Saturday, September 20, 2014

Week 7 English 9A




9th Grade Week 7
Day
Date
Assignment  
Monday
9/22
Remember Readers Writers Notebooks to be collected and graded on Monday.
Remember to carefully and neatly Label your table of Contents!
Turn in at the End of Class!
Grades for Activities 1-7
Download “Winning It All” by Kristina Talavera at LACER by Wednesday.


Class work

A Night To Remember

Introduction to the Socratic Seminar and Dialectical Journal

Activity #7 questions:   Discussion
Be ready to answer:

•What do you notice about the different perspectives Lord offers about the events? Explain.

–Whose perspective is represented?
–Who’s missing?

•What do you notice about how and why these people experienced the same event(s) differently?

•What does Lord’s choice of people to investigate tell you about his perspective as an investigator of this event?




Homework

Activity #10
Dialectical Journal Entry (This can be stapled into RWN upon return)
Create 2 entries
Page

Text of Quote

Journal Entry

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Interpretation:

Observation: 

Question: 

Personal Response:

Tuesday
9/23


Class work

Socratic Seminar Day
Discuss and Share your Quotes


Homework

Remember to Download Talavera Article at LACER
Activity #11 Write a Reflection on the Socratic Seminar.


Wednesday
9/24


Class work

Read “Winning It All” by Kristina Talavera
And Discuss Culminating Feature News Story Assignment

Captains make sure your team does tonight’s homework!


Homework

Activity #12 Answer the following Questions on Talavera Article:
1.     What is the gist of this expository feature news article?
2.     How do you know?
3.     How many different sources does Kristina Talavera cite in her feature news article?
4.     Circle every internal citation.
5.     List the different points of view (perspectives) on the outcome of the game that she mentions?
6.     Write down one example of an indirect quotation (paraphrase)
7.     Now write down one example of a direct quotation.


Thursday
9/25


Class work

Share Homework answers in teams
Complete Evaluation of Team
Discussion of Topics of Your Expository Feature News Story Article

Homework




Friday
9/26


Class work

Activity #13 Draft 10 Interview Questions

Homework

Activity #14 Conduct your Interview
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Preview of Week 8

·      Draft Feature News Story Monday in class
·      Peer review Tuesday
·      How to do a Works Cited List and in text citations in Library or Class TBA
·      Feature News Story due Thursday at beginning of class to turnitin.com
·      No Late Work Accepted!








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