ELA10A

=ELA 10 A Seminar= PRP 02 2014-2015

There are DAILY attendance points. Students should make EVERY attempt to be in attendance consistently. There are DAILY assignments. Students should expect to turn in SOMETHING class related every day. || Day 1 T 9/23
 * ELA 10 A Seminar

LT: Review post-WWII policital views Discuss McCarthyism CCSS:R#1 Strategy:Marzano#1 Activity: Assign:
 * Pre-Test
 * Discuss course expectations
 * Review McCarthyism
 * Discuss social issues
 * Do //The Crucible// Anticipation Guide Pt1 & Pt2
 * Read on McCarthyism
 * Read on Political Cartoons
 * Begin Social Issues Essay DRAFT--DUE FRIDAY || Day 2 W 9/24

LT:Examine themes in //The Crucible// Differentiate various elements of political systems CCSS:R#2, W#1 Strategy:Marzano #8, #2 Activity: //Assign://
 * Compare/Contrast Communism and Democracy
 * Read Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
 * Discuss themes
 * Compare/Contrast with other texts
 * Listen to the audio of "Outside a Small Circle of Friends"
 * Discuss the parable of The Good Samaritan
 * Begin Social Issues Essay DRAFT
 * Read the "Parable of the Good Samaritan"
 * Answer Good Samaritan Questions
 * Frost questions || Day 3 Th 9/25

LT:Predict outcomes CCSS:R#3 Strategy:Marzano#8 Activity: Assign:
 * Discuss possible outcomes
 * Begin viewing //The Crucible//
 * Read "The Dying Girl No One Helped"
 * Read "Outside a Small Circle of Friends" || Day 4 F 9/26

LT:Reflect on discrimination in texts CCSS:R#9 Strategy:Marzano #1 Activity:
 * Continue viewing //The Crucible//

Assign:
 * Continue Crucible Study Guide
 * Crucible Anticipation Guide Part III
 * Crucible Anticipation Guide Part IV Essay
 * Crucible TEST ||
 * Day 5 M 9/29

LT:Discuss themes in literature CCSS: L#4 Strategy:Marzano #4 Activity: Assign:
 * Conclude viewing //The Crucible//
 * Read "Half-Hanged Mary"
 * Crucible Anticipation Guide Part III After statements
 * Crucible Anticipation Guide Part IV Essay
 * Crucible Questions
 * Pre-Assessment Paragraphs
 * Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part I Before statements
 * Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part II Essay || Day 6 T 9/30

LT:Examine dialect in written text CCSS:L#3 Strategy:Marzano #1 Activity: Assign:
 * Begin viewing //Huck Finn//
 * Identify similarities of dialects
 * Listen to popular songs of the time
 * Worksheet on Dialect and Nonstandard English
 * Define Vocabulary terms || Day 7 W 10/01

LT:Predict Outcomes CCSS:S&L#3 Strategy:Marzano #3 Activity: Assign:
 * Review Vocabulary terms and dialect elements
 * Conclude viewing //Huck Finn//
 * Review Social Issues Essay Drafts
 * Discuss revisions
 * Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part III After statements
 * Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part IV Essay
 * Continue Social Issues Essay || Day 8 Th 10/02

LT: Discuss Social issues (racism, prejudice, etc.) CCSS:S&L#3 Strategy:Marzano #2 Activity: Assign:
 * Differentiate among various forms of prejudice
 * Review Op Ed pieces
 * DRAFT Op Ed piece on an ISM || Day 9 F 10/03

LT:Examine op ed pieces CCSS:S&L#1 Strategy:Marzano #6 Activity: //Assign://
 * Discuss claims, evidence and warrants
 * Class participation in identifying claims, evidence and warrants
 * Social Issues Essay FINAL (Due Friday, May 16) ||
 * Day 10 M 10/06

LT:Compare/contrast racial viewpoints in poetry CCSS:W#8 Strategy:Marzano #2 Activity: Assign: = = =Luncheon at Eagles in Big Rapids= || Day 12 W 10/08
 * Read "Is Huck Finn a Racist Book?"
 * Read Countee Cullen poems
 * Read Langston Hughes poems
 * Discuss Revision re: Op ed pieces
 * Do Countee Cullen worksheets
 * Do Langston Hughes worksheets
 * Revise Op Ed pieces || Day 11 T 10/07

LT:Review argument writing CCSS:W#4 Strategy:Marzano#4 Activity: Assign:
 * Cullen TEST
 * Hughes TEST
 * Discuss revision and editing
 * Discuss Proofreading
 * Revise Social Issues Essays
 * Work on Op Ed pieces || Day 13 Th 10/09

LT:Proofread writing CCSS:W#6 Strategy:Marzano Activity: Assign:
 * Discuss characters and themes presented over the course
 * Revise and edit Social Issues Essay
 * Revise and edit Op Ed Piece || Day 14 F 10/10

LT:Review course objectives CCSS:R#9 Strategy:Marzano #2 Activity:
 * Post-Test
 * Surveys ||