Week of February 22-26
❤️❤️Monday 2/22❤️❤️ If absent, click to open Subject-Verb Agreement Packet Don't move chairs please! Take out SV Agreement Packet Drill and practice! Complete Packet together. Send screenshots of these 4 activities in an email: 1. Practice with this SV Agreement Practice Quiz 2. Grammar Bytes S-V Agreement #3 Keep practicing! Assessments are tomorrow! **Note that BOTH of these activities say to choose the correct PRESENT tense verb! 3. Grammar Bytes S-V Agreement #4 4. Grammar Bytes S-V Agreement #5 ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/23❤️❤️ Mrs. Lupkes returns for registration Focus on the Future: Complete and turn in this Listening Guide: 1. View: Finding Hot Careers Here is that Hot List! 2. View: Skipping School To Learn a Trade **Just added! New Scholarship Program for ALL of you! The Next Generation of Workers in SD 3. View: Training to be a Trooper 4. View: Answering the Call 5. View: Move Over Men, There's a Movement in Medicine (Features a WC graduate Class of 2010) 6. View: PowerLine ACT NOW!! 1. SDSU Junior Preview 2. STI Visit Days 3. USD Visits 4. Lake Area Tech Visit Day 5. Augie Visits ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/24❤️❤️ Finish Videos from yesterday. Quick reminder about collective nouns (jury, herd, class, flock, committee, family) The committee was formed in 2012. (Singular) The committee are having sandwiches for lunch. (Plural-clue=sandwiches!) Now that the midterm exam is over, the class start their research papers on famous mathematicians. (Plural-clue=their and papers) Now use rules packet to Complete these online assignments & assessments. Go to Google Classroom or access below. (I will record the better 2 of 4 18-pointers and the better 1 of 2 22-pointer. Do ALL FIVE!! ) Use the Cheat Sheet and your worksheet packet! 1. SUBMIT S-V Agreement ASSIGNMENT #1 at Quia (22 pts) 2. Submit S-V Agreement Assignment #3 (22 pts) ❤️❤️Thursday 2/25❤️❤️ Period 3: ACT NOW!! 1. SDSU Junior Preview 2. STI Visit Days 3. USD Visits 4. Lake Area Tech Visit Day 5. Augie Visits Finish S-V agreement assessments 3. SUBMIT S-V Agreement ASSIGNMENT #2 at Quia (18 pts) 4. SUBMIT S-V Agreement Assignment #4 (18 pts) 5. SUBMIT S-V Agreement Assignment #5 (18 pts) 6. SUBMIT S-V Agreement Assignment #6 (18 pts) ❤️❤️Friday 2/26❤️❤️ No School for State Wrestling Only if time allows... MUG: Verb Tense Consistency--an error tested on ACT and Common Core English tests 1. If you are absent today, view these brief videos on Shifts in Verb Tense (just through 2:59) and Verb Tense Shifts If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (warning: PG) 2. If you are absent today, we will use THIS ACTIVITY to introduce Verb Tense Consistency 3. If you are absent today, we will also use THIS ACTIVITY to review Verb Tense Consistency 4. If you are absent today, we will review Verb Tense Consistency with THIS DOCUMENT 5. If you are absent today, we will practice Verb Tense Consistency with THIS EXERCISE ================================================================ Previous Weeks' Lessons: Week of February 16-19 ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/16 Continue Lit Analysis Lesson Review and mark up document with acceptable Thesis and Blueprint examples (last page) Analyze Of Mice and Men Lit Analysis Wednesday 2/17❤️❤️ Analyze Night Lit Analysis 1. Read the Essay 2. PIck up 2 sheets and highlighter on back shelf. 2. Mark up the essay using the instruction sheet. You need to be able to do this ON YOUR OWN for assessment! 3. Check your mark-up ❤️❤️Thursday 2/18❤️❤️ Assessment on Lit Analysis ❤️❤️Friday 2/19❤️❤️ Subject-Verb Agreement Practice Packet Do Pre-test on 2nd sheet of packet Continue working in packet. Click here for a review of ALL the rules! Most Important Rules: 1. Whenever each, either, neither, ones (someone, anyone), bodies (somebody, nobody" is the subject, the verb MUST be singular. (Also add Every and Many a or Many an) Each of the girls is carrying a backpack. Every girl and boy carries... Many a girl carries a 2. Whenever "both, few, several, many" is subject, the verb must be plural Both of the girls are carrying a backpack. 3. If "some, all, any, none, most" is the subject, look inside the phrase to determine if the verb is singular or plural. Some of the cake is gone. Some of the cookies are gone. 4. Singular subjects joined by "or" take singular verb. Jason, Jen or Pat does the dishes every night. 5. Compound subjects joined by "and" take plural verbs. Jason, Jen and Pat are coming for dinner. View ACT review videos: 1. S-V Agreement ala Schmoop 2. ACT English Tips: SV Agreement 3. Tricky scenarios on the ACT with SV agreement ❤️❤️Monday 2/22❤️❤️ Subject-Verb Agreement Drill and practice! Complete Packet together. Send screenshots of these 4 activities in an email: 1. Practice with this SV Agreement Practice Quiz 2. Grammar Bytes S-V Agreement #3 Keep practicing! Assessments are tomorrow! **Note that BOTH of these activities say to choose the correct PRESENT tense verb! 3. Grammar Bytes S-V Agreement #4 4. Grammar Bytes S-V Agreement #5 ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/23❤️❤️ Mrs. Lupkes returns. Now use rules packet to Complete these online assignments & assessments. Go to Google Classroom or access below. (I will record the better 2 of 3 18-pointers and the better 1 of 2 22-pointer. Do ALL FIVE!! ) Use the Cheat Sheet and your worksheet packet! 1. SUBMIT S-V Agreement ASSIGNMENT #1 at Quia (22 pts) 2. Submit S-V Agreement Assignment #3 (22 pts) 3. SUBMIT S-V Agreement ASSIGNMENT #2 at Quia (18 pts) 4. SUBMIT S-V Agreement Assignment #4 (18 pts) 5. SUBMIT S-V Agreement Assignment #5 (18 pts) =============================================== Previous Weeks' Lessons: Week of February 8-11 ❤️❤️Monday 2/8❤️❤️ Mrs. Lupkes will share vital information about senior year ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/9❤️❤️ Mrs. Lupkes will share vital information about senior year ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/10❤️❤️ 1. By tables, turn in Of M&M Book--go to mic above box, tell me your number, stack NEATLY in the box please. 2. What make a novel a classic? Movie clip 3. Lit Analysis Lesson. Pick up packet on back shelf. 4. If you were absent Monday or Tuesday, watch the Zooms Mrs. Kistler emailed to your whole class. A brief assessment on that material will be tomorrow. ❤️❤️Thursday 2/11❤️❤️ 1:30 Dismissal Assessment over Mrs. Lupkes' presentation (Google Classroom) Continue Lit Analysis Lesson on back of 1st page of packet. Review document with acceptable Thesis and Blueprint examples ❤️❤️No School Friday 2/12 & Monday 2/15 ❤️❤️ =============================================================================== Week of February 1-5, 2021 ❤️❤️Monday 2/1❤️❤️ Of Mice and Men Complete Discussion Questions for Chapters 3 and 4 (we watched this far) View Ch 1 Summary(3:01) View Ch 2 Summary (3:19) View Ch 3 Summary (2:57) View Ch 4 Summary (3:23) ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/2❤️❤️ View Chapters 5 & 6 (1:36-1:55) View Chapter 5 Summary (2:24) View Chapter 6 Summary (2:37) Discussion Questions for Chapters 5 and 6 ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/3❤️ Of Mice & Men Review Day We do: Listen CAREFULLY as we View 60secondrecaps (12 minutes) Go through review packet, especially --back of pg. 1 on title, --the Symbols and Themes page, and --the last page that ties Chapter 3 and 6 together. To prepare for the THREE assessments, focus and... 1. Complete these summary quizzes for test review. Summary Quiz Ch 1 Summary Quiz Ch 2 Summary Quiz Ch 3 Summary Quiz Ch 4 Summary Quiz Ch 5-6 2. Complete This KAHOOT CHALLENGE for review Game PIN: 02327756 3. Complete ANOTHER KAHOOT CHALLENGE for review Game PIN: 08353856 4. Play this matching game 5. Team up or play solo: Of Mice & Men Jeopardy Game ❤️❤️Thursday 2/4❤️ Take TWO of the THREE CLOSED BOOK quizzes over the book (Ch 1-2 and Ch 3-4) Bring your book! ❤️❤️Friday 2/5❤️❤️ Take THIRD CLOSED BOOK quizzes over the book (Ch 5-6) =================================================================== ================================================================== Lesson Plans for 2020 Week of February 24-28 ❤️❤️Monday 2/24❤️❤️ See Mrs. Lupkes Email about Registration! MUG Mini-Lesson: Pronoun REFERENCE (not agreemen!) Errors On Friday, we Viewed: Vague Pronoun Reference We do: Go though activities in the pronoun packet & single 2-sided sheet You do: 1. Pronoun Reference Exercise 4 2. Pronoun Reference Exercise 5 Now do: Assignment: Complete assignment on Pronoun Reference MUG: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers View Dangling Modifiers View Misplaced and Dangling Modifier A misplaced modifier is one that is in the wrong place within the sentence. It is not close enough to the word it’s supposed to modify, so it causes confusion (and sometimes very funny sentences). Examples: I watched the bulls charge through my binoculars. (Bulls that charge through binoculars would give one quite a headache.) After the kids left their rooms, I cleaned them. (What was cleaned? The kids, or the rooms?) They walked into the tavern and ordered a drink that was dirty and filled with cockroaches. (I wouldn’t drink that if I were you!) Do you see how a misplaced modifier can change the whole meaning of a sentence? They are good for a chuckle—but not for good writing! Dangling=When a sentence begins with a modifying phrase, the intro must be immediately followed by a comma and then the noun it's describing. Though exhausted, it would be another hour before Zoe got to go home. There's nothing obviously wrong with this sentence, but let's think about what it's actually saying. We start with the modifier "though exhausted." That would seem to be describing Zoe, but it's next to "it," so right now, the sentence is actually saying that "it" is exhausted, which makes no sense. We need to reorder the sentence so that the modifier is next to what it's modifying: Though exhausted, Zoe wouldn't get to go home for another hour. Running toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. "The trees" are obviously not running towards the lake; they don't have legs. 2 Fixes: Fix 1: Running toward the lake, I saw the trees swaying in the wind. (move the word being modified directly after the comma) Fix 2: As I ran toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. (add the subject to the introductory phrase or clause) Often SINGLE words are misplaced. The most common are only, just, almost, nearly, scarcely, barely Only Cheryl eats grapes.=Cheryl is the ONLY one who eats them. Cheryl only eats grapes.=This means that Cheryl does only one thing with grapes: She eats them. She doesn’t squish them into wine, she doesn’t throw them at people. She only eats them. Cheryl eats only grapes.=This means that Cheryl eats nothing else but grapes. Hint: When a modifier begins a sentence (followed by comma), the very next thing that comes along HAS to be something that can, in fact, be modified by that phrase or clause or it's dangling. Worksheet packet ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/25❤️❤️ Mrs. Lupkes Returns! ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/26❤️❤️ MUG: Misplaced & Dangling Mods ACT Passages Now practice: 1. Exercise 1--Which ones are WRONG? Don't Skip this! 2. Screenshot Practice Quiz: Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers 3. Screenshot Dangling Modifiers 1 4. Screenshot Grammar Bytes: Fixing Misplaced & Dangling Mods--Read instruction and click Start Here (under Monkey) It will say Congratulations! You have finished Exercise 4. See sample on screen! Assignment: Send me 3 screenshots! ❤️❤️Thursday 2/27❤️❤️ Find your Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers packet and complete these 3 activities. I'll record the better 2 of 3 of these. 1. Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Assignment #1 at Quia Then, 2. Complete Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Quiz #2 at Quia and 3. **This is the one everyone has done the BEST on: Complete Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers #3 ❤️❤️Friday 2/28❤️❤️ MUG: Another common ACT error deals with PARALLEL STRUCTURE What is it? Multiple items of similar content in a sentence must be expressed in the same form grammatically. Incorrect parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming and to fish. Correct parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and fishing. or Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to fish. View: Grammar Lesson: Parallel Structure View: Parallel Structure ala Schmoop Practice first: 1. Read this explanation!! 2. Do this Parallel Structure exercise 4. Practice at ChompChomp--scroll down to howling dog to start! SEE the Yellow Box on the right! Parallel structure is just like equal equations in math! Assignment: 3 exercises in packet. Back of 1st page, front and back of 2nd page. Parallelism with correlative conjunctions A correlative conjunction is a two-part conjunction. It consists of two words or phrases that are used to join sentence elements of equal value. The most common correlative conjunctions are the following:
Here are some examples of parallelism with these correlative conjunctions.
MUG: Complete Parallel Structure Assessments at Quia. All 25 pts. I'll record the better 2 scores. Take your time, think, and use your cheat sheet! 1. Parallel Structure Assignment #1 at Quia 2. Parallel Structure Assignment #2 at Quia 3. Parallel Structure Assignment #3 at Quia =================================================================== Week of February 18-21 ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/18❤️❤️ Pronouns continued! **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. View: Possessive before Gerund One more tricky pronoun situation--possessive before gerund (-ing word) Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: 1. Pronoun Case Exercise 2 2. Prounoun Case Exercise 3 Assignment: Last week you did 2 assessments. The best 3 of the 4 will be recorded. Use This Pronoun Cheat Sheet 5. At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Cases #3 6. At Quia: Pronoun Agreement Assessment #4 ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/19❤️❤️ MUG: Mini-lesson on Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose Who's =Who is or Who has Who's in charge?=Who is in charge? Whose=shows possession Whose books are these? ============ Who=he/she Whom=him/her We do: Pretest, View Who/He trick practice packet & Cheat Sheet Now You Practice: 1. Who/Whom Quiz #1 2. Take the Who or Whom Quiz ❤️❤️Thursday 2/20❤️❤️ Remember that Mrs. Lupkes returns next TUESDAY! MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose You practice in Grammar Lab: Review: Grammar Lab Expectations **Don't skip ANY of this practice that will prepare you for assessments! Your 2 screenshots should look like this. Email both in 1 email. 1. Whose vs. Who's 2. Now screenshot results when you are done with: Who's vs. Whose 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 4.Now screenshot results of Practice Who vs. Whom at ChompChomp 5. Take A Second Quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete these 2 assessments: I'll record the better score 1. the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and 2. the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) ❤️❤️Friday 2/21❤️❤️ Friday Focus on the Future: Complete and turn in this Listening Guide: 1. View: Finding Hot Careers 2. View: Skipping School To Learn a Trade 3. View: Training to be a Trooper 4. View: Answering the Call 5. View: Move Over Men, There's a Movement in Medicine (Features a WC graduate Class of 2010) 6. View: PowerLine Remember that Mrs. Lupkes returns next TUESDAY! MUG Mini-Lesson: Pronoun REFERENCE (not agreemen!) Errors View: Vague Pronoun Reference View: Pronoun Reference Errors Complete Pronoun Reference Packet Pronoun Reference Practice #2 Now do: Assignment: Complete assignment on Pronoun Reference =================================================================== Week of February 10-13 ❤️❤️Monday 2/10❤️❤️ View MAP Test Results video Period 3 and Period 5=Return MAP test results. See Lexile info & Norms on board Go though Mrs. Lupkes Quiz Questions ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/11❤️❤️ MUG: Pronoun Agreement View: Celebrity Grammar with Kanye West View: Celebrity Grammar with Ariana Grande View: Slightly PG Amy's Lyric School: I and Me Pretest and Subject Pronouns Pronoun Cheat Sheet Grammar Lab Expectations ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/12❤️❤️ MUG: Pronoun Agreement We do: Pronoun Packet pp. 108-end You do: Practice: Prounoun Case with Comparisions #1 Practic:e: Pronoun Case with Comparisons #2 Practice Quiz on Pronoun Usage Practice ChompChomp #5 prounouns Assignment: Complete 2 assignments at Quia This week you'll do 4 prounoun assessments. The best 3 of the 4 will be recorded. Even if you get them all right on the first one, do both! USE your packet! USE your cheat sheet! 1. Pronoun Usage Assignment #1 (20 pts) 2. Using Pronouns Correctly #2 (20 pts) ❤️❤️Thursday 2/13❤️❤️ (2 Hour Late Start) MUG: Pronouns & Antecedents View: Pronoun Antecedent Agreement (at 1:47) We do: Page 4, 5, 6 in packet You practice: Pronoun Case Exercise 1 Pronouns at GrammarBook.com Complete Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 (Screenshot results!) Next week: ❤️❤️Friday 2/14❤️❤️& ❤️❤️Monday 2/17❤️❤️ No School. President's Day Break ============================================= Week of February 3-7 ❤️❤️❤️Monday 2/3 ❤️❤️❤️ Upload essay to Turnitin. Period 3: 23796778, Period3 Period 5: 23796793, Period5 Period 6: 23796806, Period6 MUG: Verb Tense Consistency--an error tested on ACT and Common Core English tests 1. If you are absent today, view these brief videos on Shifts in Verb Tense (just through 2:59) and 2. If you are absent today, we will use THIS ACTIVITY to introduce Verb Tense Consistency 3. If you are absent today, we will also use THIS ACTIVITY to review Verb Tense Consistency 4. If you are absent today, we will review Verb Tense Consistency with THIS DOCUMENT 5. If you are absent today, we will practice Verb Tense Consistency with THIS EXERCISE ❤️❤️❤️Tuesday 2/4❤️❤️❤️ MUG: Verb Tense Consistency View: Verb Tense Shifts If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (warning: PG) We practice: Finish Worksheet Packet: "If" conditionals page and ACT passage on back. Here are the "If" conditional rules If you are absent, we will use THIS ACTIVITY in class today for practice. You Practice: 1. Start with a super simple warmup 2. Tense Consistency Exercise 3. Consistency of Tense 4. English Grammar Online Quiz ❤️❤️❤️Wednesday 2/5❤️❤️❤️ Using your notes packet and this conditionals cheat sheet, Complete this Assignment: 1. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #1 at Quia and 2. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #2 at Quia NWEA-MAP testing results Register for Newsela ❤️❤️❤️Thursday 2/6❤️❤️❤️ Mrs.. Lupkes will be in class today. Please be respectful listeners! There WILL be an assessment over information she shares! ❤️❤️❤️Friday 2/7❤️❤️❤️ Mrs.. Lupkes will be in class today. Please be respectful listeners! There WILL be an assessment over information she shares! Week of February 25-March 1 Monday 2/25 (2-Hour Late Start) Period 3: Quick Pronoun Review I will record the better of the two. Even if you get them all right on the first one, do both! USE your packet! USE your cheat sheet! 1. Pronoun Usage Assignment #1 (20 pts) 2. Using Pronouns Correctly #2 (20 pts) Periods 6 and 7 **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. You practice: Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Pronoun Case Exercise 1 Pronouns Pronouns at GrammarBook.com Pronoun Case Exercise 2 =================================================================== Tuesday 2/26 (9:00 Start) and Wednesday 2/27 Assignments: 1. Log in to SDMyLife 2. On your dashboard or home page, scroll down to lower right corner and open Method Test Prep 3. On the Method Test Prep Student Dashboard, scroll down to week 14, Lesson 57 (Pronoun Antecedent Agreement) Read through the rules and/or watch the video. Click the "I have read and understand this concept" box at the bottom. Move on to and complete the assessment. 4. On the Method Test Prep Student Dashboard, scroll down to week 16, Lesson 66 (Unclear Pronouns) Read through the rules and/or watch the video. Click the "I have read and understand this concept" box at the bottom. Move on to and complete the assessment. If you completed all the review activities yesterday, find a pronoun cheat sheet. 5. At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Case #3 . 6. At Quia: Pronoun Agreement #4 7. Log in to NEWSELA. Read TWO of the FOUR new articles assigned. Answer the questions for each! =================================================================== Thursday 2/28 MUG: Mini-lesson on Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose Who's =Who is or Who has Who's in charge?=Who is in charge? Whose=shows possession Whose books are these? ============ Who=he/she Whom=him/her We do: Pretest, View Who/He trick practice packet & Cheat Sheet Now You Practice: 1. Who/Whom Quiz #1 2. Take the Who or Whom Quiz Click Check Your Answers and SEND ME A SCREENSHOT OF RESULTS! =================================================================== Friday 3/1 MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose You practice: 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 4. Take another quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete: I'll record the better score the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) =================================================================== Week of February 19-22 Tuesday 2/19 from Mrs. Kistler and Prom Committee: Please stop in & register for Prom by Friday, 2/22 with Mrs. Kistler The deadline will NOT be extended. If you are not registered by Friday, you will not be able to attend Prom. If your date's name changes later, that is fine, but you need to be registered by Friday. MUG: Pronoun Agreement View: Celebrity Grammar with Kanye West View: Celebrity Grammar with Ariana Grande View: Slightly PG Amy's Lyric School: I and Me Pretest and Subject Pronouns Pronoun Cheat Sheet Grammar Lab Expectations We do: Continue Pronoun Agreement packet pp. 108-end Wednesday 2/20 No School ***SNOW DAY!*** Thursday 2/21 Take time to complete Mrs. Lupkes Survey! MUG: Pronoun Agreement We do: Pronoun Packet You do: Practice Quiz on Pronoun Usage Practice Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 Now Complete 2 assignments: I will record the better of the two. Even if you get them all right on the first one, do both! USE your packet! USE your cheat sheet! 1. Pronoun Usage Assignment #1 (20 pts) 2. Using Pronouns Correctly #2 (20 pts) Friday 2/22 Pronouns continue! **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. One more tricky pronoun situation--possessive before gerund (-ing word) Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 You practice: Practice ChompChomp pronouns Pronoun Case Exercise 1 Pronouns Pronouns at GrammarBook.com Complete Quiz on Pronoun Usage Complete Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 Now submit: I'll record the better score of two--no feedback will show right away! Do both! At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Case At Quia: Pronoun Agreement Week of February 11-13 Monday 2/11 M=1:30 Dismiss for PT Conferences T=9:00 Start for PLC MUG: Verb Tense Consistency--an error tested on ACT and Common Core English tests 1. If you are absent today, view these brief videos on Verb Tense Consistency and Shifts in Verb Tense (just through 2:59) If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (warning: PG) 2. If you are absent today, we will use THIS ACTIVITY to introduce Verb Tense Consistency 3. If you are absent today, we will also use THIS ACTIVITY to review Verb Tense Consistency 4. If you are absent today, we will review Verb Tense Consistency with THIS DOCUMENT 5. If you are absent today, we will practice Verb Tense Consistency with THIS EXERCISE Tuesday 2/12 9:00 Start MUG: Verb Tense Consistency We practice: Finish Worksheet Packet: "If" conditionals page and ACT passage on back. Here are the "If" conditional rules If you are absent, we will use THIS ACTIVITY in class today for practice. You Practice: 1. Start with a super simple warmup 2. Tense Consistency Exercise 3. Consistency of Tense 4. English Grammar Online Quiz Complete this Assignment: 1. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #1 at Quia 2. Complete another SV Agreement 18 point Assessment This would be a 3rd attempt. I will record the better 1 of 3 attempts. I would suggest logging in to Quia and going over the SV agreement quizzes to look at the ones you missed. Wednesday 2/13 View: WWII aircraft carrier and veteran gunner It's time to begin to prepare for the ELA (English Language Arts) portion of the Common Core. The ELA test is an untimed test that contains several different types of questions. Students answer multiple choice questions based on short passages they read and write responses to open-ended questions based on stories, articles, or poems they listen to or read. Again, drill improves skill, so we will be practicing regularly until test time utilizing Newsela, a data base of current event non-fiction stories tailor-made for classroom use. The current event stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Real life newspaper writers rewrite a story four times for a total of five Lexile (reading) levels per story. All articles have embedded Common Core aligned quizzes that conform to the reading levels for checking comprehension. What is Newsela Join NEWSELA--I will give you class code Period 3=Q8CMKP Period 6=3P3D3Q Period 7=Y2YDDA Read: Matching Grade level to Lexile levels in Newsela Reading Lab Expectations and Assignment: 1. Since electronic devices are not allowed during Common Core or ACT or any standardized testing, get used to that and tuck cell phones away. 2. 9 articles have been assigned to you. You MUST read the Elie Wiesel article. 3. Then choose TWO of the other nine articles to read and answer questions. 4. Log in to see the articles. 5. For each article, choose the lexile level closest to your grade level (so either MAX or one of the top 2 numbers). 6. When you finish reading, go to the activities link on top right. 7. Click the Quiz link and answer the 4 questions for each article. Results come directly to me. 8. Again, read the Wiesel article and any TWO of the other articles to read and answer the 4 questions for each. This is much like what the ELA Common Core exams will be like. Practice makes progress! Readers become leaders! Thursday 2/14, Friday 2/15, Monday 2/18 No School for Inservice and President's Day ============================================================ Week of February 4-8 Monday 2/4 Mrs. Lupkes will share information on senior year Tuesday 2/5 Mrs. Lupkes will share information on senior year Wednesday 2/6 The Grapes of Wrath wrap up TWO Assignments: Use the book and 2 worksheets at your desk to 1. Complete Movie Quiz Part 3 here then 2. Complete Registration Review Quiz Thursday 2/7 (SNOW DAY!) Friday 2/8 (2 Hour Late Start) MUG Lab Find your SV agreement packet with Cheat Sheet. Do 2-sided review activity together. Do this online practice together (only if time allows_ 4. A Second Quiz on Subject-Verb Agreement Complete Assignment: The better of the 2 scores will be recorded SUBMIT S-V Agreement ASSIGNMENT #2 at Quia (18 pts) SUBMIT S-V Agreement Assignment #4 (18 pts) Tuesday 2/27 MUG: Who/Whom Whoever/Whomever Who's =Who is or Who has Whose=shows possession Who=he/she Whom=him/her We do: Pretest, practice packet & Cheat Sheet Now You Practice: 1. Whoever/Whomever Quiz #1 2. Take the Who or Whom Quiz 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 4. Take another quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete: I'll record the better score the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) When you finish above, Log in to Newsela and choose ONE article today! Arming Teachers or Chloe Kim's Hangry Tweet ========================================== Thursday 3/1 ========================================== Previous Days' Lessons: Friday 2/23 Log in to Newsela. Read two articles and complete the 4 question assessments. Read Night QUIETLY until the bell rings! ========================================== Wednesday 2/21 It's time to begin to prepare for the ELA (English Language Arts) portion of the Common Core. The ELA test is an untimed test that contains several different types of questions. Students answer multiple choice questions based on short passages they read and write responses to open-ended questions based on stories, articles, or poems they listen to or read. Again, drill improves skill, so we will be practicing regularly until test time utilizing Newsela, a data base of current event non-fiction stories tailor-made for classroom use. The current event stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Newspaper writers rewrite a story four times for a total of five Lexile (reading) levels per story. All articles have embedded Common Core aligned quizzes that conform to the reading levels for checking comprehension. What is Newsela Join NEWSELA--I will give you class code Read: Matching Grade level to Lexile levels in Newsela Assignment: 4 articles have been assigned to you. You MUST read the Elie Wiesel article. Then choose ONE of the other three articles to read and answer questions. Log in to see the 3 articles. For each article, choose the lexile level closest to your grade level (so either MAX or one of the top 2 numbers). When you finish reading, go to the activities link on top right. Click the Quiz link and answer the 4 questions for each article. Results come directly to me. Again, choose TWO of the articles to read and answer the 4 questions for each. This is precisely what the ELA Common Core exams will be like. Pronouns continue! **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 You practice: Pronoun Case Exercise 1 Pronouns Pronouns at GrammarBook.com Complete Quiz on Pronoun Usage Complete Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 Now submit: I'll record the better score of two--no feedback will show right away! Do both! At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Case At Quia: Pronoun Agreement Now do Newsela articles! Thursday 2/15 Grammar Lab Expectations We do: View: Celebrity Grammar with Ariana Grande Continue Pronoun Agreement packet pp. 108-end One more tricky pronoun situation--possessive before gerund (-ing word) You do: Practice Quiz on Pronoun Usage Practice Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 Practice ChompChomp pronouns Now Complete 2 assignments: I will record the better of the two. Even if you get them all right on the first one, do both! USE your packet! 1. Pronoun Usage Assignment #1 (20 pts) 2. Using Pronouns Correctly #2 (20 pts) ========================================== Tuesday 2/13 Turn in Of M&M book if you did not. Blue 4 Upload FINAL paper to Turnitin. Log in. Upload your file in .doc or .pdf Background on Night (packet) Night (109 pgs.) by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of man’s inhumanity to man during the Holocaust in the 1940s. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust when 6 million of others did not. You’ll experience his forced deportation in at age 12 and his experience at Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps where 1.5 million Jews were murdered in the gas chambers. Wiesel was silent for years before he could come to terms with what happened to him and write about it and lecture about it. Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and still travels the world encouraging others not to allow Holocaust-like events like those in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur to ever occur again. Wiesel, now in 80s, has twice spoken at Augustana College in recent years. Wiesel says, “Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when dignity is in jeopardy…whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.” Wiesel wrote two more novels, Dawn and The Accident, which are both fictional stories of Holocaust survival. According to Wiesel, "By talking about past events, like the Holocaust, we open a disturbing chapter in human history, but in doing so we spread a message to humanity through the testimony of witnesses that helps to stir people's emotions. This drives them to prevent a recurrence of such devastating occurrences by acting against them. If we forget about abominable events like the Holocaust and write them off as things that could only have occurred in the past we open ourselves up to the possibility of repeating such unmonitored destructive behavior. Through the retelling of the events our collective history we spur indignation, we reduce the number of indifferent bystanders and we make it possible to learn from our mistakes." Here is a Character List for Night Here is background on Night Themes A Book Trailer Introduction (9:24) Auschwitz 70 years later Drone over Auschwitz--Spielburg & Schindler's List (2:29) A Tour of Birkenau (9:10) Oprah's Interview with Elie At Auschwitz (2:30) Elie Remembers His Little Sister (3:36) Night book trailer (stop at 1:25) Interview with Elie Wiesel (11:32) Interview with Elie Part 2 (10:59) Auschwitz 70--full version (6:30) MUG: Pronoun Agreement Pretest and Subject Pronouns Pronoun Cheat Sheet Friday 2/9 Finish movie Blue 1 (1:07), Blue 2 & 3 (1:13:53) While movie plays, put together final paper pieces. Staple: Final Draft Messy Self Edit Peer Edit Article Upload FINAL paper to Turnitin. Log in. Upload your file in .doc or .pdf **I have opened papers in Turnitin that are NOT the final drafts Some are missing 2 quote sandwiches, some are missing pictures, some have Works Cited in INCORRECT format, some are only 1 page long. Upload will be marked as incomplete until all basic requirements are met! Wednesday 2/7 After quizzes today, upload final paper to Turnitin. Log in. Upload your file in .doc or .pdf Hand in to me: 1. Messy Self Edit 2. Peer Edit Sheet 3. Article Copy 4. Final Clean draft Take 3 quizzes over Of Mice and Men. See Review Activities Below Finish movie if time allows ========================================== Monday 2/5 Listen CAREFULLY as we View 60secondrecaps (10 minutes) There is one good reason for reading Steinbeck's short novel Of Mice and Men--it is a very good book. There is one good reason for teaching it--it is a TEACHABLE good book: simple and clear, yet profound and beautiful. This short book is easy in the "accessible" sense. But it is NOT easy in the moral sense: it raises large issues of the sort raised in and by the greatest and often more difficult literature. Read: Best Critical Analysis out there Go through review packet, especially back of pg. 1 on title, the Symbols and Themes page, and the last page that ties Chapter 3 and 6 together. As we look at all of the characters whose names begin with the letter C, view Thug Notes Summary & Analysis Finish reviewing packet View to 1:07:55 after fight with Curley You'll take three 30-pt quizzes on Wednesday (Ch 1-2, Ch 3-4, Ch 5-6) I will record the better TWO scores out of 30. These will not be online. You'll get all three tests and like the Gatsby test, you'll be allowed to use the book for 10 minutes. You will also be allowed to use the 2-sided color sheet that shows character connections. Before tests on Wednesday, do review for Of Mice and Men Summary Quiz Ch 1 Summary Quiz Ch 2 Summary Quiz Ch 3 Summary Quiz Ch 4 Summary Quiz Ch 5-6 Try this for more practice and review: 1. Gradesaver Of M&M Quiz ========================================== Thursday 2/1 If you still have not turned in messy self-edit, give it to Mr. Nash TODAY!! View Chapters 1 & 2 (to 36:46) of Of Mice & Men. If you were absent Tuesday, pick up book, packet & webquest. After video, QUIETLY and by yourself: 1. Finish & turn in Steinbeck Webquest.. if you did not on Tuesday. Give to sub! See Tuesday homework page for links. (January link). 2. Work on making paper corrections if you get essay back from sub. Do NOT lose messy self-edit! 3. READ the rest of this very short and easy novella. Assignment: Finish reading the book for Monday. The whole book takes about 3 hours to listen to on tape. On Monday, we'll do review, along with uploading essay to TurnitIn. On Wednesday, we'll take 3 quizzes over the book (Chapters 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6) |