Weekly Syllabus
OBJECTIVE |
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES |
HOMEWORK |
MONDAY
No school
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TUESDAY
1. I can independently read and comprehend grade-appropriate nonfiction. (nonfiction assignment)
2. I can determine the meanings of unknown words. (vocab) |
1. Introduce nonfiction books - book talk, preview, etc.
2. Vocabulary -- check homework, review list, discuss memory devices 3. Range Finders - pass out for homework 4. Speech to Virginia Convention - pass out for homework |
1. Read and score rangefinders
2. Speech to the Virginia Convention - read and annotate in one color. Show me tomorrow. 3. Nonfiction selection in class on Monday, November 18 Mrs. Tuchfarber's class 4. Vocabulary - CS, syn, ant due tomorrow |
WEDNESDAY
1. I can independently read and comprehend grade-appropriate nonfiction. (annotations)
2. I can evaluate and score Free Response Questions, including my own. (AP) |
1. Check annotations
2. FRQ Range Finders 3. FRQ #2 Self-evaluation and conferences |
1. Speech to the Virginia Convention - read and annotate in another color. Show me again tomorrow. (Consider the following as you are annotating: Sentences - Periodic, Loose/Cumulative, Simple, Compound, Complex, Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory; Parallelism, Antithesis, Rhetorical Questions, Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Allusion, Repetition, Asyndeton)
2. Nonfiction selection in class on Monday, November 18 3. Vocabulary Review PPT |
THURSDAY
1. I can support an analysis with evidence from informational texts.
2. I can produce effective, grade-appropriate writing. (FRQ) |
1. FRQ #3
2. Check annotations |
1. Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow-Study
2. Nonfiction selection in class on Monday, November 18 3. Speech to the Virginia Convention - SOAPSTone due Monday |
FRIDAY
1. I can demonstrate mastery of vocabulary words.
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1. Vocabulary Quiz List 3
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1. Speech to the Virginia Convention - SOAPSTone due Monday
2. Nonfiction selection in class on Monday, November 18 3.Rhetorical Grammar - in LOC, read pages 893 - 899, and complete exercises 1 and 3 in your Writer's Notebook |