Monday, November 28, 2011

Day 31 (11.28.11) B Day

Objective:
Students will
learn writing skills, demonstrate reading skills,
practice reading analysis, and read and discuss The Iliad.

Class Activities:
  • Computers: YES  (Turn on but keep closed.)
  • Warm-Up:
    • Angles of Literacy - Five - Focus on the Writer
(Pick up from the tray at the front of the room.)
Learn and Comprehend:
  • Learn and Comprehend:
    • Step Three:Topic Sentences
  • Analyze: Review -
    • Review The Iliad Books 9-12 (8th)
    • Review The Iliad Books 3 - 8 (7th)
    • Students will annotate PDF
  • Comprehend: LECTURE -
    • Mini-Lecture on Achilles and Helen (7th Only)[T. Holmes]
    • Students will take notes.
  • Synthesize: Journal - (7th and 8th)
    • Write in Section 4 of your spiral for 20 minutes on the provided prompt.
      • Go to AP Course
      • Go to "Writing"
      • Go to "Journals"
      • Go to "The Iliad"
      • Go to "Journal # 1"

Homework:

  • DUE on Friday (12.2.11) B Day: Formative - Read Books XVI - XXIV of The Iliad by Homer (These are the remainder of Books in the poem.)
  • DUE on Today (11.28.11) B Day: Formative - Rhetorical Precis paragraph on Tragic Heroes essay.
      Work collected in class:
      • Rhetorical Precis Paragraph