May 2nd-May 9th Absence: Updated lesson plans

SUB-Plans May 2nd-May 9th

1st and 2nd Block English/Tutorial

May 2, Friday-
Character Square Assignment: they have the assignment and know where the supplies are as well. Encourage them to use the student models as guides.
Collect at the end of class.

May 5th, Monday-
Complete Strategic Reading Guide for Acts 4 and 5
For students who finish early, offer the comic strips (they write in their own words)
Situational Irony Worksheet (they need to use their text)

May 6th, Tuesday
Jigsaw Study Guide –for Book Test on Thursday
an assigned pair of students is responsible for an element of the test
Attached is the information or instructions on how to find information for each expert pair
While students are completing their study guide they may ask an expert pair for help on a specific section-it might help if you wrote on the board who was in charge of which section

May 7th, Wednesday
Students read their SSR book and complete a double-entry journal for the 1st period-it helps if you assign credit for reading and read yourself
Ms. Rebecca Hardt will conduct the students in a tutorial study hall
If students act as if they have nothing to do, they can study for their test, makeup missing items in their journal, read their SSR book, or write their missing original Sonnet.

May 8th, Thursday
Test
Modern Romeo and Juliet Movie


May 9th, Friday
Movie


4th and 6th Periods 9th Grade Honors English

May 2, Friday
Students who have completed their optional rough draft for Metamorphosis Essay will conduct a Read Around
3-4 students per group
take turns reading and commenting on each others essays
write these steps on the board
i. choose who will go first
ii. reader reads (1 time okay) to silent group without stopping or explaining
iii. listeners take notes and questions on a piece of paper
iv. after reader is done, listeners make comments and ask questions
v. reader responds only after all listeners are done.
Students who do not have a rough draft will spend the period quietly collecting evidence and writing a rough draft
HW>bring Hiroshima books on Monday (please retrieve an Amazon package from Karen for me)
May 5th, Monday
Introduce Hiroshima (some students in 4th and 6th period will need books from Amazon package)
Pass out Timeline
Hand out KWL (know; want to know; learned) chart and ask students to fill in what they know about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb
Share out and then ask students to write down what they want to know in the second column
Hand out new 3qs sheet
HW>read in book pages –top of page 9 and write 3-level questions

May 6th, Tuesday
Pass out “Blood on Our Hands” article (try to stay neutral on the topic, adult opinions tend to bias students –I want them to make up their own minds)
Ask students to read quietly and mark marginalia
Ask them to fill out new information in the L section of the KWL
Students can share out with the people around them and then discuss the text as a class
Feel free to ask student to write a quickwrite in response to the article if they don’t discuss well as a class
HW>read 9-16 and write 3-questions

May 7th, Wednesday
Students will engage in a class assignment called Conversations
Ask students to write down the an important excerpt from their reading and analyze it. They will then pass it around and get at least two other classmates to respond to the quotation or analysis. They are familiar. Please ask all students to focus on analyzing the language --not to comment on each other’s analysis.
HW>read 17-top of page 29 and write 3-questions

May 8th, Thursday
Hand out Character Chart; Blast Damage and Controversy
Ask students to locate each character on the blast damage map and complete the chart
Students can complete the Controversy worksheet in pairs
HW>read 29-41 and write 3-questions
AND students can bring their roughdrafts

May 9th, Friday
1. Ask students to choose two class facilitators and to review the previous 3-level questions
2. Please write down student names who participate in class discussion
3. Pass out Peer Edit Sheets for any student who wants feed back on their Metamorphosis Essay
HW>no reading; Essay due Monday

5th Period 11th Grade English

May 2nd, Friday
1. Students will engage in a class assignment called Conversations
Ask students to write down the an important excerpt from their reading and analyze it. They will then pass it around and get at least two other classmates to respond to the quotation or analysis. They are familiar. Please ask all students to focus on analyzing the language --not to comment on each other’s analysis.
Please have them label the Conversations Assignment #3 and turn it in
HW>NO reading

May 5th, Monday
Students are working on a culminating Essay for The Things They Carried
Hand out Excerpts from the text and have students write how the quotation supports or refutes the stated theme.
After they write they can share what they wrote with their neighbors
Lastly, students can keep the quotation to add to their essay
HW>Read “Field Trip” and 3-level questions (they have sheets already)

May 6th, Tuesday
Hand out Graphic Organizer
Tell students that this is a rough draft for their essay
While students are working, circulate and make sure they are writing down page numbers
if time is left over, tell students they can find a partner and share quotations –they will add these quotations to their Gathering Evidence worksheets (they have this)
HW>Read “The Ghost Soldiers” and 3-level questions

May 7th, Wednesday
SSR
Double-entry #5
Feel free to give credit to students who are quiet and reading
HW> “Night Life” and 3-level questions

May 8th, Thursday
Hand out Questions on the text
Have students write thorough responses in small groups
Students will turn this into Conversations Assignment #4
After individuals are done responding ask them to pass their papers to 2-3 other students for their responses
HW> “The Lives of the Dead” and 3-level questions (question sheet due Monday)

May 9th, Friday
Students will conduct a class discussion using their 3-level questions as a guide
ask two facilitators to collect questions from everyone
the questions should be from this week
the questions should be 3rd level only with the chapter labeled
The facilitators will come to the front of the class and ask individual students to answer selected questions
Feel free to give credit to students who participate, use your judgment
IF there is time left over, students may catch up on reading
HW>Essay due Monday