English 10 Honors--11/3/2017 & 11/6/2017

Jump Off (Flex Time)
--Please pick up your "'The Masque of the Red Death' Assessment" from the front table.  Then, work toward completion during the first portion of today's class block.
--When you finish the last part of the assessment, come up to the front table and...

• place your assessment in the black basket
• take out something to work on until everyone is finished.
• I would prefer you did not work on Membean during today's class block.

--Please DO NOT leave class today without touching base with me:

• Nina R.
• Bea T.

S. the C.

--You should leave class today with...

• your "'The Masque of the Red Death' Assessment" completed to the best of your ability
• progress made with regard to some of your assignments (e.g., your short story closer to completion, your free reading book closer to completion, etc.)
• I would prefer you did not work on Membean during today's class block.
• a better sense of what you might face when taking the NYS ELA Regents Examination in June of 2018
• knowledge of a test-taking strategy that you might consider implementing when taking the Regents (and other multiple choice assessments such as the ACT)
• some literature analysis practice under your belt as we head in to our next unit of course, which is geared around George Orwell's literary work Animal Farm

--agenda/HW

Transition

--Please pick up a copy of the "Literature Analysis Practice/NYS ELA Regents Preparation" document from the front table.

Instruction/Discussion -- The NYS ELA Regents Examination, Test-taking, and Literature Analysis

--share last year's incentive plan for the NYS ELA Regents Examination
--test-taking strategy modeled--"setting up" the passage for purposeful reading!
--brief discussion

• share mark ups/notes in order to draw conclusions with regard to each of the prompts--continue marking up the text and jotting down notes underneath each prompt

--Transition--pick up the corresponding multiple choice prompts from the front table
--go through the prompt choices together with our conclusions in mind--do any obvious "matches" exist?

• draw logical conclusions together for prompts where our earlier conclusions do not match, too

--Closure

• What did you take away from the experience in which we just engaged that you can apply to the "Reading Comprehension" section of the NYS ELA Regents Examination?

Closure -- Ball Toss

--Take a look again at the list of "You should leave class with..." items.  Then, in the form of no more than one specific sentence, show me and your peers that you are indeed "leaving with" something important from today's lesson.
--consider the following question:

• How might you change, improve, add to, etc. your current answer to the Essential Question based on today's discussion of Linda Hogan's excerpt from "We Are Many"?

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete a total of 45 minutes of Membean training as directed before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 11/9.  If you fail to appropriately train between now and the administration of Vocabulary Quiz #3, you will not be permitted to take the quiz (see the "Membean Routine" document).

Writing
--Finish, revise, proofread, etc. your short story.  The final draft of this writing assignment is due NEXT class (Tuesday, 11/7 [ACE]/Wednesday, 11/8 [BDF]).  My classroom is open after school for any individuals looking to "workshop" together.
--The due date for submitting a revised Thematic Writing Assignment--Partner Interviews essay for the Cumulative Writing Portfolio is Thursday, 11/16 (ACE)/Friday, 11/17 (BDF) (just under two weeks from today)--YOU MUST schedule a meeting with me to go over your revisions; simply handing in the revisions is unacceptable as per the protocol.  When time permits, meetings can/will occur during class time.
Miscellaneous

--Read your free reading book for at least 15 minutes between now and next class. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.  You have up until early-December to finish your book.