August 30

Lesson Plans: August 29 – September 2

Honors English I

8/29  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Personal Narrative Writing:  students will take notes over narrative writing before reading an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’ narrative, highlighting qualities of personal narratives; SAT Vocabulary TEST Friday

8/30  LTOTW:  analogy; Personal Narrative Writing:  students will completely and thoughtfully answer analysis questions over the excerpt from Frederick Douglass’ narrative

8/31  Personal Narrative Writing:  students will discuss their answers to the analysis questions; SAT Vocabulary List 1 TEST on Friday

9/1  SAT Vocabulary List 1 Review for TEST tomorrow

9/2  SAT Vocabulary List 1 TEST

English I

8/29  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Personal Narrative Writing:  students will take notes over narrative writing before reading “The Pie” by Gary Soto, highlighting qualities of personal narratives; SAT Vocabulary TEST Friday

8/30  LTOTW:  analogy; Personal Narrative Writing:  students will completely and thoughtfully answer analysis questions over “The Pie” by Gary Soto

8/31  Personal Narrative Writing:  students will discuss their answers to the analysis questions; SAT Vocabulary List 1 TEST on Friday

9/1  SAT Vocabulary List 1 Review for TEST tomorrow

9/2  SAT Vocabulary List 1 TEST

August 22

Lesson Plans: August 22 – 26

Honors English I & English I

8/22  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Edit Marks:  students will take notes over edit marks to use on our weekly editing exercises; SAT Vocabulary List 1:  flashcards DUE Friday 8/26 and TEST 9/2

8/23  LTOTW:  allusion

8/24  Parts of Speech review:  students will take notes over the 8 parts of speech and identify them in sentences

8/25  SAT Vocabulary List 1:  students will complete flashcards DUE Tomorrow and TEST on 9/2

8/26  SSR:  Students will go to the library to check out a book for this quarter’s Book Talk DUE October 10 & 11

August 14

Lesson Plans August 15 – 19

Honors English I

8/15  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Subscribe to blog; Join Remind; Discuss SSR expectations; Complete Hoodie DUE tomorrow for completion grade

8/16  Rhetorical Device of the Week expectations and weekly extra credit opportunity; Power of Punctuation:  Students will take notes over punctuation and work through editing sentences

8/17  Email Etiquette:  Students will take notes over proper email etiquette, review good and bad emails, and write one of their own following the proper etiquette

8/18  Think About it Thursday weekly expectations will be discussed and individual assignments for the year made; finish Email Etiquette assignment – email to me is DUE today

8/19  CommonLit:  Students will read “The Man in the Well” and answer questions in response.  Assignment will be posted in Google Classroom

English I

8/15  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Subscribe to blog; Join Remind; Discuss SSR expectations; Complete Hoodie DUE tomorrow for completion grade

8/16  Literary Term of the Week expectations and weekly extra credit opportunity; Power of Punctuation:  Students will take notes over punctuation and work through editing sentences

8/17  Email Etiquette:  Students will take notes over proper email etiquette, review good and bad emails, and write one of their own following the proper etiquette

8/18  Think About it Thursday weekly expectations; students will practice writing complete sentences before writing a paragraph in response to the weekly quote; finish Email Etiquette assignment with an email sent to me

8/19  CommonLit:  Students will read “The Man in the Well” and answer questions in response.  Assignment will be posted in Google Classroom

August 11

Lesson Plans: August 11 – 12

Welcome to High School! I am so excited to start your high school career with you! My blog will include lesson plans for each week of the school year.  I will update it often, so it will reflect not only what I plan to do in class each day but also what actually is done.  You can be confident in the information you find here.

Honors English I

8/11  House on Mango Street: Turn in book of vignettes; Raisin in the Sun:  check and review study packet for TEST tomorrow; Classroom Expectations and Procedures review if time

8/12  Raisin in the Sun TEST; Get Chromebook

English I

8/11  Classroom Expectations and Procedures review; School Supply review; Get to Know You stations

8/12  Get to Know You art project:  students will create a paper hoodie to decorate our classroom and share information about themselves; Get Chromebook