English 10 Honors--12/4/2019

Jump Off
--Please take out the following:

• your free reading book
• your notebook

Date the page in the lefthand margin of your notebook page (12/4) and label this section of your notes "Common Error Review." 

--Brooke B./Sabrina A.: Please drop the grammar hammer!

S. the C.
--briefly discuss potential of adding cell phone caveat to "Compact for Group Work"
--agenda/HW

Grammar Hammer Review/Writing Workshop (Phase 5) -- Comma Error Review (10-15 mins.)
--quick-review comma usage with introductory elements/transitions via definitions, examples, etc. on the whiteboard and/or SMART Board

• Do your best to capture the notes!

--quick-review comma usage with FANBOYS via definitions, examples, etc. on the whiteboard and/or SMART Board

• Do your best to capture the notes!

Transition

--Obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom and log in.

Writing Workshop (Phase 5) -- Short Story "Unit"--End-of-"Unit" Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--divvy up typing tasks (e.g., Nicki types sentences 1-5, Jonah types sentences 6-10, and Chris types sentences 11-15)

--one student per group creates a shared Google Doc

• MODEL (if necessary)

--group-type response

• MODEL (if necessary)

*DURING THIS TIME, I WILL CALL STUDENTS UP TO THE FRONT TABLE FOR... 

• ESSAY CONFERENCING
• FREE READING CONFERENCING.*

Writing Workshop (Phase 5) -- RE-READING Strategies and Elevating Diction

--RE-READING strategies MODELED for comma errors reviewed earlier in the block
--RE-READ for comma errors as per review, fixing any errors that you find

--discuss Membean words (e.g., those for which you created posters earlier in the school year) and deftly incorporate at least one word in your writing piece.  Don't overdo it, though!
*DURING THIS TIME, I WILL CONTINUE CALLING STUDENTS UP TO THE FRONT TABLE FOR...

• ESSAY CONFERENCING
• FREE READING CONFERENCING.*

Ticket-Out-the-Door (last few mins.)

• Share your group's Google Doc with me.
• MODEL
• Return the Chromebooks.

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)

--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses (approximately 45 minutes) over three different days before 11:59 PM this Thursday (12/5).  DUE TO THANKSGIVING RECESS, I AM ADDING TOGETHER THE "STATS" FROM THE 11/22-11/28 REPORT AND THE 11/29-12/5 REPORT, MEANING THAT ONE OF THESE TWO WEEKS IS AN "EXTRA WEEK."  (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)

• If you earned the opportunity for Marking Period 2 credit recovery, you must stay after school this Friday, 12/6 to calculate your partial credit!

--Complete another cycle of Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses (approximately 45 minutes) over three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 12/12.  (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)   This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3! 

Writing

--Your improved Thematic Writing Assignment--Partner Interviews essay is due via email before 11:59 PM this Thursday (12/5).

• Please bring your "marked up" original copy of this writing assignment to class on Friday, 12/6.

HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)

--If you have not already done so, finish reading your free reading book by the end of this week.  ALWAYS BRING A FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

On the backburner:

• Introducing "Take a Stand" Activity and ThinkCERCA/Article of the Week purpose, framework, etc.
• tablet
• first Grammar Hammer (WUBAIS!!!)