English III
August 22-26
LEARNING GOALS
- Determine multiple themes and central ideas
- Cite textual evidence
- Understand background themes and ideas of unit 1
Monday, August 22 - Tuesday, August 23
Class will be held in room 119 Monday and Tuesday.
You will have two days to answer a FSA-style prompt. We will treat this as a testing scenario so that Ms. Baer can assess where your skill set falls and what we need to focus on with writing this year.
Wednesday, August 24 - homeroom schedule
- Notes
- Classwork
- Progress Monitoring
- Assessments
Gallery Walk: There are five pictures hanging up around the room. For each picture, identify the people, the occasion, the setting, and the events occurring. You will have three minutes at each picture.
In your groups, try to come up with a commonality, central idea, or theme of all five pictures.
Introduction to Unit 1: Coming to America
Preview text, "Crime and Punishment in Plymouth Colony."
Read and annotate the text.
Thursday, August 25
- solemn
- adultery
- lude
- notorious
- manifest
- bestial
- precedent
- verdict
- adjudicate
Continue working with "Crime and Punishment..." With a partner, begin the comprehension worksheet.
Friday, August 26
Review the unit 1 scales. Annotate the words that differentiate each level. Place your movable piece where you currently stand on the course scale.
Complete the comprehension worksheet from yesterday. It is due today.