English 10 Honors--3/28/2019

Jump Off
--Find your materials at the same desk at which you sat last class block.  After announcements, I will share some directions/information before setting you free to continue working for up to 45 minutes.
--I will be touching base with the following students during today's testing block:

• E. Henderson-Schultz
• O. Krebbeks
• A. Nichols
• F. Ray

S. the C. #1
--directions/information shared

Assessment -- "Midterm" Examination in English Language Arts
--as you work, I will come around and deliver the following:

• a copy of William Golding's Lord of the Flies
• a slip of paper with Post-it directions
• a stack of Post-its

S. the C. #2
--HW

Transition

--active/purposeful reading tasks shared via slip of paper:

• In order to engage in high-level discussions about Golding's challenging text, our active/purposeful reading tasks are as follows:
• complete Post-its as directed:
• read actively as you have done in the past (e.g., If you need to jot down basic plot notes to get/remember the "gist", do so!; If you connect the text to personal experience, jot down notes about the connection and flag the page; If you have a question, jot it down and flag the page; etc.)
• read purposefully with regard to...
• literary techniques/elements
• the conventions of literature
• theme
• the End-of-Course Assignment.

--engage in an active/purposeful oral reading

• I'll simultaneously do a "think-aloud" for the first few pages as per our reading tasks as modeling.

Closure

--What were you able to "get" out of reading the first few pages?

• turn and talk
• whole-class share-out/notes on whiteboard

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM TONIGHT (Thursday, 3/28) (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
--Complete another 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 4/4 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
Writing
--Your properly formatted, fully revised short story or poem is due before 11:59 PM TONIGHT (Thursday, 3/28).  See your "Preparing for the GVEP Literary Contest" document for additional information.
HW (Class Preparation)
--You will finish taking the examination that you have been working on either at the end of next week or the beginning of the week after next after we have spent some time together working on academic argumentation.  Please come prepared!
--Finish an active/purposeful reading of CHAPTER ONE of Lord of the Flies as preparation for analysis/discussion/(an assessment?) NEXT CLASS (Monday, 4/1) (see the slip of paper).

• This assignment has been postponed so that we can get farther in the text together first.

--If you feel it is necessary, read through the packet of additional information pertaining to the common grammar error with which we dealt a few class blocks ago and complete PRACTICE #4 (located in a manila folder in the "Grammar Hammer Extras" area of the classroom).  A quiz about this error will take place at the beginning of class on Wednesday, 4/3.

--If you have not yet selected your final free reading book of the school year, consider doing so ASAP (with the knowledge, though, that you must read a memoir, and we will head to the library soon)--ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

Miscellaneous

--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)


On the backburner

• "Madness" done in class upon submission of revisions
• preparing to read LotF
• "Madness" done in class upon submission of revisions
• memoir of choice (could be An Ordinary Man!) as last free reading