Project and Grade Conferences- 9/12

Warm Up:
-Students will complete notes and activities (smartboard) on capitalization and the spelling of confusing words

Work Session:
-As a class we will complete the coached example from the COACH workbooks
-Students will complete the lesson practice from the COACH workbooks
-Students will complete the Four Panels assessment administered in yesterday's class (15 min.)
-A majority of class will be spent using department laptops and BYOD devices to complete a portion of the unit 1 performance task
-As students work they will work on the project checklist and have individual grade, test, and project conferences with the instructor

Summarizer:
-Students will complete project checklists and turn this in as today's Exit Ticket

"In Search of Shakespeare"-9/11

Warm Up:
-Students will complete notes on semicolons, apostrophes, and using question marks in quotation marks

Work Session:
-Together we will work on the coached practice exercises from the COACH workbook
-Students will do the lesson practice exercises
-As we did not get to this yesterday, students will complete the Four Panels assessment (45 min.)
-Students will view the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet
-Students will receive the Six Event Graphic Organizer to use as they watch the documentary
-Students will view the documentary entitled, "In Search of Shakespeare"

Summarizer:
-Students will complete the Six Event Graphic Organizer

Soliloquies, Monologues, Tragic/Flawed Heroes, and Literary Foils- 9/10

Warm Up:
-Students will take notes on punctuation
-For modeling purposes the instructor will review incorrect examples using the document camera and typed, anonymous examples from recent student writing
-The instructor will use the Promethean smart board to show how to proofread, and subsequently correct these errors

Work Session:
-Together we will complete the coached lesson from the COACH workbooks
-Students will work on the lesson practice from the COACH workbooks
-As a class we will discuss correct answers
-Students will review information presented in yesterday's lesson by discussing what they recorded in the third column of yesterday's KWL chart.  These charts can be found in the interactive notebook.
-The class will discuss the last two rows of the KWL chart
-Students will take notes in their interactive notebooks as we discuss formalized notes for Elizabethan England and literary foils
-Students will receive a piece of typing paper for today's formative assessment
-Students will fold the paper twice to create four panels
-After viewing youtube examples (V for Vendetta, The Lion King, The Dark Knight Rises) students will answer the critical questions posed on the board and provide pop cultural and literary examples of soliloquy, monologue, tragic/flawed hero, and foils

Summarizer:
-Students will discuss the results of their Four Panels with the entire class

Starting Unit 2- 9/9

NOTE: Due to the length of last week's assessment much of this lesson was not completed last week.

Warm Up:
-Students will take he EOCT mid-chapter review quiz
-This quiz is based on the warm up notes we took last week

Work Session:
-As a class we will finish viewing and discussing "Into the Wild"
-Students will work on the first column of the KWL chart.  They will refer to this as we discuss material not covered in today's powerpoint
-Students begin a new unit today on Shakespeare. Our primary text for this unit will be "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"
-As an anticipatory set students will receive cloze notes to begin introductory activities and notes
-As a class we will review and discuss the presentation on "Shakespeare and the English Language"
-If time permits at the end of the presentation, students will use in-class resources (as well as smart phones) to define the vocabulary terms at the end of the presentation

Summarizer:
-Students will complete a 3-2-1 Countdown based on today's lesson

Beginning Shakespeare- 9/6

Warm Up:
-Students will take notes on making information clear in research writing
-Together we will work on the coached example (from the COACH workbooks)
-Students will work on the lesson practice (COACH) and the class will correct and discuss the crrect answers

Work Session:
-As a class we will finish viewing and discussing "Into the Wild"
-Students will work on the first column of the KWL chart.  They will refer to this as we discuss material not covered in today's powerpoint
-Students begin a new unit today on Shakespeare. Our primary text for this unit will be "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"
-As an anticipatory set students will receive cloze notes to begin introductory activities and notes
-As a class we will review and discuss the presentation on "Shakespeare and the English Language"
-If time permits at the end of the presentation, students will use in-class resources (as well as smart phones) to define the vocabulary terms at the end of the presentation

Summarizer:
-Students will complete a 3-2-1 Countdown based on today's lesson

Unit 1 Performance Task -9/4

Warm Up:
-Students will take note on the art of taking and using notes in research writing
-As a class we will work on the coached lesson together
-Students will work on the lesson practice (COACH)
-Together we will correct these exercises and discuss the answers

Work Session:
-Students will receive the directions for the unit 1 performance task
-As a class we will discuss the directions and steps students should take to complete the task
-Students will receive the advanced graphic organizer for guided viewing
-As a class we will take brief notes on media literacy
-Students will view the remainder of the movie version of Into the Wild while working on their advanced graphic organizers


Summarizer:
-Students will complete a 3-2-1 Countdown based on today's lesson

Into the Wild Final Test-9/3

Warm Up:
-Students will take notes on secondary evidence in research writing
-Together we will work on the coached example (from the COACH workbooks)
-Students will work on the lesson practice (COACH) and the class will correct and discuss the crrect answers

Work Session:
-Students will take the final test for Into the Wild (this will take a majority of the class)
-Students will receive the performance task directions for Unit 1
-As a class we will discuss the techniques students should employ when completing the performance task
-In small collaborative groups, students will use the department laptops to begin the preliminary steps they will need to complete the performance task
-Interactive notebooks will be collected at the end of class for a grade 

Summarizer:
-Students will individually conference with the instructor to discuss research steps