English 10 Honors--12/22/2015

HOOKED ON BOOKS

Block 2

--HW reminder
--continue reading?
--view random YouTube videos?
--play Loaded Questions?

Block 4

FYI:  As you read, I will be around to return your "Short Story Unit--Final Examination 2015-2016", which we will spend some time reflecting upon and discussing after Hooked on Books.

Assessment Reflection/Assessment Preparation -- Short Story Unit--Final Examination 2015-2016 and Intertextuality Unit--Culminating Essay Assignment
--"Short Story Unit--Final Examination 2015-2016" By the Numbers (reflect/discuss):

• Highest Score: 92%
• Average Score: 82.61%
• ACT Passage Questions--Percentage of Students Responding Correctly:
• 10 - 61%
• 11 - 28%
• RL.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
• 12 - 72%
• 13 - 83%
• 14 - 89%
• 15 - 44%
• RL.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
• RL.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
• 16 - 100%
• 17 - 100%
• 18 - 89%
• 19 - 78%

--quiet and independent feedback analysis (consider making a list of "pros and grows" in your notes, especially for the two well-developed paragraph responses that you crafted, bearing in mind that we are now building toward a major essay-writing assignment [more on that in a few!])
--Transition

• Return your exams by placing them in the black basket on the front table.
• Take out your copy of the "Intertextuality Unit--The Alchemist and The Old Man and the Sea--Culminating Essay Assignment" document.

--oral reading of the assignment/Q & A (beginning with the end in mind!)

HW Time
--take a look at the Post-it directions included within your copies of the novella--Q & A
--reading (oral? independent?)/discussion of first few pages?

Brain Break
--read some more?
--play Loaded Questions?

HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--Read the PROLOGUE and PART ONE of The Alchemist (up to the end of page 47).  Demonstrate your best skill level in reading actively/purposefully via the Post-it Note strategy, and expect any or all of the following to occur during our first class back after break: 

• collection of your Post-its for assessment purposes
• a "60/40" reading assessment
• a discussion geared around your Post-its 

HW (Class Preparation)
--Read your free reading book for at least 15 minutes between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS, and remember that Hooked on Books continues up until Winter Break!
Miscellaneous
--Enjoy Winter Break--what a gift!

On the backburner:

• Paulo Coelho author background
• Paraphrasing Mini-Lesson as preparation for culminating assignment (based on observations while assessing the "Reading Nonfiction Document"s)
• ACT nonfiction passages and multiple choice questions