Week of: 10/13 – 10/17 / Second Six Weeks – Week 2 Teacher: E. Gonzalez Team: ENGLISH 3
 Objective: SWBT write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation. SWBT understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. SWBT deternine the meaning of grade-level technical academic English words in multiple content areas, analyze textual context to distinguish between connotative meanings of words; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships.SWBT use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings.
Activities: EQ: How does the purposeful use of language affect the reader’s understanding?
1. Do First: Revise and edit celebrity tweets.
2. Vocabulary review of new SAT words
3. Words in use: Construct sentences using the new vocabulary words.
4. Share your sentences with partner to review.
Materials: pen/pencil, worksheet
Follow Up/HW: Review SAT vocabulary, quiz on Friday. Bring first draft of Gothic story for peer editing.
Reminder - Wednesday: PSAT test, bring #2 pencils and calculator
Objective: SWBT use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text. SWBT write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions. SWBT use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings.
Activities: EQ: Why do we write?
1. Do First: Vocabulary review
2. Peer editing of original Gothic story draft.
Materials: pen/pencil, first draft of all student’s stories, colored pencils
Follow Up/HW: : Review SAT vocabulary, quiz on Friday. Revise story draft- final paper due on Friday.
Reminder - Wednesday: PSAT test, bring #2 pencils and calculator
Objective: SWBT understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the varied structural patterns and features of literary nonfiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. SWBT analyze how rhetorical techniques in literary essays, true life adventures, and historically important speeches influence the reader, evoke emotions, and create meaning. SWBT speak clearly and to the point, using the conventions of language.

Activities: EQ: Why do we write?
PSAT Wednesday 10/15 – Amended schedule
1. Do First: The Insider’s Guide to Me – What makes you YOU?
Think of the things that make you unique: your style, your sense of humor, your interest. Jot down the
qualities and behaviors that best define your personality by completing the following sentences:
a) To find me in a crowd, look/listen for ______________________.
b) Most people in school would describe me as ________________. c) The thing I do that is most “me” is_________________________..
2. Share your answers with the class.
3. PowerPoint presentation of rhetorical devices and their purpose.
Materials: pen/pencil, handout, Powerpoint
Follow Up/HW: Review SAT vocabulary, quiz on Friday. Revise story draft- final paper due on Friday.
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Objective: SWBT write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation. SWBT understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. SWBT deternine the meaning of grade-level technical academic English words in multiple content areas, analyze textual context to distinguish between connotative meanings of words; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships.
Activities: EQ: How does the purposeful use of language affect the reader’s understanding?
Pep Rally Amended Schedule: Pink Out Bellaire HS
1. Quiz – Vocabulary
2. Cont. Rhetorical devices
3. Video clip of speech
4. Exit Ticket
Materials: pen/pencil, handout, Powrpoint, video clip
Follow Up/HW: