September 07th, 2015

Planning your week….

Homecoming Spirit Week—GO HOYAS!

Monday 9/7   No School/Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday 9/8   Narrative essay due (Dress day—Greek Life)
Wednesday 9/9 Vocabulary Quiz (Level F) over Unit 4 words (Dress day-Seaside Day)
Thursday 9/10 (Dress day—Gods and Goddesses)
Friday 9/11 Bring materials for Lit. Circle group meeting #2 & Lab time for projects (Dress day-Hoya Pride)

Monday   No School/Labor Day Holiday



Tuesday
ELAGSE11-12SL1: Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that probe reasoning and evidence; ensure a hearing for a full range of positions on a topic or issue; clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions; and promote divergent and creative perspectives. d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives;synthesize comments, claims, and evidence made on all sides of an issue; resolve contradictions when possible; and determine what additional information or research is required to deepen the investigation or complete the task.

1. Finish group discussion of "Rip Van Winkle": text autopsy--students will work in small groups to cut up the story for elements/text support that responds to targeted questions over literary elements. 
2. Vocabulary Pictionary

Wednesday
ELAGSE11-12SL1: Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that probe reasoning and evidence; ensure a hearing for a full range of positions on a topic or issue; clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions; and promote divergent and creative perspectives. d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives;synthesize comments, claims, and evidence made on all sides of an issue; resolve contradictions when possible; and determine what additional information or research is required to deepen the investigation or complete the task.

1. Journal and notes over transcendentalism
2. Jig Saw of "Nature," "Self-Reliance," "Walden," and "Civil Disobedience"

Thursday 
ELAGSE11-12L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11-12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or parts of speech (e.g., conceive, conception, conceivable). 
ELAGSE11-12RL6: Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

1. Notes over realism
   
2. Journal
3. Kahoot to review for vocab

Friday
ELAGSE11-12SL4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective,such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range or formal and informal tasks. 
ELAGSE11-12SL5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. 

1. Vocab quiz Unit 4 words
   
2. Lit circle meeting #2.
   
3. Lab time for group presentations of independent novels