Grammar Skills Pre-assessment, Flexible Grouping, and Starting Unit 1-1/9

Warm Up:

-Students will receive their graded responses to the letter of introduction and discuss further grading procedures

-Students will construct the Table of Contents in the inner two pages of their interactive notebook

-Students will be instructed to mark the front of their notebook with the MLA heading we will be using for all written work throughout the semester

-Students will complete the short grammar pre-assessment test

Work Session:
-Students will use the Superhero Flexible Grouping sheet to determine learning partners

-Students will take notes in their interactive notebooks on the plot structures found in short form fiction

-These include exposition, rising action, types of conflict, climax, and denoument

-Students will view the short cartoon, “The Big City” and use the associated worksheet to identify the plot structures for further discussion

-Students will affix the plot structure template to their interactive notebooks for “The Most Dangerous Game”

-As a class we will begin reading and discussing “The Most Dangerous Game” from the textbook

-Students must identify plot structure and take notes in the template all throughout, time will be reserved to do this near the end of the work session

Summarizer:

-Students will complete a 3-2-1 Countdown today that relates to the comprehension of what we have read of the short story so far