Essential Questions:
1. Who am I as a reader, writer, student, and person?
2. What habits of mind does it take to succeed in school?
3. What have people said over time about the value of reading and writing?
4. What makes someone a good reader, writer, and overall good student?
A. Opening Assignment: Grammar Book
Complete exercise 4 on page 631. Follow the directions as they are written. You are just adding colons or semicolons.
B. Annotate "Digging" by Seamus Heaney with a focus on asking questions of the text. (1st period)
C. Answer questions about "Digging" and determine what type of questions they are in relation to Bloom's Taxonomy. (4th-finish copying questions.)
D. Check questions for "Digging." (5th period--check homework)
E. Reading Journal Entry for "Digging"
Choose a line and/or stanza from the reading and comment on its meaning, significance, and/or impact on you as a reader. Be sure to include a direct quote of the line and/or stanza.
F. Data analysis of EOC pre-test (7th period)
G. Discuss literary glossary vocabulary notebook.
H. Do You Hear What I Hear?
Listening Strategy: Maya Angelou on Writing passage.
I. Discuss PLAN assessment.
J. Collaborative: Create 2 multiple choice questions about the passage.
Create 1 constructed response. For the questions, label the types of questions you create (Look at your notes of Bloom's Taxonomy).The multiple choice questions must be from 2 different levels of learning.
The constructed response must come from the following levels of learning:
Analysis, Synthesis, or Evaluation.
K. Complete the first 3 columns of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
L. Closing: Read "Learning to Read" in chunks, asking questions about what we read as we go.
Chunk 1: Write a KNOWLEDGE question.
Chunk 2: Write a COMPREHENSION question.
Chunk 3: Write an APPLICATION question.
Chunk 4: Write an ANALYSIS question.
Chunk 5: Write a SYNTHESIS question.
Chunk 6: Write an EVALUATION question.