Day 2

1. Day 2 English I

2. Journal Activity • Write a vivid description of your last substitute teacher. Include a physical description as well as a description of their personality.

3. Daily Grammar • Parts of Speech Formative Assessment. What do you remember from School House Rocks? • Complete Assessment • Grade • Where do we go from here?

4. Daily Grammar • A Noun is a person, place or thing. • The beautiful horse ran. • Where’s the noun? • An adjective describes the noun. • Where’s the adjective?

5. Daily Grammar • A verb is an action word. • The beautiful horse ran quickly. • Where’s the verb? • An adverb tells when, where, why, or under what conditions something happens or happened. • Where’s the adverb?

6. Skill 1--Summarization • What do I want you to do? • Pull out main ideas • Focus on KEY details • Use key words and phrases • Break down larger ideas • Write only enough to convey the gist • Take brief, but complete notes

7. Sum it up instructions--METHOD • Get a “Sum it up” sheet • Read the entire selection and, as you read, list the main idea words on the sheet. • Write a summary of the selection using as main of the main idea words as possible. Put one word in each blank. Imagine you have only $2.oo and that each word is worth ten cents. Make your cash count!

8. Summarization • Let’s complete the back of the worksheet. Focus only on key ideas. Also, use key words from the article when creating your summary.

9. Book—Let’s Listen • How can we tell if an SSR book will be good for us?

10. Sum it up instructions--METHOD • Get a “Sum it up” sheet • Read the entire selection and, as you read, list the main idea words on the sheet. • Write a summary of the selection using as main of the main idea words as possible. Put one word in each blank. Imagine you have only $2.oo and that each word is worth ten cents. Make your cash count!

11. Day 3 English I

12. Journal • Create a list of slang words you typically use. • Write a journal in which you explain the definition of your favorite slang word and the reason why you like to use this word when you are speaking.

13. Grammar-Parts of Speech REVIEW— • Noun—Person, place or thing • Adjective—Describes the noun • Verb—Action Word • Adverb—Describes the verb (who, what, how long, where)

14. Grammar Formative Assessment to see how much you’ve retained! Nouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs

15. Grammar Pronouns • A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. • You use pronouns like, he, which, non and you to make your sentences less repetitive. • John likes icecream and he eats it after dinner.

16. New Parts of Speech Conjunctions—A part of speech that connects two words, sentences, phrases or clauses. • For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so • He is gambling with his health, for he has been smoking far too long. • Every day they gamble or they smoke. • They gamble, yet they don’t smoke.

17. New Parts of Speech • Prepositions • A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. • The box trick!

18. Let’s Read! • As you read, please record words! • In your opinion, which sentence in the article was the main idea? • How do you know? • Which sentence in the article was the second most important sentence? • How do you know?

19. Sum it up instructions--METHOD • Get a “Sum it up” sheet • Read the entire selection and, as you read, list the main idea words on the sheet.

20. In Groups of TWO, please! • Write a summary of the selection using as main of the main idea words as possible. Put one word in each blank. Imagine you have only $2.oo and that each word is worth ten cents. Make your cash count!

21. Let’s Review Summaries We’ll choose three summaries and review them on the doc camera. Which summary is the follows the rubric below? • Focuses only KEY details • Uses only key words and phrases from the article • Breaks down larger ideas into small, understandable segments • Summary is enough to convey the gist

22. Exit Card--Summarization • There are some basic tips and advice that will help anyone get through high school. First, don’t be afraid to approach your teachers. If you’re struggling in class, ask your teacher for help outside of class. My sophomore year I probably visited my lit teacher over 10 times while writing my research paper. The result? I earned a 100%. It’s nearly impossible to get 100% on anything in her class, but I did it. • Which statement best summarizes the paragraph? • A. Everyone needs good advice to make it through high school. • B. Asking for help from a teacher can be the most valuable thing you do during high school. • C. Writing research papers is difficult without the aid of a teacher. • D. It’s easy to earn 100% if you constantly badger a teacher for a good grade.

23. Read aloud! • What happened in the story last class? • List 3 details you remember. • List the names of the characters you remember. • What seems to be the conflict that is brewing in the story? • Is this a book you would pick up on your own? Why? Why not?

24. Day 4 English I

25. Journal • Parents and children often claim to be misunderstood by each other. Explain one thing you think your parents (or other people their age) don’t understand about your generation. Then explain one thing you think your parents would say your generation doesn’t understand about them.

26. Grammar Summative Assessment to see how much you’ve retained! Nouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs

27. New Parts of Speech Conjunctions—A part of speech that connects two words, sentences, phrases or clauses. • For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so • He is gambling with his health, for he has been smoking far too long. • Every day they gamble or they smoke. • They gamble, yet they don’t smoke.

28. Let’s Review Summaries We’ll choose three summaries and review them on the doc camera. Which summary is the follows the rubric below? • Focuses only KEY details • Uses only key words and phrases from the article • Breaks down larger ideas into small, understandable segments • Summary is enough to convey the gist

29. Binder/Notebook Organization Notebook Journal Notes—General Class NOTES Independent Reading Log BINDER Syllabus— Priority Standards Daily Grammar Great Books Articles Essay Prep

30. In Groups of TWO, please! • Compare your list of key words! • Write a summary of the selection using as many of the main idea words as possible given the space. Put one word in each blank. Imagine you have only $2.oo and that each word is worth ten cents. Make your cash count!

31. Summarization • Read the article and select the main words! • Then, complete a summary on loose leaf paper using the same format from the worksheet!

32. Exit Card--Summarization There are some basic tips and advice that will help anyone get through high school. First, don’t be afraid to approach your teachers. If you’re struggling in class, ask your teacher for help outside of class. My sophomore year I probably visited my lit teacher over 10 times while writing my research paper. The result? I earned a 100%. It’s nearly impossible to get 100% on anything in her class, but I did it. • Which statement best summarizes the paragraph? • A. Everyone needs good advice to make it through high school. • B. Asking for help from a teacher can be the most valuable thing you do during high school. • C. Writing research papers is difficult without the aid of a teacher. • D. It’s easy to earn 100% if you constantly badger a teacher for a good grade.

33. Read aloud! • What happened in the story last class? • List 3 details you remember. • List the names of the characters you remember. • What seems to be the conflict that is brewing in the story? • Is this a book you would pick up on your own? Why? Why not?

34. Day 5 English I

35. Academic Lab Reminder! • Example Times of Restructured Travel Segments • ž  9:05—bell rings to end 5th block and begin 5 min passing to 6th block • ž  9:10—students in ac lab; announcements; ac lab teacher reviews goals & priorities in planner; students review IC; students identify 1 or 2 priority travel destinations • ž  9:20—students have 10 min to get to their first travel destination; may stop by multiple teachers on the way • ž  9:30—all students in first travel destination; no travel until next bell • ž  10:00—bell rings; 5 min passing to second travel destination; students may remain in first destination until 10:35 or return to ac lab and remain until the end of the block • ž  10:05—all students in second travel destination; no travel until next bell • ž  10:35—bell rings; 5 min passing back to ac lab to check out • ž  10:40—bell rings to end ac lab and begin 5 min passing to 7th block class

36. Journal • If you could have one superhero power, what would it be? Why?

37. Daily Grammar WRITE the Conjunctions in the following sentences. FANBOYS • Julie and Monique drove to the bookstore because they were assigned a class novel. • She is gifted in math, yet she is failing Calculus. • Jenna is doing well, but she must increase her participation.

38. Daily Grammar Pronouns—Pronouns take the place of a noun. • Carmen wanted to go home because she was sick. • They wanted to go to the mall. • Did anyone finish their homework?

39. GRAMMAR REVIEW QUIZ • Follow the directions on the quiz • Carlacarefully unwrapped her gifts and was utterly surprised by what was inside.

40. Facebook Selfie Article--In Groups of TWO, please! • Compare your list of key words! • Write a summary of the selection using as many of the main idea words as possible given the space. Put one word in each blank. Imagine you have only $2.oo and that each word is worth ten cents. Make your cash count!

41. Learn About South Africa • Review the correct answers!

42. INFERENCE Priority Standards Summarization—Quick Review • Exit card—Q&A Make inferences and draw conclusions based on textual evidence. • To infer means to draw a conclusion based on evidence.

43. Exit Card--Summarization There are some basic tips and advice that will help anyone get through high school. First, don’t be afraid to approach your teachers. If you’re struggling in class, ask your teacher for help outside of class. My sophomore year I probably visited my lit teacher over 10 times while writing my research paper. The result? I earned a 100%. It’s nearly impossible to get 100% on anything in her class, but I did it. • Which statement best summarizes the paragraph? • A. Everyone needs good advice to make it through high school. • B. Asking for help from a teacher can be the most valuable thing you do during high school. • C. Writing research papers is difficult without the aid of a teacher. • D. It’s easy to earn 100% if you constantly badger a teacher for a good grade.

44. Make an inference based on the following cartoon.

45. What evidence did you use to come to your conclusion? INFERENCE

46. Make an inference based on the following cartoon.

47. Inference Formative • Read the selection by Mitch Albom and follow the directions.

48. Read Aloud • What facts do you remember from the novel?

49. Day 6 Inference

50. Journal • If you had all the money in the world and you could own any one piece of memorabilia, what would you choose?