Lesson Plans
11th Week – November 3 – November 7
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 complete the paragraph over “Thank You, Ma’m”
and will e-mail it to me.
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) and will take a quiz Wednesday, November
5, or Thursday November 6. (Quiz was scheduled for Friday,
October 31, but most students were not ready).
 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
Students will take a quiz over these words Friday, November 7.
Reading
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Students will continue to 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 November 3, 2014
Monday
Tuesday
1.
Students will complete their paragraphs over plot of “Thank
You, Ma’m.”
2.
Students will complete the work that was left with them to
complete during my absence Friday, October 31.
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Students will review the “SPEC” words for the quiz Wednesday
or Thursday.
2.
Students will work with “Out with the Old, In with the New”
vocabulary for quiz Friday.
3.
Students will continue to work with common structures of
informational text. They will identify the following textual
structural components in examples:
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Wednesday/
Thursday
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Description
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Sequence
Paragraphs must be submitted today. Students who have not
completed them must come in at lunch to get them done.
Students will take vocabulary quiz over SPEC words.
Students will take an online assessment to determine their
Lexile scores. Lexile will enable me to target reading
assignments to their specific levels. It will also help me track
their reading growth. For information on Lexile, please go to
https://lexile.com/about-lexile/lexile-overview/
Friday
3.
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 “Out With the Old and In With
the New” words.
2.
Students will use prior knowledge to place commas correctly
in sentences.
3.
Students will begin working on reading assignments based on
Lexile scores from the online testing this week.