Lesson Plans
12th Week – November 10 – November 14
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 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.
Students will identify antonyms and use them in sentences.
Vocabulary
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Vocabulary for the next 2 weeks comes from our reading
selection “Juvenile Justice, from Both Sides of the Bench.”
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prosecutor
maturity
empathy
heinous
legislation
maimed
incarcerated
alternatives
recipient
sophisticated
rehabilitated
susceptible
circumstances
redeem
sociopath
indicated
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Reading
Learning Activities the Week of November 10, 2014
Monday
 Students have started on an online reading program that measures their
Lexile score, and then generates reading and vocabulary work targeted
toward their reading level. They will work on this program each Monday and
Friday. For information about Lexile, please go to
https://lexile.com/about-lexile/lexile-overview/
Tuesday
 Students will begin reading “Juvenile Justice, from Both Sides of the Bench.”
They will begin using methods to check their own comprehension, including
clarifying ideas, interpreting, and paraphrasing.
 Students will also use text features, specifically captions, brackets, and
ellipses, to aid in their understanding of text.
 Students will work with the following antonym pairs: above/below,
never/always, before/after, start/finish, light/dark, full/empty, fiction/nonfiction, first/last. They will identify the antonym pairs and write 3 sentences
using pairs to show how antonyms can clarify meaning in writing.
Wednesday/
Thursday
 Students will continue working with text from “Juvenile Justice, from Both
Sides of the Bench” to work on monitoring their own comprehension.
 Students will continue working on punctuation of dialogue. TEST OVER THIS
SKILL WILL BE WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY, 11/19 OR 11/20.
 Students will continue working on comma placement in sentences. TEST
OVER THIS SKILL WILL BE WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY, 11/19 OR 11/20.
 Students will review vocabulary from our reading selection “Juvenile Justice,
from Both Sides of the Bench.” TEST OVER THIS VOCABULARY WILL BE
WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY, 11/19 OR 11/20.
Friday
 Students will work on the online reading program.