Career Cruising- 10/23

-Students will be in the department computer lab during most of the class as the Guidance counselors do the Career Cruising lesson
-If time remains, students will work on the final products for their Romeo and Juliet Wake projects
-All final products are due November 4th

Tiered Reviews and Act V- 10/22

Warm Up:
-Students will complete the tiered review questions for Acts I-III of Romeo and Juliet

Work Session:
-The class will briefly view and discuss Act IV of "Romeo + Juliet"
-Students will e assigned speaking roles for Act V of the play
-As a class we will read and discuss Act V

Summarizer:
-Students will be introduced to the Peach Book extra credit project

Scene Adaptation Performances- 10/21

Warm Up:
-Students will complete the self-reflection and peer grading sheets for the scene adaptations we worked on all last week
-These reflections will be commented on and used as a basis for the final Act II assessment

Work Session:
-Small groups will have ten minutes to put the final touches on their scene adaptations
-Small groups will perform their scene adaptations
-If time permits, speaking roles will be assigned
-As a class we will read and discuss Act V of Romeo and Juliet

Summarizer:
-Students will complete the teacher effectiveness surveys

Line Detective and Scene Adaptations- 10/16

Warm Up:
-Students will complete the "Line Detective" exercise as a warm up
-Citing textual evidence, the instructor will use the discussion questions as a framework for the larger themes explored so far in the drama

Work Session:
-Students will receive directions for the scene adaptation assessment
-Students will break into small, predetermined groups to begin adapting their assigned scene
-Students will workshop the performance while building homemade props and backdrops for their performances
-Final drafts of scripts are due at the end of class
-Scene performances will begin tomorrow and individual assessments will be graded and applied

Summarizer:
-Student scripts will serve as today's Exit Ticket

Dramatic Types- 10/15

Warm Up:
-As a class we will take notes on, and discuss, dramatic types and conflict found in dramatic literature
-Students will do a quickwrite based on this warm up which will be discussed

Work Session:
-Students will be assigned speaking roles for this Act
-As a class we will read and discuss Act III
-Students will receive the directions for the scene adaptation activity
-Students will be broken into small groups to begin the products for this assessment

Summarizer:
-Students will complete a 3-2-1 Countdown based on this lesson

EOCT Pretest- 10/14

Warm Up:
-Students will transpose answers from the first part of the EOCT pretest they began Friday onto an optical scanning answer sheet

Work Session:
-Students will finish the EOCT pretest
-Answers from this test will be used to determine the direction of the EOCT preparation unit
-This activity should take a majority of class time today
-If students finish early they will complete the critical reading questions for Act II we began Friday
-Students that finish all activities early can work on the rough drafts of the products they are creating for the unit performance task

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

Finishing Act II-10/9

Warm Up:
-Students will review internal and external conflicts by viewing the short film "Paperman"
-Students will create a T chart that illustrates the two types of conflict present in the short film
-As a class we will discuss what students saw and the conflicts they identified

Work Session:
-Talking roles will be established for all speaking roles today
-As a class we will read and discuss Act II scene 5
-Students will use the provided graphic organizer and attach this into their interactive notebook to identify conflict, theme, and extended metaphors present in this Act
-As a class we will discuss answers to this
-If time permits we will view the Act II scenes in Romeo + Juliet
-Additionally, if time permits students will break into project groups and continue work on the Wake project products

Summarizer:
-Students will answer the Essential Question for today on a sticky note
-This will serve as today's Exit Ticket

Today's Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QAI4B_2Mfc