Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Day 36 (12.8.10) A Day

Objective:
Students will be able to:
practice writing a new style of sentence; read and explicate literary works;
practice with previously taught class material.

Class Activities
  • On Blackboard: Daily Homework Log
  • On Blackboard: Daily Drill 8
  • Warm-Up: Finish Independent reading packet for your library novels.
  • Video: "Class of the Titans"
    • Comparative Analysis/Media Unit
Homework:
  1. DUE on Today (12.8.10) A Day: Independent reading packets parts 8-10.
  2. DUE on Friday (12.10.10) A Day: Sentence Model 6 Notes (Posted on Blackboard)
  3. DUE on Friday (12.10.10) A Day: Independent Reading Packet on Library Novel (Finish all parts.)
Work Collected in Class:
    • Dialy Drill 8
    • Perseus  Reading Packet: All Remaining Parts
    • Independent Reading Packets: Parts 8-10

TEKS: 2 (C) relate the characters, setting, and theme of a literary work to the historical, social, and economic ideas of its time; 5 (A) analyze how complex plot structures (e.g. subplots) and devices (e.g. foreshadowing, flashbacks, suspense) function and advance the action in a work of fiction; 17(A) use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: iii. reciprocal pronouns; 17(C)use a variety of correctly structured sentences; 20(A) use conventions of capitalization; 20(B) use correct punctuation marks.