tomorrow Vocabulary Sentences

• this week Vocabulary Review Wednesday Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday Unit Test Thursday Book Review Friday Interactive Notebooks Friday

Puritan Sermons

• (take notes on INp117)• sermon: a speech given from a pulpit in a

house of worship• Puritan beliefs

literal Bible interpretation model for rest of humanity God was all-powerful and the final authority humans were all depraved sinners few people, chosen by God, get salvation

• everyone else was doomed no one knew if s/he was one of the chosen

• constant search for signs of God’s favor or wrath.

Puritan Sermons

• Open TB to p98

• IN p117, answer Check Your Comprehension questions 1-3 in reframed sentences

• Do gold worksheet with elbow partner and staple on top of p117

Heaven or Hell?

• INp116• By Puritan thinking, do you believe you would

be one of the elect, or would you be one of the damned? Be detailed in your analysis.

• A=1/2p; C=1/4p

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/25/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Review• Thesis Statements

Reminders

• today Vocabulary Sentences Thesis Statement Practice

• tomorrow Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Quiz

• this week Unit Test Thursday Book Review Friday Interactive Notebooks Friday

Vocabulary Review

• Column 1: Fill in the words & parts of speech

• Column 2: Your best recollection of the definition

• Column 3: Rate your knowledge/comfort with the word now

• Column 4: The actual definition, from your chart or dictionary (for HW)

avarice (n)peril (n)mollify (v)persevere (v)pilfer (v)

recompense (v)copious (adj)dolorous (adj)ineffable (adj)omnipotent (adj)

Thesis Statements Review

• Does it: state a strong position use forceful language express position/reasoning concisely (without

unneeded words) preview reasoning without being too detailed

Thesis Statement Variety

• (take notes on INp67)• Action Verb Topic Sentences• also known as IVF (Identify-Verb-Finish)

choose action verb first fill in subject and predicate around it


• Add one of your own, for any one of the 4 ABC Review topics

Identify Verb Finish your ThoughtHurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Louisiana and

Mississippi Gulf Coast.The attack by Japanese war planes on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

sparked United States involvement in World War II.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California,

banned junk food in schools because of his campaign for healthy living.

A study from Stanford University

identified major problems later in life for teenagers who smoke.


• When/Where + What’s Happening choose the where or when first add a “what’s happening”

• What could happen?• What will happen?• What should happen?• What did happen?• What might happen?• What could have happened?


• Add one of your own, for any one of the 4 ABC Review topics

Where/When What’s HappeningEach day at lunch, too many high school students

make poor choices about what to eat.

In some parts of the country, citizens conserve energy in creative and interesting ways.

When an underdeveloped country is in trouble,

every single country who has the means to help should send what aid it can.

Every day, in state and federal capitals across the country,

decisions are being made in the form of laws that could affect every person, and citizens need to know.

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DOL Warmup


Agenda: 9/25/12

• DOL Warmup• Vocabulary Quiz

Reminders

• today Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Quiz

• tomorrow Unit Test

• this week Book Review Friday Interactive Notebooks Friday

Vocabulary Quiz

• Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the word bank Points will be deducted if word is misspelled

• Turn test over on desk when finished Non-disruptive electronics use is welcome once

test is completed

• Remain quiet until everyone is finished or time is up

Vocabulary Quiz Reflection

• Staple or glue your returned/graded quiz to the upper half of INp33

• Complete the following sentences on the bottom half of the paper1. On this quiz I scored a _____.2. I expected to score a _____.3. The reason(s) why I did/not meet my

expectation is/are ___________________.

• Copy the words you missed (with their correct definitions) to INp37 (Word Wall)

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