English 10 H Daily Syllabus
February 8, 2017
WOD: vapid
Journal: What side do you think you will take in your essay? Why?
Finished watching Culture Shock Video
Discussed video
Class Work Time
Due Friday: Response to end of Huck Finn questions, quiz on end of the book, vocab quiz, articles read and annotated.
Journal: What side do you think you will take in your essay? Why?
Finished watching Culture Shock Video
Discussed video
Class Work Time
Due Friday: Response to end of Huck Finn questions, quiz on end of the book, vocab quiz, articles read and annotated.
December 8, 2016
WOD: erudite
No Journal
Straight to revision groups.
Began watching The Crucible
No Journal
Straight to revision groups.
Began watching The Crucible
December 6, 2016
WOD: Wheedle
No Journal
We went over how to revise essays and began revising essays
No Journal
We went over how to revise essays and began revising essays
December 2, 2016
WOD: Vitriolic
Journal: Using one of the three following literary elements, explain how it's use/impact/effect in The Crucible: Catharsis, hubris, or pendantic.
Began disucssion of how to revise essays.
November 30, 2016
No WOD: QUIZ Day!
Socratic Seminar Discussion
Students turned in their questions and notes.
Socratic Seminar Discussion
Students turned in their questions and notes.
November 28, 2016
WOD: Tenuous
Journal Entry: Using 5 of your vocabulary words, write a paragraph about your Thanksgiving Holiday.
Vocab quiz on Wednesday. Use this quizlet to study.
Work DAY! (This does not happen often).
Time to work on the following
Journal Entry: Using 5 of your vocabulary words, write a paragraph about your Thanksgiving Holiday.
Vocab quiz on Wednesday. Use this quizlet to study.
Work DAY! (This does not happen often).
Time to work on the following
- answer three questions in preparation for socratic discussion of the end of the book (Due Wednesday)
- time to work on writing the essay
November 21, 2016
WOD: sanfroid
Time to work on quotes
Went over the essay assignment
Rough Draft Due on December 2. 3 copies needed in class
Time to work on quotes
Went over the essay assignment
Rough Draft Due on December 2. 3 copies needed in class
November 17, 2016
Learning Targets:
Finish the play in class
Time for quotes
- I can discuss the ending of the play
Finish the play in class
Time for quotes
November 15, 2016
Learning Target:
Rhetorical analysis of Danforth's speech
Time to work on quotes from ACT III
Begin Act IV
- I can analyze a speech for rhetorical strategies
- I can find evidence to support a claim
Rhetorical analysis of Danforth's speech
Time to work on quotes from ACT III
Begin Act IV
November 11, 2016
Learning Target:
Discussed the AOW.
Finished reading Act III of The Crucible
Time to work on quotes
- I can analyze the arguments a character makes
- I can find examples of irony in the play
Discussed the AOW.
Finished reading Act III of The Crucible
Time to work on quotes
November 9, 2016
Learning Target:
Worked on reading Act III of The Crucible
- I can analyze the arguments a character makes.
Worked on reading Act III of The Crucible
November 7, 2016
Learning Target
Writing Prompt:
Reviewed how to elaborate on an idea.
Assigned AOW to read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. (Pick up a copy in the absent work).
Students need to answer the question: Analyze how Jonathan Edwards uses rhetorical strategies to bring about his purpose.
We analyzed the question and what students need to do for the write up. This is due on Friday.
- I can explain the purpose of rhetoric used in a speech
Writing Prompt:
Reviewed how to elaborate on an idea.
Assigned AOW to read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. (Pick up a copy in the absent work).
Students need to answer the question: Analyze how Jonathan Edwards uses rhetorical strategies to bring about his purpose.
We analyzed the question and what students need to do for the write up. This is due on Friday.
November 3, 2016
Learning Target:
Writing Prompt: Read the following prompts and determine if it is logical or fallacious reasoning:
1.Our troops know that they’re fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere to protect their fellow Americans from a savage enemy. They know that if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities and streets, and they know that the safety and security of every American is at stake in this war, and they know we will prevail.
2.But can Congress and the media be expected to swallow the appointment of a proven coverup artist, a discredited historian, a busted liar, and a man who is wanted in many jurisdictions for the vilest of offenses?
3.Google must be anti-American because the company decorates its famous logo for occasions such as the anniversary of Sputnik and Earth Day, but not Memorial Day in the United States.
Finished watching videos to identify logical fallacy.
- I can find logical fallacy in The Crucible
Writing Prompt: Read the following prompts and determine if it is logical or fallacious reasoning:
1.Our troops know that they’re fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere to protect their fellow Americans from a savage enemy. They know that if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities and streets, and they know that the safety and security of every American is at stake in this war, and they know we will prevail.
2.But can Congress and the media be expected to swallow the appointment of a proven coverup artist, a discredited historian, a busted liar, and a man who is wanted in many jurisdictions for the vilest of offenses?
3.Google must be anti-American because the company decorates its famous logo for occasions such as the anniversary of Sputnik and Earth Day, but not Memorial Day in the United States.
Finished watching videos to identify logical fallacy.
November 1, 2016
Learning Target:
WOD: Adventitious
Writing Prompt: Choose one ironic situation in The Crucible. What type of irony is it and what is its impact on the play, the characters, or the theme?
Worked in groups to learn definitions of logical fallacies
Viewed videos to identify logical fallacies.
- I can identify logical fallacies
- I can define logical fallacies
WOD: Adventitious
Writing Prompt: Choose one ironic situation in The Crucible. What type of irony is it and what is its impact on the play, the characters, or the theme?
Worked in groups to learn definitions of logical fallacies
Viewed videos to identify logical fallacies.
October 28, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt:
What is one thing you want to improve on for this term? Why do you want to improve that one thing? How are you going to do it?
Reviewed procedures in class
Folder clean out
New coupons
New seating chart
Time to work in class for quotes
Introduce Logical Fallacy
To finish the assignment, go to this website.
Be sure to have your two logical fallacies defined with examples.
- I know how the class works
- I can find support for a theme
- I can explain how that support fits the theme
- I can define logical fallacies
Writing Prompt:
What is one thing you want to improve on for this term? Why do you want to improve that one thing? How are you going to do it?
Reviewed procedures in class
Folder clean out
New coupons
New seating chart
Time to work in class for quotes
Introduce Logical Fallacy
To finish the assignment, go to this website.
Be sure to have your two logical fallacies defined with examples.
October 26, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt: (Check with a neighbor)
Finished listening to ACT II
Time to work on Quotes from ACT II
- I can find examples of irony in The Crucible.
Writing Prompt: (Check with a neighbor)
Finished listening to ACT II
Time to work on Quotes from ACT II
October 19, 2016
Learning Targets:
Vocab Quiz on Wednesday of next week.
Writing Prompt:
Write anything you know about irony. Give any examples you know of an ironic situation.
Students will watch three videos giving definitions and examples of Irony.
Begin reading Act II and look for the various types of Irony.
- I can define the three types of irony
- I can find examples of Irony in The Crucible
Vocab Quiz on Wednesday of next week.
Writing Prompt:
Write anything you know about irony. Give any examples you know of an ironic situation.
Students will watch three videos giving definitions and examples of Irony.
Begin reading Act II and look for the various types of Irony.
October 17, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt:
If you haven’t found your quote from Act I that shows the main idea of the Act, as well as an explanation for why the the quote shows the main idea, then finish that.
Students will work in groups to determine one most important quote.
Write the quotes on the board and look at connections between theme. These connections are possible themes.
Review all possible themes.
Students will be writing an essay on a theme in The Crucible. They need to find at least 20 quotes in the play which relate to their chosen theme and explain how that quote relates to the theme.
- I can define theme
- I can identify a main theme
- I can do a close reading of a text to determine what it says about a theme.
Writing Prompt:
If you haven’t found your quote from Act I that shows the main idea of the Act, as well as an explanation for why the the quote shows the main idea, then finish that.
Students will work in groups to determine one most important quote.
Write the quotes on the board and look at connections between theme. These connections are possible themes.
Review all possible themes.
Students will be writing an essay on a theme in The Crucible. They need to find at least 20 quotes in the play which relate to their chosen theme and explain how that quote relates to the theme.
October 13, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt: Read back through the comments on your essay and reflect on what you struggled with and what you are planning to do better. What do you need to work on for next time?
If students earned below an 80%, they need to revise and resubmit the essay.
Finished reading Act I and turned in character motivations assignment.
Students then had to go back through ACT I and find one quote which best identifies the main idea of the play at this point.
- I can identify character motivations with specific evidence
Writing Prompt: Read back through the comments on your essay and reflect on what you struggled with and what you are planning to do better. What do you need to work on for next time?
If students earned below an 80%, they need to revise and resubmit the essay.
Finished reading Act I and turned in character motivations assignment.
Students then had to go back through ACT I and find one quote which best identifies the main idea of the play at this point.
October 11, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt:
Discuss one of our main characters we've met. What are your thoughts?
Nearly finished reading Act I of The Crucible. We'll finish it next time.
- I can identify character motivations with specific evidence.
Writing Prompt:
Discuss one of our main characters we've met. What are your thoughts?
Nearly finished reading Act I of The Crucible. We'll finish it next time.
October 7, 2016
WOD: Ingratiate
Turned in AOW
Finished discussing purpose of The Crucible
Began Act I of The Crucible.
Turned in AOW
Finished discussing purpose of The Crucible
Began Act I of The Crucible.
October 5, 2016
WOD:epitome
Writing Prompt:
Finished discussing Salem and the Witch Trials as well as introducing the purpose for Miller writing The Crucible.
Writing Prompt:
Finished discussing Salem and the Witch Trials as well as introducing the purpose for Miller writing The Crucible.
October 3, 2016
Learning Target:
Writing Prompt:
How, if at all, are we like the Puritans today?
Introduced AOW #2:
Article #1: Still Puritan After All These Years
Article #2: Playing it to the Puritans
Read an annotate both articles. Answer, in 2-3 paragraphs, the writing prompt question using evidence from the articles.
- I can analyze two informational texts
- I can write a response to a question using specific examples from texts.
Writing Prompt:
How, if at all, are we like the Puritans today?
Introduced AOW #2:
Article #1: Still Puritan After All These Years
Article #2: Playing it to the Puritans
Read an annotate both articles. Answer, in 2-3 paragraphs, the writing prompt question using evidence from the articles.
September 29, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt: Write a paragraph on anything you want.
Finished revising essays.
Final draft due on Wednesday October 5, 2016.
- I can revise an essay to clarify ideas
Writing Prompt: Write a paragraph on anything you want.
Finished revising essays.
Final draft due on Wednesday October 5, 2016.
September 27, 2016
Learning Targets
Writing prompt: None
Practiced revising essays to match the rubric.
Began revising essays
- I can revise an essay to clarify ideas
Writing prompt: None
Practiced revising essays to match the rubric.
Began revising essays
September 23, 2016
Mrs. Child gone.
WOD: ameliorate
Writing Prompt: What has been difficult in writing this essay. What has been easy.
Watch The Scarlet Letter Video.
WOD: ameliorate
Writing Prompt: What has been difficult in writing this essay. What has been easy.
Watch The Scarlet Letter Video.
September 21, 2016
Mrs. Child Gone
Learning Targets:
Finish Puritans Powerpoint with sub.
Learning Targets:
- I understand the Puritans and Hawthorne's purpose in using them in The Scarlet Letter.
Finish Puritans Powerpoint with sub.
September 19, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt:
Read the following quote from The Scarlet Letter:
“It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.”
Whose tale is it?
WOD: Unctuous
Vocab quiz on Wednesday. You can go here to study the words.
Reviewed writing an essay. The rough draft of the essay is due on Tuesday, September 27. You need three copies in class.
- I understand the elements of writing an essay
Writing Prompt:
Read the following quote from The Scarlet Letter:
“It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.”
Whose tale is it?
WOD: Unctuous
Vocab quiz on Wednesday. You can go here to study the words.
Reviewed writing an essay. The rough draft of the essay is due on Tuesday, September 27. You need three copies in class.
September 15, 2016
Learning Targets:
WOD: Umbrage
Writing prompt:
In 5-7 sentence answer the following:
Choose one or two quotes from your character articles and explain why you annotated them.
Discussed chapters
Turned in character articles and character analysis assignments
Began Puritans Background information (See link on yesterday's date).
- I understand Hawthorne's purpose in using the Puritans in TSL.
- I understand the elements of Romanticism and how it applies to TSL.
WOD: Umbrage
Writing prompt:
In 5-7 sentence answer the following:
Choose one or two quotes from your character articles and explain why you annotated them.
Discussed chapters
Turned in character articles and character analysis assignments
Began Puritans Background information (See link on yesterday's date).
September 13, 2016
Learning Targets:
WOD: Provincial
Writing Prompt:
In 5-7 sentences answer the following:
Go back to your character passages and look at what you annotated. Choose one or two quotes from the passage, and do a closer reading of them. Look at specific words that will describe the character, and discuss the connotation of those words. Why would Hawthorne use that word? What does it further reveal about the character?
Finish Characterization Activity.
Begin Puritans Powerpoint (We only did two slides in 7th period. We didn't start this yet in 8th).
- I can analyze a character using specific evidence
- I understand the purpose of the Puritans in The Scarlet Letter.
WOD: Provincial
Writing Prompt:
In 5-7 sentences answer the following:
Go back to your character passages and look at what you annotated. Choose one or two quotes from the passage, and do a closer reading of them. Look at specific words that will describe the character, and discuss the connotation of those words. Why would Hawthorne use that word? What does it further reveal about the character?
Finish Characterization Activity.
Begin Puritans Powerpoint (We only did two slides in 7th period. We didn't start this yet in 8th).
September 9, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt: Look at these two pictures. Which one is the best representation of the themes of the novel as a whole.
Work in groups to analyze the characters. We'll finish this next time.
- I can analyze a character using solid, specific evidence
Writing Prompt: Look at these two pictures. Which one is the best representation of the themes of the novel as a whole.
Work in groups to analyze the characters. We'll finish this next time.
September 7, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing Prompt:
Answer the following question in a well-organized paragraph:
Of the four main characters in The Scarlet Letter, who is the most important? Why?
Began first AOW assignment using the articles we've read in class. Students are responding in 2 paragraphs to the question What is the importance of reading?.
The following is the structure for the paragraphs:
1-Claim/intro sentence
2-1st evidence
3-4: Warrant for Evidence #1
5-Transition with Evidence #2
6-7: Warrant for Evidence #2
8: Transition with Evidence #3
9-10: Warrant for Evidence #3
11-Concluding statement.
We went over this rubric
For this assignment, students are scored on 1, 3, 4, 5, and 9 as well as annotations.
This is due on Friday.
Began discussing characters in Scarlet Letter.
Students did a close reading of a few major passages in the book to begin analysis of characters.
- I can create a claim.
- I can find evidence to support my claim.
- I can write a well-organized paragraph.
- I can analyze characters using specific evidence from a text.
Writing Prompt:
Answer the following question in a well-organized paragraph:
Of the four main characters in The Scarlet Letter, who is the most important? Why?
Began first AOW assignment using the articles we've read in class. Students are responding in 2 paragraphs to the question What is the importance of reading?.
The following is the structure for the paragraphs:
1-Claim/intro sentence
2-1st evidence
3-4: Warrant for Evidence #1
5-Transition with Evidence #2
6-7: Warrant for Evidence #2
8: Transition with Evidence #3
9-10: Warrant for Evidence #3
11-Concluding statement.
We went over this rubric
For this assignment, students are scored on 1, 3, 4, 5, and 9 as well as annotations.
This is due on Friday.
Began discussing characters in Scarlet Letter.
Students did a close reading of a few major passages in the book to begin analysis of characters.
September 2, 2016
Learning Targets:
- I can write my own claim
- I can find evidence for that claim
- I can write a well-organized paragraph
WOD: Meritorious
Writing Prompt
Look at this picture. What stands out to you? Why is he doing this? Would you be doing the same thing?
Began Free Reading
Discussed the picture
Discussed the claim from the Currie article
Reviewed Claim, Support, Warrant
Worked on identifying claim, support, and warrant in this activity.
Began looking at first AOW on reading. (We'll finish that on Wednesday)
Homework: Scarlet Letter Lit Reduction Sheet
August 31, 2016
Learning Targets:
“Literature is the most astonishing technological means that humans have created, and now practiced for thousands of years, to capture experience. For me the thrill of literature involves entering into the life worlds of others. I’m from a particular, constricted place in time, and I suddenly am part of a huge world— other times, other places, other inner lives that I otherwise would have no access to.”
Stephen Greenblatt, professor of Humanities at Harvard and author of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for nonfiction, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.
WOD: Jaded
Hand out outside reading assignment
Class pictures
Begin to discuss Currie article
- I can find the main claim in an article
- I can find evidence to support the claim
“Literature is the most astonishing technological means that humans have created, and now practiced for thousands of years, to capture experience. For me the thrill of literature involves entering into the life worlds of others. I’m from a particular, constricted place in time, and I suddenly am part of a huge world— other times, other places, other inner lives that I otherwise would have no access to.”
Stephen Greenblatt, professor of Humanities at Harvard and author of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for nonfiction, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.
WOD: Jaded
Hand out outside reading assignment
Class pictures
Begin to discuss Currie article
Monday, August 29, 2016
Learning Targets:
WOD: Hackneyed
Reviewed Connotation and Denotation with this presentation.
Practiced figuring out the main claim of the article we read in class.
Homework: Read and annotate the Gregory Curie article.
Bring a free reading book
School pictures next time!
- I can define connotation and denotation
- I can find the main claim of an article
- I can find evidence to support that claim
WOD: Hackneyed
Reviewed Connotation and Denotation with this presentation.
Practiced figuring out the main claim of the article we read in class.
Homework: Read and annotate the Gregory Curie article.
Bring a free reading book
School pictures next time!
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Learning Targets:
Writing: In 5-7 sentences, explain why your favorite book is your favorite book.
Put together class files.
Finished reading and annotating this article.
- I know how the class works
- I can annotate an article for deeper understanding
Writing: In 5-7 sentences, explain why your favorite book is your favorite book.
Put together class files.
Finished reading and annotating this article.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
WOD: Assuage
Seating Charts
Introduced Disclosure
Introduced Routines and Procedures
Began to annotate article
Homework: Signed disclosure
Wire notebook
Seating Charts
Introduced Disclosure
Introduced Routines and Procedures
Began to annotate article
Homework: Signed disclosure
Wire notebook