Lesson Plans Jan 5-9

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READING

Monday:

Teacher Work Day

Tuesday:

  • Welcome Back!
  • Goals for Spring Semester
  • Things to expect
  • Complete Mrs. Velde’s survey

Wednesday:

  • Middle of Year Screener
  • Read if finished

Thursday:

  • Complete Screener
  • Read

Friday:

  • Poetry Introduction

ENGLISH

Monday:

Teacher Work Day

Tuesday:

  • SCOPE Article “New Year’s Around the World”
  • Respond to prompt

Wednesday:

  • HMH Article “Colorado Construction Crew Unearths 66-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Fossil”
  • Complete Graphic  Organizer
  • Begin response to article

Thursday:

  • Complete response to article
  • Peer Edit
  • Discuss what makes a good response

Friday:

  • We Will Write

Lesson Plans December 8-12

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READING

Monday: Students will continue their biography book projects. Last week they read their assigned books. 4 things must be completed for their project. We will be working on these for the next 2 weeks, hopefully presenting next week.

  • Summary Analysis of their person
  • One pager
  • Creative project
  • Presentation

Tuesday:

  • Continue working on Biography project
  • At least one project needs to be completed by Wednesday (I will be giving a completion grade)
  • One Act Play members will be graded on Thursday

Wednesday:

  • Continue working on Biography project
  • Grades will be taken at end of class for 1 finished project

Thursday:

  • Continue working on Biography project

Friday:

  • Continue working on Biography project
  • Monday I will take a grade for the 2nd completed project

ENGLISH

Monday: Begin Comma Rules packet

  • Take notes and practice Comma Rules

Tuesday:

  • Continue notes and practice

Wednesday:

  • Continue notes and practice

Thursday:

  • Continue notes and practice

Friday:

  • Test over Comma Rules

 

Lesson Plans Nov. 10-14

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READING

Monday:

  • Can Video Games bring together friends, families, and communities?
  • Discuss subjective and objective view in informative text
  • Begin reading “Get in the Zone: The Psychology of Video Game Design” (in textbook)
  • Annotate as you read

Tuesday:

  • Finish reading “Get in the Zone”
  • Check for understanding
  • Analyze text

Wednesday:

  • Finish all textbook work (“Get in the Zone”)
  • SSR time

Thursday:

  • Test over “Get in the Zone”
  • SSR Time

Friday:

  • Objective and Subjective practice/games

ENGLISH

Monday:

  • Complete any missing work

Tuesday:

  • Notes on Text Structures

Wednesday:

  • Text Structure Sort and practice

Thursday:

  • How does text structure affect our writing?
  • Begin Text Structure project
    • Students will be given a topic and a text structure to use to write their article

Friday:

  • Complete project
  • Display articles
  • Gallery walk if there is time, if not we will complete that on Monday

Lesson Plans: Nov 3-Nov 7

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READING

Monday:

  • Teacher Work Day

Tuesday:

  • Textbook work
  • Point of View
  • Read “Ball Hawk”

Wednesday:

  • Check for Understanding on “Ball Hawk”
  • Analyze the Text “Ball Hawk”
  • Anything not finished is homework

Thursday:

  • Test over “Ball Hawk”
  • SSR Time

Friday:

  • STAAR passage practice

ENGLISH

Monday:

  • Teacher Work Day

Tuesday:

  • Commonly confused words practice

Wednesday:

  • Lesson on Commonly confused words

Thursday:

  • Library Day

Friday:

  • Test over commonly confused words

Lesson Plans Oct 27-31

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READING

Monday:

  • Begin watching The Outsiders
  • compare/contrast with book

Tuesday:

  • Continue watching The Outsiders

Wednesday:

  • Finish watching The Outsiders
  • Discuss similarities and differences between book and movie

Thursday:

  • Read drama version of  “Tell-Tale Heart”

Friday:

  • “ Tell-Tale Heart” Escape room

ENGLISH

Monday:

  • Peer Edit and revise Outsiders essay

Tuesday:

  • Thesis statement lesson and practice

Wednesday:

  • Finish typing essay and add in thesis statement. (Homework)

Thursday:

  • Trial of the villain in “Tell-Tale Heart”

Friday:

  • complete trial of villain

Lesson Plans Oct 20-24

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READING

Monday:

  • Begin working on character posters for Outsiders

Tuesday:

  • Finish Character Posters

Wednesday:

  • Test Review for “The Outsiders”

Thursday:

  • Final test over “The Outsiders”

Friday:

  • SSR Time
  • Test Corrections

ENGLISH

Monday:

  • Continue writing final essay over “The Outsiders”

Tuesday: SCOPE Magazine Stations-Students will complete 2 per day.

  • Station 1:Article(s): “Ancient. Adored. Endangered.” & “All About Axolotls” p.11
     Focus: Analyzing informational text and integrating multiple sources
  • Station 2: Article: “To the Top” p. 20
     Focus: Point of view and character change
  • Station 3: Article: “Spy of the American Revolution”p. 4
     Focus: Summarizing and identifying central ideas
  • Station 4: Article: “Voting in the Wild” p. 18
     Focus: Understanding informational text and making text-to-world connections
  • Station 5: Article: “Enter If You Dare!” p. 30
     Focus: Coordinate vs. non-coordinate adjectives
  • Station 6: Poem: “Every Day” by Naomi Shihab Nye p.32 (back)
     Focus: Imagery, tone, and theme
  • Station 7: Article: Debate/Essay Kit – “Are Pro Athletes Overpaid?”
     Focus: Evaluating arguments and writing a persuasive response
  • Station 8: Writing conference with Mrs. Fritsche over “The Outsiders” essay.

Wednesday:

  • Continue Stations

Thursday:

  • Continue Stations

Friday:

  • Complete last 2 stations.

Lesson Plans Sept 22-26

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READING

Monday:

  • Review Ch 1 of The Outsiders
  • Sketchnotes
  • Begin Character Analysis/Notes

Tuesday:

  • Read Ch 2
  • Sketchnotes
  • Add to Character pages

Wednesday:

  • Foreshadowing-What is it? Have we seen it in The Outsiders?
  • Make Predictions
  • Add to character pages
  • Begin Ch 3 if there is time

Thursday:

  • Read Ch 3
  • Sketchnotes
  • Add to Character pages

Friday:

  • Review quiz over first 3 chapters
  • Discuss how characters are changing
  • Read “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
  • Discuss meaning

ENGLISH

Monday:

  • Answer questions over 1st chapter of The Outsiders

Tuesday:

  • Finish Questions over Ch. 1
  • Finish Notes over parts of speech

Wednesday:

  • Conjunctions lesson
  • Begin memorizing FANBOYS

Thursday:

  • Library Day

Friday:

  • Games to practice conjunctions

Lesson Plans Sept 8-12

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READING

Monday:

  • Read “Flight of Icarus”
  • What is Mythology

Tuesday:

  • Analyze story elements (Myths)
  • Discuss theme
  • find the themes of “Flight of Icarus”

Wednesday:

  • What is text evidence?
  • Analyze the text “Flight of Icarus”
  • Respond to the text using text evidence

Thursday:

  • Review myth story elements
  • Review text evidence

Friday:

  • Test over “Flight of Icarus”, myth story elements, and text evidence.

ENGLISH

Monday:

  • Read stories from Friday
  • Parts of a sentence (Subject/Predicate)

Tuesday:

  • What is a clause?
  • Independent and Dependent Clause practice

Wednesday:

  • Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences
  • Identify and practice

Thursday:

  • Library Day

Friday:

  • More practice with Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
  • Test over these next week.