Teacher: Arens
2011-2012 WEEKLY LESSON “SNAPSHOT”
Week 0f: November 28—December 2
Course: Composition II
Unit/ Lesson/Learning Targets
(related to KCAS/CC 4.1):
Briefly outline daily lesson activities/agenda:
Unit/Lesson: Personal Narratives/Drafting
Vocab: Duplicity
I can…correctly define and use new vocabulary.
I can…identify parts of speech.
I can…draft my personal narrative.
Unit/Lesson: Personal Narratives/EOC practice
Vocab: Fiasco
Literary Elements, Tone, Vocabulary,
Syntax, Figurative Language, Thesis
I can…correctly define and use new vocabulary.
I can…identify parts of speech.
I can…outline an essay that answers a prompt.
Unit/Lesson: Personal Narratives/Organization
Vocab: Collaborate
Organization
I can…correctly define and use new vocabulary.
I can…identify parts of speech.
I can…revise my personal narrative for
organization.
Unit/Lesson: Personal Narratives/Sensory Details
Vocab: Terse
Sensory Details
I can…correctly define and use new vocabulary.
I can…identify parts of speech.
I can…add sensory details to my personal
narrative.
Unit/Lesson: Personal Narratives/Sensory Details
Vocab: Ominous
I can…correctly define and use new vocabulary.
I can…identify parts of speech.
I can…revise my personal narrative.
BR: grammar practice
1. Word-of-the-Day: Duplicity
2. Drafting personal narratives
Formative: individual writing checks
BR: Journal entry: Write a paragraph about your
Thanksgiving break.
1. Word-of-the-Day: Fiasco
2. Parts of Speech M&M Activity
3. EOC practice outline (class activity)
4. Take up personal narrative drafts for first check
Formative: student responses for M&M activity, class
input during outline, HW: Sentence Coding
BR: grammar practice
1. Word-of-the-Day: Collaborate
2. Review HW
3. Parts of Speech Quick Quiz
4. Personal Narrative revisions: organization
Formative: results of quiz, individual writing checks,
exit slip
BR: grammar practice
1. Word-of-the-Day: Terse
2. Parts of Speech test review: Group work
3. Personal Narrative revisions: sensory details
4. HW: STUDY FOR TEST TOMORROW.
Formative: individual writing checks
BR: vocabulary activity
1. Word-of-the-Day: Ominous
2. Parts of Speech test
3. Personal Narrative revisions and conferences
Formative: individual writing checks
Please post completed form on teacher blog for each course you teach weekly. (Updated 7/11/11)
Period: 2nd—5th
BEST PRACTICE INSTRUCTIONAL
STRATEGIES:
Check all that apply this week:
Chunking content/lesson
Personal relevant connections
Interacting with or previewing new knowledge
Processing/elaborating on new information
Recording and representing knowledge (notetaking, summarization)
Reflecting on learning
Reviewing content
Using and reviewing homework
Examining similarities & differences
Examining errors in reasoning
Practicing skills, strategies, processes
Engaging students in cognitively complex tasks;
(higher-level thinking, hypothesis, etc.)
Using cooperative learning, managing response
rate, and using movement
Using academic games
Using questioning techniques, probing incorrect
answers; high expectations for all
Differentiating instruction
Checking for student understanding
INCORPORATING the following:
Student technology use
Assessment – pre/form/sum/ ACT-like
Live-Scoring
Reading & writing to learn strategies
Writing to demonstrate learning
Writing for publication
Rubrics
Graphic organizers
Bell ringers
Exit slips
RtI/tutorials
2011-2012 WEEKLY LESSON “SNAPSHOT”
Please post completed form on teacher blog for each course you teach weekly. (Updated 7/11/11)