Introduction to English 10: Practicing the Habits of a Lifelong Learner
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 Practice
Complete both exercises on the practice sheet. Add only colons to the sentences where they are needed. On your own paper, please put the word and/or number that comes before the colon.
B. Check questions for "Digging." (1st period--check homework)
C. 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.
D. Data analysis of EOC pre-test (4th and 5th periods need to finish.)
E. Discuss literary glossary vocabulary notebook.
F. Do You Hear What I Hear?
Listening Strategy: Maya Angelou on Writing passage.
G. Discuss PLAN assessment.
H. 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.
I. Complete the first 3 columns of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
J. 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.
K. Finish last column of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
L. Closing: Read "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros.
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 Practice
Complete both exercises on the practice sheet. Add only colons to the sentences where they are needed. On your own paper, please put the word and/or number that comes before the colon.
B. Check questions for "Digging." (1st period--check homework)
C. 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.
D. Data analysis of EOC pre-test (4th and 5th periods need to finish.)
E. Discuss literary glossary vocabulary notebook.
F. Do You Hear What I Hear?
Listening Strategy: Maya Angelou on Writing passage.
G. Discuss PLAN assessment.
H. 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.
I. Complete the first 3 columns of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
J. 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.
K. Finish last column of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
L. Closing: Read "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros.