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 exercise A on the practice sheet. Each sentence needs one semicolon added to it in place of the existing commas. Write the word that comes before the added semicolon.
B. Answer questions about "Digging" and determine what type of questions they are in relation to Bloom's Taxonomy. (1st period)
C. Check questions for "Digging." (4th period--check homework)
D. 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.
E. Data analysis of EOC pre-test (5th period)
F. Discuss literary glossary vocabulary notebook.
G. Do You Hear What I Hear?
Listening Strategy: Maya Angelou on Writing passage.
H. Discuss PLAN assessment.
I. 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.
J. Complete the first 3 columns of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
K. 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.
L. Closing: Finish last column of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
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 exercise A on the practice sheet. Each sentence needs one semicolon added to it in place of the existing commas. Write the word that comes before the added semicolon.
B. Answer questions about "Digging" and determine what type of questions they are in relation to Bloom's Taxonomy. (1st period)
C. Check questions for "Digging." (4th period--check homework)
D. 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.
E. Data analysis of EOC pre-test (5th period)
F. Discuss literary glossary vocabulary notebook.
G. Do You Hear What I Hear?
Listening Strategy: Maya Angelou on Writing passage.
H. Discuss PLAN assessment.
I. 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.
J. Complete the first 3 columns of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
K. 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.
L. Closing: Finish last column of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.