Thurs, 10/1 Vocab Unit 2

Oct 1

Learning Target

Read and comprehend complex media and informational texts 

Daily Activity:
1. Journal: Passing of Youth

When did you realize you couldn't still do it?  List ten things you could do when you were younger but can't do anymore.  Put one, some, or all of them together in one piece of writing.

 2. Vocab Unit #2

3. Complete the Beowulf selections: Grendel's Mother (read aloud in class)
On your own: pp. 53-57 "The Battle With Grendel's Mother"

Reminders/Due Dates:

Wed, 9/30 Beowulf

September 30

Learning Target

Read and comprehend complex media and informational texts 

Daily Activity:
Hand in "Take What You Need"
1. Grammar Drill: (you should write about a page on any topic)
2. Read: 46-30 "The Battle With Grendel"
3. Intro video, Clash of the Gods (Beowulf) 7:37 - 19:00 minutes

As you view, create a 10 question study guide/quiz with answer key, this should be done throughout viewing (half today).

Reminders/Due Dates:

Tuesday 9/29 Intro Video

September 29

Learning Target

Read and comprehend complex media and informational texts 

Daily Activity:
Hand in "Take What You Need"
1. Journal: Response to "Boundary Waters Imagery"
Write independently one page on any topic to make up the credit. You must show me this work . . . .
2. Read: 38-45 in text, the first lay (story segment) in Beowulf. Add "wyrd" (fate) to your list of notebook terms
3. Intro video, Clash of the Gods (Beowulf): 7 :37 minutes, to harvest moon

As you view, create a 10 question study guide/quiz with answer key, this should be done throughout viewing (half today).

Reminders/Due Dates:
"Take What You Need" due Tuesday, 9/29
Make sure it is revised, typed, error free, and visually appealing with related images.

Monday 9/28, Beowulf

Monday 9/28: Formative Assessment: Anglo Saxons

September 28

Learning Target

Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 

Daily Activity:
1. Daily Journal/Discussion:
Journal: Many people believe that television violence has a negative effect on society because it promotes violence. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your response. 
2. Read 34-37 in text: Intro to Beowulf. Define the following in notebook:

3. In class: oral reading first two pages of the text

Reminders/Due Dates:
Bring literature text to class this week.
"Take What You Need" final due Tuesday.Make sure it is revised, typed, error free, and visually appealing with related images.

Friday 9/25: Formative Assesment: Anglo Saxons

September 25

Learning Target

Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

Daily Activity:
1. Formative assessment: Anglo Saxons
You may use your Cornell Notes and Anglo Saxon study guide with up to two team members
2. Reading Immersion: 5 points
This can be made up in Hornet Hour

Reminders/Due Dates:
Bring literature text to class Monday

Thursday 9/24: Intro to Beowulf

Beowulf

Learning Target
I can actively engage in the reading process and read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate a wide variety of fiction, poetic, and nonfiction texts

Daily Activity:

1. Vocab Unit #1 quiz

2. Understand characteristics and poetic devices of epic
Define in notebook:
kenning, epithet, allegory, alliteration, caesura, epic, archetype

Consider purpose of "monster stories" (brainstorm)

Discuss catharsis

Wednesday 9/23 Anglo Saxon England

Wednesday 9/23

Anglo Saxon England

Learning Target
Developing context knowledge

Daily Activity:

1. Energizer: "If I Were an Animal"
Interactive: if absent, you need to show us the animal you would choose to be (no talking, just actions and sounds).

Complete the Anglo Saxon study guide and submit.


Reminders/Due Dates:

Study guide due Friday

Formative assessment on Anglo Saxons Friday

Tuesday 9/22 Writer's Workshop

Tuesday 9/22

Writer's Workshop/Peer Review

Learning Target
Mastering the conventions of English in writing

Daily Activity:

1. Journal:

Writer's Workshop/Peer Review
Peer review "Recollection." 
All writing in this course must be typed for peer review and go through the writing process prior to receiving credit for revision. Students who do not have a draft for peer review will not receive credit for the activity. Absent students will need to read for a peer to make up participation credit, and this must be done in a timely manner. Final is due Monday, 9/28, typed, revised, and visually presented (see rubric).

Learning Target
Mastering the conventions of English in writing

Reminders/Due Dates:

Read "Anglo Saxon England" and complete study guide. Due Friday.
"TAKE WHAT YOU NEED" due Tuesday, 9/29

Monday 9/21 Anglo Saxon England

Monday 9/21

Anglo Saxon England

Learning Target
Gain context knowledge reading selections in Unit 1

Daily Activity:

1. Journal:Unlike the monsters in Beowulf, those in our world are not always easy to identify. Evil can hide in the most unexpected places: behind a smiling face, between the lines of a law, in otherwise noble-sounding words. Even when evil is clearly exposed, people may disagree on how to confront it.
What does evil mean to you? Write your own definition of the word, and provide some examples of real-life monsters.

2. Read "Anglo Saxon England" and complete study guide. Due Friday. (Peer review postponed since printers are not available in the media.)
Reminders/Due Dates:

Typed draft due today for "Take What You Need"

Friday 9/18 Reading Immersion

September 18

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

Daily Activity:

Complete Unit 1 Vocab (correct in class), and read choice materials.

Reminders/Due Dates: Focused, minimum paragraph, typed. Due by Monday, 9/21.

Thursday 9/17: Vocab Unit #1

September 17

Learning Target
Language use and vocabulary development. I can determine the meaning of words from context, literal and figurative.

Daily Activity:

Journal #3: respond to the song "Starry Starry Night" by Don Maclean and the slideshow of Van Gogh's art found on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk

Complete vocabulary Unit #1. Due at the end of the hour--10 points. See me to check out the work. You should complete the answers on separate notebook paper. (Skip sections 1 and 4.) Please do not write on the photocopy. The word sheet is yours to keep and study with--test, one week (Thursday, 9/25).

Please bring reading materials tomorrow.

Reminders/Due Dates:
Focused, minimum paragraph, typed. Due by Monday, 9/21.

Wednesday, 9/16: First Writing Assignment

September16

Learning Target
I can correct errors in English language conventions.

I can listen respectfully and work thoughtfully in small groups. I can discuss academic topics.
Daily Activity:

Review: expectations and examples for the "Take What You Need" assignmentSentence Corrections (in notebook)

Small Group Work and Discussion: Socrates Journal--create a "T-Chart exploring areas where the quote applies to our society; why adults through the ages voice similar complaints.

Reminders/Due Dates:
Focused, minimum paragraph, typed. Due by Monday, 9/21.

Tuesday 9/15: Take What You Need

September15

Learning Target
I can write in complete sentences and maintain clear focus while following English language conventions.

I can listen respectfully and work thoughtfully in small groups.
Daily Activity:

Journal for Tuesday, 9/15:

Youth and Luxury

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Small Group Work and Discussion: personal vignettes/stories

"Take What You Need"

Ice breaker.

Reminders/Due Dates:
Focused, minimum paragraph, typed. Due by Monday, 9/21.

Monday, 9/14 Reading Immersion

September 14

Learning Target
I can read independently from self-selected texts.

Daily Activity:
Book checkout in media. Personal reading time.


Reminders/Due Dates:

Intro Readings on Anglo Saxons

September11

Learning Target
I can ............

Daily Activity:
Cornell notes: pp. 16-31 in literature text. Fill front and back of the Cornell notes form.


Reminders/Due Dates:
Cornell notes:
Due to the substitute by the end of class Friday.

Syllabus/Policies

September 10

Learning Target
I can ............

Daily Activity:
Syllabus/policies reviewed. Room tour. Brief introductions.


Reminders/Due Dates:

Introductions/Books

September 9

Learning Target
I can ............

Daily Activity:
Book checkout and brief introductions. Seating chart.



Reminders/Due Dates: