Today's objectives:
By the end of class today, each student will have synthesized evidence from English and History to create the outline for his/her first ESGP essay.
Agenda:
Work time on the outline!
HW:
By the time you come to class on Thursday, your outline should be complete. 5th and 6th periods: I will come check your outlines at the beginning of the day (during 3rd period) on Thursday.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Lesson 28: November 5-6
Today's objectives:
By the end of class today, each student will have generated their topic sentences for all of their body paragraphs.
Agenda:
1) Skillbuilder: generating sophisticated topic sentences (looking at conclusive and qualifying examples)
2) Concessive word list and the point of concession
3) Work time to develop and refine topic sentences
HW: Finish writing topic sentences. If you are behind, get caught up over the weekend. By the time I see you on Monday or Tuesday, you should -- at the very least -- have found all of your evidence and written your topic sentences.
By the end of class today, each student will have generated their topic sentences for all of their body paragraphs.
Agenda:
1) Skillbuilder: generating sophisticated topic sentences (looking at conclusive and qualifying examples)
2) Concessive word list and the point of concession
3) Work time to develop and refine topic sentences
HW: Finish writing topic sentences. If you are behind, get caught up over the weekend. By the time I see you on Monday or Tuesday, you should -- at the very least -- have found all of your evidence and written your topic sentences.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Lesson 27: November 4
Today's objectives:
By the end of class today, each student will have synthesized and organized evidence from the following sources:
Agenda:
Students will have the entire periods in English and in History today to work on evidence collection.
HW: Finish finding evidence for your essay. You should be done finding evidence when you come to class on Thursday or Friday.
By the end of class today, each student will have synthesized and organized evidence from the following sources:
- founding documents of the United States
- a Horatio Alger story
- two oral histories ("My American Dream" and "My Chinese Name is Lee Fong Yee")
- immigration interviews
- immigration novel
Agenda:
Students will have the entire periods in English and in History today to work on evidence collection.
HW: Finish finding evidence for your essay. You should be done finding evidence when you come to class on Thursday or Friday.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Lesson 26: November 2-3
Today's objectives:
By the end of class today, students will be able to: explain the writing process and due dates for ESGP Analysis Essay #1; begin to synthesize multiple primary and secondary sources to construct an argument about the American Dream; graphically organize their ideas and move towards constructing a working thesis for the essay.
Agenda:
1) Calendar --> what's going on in English this quarter?
2) Intro to essay prompt
2) Intro to grown-up thesis statements
3) Organizing and synthesizing evidence collected from primary and secondary source documents
HW: UD E1 groupwork assessment
By the end of class today, students will be able to: explain the writing process and due dates for ESGP Analysis Essay #1; begin to synthesize multiple primary and secondary sources to construct an argument about the American Dream; graphically organize their ideas and move towards constructing a working thesis for the essay.
Agenda:
1) Calendar --> what's going on in English this quarter?
2) Intro to essay prompt
2) Intro to grown-up thesis statements
3) Organizing and synthesizing evidence collected from primary and secondary source documents
HW: UD E1 groupwork assessment
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Lesson 25: October 28-29
Today's objectives:
By the end of class today, students will have made progress on (by finishing or coming very close to finishing) their immigration novel and will work on reading response paper #2.
Agenda:
1) SSR in immigration novels [40 min]
2) work time for reading response paper #2
HW:
Reading response paper #2 is due on Monday (per. 1 and 2) or Tuesday (per. 5 and 6) next week. If you need a book to finish writing your paper over the weekend, please check one out after school on Thursday. Books must be returned on Monday morning before school.
By the end of class today, students will have made progress on (by finishing or coming very close to finishing) their immigration novel and will work on reading response paper #2.
Agenda:
1) SSR in immigration novels [40 min]
2) work time for reading response paper #2
HW:
Reading response paper #2 is due on Monday (per. 1 and 2) or Tuesday (per. 5 and 6) next week. If you need a book to finish writing your paper over the weekend, please check one out after school on Thursday. Books must be returned on Monday morning before school.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Lesson 24: October, 26-27
Today's objectives:
By the end of class today, students will have: made progress in their immigration novels, finished planning their exhibition presentations, and started working on reading response paper #2.
Agenda:
1) SSR in immigration texts [35 min.]
2) students will finish creating notecards for exhibition presentations [30 min.]
3) students will silently start writing reading response paper #2 [30 min.]
HW:
By the end of class today, students will have: made progress in their immigration novels, finished planning their exhibition presentations, and started working on reading response paper #2.
Agenda:
1) SSR in immigration texts [35 min.]
2) students will finish creating notecards for exhibition presentations [30 min.]
3) students will silently start writing reading response paper #2 [30 min.]
HW:
- Reading Response Paper #2 is due on Nov. 2-3 (Monday, 11/2 for per. 1 and 2; Tuesday, 11/3 for per. 5 and 6)
- Students should be finished with their immigration texts by next week (books can be checked out overnight at the end of every school day and must be returned before school the following morning).
- Exhibition notecards are due in History class on Wed/Thurs, 10/28-29
Friday, October 23, 2009
Lesson 23: October 22-23
Today's objectives:
By the end of class today, students will have made progress in their immigration novels, planned another page in their artist's book, and have started working on their exhibition presentation note cards.
Agenda:
1) SSR [30 min.]
2) plan page 3 or 4 in your artist's book [30 min]
3) overview of exhibition [10 min]
4) create notecards for exhibition [30 min]
HW: Work on your exhibition project! (read your immigration novel, plan some pages, draw/paint your pages, etc.)
By the end of class today, students will have made progress in their immigration novels, planned another page in their artist's book, and have started working on their exhibition presentation note cards.
Agenda:
1) SSR [30 min.]
2) plan page 3 or 4 in your artist's book [30 min]
3) overview of exhibition [10 min]
4) create notecards for exhibition [30 min]
HW: Work on your exhibition project! (read your immigration novel, plan some pages, draw/paint your pages, etc.)
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