ESL 6 Quarter 4 Week 7 May 26-30, 2014 Blue Days – 5/27-29/14 L. Nabulsi

Wiesbaden Middle School Purpose Statement The entire WMS community will provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature academically, socially, emotionally, and physically while developing a lifelong love of learning.

Wiesbaden Middle School Goal Statement The entire WMS community strives to provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature socially, academically, and physically, while developing a lifelong love of learning.

CSI GOALS #1 All students will increase reading comprehension scores in analyzing text and reading/writing strategies. #2 All students will increase scores in math computation, word problems, and problem solving.  

CSI Interventions Reading comprehension Math Marking the text Charting the text Math USA Math journaling

Standards covered this week 6E1c.1: Identify different types (genres) of fiction and describe the major characteristics of each form. 6E2a.2: Choose the form of writing that best suits the intended purpose.

Put in planner Every day – read Due dates for Reading Logs due 5/29 Due 6/10 – vocabulary notebook

OVERVIEW OF WEEK 34 IDIOM: Siren’s Song CORRECT THIS SENTENCE: What an amazing variety of wildlife the Amazon foster, more than 300 kinds of hummingbirds live near this river. +3 ANALOGY: Person /Purpose (Doctor:heal) IDIOM: Siren’s Song In-class –Finish epic and put into book form to write a student epic

Vocabulary 34 1.ballad 1.group property of multiplication 1.equator Language Arts Math Social Studies Science 1.ballad 1.group property of multiplication 1.equator 1.dominant 2. ballad stanza 2. Hexagon 2.Tropic of Cancer 2. Doppler effect 3.alliteration 3.gallon 3.Tropic of Capricorn 3.eardrum

DAILY LESSON PLANS

Lesson Plans – May 27, 2014 Take roll Correct the sentence: What an amazing variety of wildlife the Amazon foster, more than 300 kinds of hummingbirds live near this river. +3 Vocabulary: Vocabulary 34 Edit-It – 60 In class: Finish Epic and use the epic template to make your book

What is an epic? Long narrative poem Fate of the nation depends on the hero Long descriptions of battles and armor Journey to the underworld Patronymics Epithets Epic similes Opens in the middle of things Appeal to the muses Setting covers the universe (many nations) Divine intervention Long speeches

Modify noun, telling which one, what kind, how many, whose Rules for Commas \ Modify noun, telling which one, what kind, how many, whose Rules for Commas

What is an epic hero An epic hero is a larger than life figure from a history or legend, usually favored by or even partially descended from deities, but aligned more closely with mortal figures in popular portrayals. The hero participates in a cyclical journey or quest, faces adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey, gathers allies along his journey, and returns home significantly transformed by his journey. The epic hero illustrates traits, performs deeds, and exemplifies certain morals that are valued by the society from which the epic originates. They usually embody cultural and religious beliefs of the people. Many epic heroes are recurring characters in the legends of their native culture. Epic heroes are superhuman in that they are smarter, stronger, and braver than average humans. An epic hero can also be a warrior of some sort who performs extraordinary tasks that most find difficult. This hero is strong, smart, and brave.

May 27, 2014 Lesson plans

Wiesbaden Middle School Purpose Statement The entire WMS community will provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature academically, socially, emotionally, and physically while developing a lifelong love of learning.

Wiesbaden Middle School Goal Statement The entire WMS community strives to provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature socially, academically, and physically, while developing a lifelong love of learning.

CSI GOALS #1 All students will increase reading comprehension scores in analyzing text and reading/writing strategies. #2 All students will increase scores in math computation, word problems, and problem solving.  

CSI Interventions Reading comprehension Math Marking the text Charting the text Math USA Math journaling

Standards covered this week 6E1c.1: Identify different types (genres) of fiction and describe the major characteristics of each form. 6E2a.2: Choose the form of writing that best suits the intended purpose.

Put in planner Every day – read Due dates for Reading Logs due 5/28 Due 6/10 – vocabulary notebook

May 29, 2014 Take roll Edit It 60 – should be complete up to 60 GRAMMAR : Comma Worksheet IDIOM: Siren’s Song Item/Purpose Doctor:heal In-class: Finish book. Practice reading and seek criticism.

Edit It #60

Correct this sentence Correct this sentence What an amazing variety of wildlife the Amazon foster, more than 300 kinds of hummingbirds live near this river. +3 What an amazing variety of wildlife the Amazon fosters. More than 300 kinds of hummingbirds live near this river. +3

  Idiom – siren’ song We are ever susceptible to the metaphorical Siren Song, seductive and mind-numbing because it acts to suspend our rational judgment. In the Homeric Odyssey XII, Circe had warned Odysseus not to listen to the Sirens because their haunting music would drive him mad. Or if he did, at least have his sailors tie him to the mast – to keep him from throwing himself overboard – and plug his rowers ears’ with beeswax so they would be impervious to the sweet high song. Odysseus insisted on hearing them as they sang (XII.178-94) and the hero related: “  ‘For never yet has any man rowed past this isle in his black ship until he has heard the sweet voice from our lips. Nay, he has joy of it, and goes his way a wiser man. For we know all the toils that in wide Troy the Argives and Trojans endured through the will of the gods, and we know all things that come to pass upon the fruitful earth.’ So they sang, sending forth their beautiful voice, and my heart was fain to listen, and I bade my comrades loose me, nodding to them with my brows; but they fell to their oars and rowed on.” (A.T. Murray tr.) Odysseus escapes only because he cannot control his own destiny, dependent on his men and the binding ropes. In our own day, by pretending to understand enough of the past, present and future but more likely knowing ad hominem human psychology, politicians seem particularly adept at singing the modern Siren Song and we seem to always fall for it by believing their promises. The original Greek sirens were voluptuous women lying on beaches like mermaids to entrap sailors. Homer does not describe them like later Greeks as winged bird women, an image borrowed from Ancient Egypt’s ba mobilary afterlife

Analogy Doctor: heal :: 1. teacher: book 2. pilot:airplane What’s the relationship? Item/Purpose Doctor: heal :: 1. teacher: book 2. pilot:airplane 3. soldier : serve 4. nurse:needle

Put into a sentence A doctor’s purpose is to heal.

Put into the same sentence A Doctor ’s purpose is to heal :: 1. A teacher’s purpose is to book 2. A pilot’s purpose is to airplane 3. A soldier’s purpose is to serve 4. A nurse’s purpose is to needle

Answer A soldier’s purpose is to serve.

Reading/Writing Activities for this week Reading Log 15- Due May 28 Vocabulary Notebook due June 10

What Students Need To Do

How to mark the text Number each paragraph Have a purpose in reading for specific kinds of details and use post-its for notes or mark notes in the margin Reading comprehension Who, what, when, where, how, why, vocabulary Reading for author’s purpose Pay attention to verbs. The basic purposes are to teach, entertain, influence our opinion. Reading for historical information Look for names, places, dates, cause and effect, chronology, comparison/contrast Reading for literary analysis Look for characters, setting, point of view, theme, important quotes, conflicts, dramatic structure, symbols; characteristics of a particular genre.

How to chart the text Do and prepare as if marking the text. Re-read each paragraph now and underline the claim ( we call it the controlling purpose) of the author. Circle any numbers or math terms. Decide what the purpose of the numerical details are: support, clarification, comparison/contrast, cause and effect Look for connecting(transitional) words; do these words introduce additional information, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, definitions Chart the information: If it helps, use a graphic organizer or mind map to decipher the information Take Cornell notes: Take Cornell notes using the post-its to set up questions and answers Outline – Write thesis and use the information to either write summary or use as a source for research paper Write a paper

How to Make a Timeline on Word Open a blank WORD document Go to INSERT Click on SMART ART A new window appears: click on PROCESS New window: go to last item in the second line- basic timeline. Click The template appears on your document. Begin to fill it in with information. Try to place information with the date close to line, not on outside. Save in your H-drive, ESL folder with page numberslastblock#

How To Use the MLA Template Download the MLA template OR go to the student’s H-drive/ESL folder/MLA template Open the template Immediately save as to the H-drive, ESL folder naming the file with the name of the assignment and last and period. DO THIS. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. For example, TLOTMC#_#MCDOWELL3. On the document, change the date and the title. Begin on the line under the title, but make sure that this line is aligned left, not centered, and indented. Center the Chapter # Write the summary telling who, what, when, where, how, and why. Save in the ADB in gaggle in the folder that says TLOTM final chapter summaries . If you do not name the file correctly and place it in the correct folder, you do not receive credit. Do things correctly.