Thur 1/26 Summative Assessment & Vocab 9

Learning Target

Vocab development

Daily Activity:

Handout: pick up the ballad "Edmund Fitzgerald" and annotate the text; in the margin point out 20 facts, details, or things you can understand about this event. Hand in: 20 points, summative assessment.

Vocab Unit 9: Complete the work except for parts 1 and 4. Due Fri at the start of the hour.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Wed 1/25 Sunny Came Home

Learning Target

Explore and analyze the characteristics of the ballad

Daily Activity:
Journal: 

1. Mini-lesson: creating effective, catchy beginnings (Corbin's writing prompts): No rhetorical questions!
If you missed, you may just write on any topic for a page.
2. "Sunny Came Home": complete text-based discussion

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Tues 1/24 Edmund and Sunny (Ballads)

Learning Target

Explore and analyze the characteristics of the ballad

Daily Activity:
Journal: 

1. Handout: pick up the ballad "Edmund Fitzgerald" and annotate the text; in the margin point out 20 facts, details, or things you can understand about this event. 
2. "Sunny Came Home"

Reminders/Due Dates:

Mon 1/23 Summative Assessment: Ballads

Learning Target

Developing a position/making a claim
Supporting a position
Identifying specific evidence to support ideas
Making inferences from text

Daily Activity:

Journal: What were the consequences? Write a true story about a time that you were late for something.
1. Test: Ballads (1-20)
Extended response: put your answer on separate notebook paper. Remember to provide explanations for how the evidence makes your point (warrants) and to structure the response with a complete sentence defining the argument, specific references to the text, and a closing insight.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Thursday, Friday 1/19, 20 Reading Immersion

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts

Daily Activity:

Thurs 1/18: Choice Journal
Complete discussion questions on the ballads and hand in (p. 222)
Pay special attention to #9--several examples with an explanation will be expected 
Fri:Reading immersion.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Thursday 1/12 Barbara Allen

Learning Target

Explore and analyze the characteristics of the ballad

Daily Activity:

Journal: Why Tell Stories in Song?
(See the literature text p. 213. Follow the prompt for "Quickwrite"

Read: Intro to ballads" 212-213: Take notes on "characteristics of the ballad." Make sure you know what "dialect" and "quatrain" are as well.

Read: 214-215: "Barbara Allen" 

1. Paraphrase the story

2. Identify the "features" of the ballad as it specifically applies to "Barbara Allen"

3. Identify the conflicts: think of person versus person, person versus him/herself, person versus society, person versus nature

4. Infer themes or "lessons" one may take from this ballad

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring independent reading tomorrow

Wed 1/11 POL

Learning Target

Small group discussion 

Daily Activity:

POL (viewing Poetry Out Loud assembly) or reading time

Reminders/Due Dates:

Tues 1/10: Small Group Discussion

Learning Target

Small group discussion 

Daily Activity:

Journal: Favorite Song:
Think of a song you really, really like! Write down some of the lyrics, explain what they meant to you and why you think it's such a great song. . . .  Does it tell any kind of story? (If absent, write on this topic for 5-7 minutes and check in with me.)
Discussion: small groups (teacher selected groups)
Document your understanding by completing the "in depth" questions at the end fo each article.
If absent: write these out in long hand and submit

Reminders/Due Dates:

Poetry Out Loud tomorrow

Mon 1/9 Up Front Magazine

Learning Target

Reading for main ideas, evidence and inference

Daily Activity:

Read three articles from Up Front and complete the open book test (Jan issue)
Hand in

Reminders/Due Dates: