Lesson Plans
10th Week – October 27 – October 31
Please note: I make my lesson plans extensive and with high expectations. If the
students are struggling and things do not go as quickly as planned, I scale back. You
may see activities that I planned for last week have been moved to the current week to
accommodate the pace of my learners.
Major Objectives:
Writing &
Writing Mechanics
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Students will use their knowledge of simple and compound
sentences to write 5 simple sentences and 5 compound
sentences using their SPEC vocabulary words.
Given the SLAM writing organizers and classroom discussion
of the plot of “Thank You, Ma’m,” students will write a 5- 7
sentence paragraph for the following prompt: Did Mrs. Luella
Bates Washington Jones make a permanent difference in
Roger’s life?
Students will read dialogue in “Thank You, Ma’m” and will
determine rules of punctuation. After they have determined
how to use punctuation correctly, they will be able to
punctuate basic dialogue with 70% accuracy.
Students will review the use of commas in sentences with
items in a series.
Vocabulary
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Students are working with Greek and Latin root words,
prefixes, and suffixes. This week, we will finish the root word
spec (to look, to see). Quiz over these words will be FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 31. Vocabulary words using this root word are:
 circumspect (adj)
careful to LOOK at all possibilities before acting;
cautious; aware of consequences
 inspect (v)
to LOOK carefully in search of flaws
 introspection (n)
the act of LOOKING into one’s own thoughts and feelings
 perspective
one way of LOOKING at things
 respect (v)
to LOOK up to someone; to show honor
 retrospective (adj)
LOOKING back at past things
 spectacle (n)
something displayed for the public to SEE
 spectacles (n)
glasses that help someone to SEE better
 spectator (n)
a person who WATCHES something, such as a sporting
event
 speculate
to LOOK at and think about something from different
points of view
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Students will are working on an activity called, “Out with the
Old and In with the New.” They will “toss” the following
overused words and will use new vocabulary to replace them:
OLD WORD
NEW WORD
nice
considerate
good
superior
smart
ingenious
laughed
chuckled
pretty
elegant
said
remarked
happy
jubilant
like
prefer
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Students will take a quick pre-test of 34 commonly used words
to ensure that they are ready to move more quickly on the “Out
with the Old and In with the New” vocabulary exercise.
Reading
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Students will learn about common structures of informational
text. They will identify the following textual structural
components in examples:
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Description
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Sequence
Learning Activities the Week of October 20, 2014
Monday
Tuesday
1.
Students will review SPEC vocabulary words by writing 5
simple sentences using 5 of the words.
2.
Students will take a quick pre-test of 34 commonly used words
to ensure that they are ready to move more quickly on the “Out
with the Old and In with the New” vocabulary exercise.
3.
Given the SLAM writing organizers and classroom discussion
of the plot of “Thank You, Ma’m,” students will write a 5-7
sentence paragraph answering the following prompt: Did Mrs.
Luella Bates Washington Jones make a permanent difference in
Roger’s life?
1.
Students will review SPEC vocabulary words by writing 5
compound sentences using the last 5 of the words.
2.
Students will learn about common structures of informational
text. They will identify the following textual structural
components in examples:
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Description
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Sequence
3.
Students will continue working on their paragraphs. Each
student will confer with me to help them edit their writing.
4.
If students are waiting for me to check their writing before
they continue writing, they will work on the common structure
of informational text assignments until I can get to them.
Wednesday/
Thursday
1.
Friday
Students will complete and submit their paragraphs about
“Thank You, Ma’m.”
2.
Students will complete the common structure of informational
text assignments.
3.
Students will review the SPEC vocabulary words for QUIZ
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31.
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Students will learn new vocabulary words below:
OLD WORD
NEW WORD
nice
considerate
good
superior
smart
ingenious
laughed
chuckled
pretty
elegant
said
remarked
happy
jubilant
like
prefer
5.
Students will review dialogue in “Thank You, Ma’m” and will
determine how to correctly punctuate dialogue. They will then
work on punctuating sentences with dialogue.
1.
Students will take a quiz over SPEC words.
2.
Students will work with new vocabulary words assigned
Wednesday and Thursday.
3.
Students will use prior knowledge to place commas correctly
in sentences.
A copy of “Thank You, Ma’m” can be found at
http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/english%20department%20lvillage/rt/Short%20S
tories/Thank%20You,%20Ma'am.pdf