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May 21, 2006
WAG pg. 360-365
WAG workbook pg. 37-38
Warm Up:
Describe a time when you have left a book or homework at home and then made a call to describe its location to someone who would bring it to you. Use a highlighter and highlight all of the prepositions used in this description.
Activity 1:
Complete the diagnostic test on pg. 361.
Activity 2:
Prepositions show a relationship between 2 things.
The class will complete Exercises 1 and 2 pg. 363-364on the SmartBoard using the online Prentice Hall site.
Both textbooks (literature and grammar) will be collected on Tuesday.
Activity 3:
In table groups students will complete pg. 37-38 in the workbook.
Activity 4:
Students will complete the section review on pg. 365 in table groups.
Posted by Abrams at 01:31 PM
Tuesday, May 23
Activity 1:
Students will receive their portfolio. Students will reflect on their work and write a letter answering: What did you learn this year? Did you learn what you wrote about in your first letter to me?
Activity 2:
Students will read their chapter book for 30 minutes and make a list of 25 prepositions read in their text.
Students will have a quiz on prepositions and compound prepositions tomorrow.
The reading log is the daily documentation students complete. The one sentence summary must include the answers to who, what, when, where, and why.
Posted by Abrams at 01:30 PM
WAG pg. 366-369
WAG workbook pg. 39-40
Activity 1:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslprep4.html
This site is an interactive experience for students with preposition practice.
Activity 2:
Students will review prepositions used in sentences and the differentiation of a word used as a preposition or as an adverb pg. 366-367.
Activity 3:
In table groups students will complete pg. 39-40 in the workbook.
Activity 4:
Students will complete the section review on pg. 369
Student took a quiz on prepositions.
The reading log is the daily documentation students complete. The one sentence summary must include the answers to who, what, when, where, and why.
Posted by Abrams at 01:29 PM
Thursday, May 25
Students will complete the chapter review on pages 370-371.
The reading log is the daily documentation students complete. The one sentence summary must include the answers to who, what, when, where, and why.
Posted by Abrams at 01:28 PM
May 16, 2006
The reading log is the daily documentation students complete. The one sentence summary must include the answers to who, what, when, where, and why.
Posted by Abrams at 03:46 PM
May 15, 2006
Students will work on the Prentice Hall website for :The may 11 on Maple St.," including bio information on Rod Serling, a short quiz, and info of the time period the play was written.
Students will reflect on concepts learned in this class. Each table group will generate a concept map using their reflections.
The reading log is the daily documentation students complete. The one sentence summary must include the answers to who, what, when, where, and why.
Posted by Abrams at 04:10 PM
Thursday, May 18
Materials:
Literature pg. 667-684
Activity 1:
Students will be selected to read aloud the parts for Act I of “The may 11 on Maple Street.”
Activity 2:
Students will be selected to read aloud the parts for Act II of “The may 11 on Maple Street.”
The reading log is the daily documentation students complete. The one sentence summary must include the answers to who, what, when, where, and why.
Night Write:
What warning should readers take from this play?
How can this play be a life changing experience?
Reading:
Read for 30 minutes and record the following on their reading on your reading log:
Genre (fiction or nonfiction)
Date
Title
Reading level
Actual pages read (example 21-47)
Minutes read
One-sentence summary
Posted by Abrams at 04:08 PM
Field Day
Posted by Abrams at 04:08 PM
May 12, 2006
Warm Up:
On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest, how would you rate Rod Serling’s “ The may 11 on Maple Street” Act II? Explain.
Activity 1:
Go over the night write: Who are the monsters on Maple Street?
Do you believe people are usually treated as if they are innocent until proven guilty? Explain.
Activity 2:
Students will read their chapter book for 30 minutes and focus on the 5 W’s and H. Students will share this information with the students at their table in the format of a book chat.
The reading log is the daily documentation students complete. The one sentence summary must include the answers to who, what, when, where, and why.
Reading:
Read for 30 minutes and record the following on their reading on your reading log:
Genre (fiction or nonfiction)
Date
Title
Reading level
Actual pages read (example 21-47)
Minutes read
One-sentence summary
Posted by Abrams at 04:13 PM
May 11, 2006
Today in class we started with a warm-up. This warm-up was; What is the difference between prejudice and suspicion?
Students will need to bring their Literature Books for the rest of this week. Students will tell a summary of the play: Hysteria is caused by the community’s prejudice and suspension.
Explain that the narrator’s speech is the one that Rod Serling used to introduce each episode of The Twilight Zone.” Read this paragraph aloud to the students.
Explain the importance of stage directions when reading a play. Students are to read the stage directions silently on pg. 667 to identify the kinds of directions the stage directions contain.
What is the fifth dimension?
The fifth dimension is the dimension of the imagination.
Students are to read the 1st bracketed section on pg. 668 to describe the setting. Why do you think Rod Serling chose this kind of place for the setting of the story?
Prediction: Will the people be able to continue their ordinary lives after the flash in the sky? List the evidence used in determining this prediction.
Students are to read the bracketed stage directions on pg. 668 to determine what is happening to the people mentioned in the stage directions.
Students are to read pg. 668 silently to answer the following:
Do you think the events described in the stage directions are included to move the action forward or to hint that something strange is happening? Explain.
What is the exposition in the elements of fiction? Students will read pg. 669 silently and answer the following:
How does the playwright use dialogue as the exposition?
What is the inciting incident of the play?
What function does the dialogue serve in the plot? (Read the bracketed passage.)
What strange event occurs just before Maple Street loses electricity?
3 students will be selected to read the parts of Steve, Tommy, and Charlie. Students are to follow along and answer: What opposing force is introduced here?
Predict what kind of conflicts might result from the threat of an alien presence.
How does a conflict relate to the plot?
Remember: Foreshadowing gives readers clues about events to come in a literary work.
Students are to read the 1st eight lines on pg. 671. What might these lines foreshadow?
How do Tommy’s words intensify the uneasiness people are feeling?
Identify the element of the plot this text contains.
The homework for tonight is:
1. Read for 30 mniutes and fill out an entry in your reading logs.
2. Night Write:
Write at least a paragraph on, If you were a resident on Maple Street, how would you have responded to the strange events?
Posted by at 05:21 PM
May 10, 2006
Materials:
Literature pg. 676-684
handout with th elesson plans/questions that appear on this blog for today
Warm Up:
On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest, how would you rate Rod Serling’s “ The may 11 on Maple Street” Act 1? Explain.
Activity 1:
Go over the Night Write: How do the people on Maple Street single out Les Goodman? What qualities of his cause the reaction? What does this really suggest what is happening on Maple Street?
Activity 2:
Students are to read the bracketed text silently. What perspective is created during the opening of Act II?
Prediction: Do you predict that the neighbors watching the Goodman house will or will not discover anything suspicious? Explain.
Students will read page 676 silently.
Activity 3:
So far the suspicion has been cast on Goodman.
Prediction: Do you predict the suspicion will end with Goodman? Why or why not?
Students will read page 677 silently.
What does Don reveal about Steve to their neighbors?
What is the tone of Steve’s speech?
What type of conflict does Steve’s tone suggest?
Activity 4:
Students will read pg. 678-679 silently to find the answer to the following:
How do Don’s actions advance the plot to the climax?
What happens to the dark figure that is walking down Maple Street?
Prediction: Is the dark figure an alien?
Activity 5:
Read the 1st twelve lines on page and describe the atmosphere.
Prediction:
What do you think will happen next on Maple Street?
Students will read the rest of pg. 682 silently.
Activity 6:
Students are to read the 1st eight lines on page 683. Turn to pg. 667 and reread the opening camera shot of Maple Street. Compare the way the viewer first sees Maple Street and the way it appears now.
Students will read the rest of pg. 683-684 silently to find out who is watching what is happening on Maple Street?
Where are they watching from?
Students will turn in their handouts for a grade.
Night Write:
Who are the monsters on Maple Street?
Do you believe people are usually treated as if they are innocent until proven guilty? Explain.
Reading:
Read for 30 minutes and record the following on their reading on your reading log:
Genre (fiction or nonfiction)
Date
Title
Reading level
Actual pages read (example 21-47)
Minutes read
One-sentence summary
Posted by Abrams at 04:37 PM
Materials:
Literature pg. 672-675
handout with th elesson plans/questions that appear on this blog for today
Warm Up:
What are the 1st signs that something strange is happening on Maple Street? How do these signs initiate the conflict on Maple Street?
Activity 1:
Share the Night Write responses with the students at the table. Share the responses to the warm up, too.
Activity 2:
Review the key events in the play so far. Students are to read the 1st twenty lines of the play on pg. 672 to make the following prediction:
How do you think Tommy will fare in the face of the crowd’s growing irritation with him?
Activity 3:
Students will read the 2nd half of pg. 672 to determine what hint does Steve’s comment give about how characters will react later in the play?
Activity 4:
Students will read the 1st half of pg. 673 to determine what forces are in conflict now? How has the nature the conflict changed?
Read the 2nd half of pg. 673 to determine what happens to Goodman’s car?
Activity 5:
Read the bracketed stage directions aloud. Ask students to paraphrase the main idea of this passage. Read the rest of pg. 674 and page 675 to answer the following:
Why is the problem with Les Goodman considered part of the rising action of the plot?
What does Charlie accuse Goodman of?
Students will turn in their handouts for a grade.
Reading:
Read for 30 minutes and record the following on their reading on your reading log:
Genre (fiction or nonfiction)
Date
Title
Reading level
Actual pages read (example 21-47)
Minutes read
One-sentence summary
Night Write:
How do the people on Maple Street single out Les Goodman? What qualities of his cause the reaction? What does this really suggest what is happening on Maple Street?
Posted by Abrams at 01:23 PM
Materials:
Literature pg. 666-671
Newsprint
marker
handout with the lesson plans/questions that appear on this blog for today
Warm Up:
What is the difference between prejudice and suspicion?
Reading:
Read for 30 minutes and record the following on their reading on your reading log
Night Write:
If you were a resident on Maple Street, how would you have responded to the strange events?
Activity 1:
Review a summary of the play: Hysteria is caused by the community’s prejudice and suspension.
Explain that the narrator’s speech is the one that Rod Serling used to introduce each episode of The Twilight Zone.” Read this paragraph aloud to the students.
Activity 2:
Review the importance of stage directions when reading a play. Students are to reread the stage directions silently on pg. 667 to identify the kinds of directions the stage directions contain.
What is the fifth dimension?
The fifth dimension is the dimension of the imagination.
Activity 3:
Students are to reread the 1st bracketed section on pg. 668 to describe the setting. Why do you think Rod Serling chose this kind of place for the setting of the story?
Prediction: Will the people be able to continue their ordinary lives after the flash in the sky? List the evidence used in determining this prediction.
Activity 4:
Students are to reread the bracketed stage directions on pg. 668 to determine what is happening to the people mentioned in the stage directions.
Activity 5:
Students are to read pg. 668 silently to answer the following:
Do you think the events described in the stage directions are included to move the action forward or to hint that something strange is happening? Explain.
Activity 6:
What is the exposition in the elements of fiction? Students will read pg. 669 silently and answer the following:
How does the playwright use dialogue as the exposition?
What is the inciting incident of the play?
What function does the dialogue serve in the plot? (Read the bracketed passage.)
What strange event occurs just before Maple Street loses electricity?
Activity 7:
3 students will be selected to read the parts of Steve, Tommy, and Charlie. Students are to follow along and answer: What opposing force is introduced here?
Predict what kind of conflicts might result from the threat of an alien presence.
How does a conflict relate to the plot?
Activity 8:
Remember: Foreshadowing gives readers clues about events to come in a literary work.
Students are to read the 1st eight lines on pg. 671. What might these lines foreshadow?
How do Tommy’s words intensify the uneasiness people are feeling?
Identify the element of the plot this text contains.
Rising action
Have students guide a student recorder through the completion of a plot diagram using information read in this play. Use chart paper on the easel to complete this activity.
Students are to read pg. 671 and answer the following:
What does Tommy tell Steve, Don, and Charlie?
Posted by Abrams at 01:22 PM
