Pre-AP English 9, Week 3

Post-Reading First Marking Period

of Speak

MONDAYReading Quiz and Class Procedures

Arrival• Today’s order is a little bit different.

Please follow these instructions:1. Be seated and empty your envelope.2. Quickly take out your green homework

packets from last week and quiz someone near you on study guide questions and vocabulary words.

3. Is there anything from the packet you have questions about?

4. Use this time well, as five minutes after the bell, you will be clearing your desk for the first quiz.

Target for Monday

• Target: I will demonstrate comprehension of the first marking period of Speak and competency with its vocabulary.– Conditions: I will take my first reading quiz.– Criteria: successfully answer 80% or more of the

questions (+16/20).• This is your first “no zero” grade.

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Quiz

• You will need a pen or pencil.• Do your best. Do your own work. Cheating

(or helping another cheat) is not tolerated.• Do NOT put your name on the quiz. DO

put your envelope #. • Make your answer marks clearly. Read the

instructions and the questions clearly.• When you are done, take out your spiral

and complete the DGP until everyone is done.

my friend alex plays tennis

Identify parts of speech:

• noun, • pronoun (type and case), • verb (type and tense), • adverb,

• adjective, • preposition, • conjunction (type), • gerund, • participle, • infinitive, • article

When you finish the DGP, begin reading “Second Marking Period” of Speak. We will go over the DGP

at the end of class.

Exit Ticket

• Turned in quiz.• Completed DGP for Monday.

TUESDAYFirst Marking Period Discussion

my friend alex plays tennis

• Identify sentence parts– Subject– Verb (transitive or

intransitive)– Direct object– Indirect object– Predicate nominative– Predicate adjective– Appositive/phrase

– Prepositional phrase (adjective or adverb)

– Gerund phrase– Infinitive phrase– Participial phrase– Object of preposition– Object of infinitive– Object of gerund– Object of participle

Target for Tuesday

• Target: I will determine the meaning of words and phrases in Speak, including figurative and connotative meanings and analyze the impact of these word choices on meaning and tone.– Conditions: I will participate in the Carousel

Activity– Criteria: fill out the “Carousel Questions” sheet

and be able to identify

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

Question Carousel Activity

• Sit arranged into inside/outside circles.

• You will both teach and learn each shift. Follow directions given in class.

• When told to shift seats, do so and follow directions.

Exit Ticket

• List three objects on a scrap of paper for use with our “Object Writing Assignment” we’ll be completing next time.

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAYObject Writing Lab Time

my friend alex plays tennis

• Identify clauses and sentence type– Independent– Adverb

dependent– Adjective

dependent– Noun dependent

– Simple– Compound– Complex– Compound-

complex

Grammar Exercises

• Independent and dependent clauses

• Simple, compound, complex, and compound/complex sentences.

my friend alex plays tennis

• Add punctuation and capitalization– Commas– Semicolons– Apostrophes– Underlining

– Quotation marks

– End marks

Target for Wednesday/Thursday

• Target: I will learn the definition and characteristics of narrative writing.– Conditions: I will write narrative based

on the “Object Writing Assignment.”– Criteria: completes a draft for an object

that incorporates a plot

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

Cornell Notes: What is narrative writing?

• Definition: Narrative writing coveys an experience, either real or imaginary and uses time as its deep structure.

• Characteristics: – Answers the question, “ What happened then?”– Uses characters and plot

• Genres of narrative writing:– Autobiography– Memoirs– Fiction: stories and novels

Object Writing Assignment

• Read assignment

• Draw objects• Work in the

computer lab on the assignment

Exit Slip

• Save your story draft appropriately (flash drive, Google Drive, or other cloud-based storage) AND

• Email the story draft to Mrs. Solt.

FRIDAYDepression in Speak

my friend alex plays tennis

• Diagram the sentence

Target for Friday

• Target: I will learn how to cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support my analysis of depression in Speak.– Conditions: I will read a non-fiction article on

depression and complete a analysis of Melinda’s behavior in Speak.

– Criteria: can cite evidence using the correct form and can find specific places in the text to support ideas

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Warm-Up

What is your reaction to this video? What connections do you have, if any, to depression?

Non-Fiction Annotations

• Read and annotate the text.

• Discuss.

Melinda and Depression

• Work with a partner to complete the activity.

• Mrs. Solt will give you a starting place. Go in order, and wrap around the beginning as time allows.

Exit Slip

• Show your completed “Melinda and Depression” text evidence sheet.